An Honest Review of Wuthering Waves from a Genshin Impact Player

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So many people have been asking about Wuthering Waves, especially coming form Genshin Impact that I wanted to make this video talking about comparing the two games and their similarities and differences. If you want to try Wuthering Waves and support the channel, use the link below!

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00:00 The Wuthering Waves Hype and Genshin Impact
00:36 Wuthering Waves Combat System vs Genshin and other games
04:34 Waveplates, Stamina, and Progression
05:27 Exploration and Echoes in Wuthering Waves
06:33 Environments & Music in Wuthering Waves
07:09 Wuthering Waves Story
07:45 Difficulty Level
08:17 Endgame - Hazard Tower Zone, Hologram Bosses, Illusion Realm
09:56 Gacha or Wishing System and how it compares to Genshin Impact
11:36 Co-Op in Wuthering Waves and What Most people aren't saying
12:11 Wuthering Waves vs Genshin Impact. Which is Better?
14:02 Should You Play Wuthering Waves over Genshin Impact?

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[SpyralKing]

"The gacha system is slightly better" Nah lets stop the cap here, lets keep it straight its WAY better. Like by ALOT.

[Yoru-desu]

There is no 50/50 on weapons banners. Once you hit a 5 star, you get that weapon (including limited weapon banners). The standard banner splits the characters and weapons as well. For standard char banner, there's 5 chars (1/5). For standard weapon banner, you get to CHOOSE which weapon you're aiming for, and will get it once you hit the 5 star. There's also a currency you obtain for pulling that can be used for extra pulls, 4 stars, etc, but you can also get LIMITED char dupes within the time of the banner. You can literally save, pull a limited 5 star, and have C2 / E2. There's also 2 copies of all the standard 5 stars, so that a free C2/E2 over time if you really like one of them.

We also get a novice banner, discounted 10 pulls (costs 8) and a 5 star standard char within 50 pulls. Then it turns into a choice banner, select a 5 star standard char to aim for, within 80 pulls. And we got a 5 star standard char selector ticket that doesn't expire for a year, for free.

[italomorais]

Weapon banner is not a trap in this game at all.

F2P are actually better off using their standard pulls on the standard weapons banner, given that after a few days playing, you should already have 3 different standard 5 star characters, and you're able to select 2 of them.

[IroVinh]

Guys, let's not go war on which is better, Genshin is Genshin, Wuthering Waves is Wuthering Waves; haters will always find something spread enmity.

[ShadeLightTheory]

ironically Wuthering Waves made me play Genshin again and now I'm enjoying both games lol

[pikajew]

No mention of the legendary dialog skip button?

[kodekorp]

The devs for wuthering waves says that power creep shouldn’t be a big issue for a long time even on base characters because everything is based on skill. So the need to feel like you should be collecting the new characters is apparently not emphasized.

[deepghosh]

Wuthering waves combat is more satisfying than genshin... It's like you are actually using the While Genshin weapons are just to make u stronger

[pedroares]

I agree with you with all except the environments. I think Genshin has a huge variety after 4 years. If WW triumphs and live for 3 more years I think we could compare the variety of environments (except the music, in the music GI is king)

[RealQuarlie]

So far the biggest issues just seem to be:

- Some Bugs (sometimes softlocks, Audio cutting off, etc) and performance issues

- English VA and Dialoge Text sometimes going beyond the Text Box

- Echo Farming (specifically in regards to basically needing to kill ~100 Elite monsters just to get a single Echo that has the correct Set and main stat, not even including substats. The most common suggestion is being able to randomly re-tune all or specific stats. This would lower both the needed echos to farm as well as echo materials to use up in total)

- Slow Story at the beginning (it gets SO much better later on, especially already when you get to scar)

- Somewhat maybe stale Designs in Art just for me personally (a lot of the weapons are just extremely similar, wish they had a bit more to them)

Most of these (maybe aside from specificly tuning, maybe designs and VA) will definitely be fixed over the coming updates. Just really hope they tackle the other stuff too.

Also on a side note for the event weapon banner: I really wouldn't say it's a trap. There is a 100% chance to get the exact weapon you want at 80 convenes (in comparison to Genshins ~37.5%), as well as the weapons currently on there being good for a lot of different characters. The current sword works well on Jiyan but it's also the best for Calcharo. The upcoming Stringmaster is obviously the best for Yinlin, but it's basically also at the top for Encore. So unless they decide to switch up the weapon banner similar to the one in Genshin, the banner is actually pretty good here.

[a_bonafide_rarity]

i agree a lot with what you're saying for sure BUT a few things that i think are worth mentioning:

(note: i absolutely love genshin and don't plan on quitting anytime soon)

-in WW you can actually farm specific boss echos (artifacts) until the end of time without needing to use a single waveplate. meanwhile you HAVE to use resin in order to have a chance to maybe get a single piece of the specific set that you want. yes, sometimes it drops, sometimes it doesn't in WW, but at least you know that when it does, you're definitely getting that Thundering Mephis or Crownless or whatever. of course, you still need to hope and pray that you get the specific main stat that you want but in Genshin you also have to deal with the other stuff.

-storywise i don't think it's fair to compare a game that literally just started with a game that has had several updates with brand new story lines. Kuro has essentially just released the tutorial with some heavier story as you get near the end but hoyo did that too. honestly i can't even imagine only having mondstadt to explore. meanwhile, WW has a nice range of biomes/environments.

