INDEPENDENT — Cy Yu finished act two of the Nod-Krai story in Genshin Impact on a long Twitch stream, and rated it a six and a half, perhaps a seven, on the strength of its ending. The independent streamer said he had expected closer to a five for most of the quest, which he found slow and heavy with information, but that the final cutscenes and the fight pulled the score up.

He compared the pacing to the start of Fontaine, the previous region, which he said at least let him play detective and work through a mystery. Nod-Krai, he said, needed breaks between its stretches of exposition, a complaint he said he had also made about an earlier Honkai: Star Rail story. Chat had told him repeatedly that act three and beyond pace better, and he said he was willing to commit to the three to five hours an act can take if the story stays interesting.