My Honest First Impressions Of Wuthering Waves

withering waves the new open world gacha game is out and I wanted to make a video for you guys on my first impressions of the game's full release I did have a video a couple months ago where I did my first impressions on the beta and at that point I got up to like around level 27 but some things have changed they took a lot of player feedback and they implemented stuff into the game that is different now I just wanted to make this video for you guys if you're on the fence or wondering hey what is this game is it worth downloading and just my experience so far I put about 10 hours into the full release I'm going to give you my pros and cons of playing the game so far and then you can decide for yourself so first and foremost what is this game it's a new open world gotcha RPG made by Kuro games who made another game called punishing greaty Raven if you've heard of it and they're very well known for like having amazing combat which this game has I'll touch on that in a bit though but you play as a character named the Rover and you pretty much lose your memory you have amnesia and you land in some world that you've never been in and you're trying to reclaim your memories while bad stuff to happen in the world and starting off with some of the pros the world is in my opinion gorgeous it's a good mixture of bright and vibrant areas mixed with like some sad and depressing areas and off the bat the map is pretty big and there's a lot to explore and find a lot of puzzles to do a lot of enemies to fight Echo to collect which I'll tell you guys what Echo are in a minute but it feels like there's a good amount of things off launch to do in the world to keep you busy and as the game grows it'll only get bigger and better so that's a win-win and I don't know if I'm just forgetting or not but when I played the beta one of my complaints was that I felt like there weren't enough enemies in the world to fight but now with full releas I haven't really felt that I felt like it's been a pretty good mixture of enough enemies to fight enough puzzles to do so maybe they went ahead and added more things into the game or maybe they didn't but that's how I'm feeling right now at least another Pro are the graphics I oh dude I I love these Graphics it it's just beautiful I'm playing this game at 4K High settings on a pretty beefy PC and it looks gorgeous some of the scenery that I've come across is just jaw-dropping now another Pro that I have and it's probably the biggest Pro of withering waves is its combat I am obsessed with this combat if you watched my other video on the beta I had said the same thing I I love the combat but I felt like the game was too easy and boy was I wrong I was talking more about the bosses in the story Quest but then once you fight bosses outside of story Quest and just in the open world and as your World level gets bigger the bosses get harder and I learned that the hard way Darkness B okay as your World level gets higher your bosses get harder and if you're someone like me who loves a challenge you're going to love this game story bosses are still somewhat fairly easy but they're supposed to be so that they can help you progress in the game cuz that's how you progress in these games you got to finish the story right they don't want to make it too difficult where you uninstall the game but once you go out into the open world and actually fight these enemies it actually does take skill there's a Dodge mechanic where if you dodge perfectly at the right time it'll slow down time and you can get some extra hits in there there's a Parry mechanic which is actually tied to your normal attack so you can't just be button mashing cuz if you do that you'll miss your Parry window and I like that cuz for a little bit I thought to myself okay well maybe we should have the Parry button on a separate button but I actually like that they tied it to the normal attack because when you see the gold ring around an enemy and you want to Parry them it makes you have to like stop and slow down your button mashing to actually time it right you also have intro and outro skills so when you swap characters you'll get like a little chime and you'll know when to switch and then the characters will do different attacks like entering the battle arena or exiting and dude I'm just going to tell you right now some of the fights that I've been in I feel like I'm in like in an anime like mixed with the dodging and switching characters and the alts like they knocked it out of the park I think that's probably my favorite part about this game is the addictive combat it's just so good like if you play other games sometimes you feel like oh you know the combat is good but it's too easy like the bosses are too easy not in this game it'll challenge you and as you play more you'll get better and stronger and it'll just scale with you and it just feels satisfying you know and I love that and of course each character has like their own weapons and uh they have their like their own skills as well kind of like other gotcha games that you've played where they have like their ultimates and their skills and they all do different things here's actually something side note that I I love that they put into this game so if you're like me when you're reading a bunch of texts you kind of get it but you're just like okay how does that translate what does that look like on the battlefield well in this game every character and I mean every single character in this game as a trial if you go to the menu like this and you click on the right button down here you can enter a tutorial each character has their own tutorial to teach you how to use them and what they do so it'll throw you into this domain like this and then you can start the challenge and then it shows you right here okay so for your basic attack this is your basic combo you can perform up to three continuous attacks dealing Havoc damage and Bam you complete it right and then it'll tell you what your skill does so that's what that does