-the sound design and soundtrack far surpass genshin so far imo. I've never felt the soundtrack to be repetitive the way that i often feel about genshin. in WW you don't even notice that the music has looped in my experience. I've definitely preferred the music in WW so far imo. then there's BIRDS and other background sounds that actually make the setting feel real. that's been a joy for me.

-I'm not personally a lore skipper but if someone doesn't care about the story, it's fully skippable.

-Kuro has ACTUALLY been listening to community feedback and within a week they've released several updates (not just hotfixes which have also been abundant).

overall i think the game itself has had a really solid start (though it has been riddled with bugs and lacks controller support for mobile; tho that's definitely coming soon). give it a few years and i think it'll be a totally unrecognizable game to what we have today with a really engaging story to boot.

definitely recommend.

[luciainvicta]

In regards of the color, in Wuwa for some reason they turn on the brightness to almost max which makes the game look washed out. Turning it close to 0 makes the colors pop and it looks much much better than genshin. Not sure if it was a mistranslation on their side or something but the brightness setting is more like a color gradient

[foxianjade]

Touching on the powercreep: Some have been saying that powercreep won’t be too much of an issue because it’s more about skill than just your normal brute forcing. So, if you want to keep playing with your main, then you don’t really need to swap to a new character c: Although some bosses do have resistance to some elements, so keep that in mind

Also, I know it’s just a preference thing, but I really like the "dull" colors and they don’t look that boring. While I’m used to the bright colors in Genshin, the dull colors are easier on the eyes and blends well with brighter colors. You can’t tell me there aren’t any bright colors in WuWa (not saying shark said that, just saying in general), and if you do say that then you haven’t seen enough of the world lol. I think the coolest area where it’s super dull is Dim Forest with all the toxic fog (if you hadn’t cleared it yet via a quest). Then there’s the Sea of Flames. The red is actually really pretty. I will admit that I like hoyo music a bit better though. I like the subtle music outside of battle in WuWa, but I wish it was a bit more.

Also, you didn’t mention that you *and* the co-op person can get the echoes that drop at the same time. So if you want to *really* grind out your data bank, do so with a friend. I personally won’t be doing this, but I think that’s a redeeming factor for co-op

[Roihclem]

Act 3-6 story quality is dramtically increased

[PenultimatePenPen]

I think something that people keep forgetting when comparing these games is that one has been out since 2020 and one just came out. It's difficult to recall exactly how Genshin was on release sometimes but they have improved many things since 2020 and I'm sure WW will do the same

As far as the story goes I found the Genshin story pretty bland for awhile, so seeing as this is only the first release and Genshin's story didn't get good for me for at least a few patches, I'd give WW some more time to cook in that department. Plus I think part 5 and 6 of the story are already far better than how the story starts out. So there are signs of improvement

Overall Genshin itself is the only "Genshin Killer" and frankly I enjoy Genshin a good amount so I wouldn't want it to be killed. But I do want WW to succeed as more competition is great for both games. I'll still try to play WW (no pc and ps5 release date is still tbd) on my phone but touch controls are rough and I can only play for so long before bowing out (same thing with Genshin honestly, can't stand playing it on mobile). Love the combat and see a lot of potential with it though so WW will be a main game for me as soon as they release ps5 or controller support for mobile

[Xsirt]

Excuse me, how is 240 "pretty much equal" to 200?

And personally, I don't agree with the part about co-op at all. It might me my bias because I prefer Jianxin who is pretty self-sufficient, but playing co-op in WuWa has been much more enjoyable so far. For me, yeah. But I'm also happy that there's no elemental resonance like in Genshin.

And btw, did I miss a part about WuWa having an amazing quality of life features that Genshin can only dream of? Skip Button? Wall running? Grapple? Did I really miss everything I just said being mentioned in the video? :) The part about graphics is rich. It's "cartoon fairy tale world" vs "post-apocalyptic world". And oh how I wish there was a word or two about 50+ types of enemies in WuWa 1.0 versus Hilichurl variants and boars in Genshin 1.0, too. :)

Important part that wasn't mention is system requirements for playing. This is why some feel like playing Genshin again, I'd bet.
As for me, I deleted Genshin finally. :') Cheers~

[BadManiac]

Not sure I agree about the world exploration comparison. Genshin Impact doesn't just have enemies to fight, it has various types of puzzles as well as timed and navigation challenges, and they all reward you with treasure and gacha currency, as well as each regions own collect-a-thon such as the Frostbearing Tree or Sacred Sakura for example, which rewards further wishes and gacha currency. And because the world is more interesting, varied and has more environmental storytelling I'd say it's actually more interesting to explore. But if you've already played Genshin Impact for thousands of hours and have already 100% every region multiple times, sure, I can see the newness of WW being enticing.

[johnyhel]

What u mean boring places in wuwa, wuwa world is post apocalyptic while genshin is like fantasy. That's why genshins world is colorful.

[kasuha]

Comparisons of gacha rates are always tricky. Is 4% drop rate better than 0.4%? Out of context yes, but if you get 10 pulls per month in in the first case and 100 pulls per month in second case, it evens out with the other being actually slightly better. And that's still omitting whole list of factors, such as what value you actually get if you're successful, how long will the character/weapon last before you need to replace it with something better or how much fun you're actually going to have playing it.

[cjb]

Great video, hope you do the same with Zenless Zone Zero when it releases too.

Also gotta give credit WuWa for having a MC 5* that actually is worth that ranking (esp the Havok variant), I hope more Gacha's take that approach.