IS IT GOOD?... Wuthering Waves New Player Experience - Story, Writing, Gameplay, Eng VA & More!

The First time I played through the Wuthering Waves New Player Experience I was left a bit confused. The Gameplay tutorials, and action sequences were fine, but the story, well the story and writing was lacking. So today I'm going over the entire new player experience and breaking down what makes it good and what makes it bad! I really hope Kuro games can update the beginning part of the story and bring it up to the standard they proved they can make with Act 6! If you enjoy this content consider subscribing to the channel!
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[@justnoct]

Go check my CBT vs 1.0 vid for my reasoning: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amq3e2mgfqaEl6Msi=xbsniV4gi3ARkAlV So I just want to clarify since it seems no one actually watched the vid... 1) GO watch CBT Story and tell me what we got is better... 2) I never said Gameplay was Bad. . 3) "Genshin Fanboy", yet not a single video on any other game. Ive done guides, mistakes to avoid, how to's but somehow that makes me a Genshin Slave ha😂 4) Literally go watch CBT story again and listen to the original Vanguard Music tracks for the game and then maybe wake up and stop simping for the lesser product we received because Kuro was appeasing to the CN playerbase and the negative feedback that community drove in CBT/Tech... Honestly whoever complained in CBT ruined the final product: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXvHk51qo6t5hbMsi=5cD-PULbGJ0LVXA-

[@meguillozebern8806]

don't mind those idiots out there. They don't know when the criticism is valid. I have argued against them and they always have some fvk up logic. I realize there is no point in arguing against them. When they have nothing to throw, they call you genshin shill even though you didn't mention genshin in any of your argument.

[@meguillozebern8806]

My advice, ignore them

[@Leon-yg5gm]

People white knight for these companies like they're on payroll. As an example, there are so many people defending the state of echoes in the game that it blows my mind. Just like people playing genshin and pretending everything is perfect. Criticism should be welcome and encouraged. These companies care about your money and that's it. No reason to worry about their feelings lol.

[@Phillipmurr]

That’s just the wuthering waves community , toxic AF. They’ve literally became the thing they hate . Making excuses for a game that needs to improve. Same people making the same accusations against another community . We all know which one. It’s sad, pathetic and very disappointing. ..

[@Psi01]

Happens too often with online commentary. Some people comment just to promote their own preconceived biases against or for something instead of commenting on something they saw or heard in a video. Negative feedback paves the way for change, growth, and ultimately an improvement of the player experience. Some people take it too personally instead of constructively.

[@i_lunarr]

I think that the game is absolutely amaxing so far, style, combat, movement,characters, tutorials, the whole gacha system is insanely good I have played and currently play a lot of gacha games, genshin, honkai star rail and impact, and a few other smaller titles Honeslty my only initial issues is that the dialogue is too long in certain areas (spoiler incoming) In act 4 you fight scar again and there was literrally 20 minuites of unskippable dialogue that had no pauses or breaks inbetween that could havs been condensed or done so much better Genshin was terrible on launch the story was complete buttcheecks and we all know this but it improved massively despite taking 1 year to do so and i recon that with the money they have made so far they will spend some time on creating a better story experience and ideally better voice acting? But honestly ive aalways hated english voicing in anime and amime games with a few exeptions so i will probably switch over to japanese soon. I also think that kuro knew what yheir audience wanted and decided to lean on it for aupport a bit more in the first few patches, making a huge open world experience like genshin and having it beatiful and functioning is a pretty hard thing to do and as thry slowly fix more and more issues they will definately get to the story. That being said i think that the story after act 4 was amazing

[@Snzn18]

I think Kuro is just by default very "wordy" when in comes to the story. That is just on brand with them. I expect they probably do more of that, and I more so expect them just to find ways to present those long dialogues in a better or more entertaining way or a make it interactive some how.