and then it teaches you more and more and it progressively gives you the more advanced things and the more advanced Combos and stuff like that every character has like their own trial that you can learn them and they all have their own special move sets and you obviously have different te team comps and how team synergies work there's a lot of complexity here and speaking of like how the characters work and stuff you might be wondering okay how do like the artifact systems work in withering waves you have an ecosystem so it's like these monsters that you fight out in the world and there's a bunch of different types right like this one is literally a car turned into a spider monster there's some wild ones there's like a wolf there's literally a a street light with legs and arms like they got some crazy designs you fight these out in the open world world and then you have a chance to absorb their Echo Pokémon style it's like you collect them and then these act as like your artifacts in other games right they'll give you skills and then if you have like more of the same type of them like stacked on top of each other then you get more bonuses like this so as you can see right here with all of the Echoes that I have on uh this character I get this Echo skill right here and then I get this Sonata effect right here as well so it gives me more energy regen and of course you can mix and match them as well you can upgrade your Echo and you can get different substats for them too and the nice thing is too is that you can just Farm These for as long as you want and I absolutely love that so for people who just want to like sit there all day and farm and play you can do it and speaking of the characters I personally love the character designs I know in the beta I was talking about how some people thought that the character designs were a little okayish but some of these characters that you meet they look really good like this is your MC right here and I like their design it looks good they're a good-looking character right this is my first five star that I got her name is Verina she's a Healer that uses like grass Powers I think her character design looks great too like she's got like the leaf backpack and like a Vine here and her hair like it looks great yangyang I think looks pretty cool too with the blue and black now look at this this is calaro and you're telling me that the character designs aren't good look at him you got Gian as well who I think looks amazing too I I I'm I I'm really happy with them I like the way the characters look positive for me since we're on on this page already we can talk about this another big positive for me is the way the gacha system works in this game cuz yes it's a gacha game with full release we have The Beginner's Choice Banner it's like your standard like you start the game for the first time a 10 pull is like eight instead of 10 it's like discounted and you can get a five star right so when you start the game obviously put your wishes into this one to get a five star pretty early I got mine at like 30 pity uh Ena but the cool thing that they do here once you get your first five star on that beginner Banner then it gives you a five-star character selector and then you can pick your next five star that you want from this Banner which I think is amazing I chose Karo as my next one so once I get my next five star it'll be him which is amazing then you obviously have like your limited uh character event banners so Gan is the first one right here you can lose your 50/50 on this one then you have your weapon Banner which I talked about this in the beta and it still did not change which I'm very happy about the five-star weapon of your choice is guaranteed within 80 convs this weapon that is on the weapon Banner is guaranteed you will get this weapon within 80 wishes so for once the weapon Banner is not really a scam in a gotta game and I hope they keep it like this I really do and then you have your standard Banner here but what they did differently with withering waves is that they have a character standard Banner then they have their weapon standard Banner other games have those two in one Banner like you get a gold on a standard it's like oh is it a character and then it it ends up being a weapon not in this game and the cool thing is you can pick the path for the weapon that you want to get so that's nice I think the gotcha system in this is so far really good I hope they keep it like this I'm trying to be f2p in this game but if they keep it like this I mean I might break that I don't know and another thing I love about the game is the movement and how you just Traverse the world you get cool grappling hook that you can use midair which is really nice and then you can Sprint which by the way does not use stamina yeah that's pretty POG you can climb up walls or if you're impatient like me you can Sprint up walls which obviously will use stamina but the nice thing about climbing up walls is that you can do this really cool flip and you can flip over like obstacles like little lips on walls so pretty much anything is climbable and it is so nice it's such a small little thing but being able to flip over a lip of a wall God it's amazing I'm sorry like that little thing it it's amazing I love it oh and the music I forgot dude the music I think is great like it it's I it's great in my opinion there are certain parts of the map that have like a really good track specifically next to the purple tree I forget what that place is called but I really like the music there some of the Boss music too Banger especially the first boss dude when the guitar solo comes in it Hypes you up dude they did a great job with the music some of the music is not so memorable but again this is a first impressions it'll only get better and better um but I think overall music for me at least in my ears I'm enjoying it with all of that stuff combined dude this game has been so addictive like all I want to do is just keep playing it I don't want to put it down you know but it's also not