Wuthering Waves

Played the absolute ♥♥♥♥ out of this game, the combat mechanics are just soo addicting especially the satisfaction you get by doing a successful dodge or parry, currently I've completed every hologram in the highest difficulty and honestly had soo much fun completing those challenges, just makes me want more combat based challenges in the future. The exploration has to be the best part about this game, for me personally. I love how each area is just soo beautiful in its own way and paired with the music, it just makes me take my hand off my keyboard and admire. The exploration techs that this game offers are good aswell, one of the reasons why exploring a region never gets boring. The Music and Visuals are just absoulutely fantastic. Yes, the cinematics are amazing and a work of art but a majority of what makes the specific scene hit and makes it soo powerful is the Music itself. I never expected a gacha game to actually overwhelm me with soo many emotions and bring me to the verge of crying ( looking at you 3.1 and 3.3 ) This brings me to my next point the Characters and the story, the characters themselves are very well designed and each character has a different personality to them which i like. Gameplay wise most of the characters are very fun to use and have smooth and beautiful animations which makes skipping characters very heartbreaking as they all have such beautiful designs. The story as I saw just kept getting better and better and the more I progressed it felt like I was playing a different game entirely and honestly I wasnt expecting much at first, I came after seeing the Cyberpunk collab and just thought that after pulling Lucy I would be done with this game but after progressing through the main quest farming astrites I found myself hooked to the story and here I am 600 hours in trying to squeeze just a little more content that this game can offer, no Lucy but atleast I got to enjoy this Gem of a game. Now.. No game is perfect and each game has its flaws, I dislike the gacha system and losing a 50/50 is just devastating especially when you've spent hours exploring and farming for a specific character all to be met with a martial artist monk. Honestly, when I first lost a 50/50 was on the Lucy banner and I didnt know what the 50/50 system actually was, so I was confused af when my Lucy was a man. At the end of the day it is a Gacha game, so I knew what I was getting myself into so can't be mad about that, also devs need the money to release new peak patches but, I still wish that there was no gacha system at all. Atleast the weapons are guaranteed there's that but, with new upcoming patches it just feels that all the new characters are very signature dependant and also what is a guaranteed weapon when you dont even have enough to pull the character itself. For reference, I have Jingran but couldn't get his sig cause i wanted Iuno and Lucilla in the coming banner, now without his signature weapon he's not completely useless cause Iuno is his Best in slot but, if I dont get Iuno he's just a brick in my account until he reruns and i pull his weapon and God knows when Iuno gonna get another rerun cause they might just cause another Shorekeeper. Gacha system aside, there's one thing I absolutely hate from the bottom of my soul and its the echo tuning like how much more frustrating can this be. Farming for echoes to get better substats is genuinely a pain in the ass, unless you just wanna play the story and dont care if your character doesn't have like 80 crit rate or 280 crit damage stats, particularly important for endgame modes. Like after losing a 50/50, that wasn't enough that I now have the most esteemed opportunity to lose on echo substats as well, nice. Also, what's up with transducers being locked behind paywalls or a 60 afterglow coral redeem when i can literally get better redeem options like extra sequence nodes or extra pulls (also its not guaranteed that you're guaranteed a usable substat when using a transducer which makes it even more ♥♥♥♥). Typing this made me pop another vessel just thinking about my 3 cost echo farming where hours of farming and causing mass extinction of glommoths gave me zilch usable echoes for my Hiyuki, oh you want crit and res lib? Here you go def and hp like c'mon man ugghhh. I hope they make some changes where atleast the odds of getting a good mainstat for an echo is higher then getting a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mainstat like healing bonus for dps characters or just make transducers more accessible cause it is actual pain to be farming for hours and have to go through two rng dependent walls ( mainstat and substat ) and in the end all that work was just a complete waste of time when I could be 100% Silksong or any other game! Other than that I think the game is absoulutely amazing and I love the constant improvement they've shown in the game, this game is literally perfect if you remove the Gacha system also cause Iuno's there. Personally I don't see myself going away from this game anytime soon. Amazing Characters, Amazing Music, Stunning Visuals, Great Story it literally is just a work of art. Thank you Solon for making such an amazing game. If you like mindlessly farming for better stats cause you're into it or you like the pain from losing a gacha 50/50 well now, do I have a game for you. Also global filter is the GOAT.