[@i_lunarr]

@Snzn18 my issue isn't the length of the dialogue because obviously that can be polished and made really long good dialogue and I think your definately right by making the long dialogue better quality it would help a lot My issue was the continuous dialogue, to put it into perspective I opened wuwa on my break at work to play for 30 mins before returning back to work and the dialogue took up almost 15 mins of that time becuase there was no break Wat I would like is literrally just a second where you can back off, sort of like when one dialogue finishes before they move to the next part just give you the option of "talk to jinhsi" and then it would do the rest of the dialogue

[@snipergirl21]

I'll never forget the first 2 hours I spent playing this game upon launch. I was having mixed feelings; hating every dialogue moment, but loving the combat experience. I was telling my friends (we were playing at the same time) that I didn't know if I would stick with this game because the story was annoying me so much. I am glad I stuck with it because after I got over the first couple of acts, the story got better, the combat got way better. So, if I could talk to myself back on that first day, I would say "The beginning is rough, but if you can hang on, there's nothing but gold after that." Your mileage may vary. The combat just was perfect for me, and that's what made me stay. If you don't find something that makes you love it after the main story quest is over, it's perfectly fine to drop the game.

[@Emptiness771]

The Rover's Journey: A Revised First Attempt The story begins with the rover facing a critical moment: a battle against a formidable boss enemy that it ultimately fails to defeat. Determined to change its fate, the rover uses a blessing from the goddess to request an audience with her. The goddess agrees to send the rover back in time, but with a significant cost: the rover will lose its memories. In this new timeline, the rover is Isekaied (transported) to a different world. The goddess explains that the small creature accompanying the rover was chosen as its helper specifically to aid in defeating the boss enemy. The goddess also shows a glimpse of the rover's past, highlighting combat memories such as fighting the crowless and gliding. Future content will further elaborate on these memories. A short cutscene shows the rover falling from the ocean sky, followed by scenes of Yang Yang and Chixia searching for a fallen light, which turns out to be the rover. A flashback reveals Jinshi explaining to Yang Yang and Chixia that the goddess sent the rover to protect them from an impending disaster. The scene transitions to Chixia fighting a TD, instructing Yang Yang to proceed while she engages the enemy. Yang Yang finds the rover unconscious and a tired Chixia worries aloud, "Yang Yang, what should we do? Is the rover even awake? I'll be in trouble if Madam Jinshi finds out. How about CPR?" Yang Yang hushes Chixia, "Be quiet, Chixia. The rover is fine." The story then proceeds to the original plotline. Since the setting is a mountain, Chixia demonstrates climbing to the rover, explaining, "Resonators have a special ability to climb by focusing our energy into our feet and hands. Like this. Now you try, rover." Yang Yang interjects, "Why are you guys so slow? Be quiet, there's a TD up ahead. Chixia, scan the surroundings for more TDs." Chixia uses her scanner and reports, "Those TDs are the only enemies for now. Oh, by the way, rover, can you fight? I bet you can; you have the spectro element, a very powerful resonator variety." Yang Yang lightly bonks Chixia, "Chixia, protect the rover. The TD already knows we are here. Prepare for battle." A brief flash of lost memories shows the rover's combat skills. The rover defeats the first TD, then they proceed up the mountain, following the original story. Chixia urges, "Hurry up, guys!" Yang Yang introduces the teleportation device, "By the way, rover, this is the teleportation waypoint. This device uses a complex power to let you travel between points. But before you can use it, you need to register your databank first." A glimpse of the rover's past memory reveals how it acquired the databank device. Yang Yang examines it, "This is weird. The shape is the same, but I've never seen this device before." They continue with the original story. Chixia then shows the rover how to use the glider, "It's simple. Just connect it to your mind and think about flying." She activates hers and demonstrates, "See, rover? I'm gliding. It's fine." The rover looks at Yang Yang, who says, "Well, we can simply climb down if you want, rover." The rover responds, "I'm fine. I can do this." The story then continues with the original plot. By the way guys I'm not an author I'm simply addicted to Isekai manga and anime welp they can apply this if kuro want it

[@justnoct]

I read the whole thing. This is actually pretty damn good. I'll pin for now. Nice work!

[@MelchaiaV]

I actually put the game down and uninstalled it because of how poor the new player experience is. A lot of characters speak as if you already know everything they are talking about. The combat was great, but I had no clue why iw as doing what I was doing, so I just didn't have that investment.

[@zegichiban]

As someone who literally started less than 2 days ago, I've had a good time so far. Yea the first hour or so I didn't quite get into the story, but started getting into it once I met Scar.

[@letsrank9349]

A fellow Black sheep enjoyer I see.

[@justnoct]

See but that's my point exactly lol. The new player experience, that beginning section, it really isn't polished. Now sure once you get past it then great, but for sure a good chunk 20-30% probably didn't because of how awkward it really is in the beginning.

