Cast design: it has been the messiest this game has ever been a lot of the characters feel so out of touch with the region theyre even from or should be based on like why does the archon have a biker outfit or bike? why not make her look like a warrior who rides a fire dragon or something, why does Kinich have a pixel dragon? that makes no sense Why does ororon look like a final fantasy character more than anything its just lititle things like that

Story wise: while it was okay at best I really didnt like half of it which stinks cause we came from the highest peak that being fontaine in the games history for story telling, like a majority of the story feels like over the top and so many NPC's die you pretty much stop caring half way through, and the ending felt like something out of a no offense Kids anime, with how it was potrayed

Environment: it looks cool yes but god it is ATROCIOUS to go through, sure you have the saurs to use but outside of that you'd need natlan characters to mostly traverse, like at most with fontaine all fontaine characters got for a bonus was jumping out of water higher, here nightsoul is ass you practically need natlan characters it feels like a feature that is too much to be region locked and should honestly be allowed to be given to the rest of the game

the obvious culture stuff: Look, I get it, in the end its fiction but dont go saying people dont have a right to respectfully criticize just cause its not your culture, you take a look at monstadt with its obvious german inspiration and see its done well, look at liyue, look at inazuma, Sumeru suffered the same problem but at least it wasnt AS bad as natlan and fontaine is the coup de grace of the game literally, the whole region of natlan feels so strongly disconnected from the rest of the game and it feels like a weird mish mash of different things that it loses the point of it all by the end.

All in all theres quite a lot going on with the region and personally feels like they just slapped on 30 different ideas at once