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Wuthering Waves

9.1

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OK, objectively, WuWa is a fine game. If it's your very first game I think it's amazing, even. It also have a potential to be the best game in the genre, but right now it's super far from this.

Pros:

1. Probably the best movement I've ever seen in the genre. Fast climbing is buggy, but when it works it feels really satisfying.
2. Tons of minigames, like, 10+ of different kinds. Pure gameplay-wise, devs surely know what to do. If you are exploring and doing quests, you will definitely not be just mindlessly fighting the same boring battles.
3. Taoqi's ass and Changli's smug face. Also, Changli's undressing bug.
4. By the Thaw of Eons update they hired an actual writer who managed to construct a pretty decent short mystic story which was really, really pleasant to follow.
5. Battles are less boring comparatively because of a flashy animation on evade, and overall high speed of attack animations. Attacks still completely lack the feeling of impact, except Taoqi, but Taoqi's DPS is crap.

Cons:

1. Every single piece of writing, every single dialogue line before Thaw of Eons is atrociously, hilariously bad. Like, it's so bad you just hit "skip" literally on everything without any regret and you don't miss anything even remotely valuable. I was so disgusted on the first try I simply uninstalled this game in the first 40 minutes of playing.
2. Battle system is the same boring banal "basic attack, skill, weapon skill, ult, switch skill". I fail to understand why Kurogames didn't use their own already working unique battle system from PGR.
3. Character leveling system is a banal carbon copy of the existing systems. To Ascend  Changli you must repeat the same boring curbstomp of a worthless ant Inferno Rider 23 times, 4 battles per day if you don't whale. If you think this is a good game design, you never ever saw a good game design.
4. Despite having a cast of perfectly fine adult women, the game still have two random pedo loli  inserted arbitrarily without any story reason. Again, it's just trying to copy the boring disgusting practices from other games. Having pedo loli in your game is a nonexcusable useless disgrace.

Some comments on the community:

1. To the clowns praising the addition of the "skip" button to all cutscenes (which is a lie anyway): the problem is never the absense of the "skip" button, the problem is the fact that you want to skip the narrative in the first place! I never wanted to skip anything in the Thaw of Eons quest, the other way around, I would gladly re-watch it, but I can't!
2. Any notions on "generosity" of Kurogames are laughable, really, because WuWa contains the same gacha system as... any other such game. Open your eyes, having one character is not enough, you need SEVEN of them! Just look at Changli's Resonances, at C0 you get less than half a character! Plus devs always have another source of income called "signature weapons" meaning in addition to the character you would NEED to pull on their weapon banner or you'll get a useless cripple. In such a system, they could literally give away one copy of a 5* character for free without any loss - you still need to roll the banners like crazy anyway!
   

And yes, if you can't show the same screenshot as I did, you are not qualified to argue with me.

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