[@nlocniLmaharbA]

I'ma stick with the game for now. If by patch 1.2 the mobile experience doesn't get better, I'll just treat it as "the prodigy kid who fails to realize his potential and falls off" and move on.

[@justnoct]

I think many mobile players feel the same. They need to fix and revamp before they keep pumping banners and characters out. Everyone says Kuro is player centric so hopefully they deliver!

[@Emptiness771]

Damn ngl the camera in the wuwa mobile is bad

[@CodeKokeshi]

I'm waiting for them to return the fsr for PC. My performance dropped after they removed it.

[@i_lunarr]

I'm not gonna lie it's not about making the mobile experience better it's about making it work better on lower end devices, my phone is by no means high end but wuwa runs 30 fps completely fine and I've had 0 issues with it so far other than the combat system feels too advanced for mobile maybe I'm jus bad though

[@mass2930]

When wil 1.2 come cause its flippin laggin haha😅

[@saltykitty9215]

Wtf why are people outraged at this video? XD I am a dlehard WuWa fan and I totally agree with you

[@justnoct]

Tell me about it 😂

[@saiavabel6076]

The story sht first act1-2. Act5-6 awesome story. Gameplay is awesome. Movement and combat one of best I've seen. And add bonus is echos basically. Pokemon game is 9/10

[@mirai.p.p.x]

So TRUE! Everything what you said! ❤ I underdtand we have different "demands" about a story becouse we are so different in many ways in this world, but here on youtube there are a lot of people who say it loud and clear that the story is not good enough. Hope the creatirs soon will do something about it. I would gladly rewatch or replay the whole story if it got corrected. 😊

[@justnoct]

Thank you I appreciate it!

[@Psi01]

The story at the beginning could definitely have been written better and having played through a good amount of the story of Punishing: Gray Raven (another game from Kuro), I had higher expectations. The beginning story of PGR wasn't that captivating imo, but I know that Kuro games is capable of writing characters with personality and good dialogue. Kowloong Metropolis til this day is still my favorite chapter from PGR. Not that the chosen-one-with-cheat-skills archetype is a bad thing, but Wuwa's approach to it was not novel nor was it refreshing in my opinion.

[@Psi01]

Also wanted to add that some of the dialogue choices you can pick for the main character are kind of cringe or there are cases when it seems like you're ignored no matter which dialogue choice you pick...

[@Zyleace]

Did you know that in CBT1, the story for Waves is different? The writer for the whole Waves is also the same writer who wrote The Surviving Lucem which is Liv's story. Then now we get... This after they complained the story is too long. It was unbelievable honestly

[@riven4121]

@@Zyleace Not even too long. CN complained that the story was too dark.

[@Zyleace]

@@riven4121 Ah yes mb, it's the quest is too long that there are too much errands while story is too dark.

[@justnoct]

@Zyleace this is my point, they rewrote the story and rushed it out the door to hit deadlines. I read parts of the OG story and it was better than what we got.

[@Truck-kun11]

I don't intend to play WuWa due to a combination of lack of interest (the aesthetics aren't really my taste) and lack of time, but it's nice to see a review that is fair and doesn't just sweep the game's problems under the rug. In my opinion, WuWa needed a lot more time in the oven and them having to rewrite the entire story from scratch was clearly a huge diversion of resources and time that the studio didn't have available that could have been used to refine what was already there, and I don't see the situation improving anytime soon with them ACCELERATING the release of the next version. Anyway, good video, keep going!

[@justnoct]

I think the game could do with saturation and brightening for sure. Characters aesthetics are great for me. The Gundamesk writing on them and the more mature artistic style. But it's not for everyone. I have to agree fully they should have waited to release. They wrote an entire new story after CBT. Honestly all the voice lines and recording etc of course it's rushed. I worry now they are trying too hard to beat ZZZ release with the 1.1 release. I appreciate the kind words and I hope they can bring the game to where it should have been!

[@reconstellation4038]

Abt their story They gotta learn from hsr Just look how everyone loves Firefly Surely it will make a bucket

[@leo3600]

as a chinese speaker, I find the VA timing is actually quite off, at first I play the game in both English text and voice, however after I realise how many Chinese pronunciation are used, I just gave up and decided fuck it I am gonna use Chinese text instead, and god damn the game feels 10000000 times better if you can read chinese I promise lol

[@justnoct]

Thank you for this comment. I speak a few languages though Mandarin and Cantonese are not among them so I can appreciate your perspective.

