Genshin impact's roads make no sense

Everybody run, the OSHA inspectors are here!!

I do love the implication of a traveller that has all these nations asking them to save the world tm and their first reaction is "...with THOSE roads?"

The roads in teyvat are literally the paths in my grandparent's stories of how they got to school

There's no definite path to the Narukami Shrine and somehow people reach their, like the way to go is the vines stuck to the mountain side. They never game any reason for people go there. It's kinda funny to think that the shrine maidens mountain climb there everyday

I live in Irelnd and let me tell you. When you get into the rural parts of the country this is really just how it is. Every day im scared that all of a sudden i will just have to deal with treasure horders on my way to my granny’s house

I can't believe how entertaining it is to just watch a video about the roads in genshin

As someone who plays "Walking Impact", as in... I just walk and don't teleport at all during quests :3 (during 4.4 Lantern rite, I literally walked from Liyue harbor to Qiaoying village, and took the boat/raft ride with Gaming to Yilong Wharf) This video DEFINITELY pointed out a lot of my mind-boggling concerns about the paths on the map when I did my "walk"through xD

the continent in lore is like 50 times bigger than the one in game so maybe it makes more sense to think of it in that way

Okay but I've legit wondered about this. Like, there's so many places that make no sense for the average non Vision holding person to get there. There's so many paths infested with enemies or places where you have to scale a literal mountain to get there (looking at you Narukami Shrine)

The true safety hazard is trying to visit Grand Narukami Shrine on foot.

i think a lot about how the fontaine research institute just exploded and all the hydrobus highways are wrecked and no one cares to fix it. also, the highways only fit one hydrobus. they'd have to go one way and back alll the way. can you imagine the waiting line for this?

I noticed that too, when you travel from Mond to Liyue for the first time you have a clear way with barely any enemies, but there is nothing like that ever since. All the ways to get to Sumeru and Fontaine are so convoluted they even had to unlock teleports. The world is still great but things like this kinda ruin the immersion a bit...

i feel like this is a sister video to Any Austin's unemployment analysis of Mondstadt. idk what to call this genre of video but i love it. bureaucracy core.

Now someone needs to talk about how there is no physical way to walk into Chenyu vale.

I love the newer regions, but one thing I have always liked about monsdat and liyue is that most of their roads makes sense and it makes the world feel more lived in to me. I feel like they stopped with making actual roads past liyue and monsdat.

OH MY GOSH. Someone who actually talks about the road issue.... I think about this often. Like weirdly often. When 4.5 rolled around and they showed Kirara going from nation to nation and her Sumeru to Fontaine route was the weird one WE took to get through the Pari land, I was like... how is that the normal trade route? Much less the one Kirara takes to get places quickly and efficiently. I once took a "walk" from Fontaine to Sumeru city using the... I don't recall what the harbor's name is but the one you first encounter using the teleport they give you. I just recall being so lost because HOW would any normal person take this route? Why aren't we hypothetically taking the boat across the part of the map we just got (could have done it like in Alcor part of Liyue quest until they were ready to give us the map). Then when I made it into Sumeru it was just... so many dead end roads that had me like "how would a normal person get back to the city???" Even when using the map I got lost because half the time the paths don't even match up with the map... Don't even get me started on the new harbor. They didn't add Layla's village which, based on the route we walk during her hangout, SHOULD have been north of the mushroom area, and would have needed farm space for sumpter beasts. Yet they not only didn't bother adding a new city / town to Sumeru, but made that whole new section bland af and lack any semblance of sensible road for travel. Like you I couldn't figure out any way a normal person would traverse it. I get that this wasn't a Sumeru patch but damn I would have preferred another small hole left in the map before I would have accepted the barren wasteland they gave us.

Last night I was thinking about new regions, and that led me to mapping out trade roads between all the regions that are available for now. And let me tell you, many of them don't make any sense. I think I spent about 20 minutes trying to understand how the people of Qingce village get goods from Chengyu valley. Because there is a guy that tells you that they do deliver stuff to Qingce, but after getting them to the other side of the river there is NO road AND some treasure hoarders nearby. They could simply add a bridge that leads to one of the rocks that already have bridges connected to them. And that road near Vanarana that you've mentioned in video makes even less sense to me.

Don't even get me started on Teyvat's hydrology.

No that its the Travelers business but I thought we would get quests to fix some broken roads/bridges like the one on Wangshu Inn.

I was literally discussing this yesterday. Fontaine itself has so many infrastructure and transport problems that kts even comedic