Wuthering Waves

Wuthering Waves is an open-world 3D action role-playing game set in a futuristic post-apocalyptic world. The story follows the amnesiac Rover, who has awoken from a deep slumber and sets out to explore this new world.

YEAR    2024
SITE    Link
GENRE/S Action RPG
DEV     Kuro Games

Note #3

Kinda wish Wuthering Waves leaned into its horror elements a bit more.

Note #2

Really wanted to like Yinlin so I was looking forward to her character quest, but it ended up being a huge disappointment.

Not gonna get into too much detail, but her quest was sloppy, unnecessarily convoluted, and had poor cohesion between the story's themes and Yinlin's character. Some story elements didn't mesh as well as they could've with a better narrative structure, some were outright pointless, and others were entirely forgotten. There's also the inconsistent quality with the EN dub, like how one of Lirong's lines cut into a British voice at some point.

It was rushed, unpolished, and unfulfilling. Really felt like a rough draft that needed a lot of trimming down and refining.

Note #1

Combat feels pretty good, and I'm liking the environment and creature designs so far (I love you disco turtle).

Story is pretty straightfoward, starting off with a chosen hero, power fantasy, wish fulfillment formula, which I like personally. Although there wasn't a lot going on with the writing and the characters were... there?

Also, this is one of the few times I'm leaning more toward the English dub than the Japanese one. I like the voice quality of a lot of the English voices more, I think they fit most of the characters better, but they're not perfect. Could probably use better direction.

It was a lot of fun though.

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