[@Maja_J]

How the hell you say gameplay and movment is bad ??? So you like low stamina runs in Genshin omg what lame take.. I understand that you dont lkie story but gameplay .

[@justnoct]

I never said the gameplay was bad. I even mentioned how good the tutorials around gameplay were. I have a feeling you read the bait title and said FK this guy 🤣

[@threalanon2342]

he only complain ablout the story

[@miiko7859]

@@justnoct The title says "IT'S PRETTY BAD" tho. I guess I just have pretty bad taste being a GI HSR player.

[@mysteryguy3220]

Genshin is living rent free in your head. He didn't mention any game other than WuWa. Wtf?!

[@justnoct]

@miiko7859 The video was around the New Player Experience, not the game overall. Regardless ill admit there was some bait there.

[@Rin-tf6fk]

Even the successful gacha game, genshin impact, have a hella boring and confusing story at the beginning like how the heck Paimon nearly drowned when she ask us to swim to go to the statue of the seven while she is floating over the water? The Seven? Timmie's dad? Hilichurls? what kind of creature are they or where they came from? or how the stores sell milk when I didn't see any single cow in the overworld? Yet all of these are explained bit by bit in future archon quests then the story eventually became good. In case of Wuthering Waves, yeah there were a lot of new terms in the beginning but progressing in to the story and continuing playing it will make you understand bit by bit what world they have. Plus points too for having a skip button for boring side quests, small talks, quests without voice dub, or if you mainly play for combat. Genshin Impact truly set a standard for open world gacha games and for players but itself have a flaws too, remember Wuthering Waves just got freshly release, so should not review it based on the other polished games in mind. But tbh playing Wuthering Waves for straight 2 weeks is refreshing then playing Genshin Impact feels different, It feels so slow, constantly looking for skip button in small talks during daily quests, waiting for outro skill that doesn't exists there, and freaking pulling in weapon banner forgetting that it isn't guaranteed.

[@maymainssharedonebraincell6022]

I hate that people gloss over problems when it come to things that mihoyo made, the excuse that people are willing to come up with when defending those games are infuriating.

[@justnoct]

But you remembered all of those things. I don't think much of anything is memorable from the new player experience in WuWa outside of Bad Eng VA direction and rushed writing. People complained about the original story being too long in CBT and now we got this jumbled mess. Once you get past the first bit, yes, the game gets much better, but many players won't make it that far and to be fair the technical issues didn't help either.

[@Rin-tf6fk]

@@justnoct Since I played both games from day one, I remember some of the good aspects and flaws of each. Both stories have scenes of pointless chatter. Genshin Impact's launch was particularly memorable because it was the first open-world gacha game, and playing it with no prior experience in such a game made me genuinely enjoy it. At that time, there was nothing else like it. Apart from the excessive talking, the most memorable part for me was fighting Dvalin with Venti. As for Wuthering Waves, it's refreshing after almost four years of playing Genshin. The unexpected face-off with Crownless just ten minutes into the game, Encore's cuteness, and the fight with Jingyan against Dreamless were very memorable for me. Enjoyment and memorable scenes in stories are highly subjective. It's also subjective whether a player can understand the story right away by carefully reading the dialogues, even if others find it a jumble. Regarding the English dub and technical issues, since I always play with the Japanese dub and haven't experienced many technical problems, I don't have much to say about that. Right now, I’m enjoying Wuthering Waves as much as I enjoyed Genshin Impact. Lastly, I appreciate the developers of Wuthering Waves for their effort, hard work, generosity, and willingness to listen to feedback to improve the game. If you think it's bad, give it a chance-it's still only at version 1.0. Let Kuro Games cook.