perfect and I'm going to talk about the cons here now so off the bat I don't know why but they got rid of 120 FPS back in the beta we had 120 FPS but apparently from what I'm hearing it was causing issues so they had to get rid of it for now hopefully they bring back the 120 FPS currently it's capped at 60 which is not a deal breaker but 120 was nice probably the biggest con right now for a lot of players uh not including myself it's the performance issues of this game and I'm not going to sugarcoat it it's not that great especially on mobile but it looks to be different for a lot of people mobile specifically it's glitchy the frame rates are really bad it's crashing constantly black screens it is not performing the way it should be performing which is really bad because I I feel like a lot of people will probably just write the game off then and be like okay well this game you know sucks which it doesn't this game is so good and it's just being plagued by like technical issues but with that being said and I guess this is another Pro that I forgot to mention but the developers dude they listen they listen to you guys they have been implementing updates every day Day hot fixes and they hear you guys and with that they've been compensating us too with free pulls free rewards and now they're giving us a free five-star selector ticket which is insane for you know the issues that we've been having on top of like what you're already getting in game they took a lot of the feedback and they implemented that stuff into the game so they're listening to you guys they want the game to succeed I'm here for it dude another con for me is with the English voiceover it's Hit or Miss for me personally and I get it you know I'm a pretty optimistic Guy this is like with video games like ongoing video games or like new TV shows like the first episode of a TV show right the characters are completely different from like one of the last episodes of a TV show right they find their character their voices the way their mannerisms are so that's what I'm kind of looking at it like the Vaas are very hit or miss right now some of them are great some of them are not so great but my hope is that it'll just get better like better Direction better like finding their characters and like their motivations I guess and just like improving upon them but as of right now as it stands English VA hit or miss another con which I kind of talked about earlier was like the Slow Burn of the story but it does get good a little bit later that could be a con for a lot of people where like the story is boring for some people but I promise you it does pick up it does get better once you meet scar which is only like a few hours in end of the story so keep with it for people like me who like need a good story and lovable characters and stuff to be engaged it is a slow bur I mean go back and play any other gachi game at like 1.0 and see how amazing those stories are because they ain't bro they I have you know full hope that we'll meet way cooler characters and the characters that you have already met will become more interesting off the bat I will say Scar and Gian like those characters are really cool especially scar dude I think he steals the show so if we get more of that along the story like I think we'll be fine and if you're not really feeling the story or you're just not really into it in a recent update they added a skip button so you can just pretty much skip the entirety of the story and get to what you want to do and yeah those are really all the cons that I have like there's not that many and this is only like 10 hours in I'm only level 13 14 right now there's like a a lot of content that I have not reached yet but again this is just the first impressions 10 hours in and just my thoughts and like a quick pros and cons for you guys so for people watching if you're wondering Doro should I download it should I give it a try cuz I've been getting that question a lot my answer is simply yeah download it it's free to play all it'll cost you is your time I think it is worth your time genuinely speaking it is worth the time especially if you're been wanting something different in the Goa space something maybe more challenging this game is it this is the one is it perfect no no game is perfect if anything I think the combat itself would get you addicted to playing this game every day and challenging yourself because personally I'm someone who likes to build their characters and get stronger so that I can defeat enemies faster but I feel like in other games you get to a point where you just demolish everything and then the challenge kind of Fades away but in this game you will need to get stronger you will need to build your characters and aside from just building your characters you're going to have to become a better player at the game and I love that I love that so much and that motivates me to want to play even more that's where the addictive nature comes in so overall first impressions of this game they're doing a great job and I think there's so much potential they have everything to just dominate I think and be a big name in the Goa bace and from the track record and seeing like how they took the feedback from the beta and implemented it into the full release Game and now them listening to the complaints now and compensating people and trying to fix it as fast as they can like this is a team that cares it really is they care about this game they want the game to do well they want you guys to be happy I'm definitely adding this to my rotation of games every day to play I urge you to try it and play it for yourself and see what you think but let me know in the comments down below if you've already downloaded it and what your thoughts on withering waves have been and if you want to see more withering waves content on the YouTube channel I appreciate you guys watching the video and I'll catch you guys at the next one

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Length: 16min 17sec (977 seconds)

Published: Mon May 27 2024