Genshin Impact: Official Art Book Vol. 1: An official art collection packed with exclusive illustrations – the perfect gift for fans of the hit video game.

The book came presented really well the artwork looks really beautiful. Its a brilliant present for any genshin impact enthusiast out there.But.. if your buying this curious as to how the concept and workings out of these designs were done dont bother. There is no workings out and very little text (the text in the book is characters birthdays and quotes etc).Its also ashame that this book is solely based on characters. Genshin has many beautiful weapon designs and props which would have added variety into this artbook.

Good art book for fans of the game, arrived quickly and in perfect condition.

Great book which shows various key art (without giving any spoilers) covers various parts of the game but does not cover everything (hence why book 1).The art it does show are great and comes in a protective box cover, which now sits on my book shelf with other art books I have collected over the years

Bought for a die hard Genshin fan and she was so overjoyed

Hoyoverse has actually blessed us with some high quality, mass market Genshin Impact merch in English? Am I hearing you right??On to the review.This artbook contains character promo art (the ones you're familiar with from the Twitter drip marketing) and many illustrations up until the final version 1 release, plus a big three-page fold out of the twins, Paimon and the Archons from version 2.1 (with the Midsummer Island Adventure key art on the reverse). Other than that, the book is extremely text sparse, containing only a few descriptions of characters and the source of each artwork. No concept sketches, design team or artist interviews in this book, it really is just art and more art.Technically speaking, this book is formatted, printed and binded exceptionally well. Little if no artwork is cut off in the margins between pages (which unfortunately requires mentioning, as this is a problem too common to artbooks), so you can enjoy the art in its full glory without losing bits of it. The book itself has a flexible hard cover with a dust protector, but comes packaged in a high quality (and very tight) hard folder. Once you've finished flipping through, be sure to put the book back inside - it's little things like this that should increase the long-term storage of the book.Besides that, the English release does not contain the bonuses that were included in the original Chinese release - specifically the cards of Childe and the art from version 2.1, although you still get the latter as the big fold-out page.Now, the problems: the item I received had manufacturing defects. Several pages had big dents and bends, and others had black line smudges. Flipping pages and suddenly seeing Klee's face with a big bar of dark ink smudged all across it kinda ruins the experience. Since the book itself comes packaged in a hard folder, there is no chance this is a shipping fault. About 5% of the pages were affected in total, which to me is enough to ask for a replacement, which I have done. If the issue repeats, I'll unfortunately have to chalk it up to a quality control issue and might have to skip on this book until a potential reprint. Either that or I'll look into getting the Asian-language version instead - there's honestly not enough text in this book for the language barrier to be a real issue to an English viewer.Otherwise, this is a really nice book that has been thought through well and definitely a must-buy for any Genshin Impact fan... well, so as long as you have enough money left to spend on it after playing the game.Looking forward to vol. 2!________________Update, 20th September 2023: Received the replacement and luckily it had no issues. :)

Need I say more? Excellent gift for yourself or any Genshin fan you know.

Bought as a gift, beautiful artwork and a great gift

My daughter like very much for her birthday present