[@tp9516]

​@@Rin-tf6fk It's more like people and ccs hyped the game up to he moon. "This game is not kids game like genshin it has a dark a story and is more mature not like that little kiddie game and story is good". Stuff like that really got people hyped and they were very disappointed when the game did not deliver. They were expecting the perfect game and got something deeply flawed. Wuthering Waves 1.0 is comparable to Genshin 1.0 is the exact point people are going to make. Because a game that was made 4 years from now, now that we have lots of advance in technology like unreal 5, does not bring enough new to the table than the game made 4 years before. The Wuwa 1.0 should absolutely crush the genshin 1.0, the fact that it is even being compared to Genshin when it just release is kinda embarrasing. It's like Genshin is on 4.7 patch not 1.0 patch lol. The ost for this game is mediocre, the localization is bad, story is bad, optimization is bad, exp farming even worse at times due to very small echo exp mats. This is what all the CCs were touting as oh maahh gawdd this game gonna obliterate genshin in every aspect they will actually listen to us!!! But it's not that. That's not to mention all the incomplete features like elusive realm and bugs like some of my characters would just start flashing black and white and the ost would turn off randomly on some days and some the next. It was a very buggy game. Genshin release 4 years ago and was buggy but I don't believe even for me to this extent. And Kuro had the Genshin book on what not to do for a game like give very bad rewards and not adding endgame. But apparently they did not learn enough because this game seems very buggy and unfinished as of now and I am HOPING they get a better ost. The soundtrack and world is the biggest gripe I have about this game. The soundtrack is supposed to enhance the world and the landmarks in the game are not very impressive. This region in the game is supposed to be china-themed but what about the region shows the china architecture or futuristic chinese building or anything for that matter. It's like how Liyue had the instruments and the chinese architecture and the mountains that resembled real life mountain in china they had something they were going for. Jinzhou is the only place I liked in the game. It feels like the soundtrack never ramps up or does anything cool or has a motif or specific instrument is goes for. It just exists and is the soundtrack of all time. And this is a game literally about sound. However, the world in Wuwa is very mix-mashed and I do not really know what they're going for. CCs were touting how there's so much variety and different biomes unlike genshin empty world. But really it becomes a problem because I don't know what the world is really going for? But it's a fun game with combat but personally it won't stick with me due to the fact that Wuwa was not the first to be the high budget open world gacha game and has a lot of aspects worse than genshin. It does not have the advantage and therefore needs to be overwhelmingly better which it is not by a far stretch.

[@justnoct]

I'm sure you know this, but lookup Vanguard Sounds on YT, they did the CBT music and it was much better than what we got at release.

[@krowtic6807]

The bad english VO is most definitely an issue with writing and voice direction. Rebecca Yeo, the voice for Yangyang is pretty bad but if you watch the actress's demo reel you can see she isn't a bad actor, it's just the direction that she's being given is for shit.

[@prophet4722]

Try the JP voice acting version. Maybe you’ll have a better experience. It went through the entire story in JP and it felt way better.

[@Phillipmurr]

You shouldn’t have to. It’s disrespectful for the English customer bass . If they don’t care about my experience , I won’t care to give them any money.

[@prophet4722]

Yeah sure, don't give them money. But disrespectful for English customers?? You might be taking a video game too seriously.

[@justnoct]

@@prophet4722 to be fair there is a large player base in ENG speaking countries and it seems that ENG has the worst VA performance. JP seems to be fine so it definitely shows priority and bias.

[@prophet4722]

@@justnoct I do believe they are working towards fixing it. I went through a hell of an optimisation problems at launch. Everything bad you heard about the game happened to me. But it’s fixed now, works like a sweet dream.

[@Phillipmurr]

@@prophet4722 will when three languages get a good dub and one doesn't. what would you call it, if the English dub was good and the Chinese was bad , do you really believe that Chinese forms wouldn't be on fire...

[@exoticseventeen6905]

I can’t even play the the game on my pc. It keeps saying the servers are down or smth. One star review 😊

[@sauracifer3557]

ye i also played the beginning twice and after that for a week or so and it just doesnt measure up to mihoyo... dropping this game sadly

[@leandrodelmistro2238]

The VAs are bad for some of the characters agree, I think the tutorials are fine and the gameplay is really good! As long as they release new content and characters the game will keep players for sure xD.

[@justnoct]

I think those of us that stay for gameplay sure, but there are huge sub section of players that pull for units because of the story.

[@letsrank9349]

I listed all the things that you pointed out that was notable to me 1. Voice acting - This is true, in the EN version, there is no denying that there were a lot of inconsistencies and bad acting direction, mainly because it's the main cast who were offending here. Thankfully, the voice direction can be seen to have improve on the Yinlin companion quest. That makes me excited for 1.1 2. Info dump - While Wuwa does do this, it is unfair to say it is a determent to the story imo. HSR did this as well with the Antimatter legion, aeons, Stellaron, Stellaron hunters etc. And Genshin did not have a story at all in 1.0, there is a cutscene of the twins fighting but no context until after you meet Dainsleif. A thrash mob is controlling a dragon, then Archons suddenly got introduced in the middle. All I'm saying is these Gacha games either lore dump you or make shit up along the way. 3. Story Rushed - This is 100 true. Wuwa was forced to rewrite 80% of their story. I guess why chapter 5 and 6 felt good again was because they startes tackling dark themes again. Imo the rewrite was possibly a mistake. 4. Combat. - I love how you point out the optimizations, how the game teaches you the systems. Would have loved a more comprehensive list of QoL present here that is clearly not in Genshin. Idk why you were avoiding mentioning anything about it. I think that is where the majority of the backlash in this video is directed. Anyway, the review was fair, except for some ommissions here and there. I think your voice and video format is great too. You just got a subscriber.

[@justnoct]

I should of touched base on the combat and positives more, but that comes into play after the new player experience so I wanted to focus on the first bit of audience retention. I agree with some of your points. But they rushed to write a new story and it shows.

[@trungkienluongvu3473]

Overall experience, here's my conclusion. For starters, Rover. A great unit, both gameplay and character, also the design. It's rare to see a main character in an Open World that actually functions, for personality, ehhh... let's just say a bit of Traveller and a bit of Trailblazer. Rover is gonna stay long as the story progresses. Gameplay wise, quite fun, but not recommended for normal players. As for story, oh boy, the general story is nowhere near great, good, maybe. But reaching to Jiyan storyline, you're in for a treat. Overall, I like it, a new air for the gacha game community.

[@justnoct]

Jiyan's story quest was good. I'll give them that and his Eng VA is very good. But when he's surrounded by meh it kinda of feels out of place with how good his performance is really lol

[@trungkienluongvu3473]

@@justnoct give it time the story will grow.

[@rednuth]

Could agree with story and acting but gameplay is simply awesome

[@justnoct]

Yeah gameplay is fantastic!

[@user-ge1dp9uc6o]

Only if they change the jumping animation

[@KoharuTachibana]

This is my only gripe with this game. The somehow ok-ish music can be ignored (coming from PGR, yeah they can absolutely do better since they've hired Vanguard before). But damn do the translation really needs fixing. The fact that they started with China as their 1st location is already a challenge of itself, not everyone is familiar with Chinese names/words and then they also have to dump the story with bits of chinese words. I had to skip most of the uninteresting parts of the info dump in chapter 1-4 while chapter 5 onwards where there is really a stake at hand is where the story gets going. I'm not sure about this but I feel like there was a change in the stories' writer halfway through...

[@krisanthonymiranda1713]

Need game to optimize on mobile, and the camera settings sucks, so many to change, I hope 1.1 update will fix it all

[@justnoct]

We can hope! I think the future is bright for WuWa

[@Kota-sk8sl]

Wuwa lost me before I ever hit UL40. Already stuck in a grind loop. World like 80% explored already. Story so boring i was actually thankful for the skip button, I feature I never use in any game that has it unless im doing replays. The shiny new feeling of movement mechanics wears off incredibly quickly when you’re only using them to traverse boring, empty, lifeless worlds on the way to fight the same enemy you’ve been fighting for weeks already trying to get a usable echo. Combat feels like a breath of fresh air coming directly from genshin of course, but spend two seconds playing Elden ring or any other game targeted at skill based mechanics with good combat and you quickly see that wuwa is just pretending in that aspect as well. More flash and pomp than any actual skill needed, especially with attacks being telegraphed business days in advance and parry windows being more forgiving than easy mode on guitar hero. Makes a good market for players with a bit more mechanical skill than genshin requires to feel good about themselves I suppose, although the wuwa players pretending that wuwa requires enough skill for it to be a gatekeeping factor to some players is silly, nothing in wuwa is even remotely difficult enough for that.

[@Kota-sk8sl]

The biggest shame though is that Kuro has 100% set the tone for the game to never improve on any of these aspects. They knew from the start that their biggest market of players would be genshin burnouts, and they knew that throwing free wishes at them would appease them. So they did, and it’s working flawlessly. Wuwa players will mindlessly scream at you about how Kuro is “listening” then shrug off players with $1700 gpus crashing on loading screens, because to them getting some free standard banner wishes truly feels like Kuro is listening. It’s sad fr.

[@gong-hl7fw]

The fact that wuwa players can't praise their game without bringing up genshin is also very sad to me

[@teucerceoofgenshincreative8019]

Did they already hired new voice actor?

[@invicphoenix923]

why would they hire new VA's? they need an actual director..

[@kazubaknux6372]

@@invicphoenix923 yeah the voices are good, the direction tho...

[@kienmaple]

It's 'wooothering', not 'willthering'.

[@justnoct]

Technically it's "weathering" but yeah I'm working on it 😅

[@noiseyy]

so fucking true

[@CHAPPEMo25]

I am trying to understand your opinion, but I can't. Sure, the story is bad, and the voice acting is also bad. But gameplay? Are you serious? All that gameplay and mechanics are not satisfying for you? How about you go back to Genshin Impact and play its slow mechanics? Like, come on. Wuthering Waves has done so much better than Genshin Impact. Like the climbing, the combat, and the graphics, it is more face-to-face than Genshin Impact. There are so many bad things about Genshin Impact that if I keep typing about them, I might not even finish. So, in my opinion, Wuthering Waves easily takes the top spot in the gacha games; it just needs a little fixing, like the story and the voice acting. Other than that, the game looks nice. I respect your opinion, but at least be fair with your titles and videos because Wuthering Waves also has a lot of flawless stuff, unlike Genshin Impact. No game is perfect.

[@vampiszoonis9691]

Going from this to genshin is gonna make him cry so hard 😂, I am playing genshin for 3 years and I feel so depressed when I have to go in genshin

[@CHAPPEMo25]

@@vampiszoonis9691 Yeah, same. I just don't feel motivated anymore to continue playing genshin impact after Wuthering Waves released.

[@Nightmarelife]

Hm I mean wuthering waves hasn't been all that great for me as I'm an ios player I keep crashing frequently can barely even get to the 1min mark b4 it crashes the longest I've gotten to play without crashing was maybe half an hour I bought more storage deleted games but it's only wuthering waves that crashes so I mean it's definitely not perfect I'll say the gameplay is good story line I like the voice acting ain't the best definitely isn't to bad either but my main issue is the mobile and ipad crashes as its not just me but a hellva alot more people who have this issue hence why I do prefer the hoyo games as I have a ps5 but they need to sort wuthering waves crashing on ipad and phone because its really hard to play the game with them not fixing something so major for us 😅

[@justnoct]

Show me where I said gameplay was bad?

[@Decimusmeridius212]

The story isn’t even bad 😂😂 that main story was interesting and miles better than the sludge of genshin’s prologue

[@BloodyVeel]

When you look game from negative viewpoint any game will be bad as hell . Top 10 in world downloads for a 1 month after release prove everything you rant about wrong ❤❤❤❤

[@justnoct]

It's not negative view. In fact most of my videos on the game are very positive and helping new players. That being said I've heard from new players and they say the experience sucks so I tried it again and I can see where they are coming from.

[@MeLon_Pan1]

The voice acting was pretty bad (with the exemption of some). Had to switch to JP and problem solved. And the story sure act I - III was rough , but it gets better after u met scar not to mention act VI was peak cinema.(The boss fight was so hype)

[@invicphoenix923]

it wasn't pretty bad, it's only yangyang who is being dry most of the time.. overall the VAs did avg-above avg job

[@DatBoiSaint]

The game overall was alright. Amazing world to explore. Horrible story & pacing. The dodge & parry are cool but the game ends up as a button masher. End game was boring just simple towers of more button smashing. Completed it all F2P. Currently playing Honkai Starrail it's way better than WuWa.

[@justnoct]

True Endgame is Level 6 Holograms. Level 90 teams will get 1 shot if you miss a single dodge.

[@NotAHoyoSlave]

Go mint picking then its more fun😂

[@justnoct]

There's always one 🤣

[@gong-hl7fw]

Do you guys always have to bring up genshin

[@Snzn18]

I kinda like that they just through all the words at you at the beginning though. And that it also make sense story wise. It takes you to the headspace of the MC where you don't know what the hell are these people talking about. Yes that can come of overwhelming, But would having be the story framed in a "tutorial expository way" of easing those terminology is overused. That the game needs to make eveything very basic at the very beginning. It's like all the first interactions you will have is that the people you interact with starts with magically assuming you don't know shit and hey Tacet field is this and that. Another thing, I feel like the story in general falls more into "subjective" territory. Some people will like it, some people don't. Although yes they need some improvements on how they go about in telling the story.

[@miiko7859]

The early game scripts are forgivable. Just never play these games in english, because even if the script and voices are good, there will always be atleast one voice you never want to hear.

[@justnoct]

They re wrote the story because people said it was too long in CBT... That's what annoys me apparently it was pretty stellar!

[@anticringeman8887]

I dont agree with this opinion

[@justnoct]

That's the beauty you don't have to. But I appreciate the comment. I think the game is great but I think they need to work on the New Player Experience to get better retention.

[@pepemr.13]

Why do u even rant about voiceovers when u play on ENG? Just switch to JPN

[@justnoct]

Because there are some big names English VA in this game. Other games have managed to get the emotion down. This was rushed. I understand switch languages but most casuals won't and many will just uninstall.

[@Phillipmurr]

@@justnoct 1000% it’s such a weak argument just which languages? Are the English players a second-class citizen or something? I did uninstalled because of how bad it was.

[@redallison3254]

who the hell plays it in english dub anyway? eng dub will always sound disgusting for me. They just cant capture the emotion behind it. idk..

[@justnoct]

You have to admit there's plenty of Dubs that do well.

[@Lov3andMe]

Genshin fanboy obviously🐒

[@justnoct]

Not even close 😂 I actually really like WuWa. If you took the time to check the channel you wont see a single vid on any other game. I wouldn't waste time and effort trying to build something for a game I don't like 😆

[@jaushabakkas8127]

Funny you said that, while genshin story is... 100 times worse, not to mentioned that paimon, be our voice, for what? it's annoying, she just repeat whatever, it's like echo chamber, the worst, and people act like Genshin story at first was really good, nah it ain't

[@justnoct]

New Player Experience is much more polished in other games. That's all I was talking about. The first 30min that hooks audience retention was rushed and not ready for release.

[@migipal1754]

Yang yang voice like robot feel so stiff for me but in JP is great for CN not big fan

[@justnoct]

I think she has potential, but the writing doesn't help. Need more inflection and emotion. Engine VA issues I guess.

[@goodmoringful]

Nah, just give it some time. You’re judging a story way too early. I think they did ok, there were some questions which gives the story a sense of mystery. Stories aren’t really an encyclopedia where every aspect of the lore is given to you like a platter . Stories aren’t lore and lore is just part of a story.

[@justnoct]

I can appreciate what you're saying, I'm sure it will develop but as new banners come out new players will get drawn in and I'll be honest the first 30min could use some work. I think gameplay and later on the story gets better but I know they're losing audience early on.

[@Kota-sk8sl]

But what you said stories aren’t is EXACTLY what wuwa did and why people complain about it. Have you seen the notes one player took of all the ridiculous terms they throw at you immediately without any explanation whatsoever? Wuwas story literally treats you like you’re an encyclopedia that already knows everything about everything from the second youre dropped in. It sucks lol.

[@justnoct]

This is my point exactly. It's overwhelming to just have an info dump in a new world like that.

[@krisanthonymiranda1713]

English has a annoying accent so what do u expect? Just change the voice to JP it sounds better and the story became good

[@justnoct]

But why? Other games have nailed Eng VA. WuWa has some Eng VA on the roster. Players shouldn't have to switch languages to enjoy the story.

[@trukinis420]

Story is bad, so what? Games are played not because of the story, it's played because of the gameplay. If they want a good story, then buy and read some books lol.

[@happyfacelily]

some players play the game for the story… thats why the story is there

[@Psi01]

I disagree. Story (and lore) is just as important as gameplay especially for a live service game like Wuwa. Having a good story (with some necessary exposition) right from the very beginning creates a good impression and if the writing is good enough to convince most players to think "I want to know what happens next" as they wait and do their daily farming between major patches, then that helps keep the game alive with a healthy playerbase and far away from the worst possible outcome, which is an End of Service or EoS.

[@MeLon_Pan1]

The story actually gets better after you met scar.

[@MeLon_Pan1]

And act VI was just peak cinema 😙👌

[@ligmasphere901]

If they are expecting us to pay for and pull for these ho s every patch the story better be better than what a 5th grader can write.