Phrolova ♡

yah it's good. fun game, open world is fun and not tiring, visuals and combat is very good. 9/10 maybe even 9.5/10. i recommend and highly rate playing this game. can be played for free too and you will still have a very good experience and wont miss out on much, choosing to pay for stuff is worth it but theres absolutely no need to if you dont want. i chose to pay for some stuff, just outfits and the battle pass thing, but you do not need these to enjoy the game at all. very very good game.

Story and presentation used to be bad, but have gotten really good.
- Gradual improvement in cinematography and character expressiveness from 1.0, peaking with some of the best I've ever seen in 3.0.
- MC used to be a self-insert blank slate, but has really developed into a more rounded character.
- Wife-of-the-week is still an issue, as important characters tend to fade into the background, but they've done some interesting departures in recent updates which give me hope.

Performance and exploration used to be good but have gotten really bad.
- I used to enjoy finding puzzles, chests and surprises, These days you just go to an icon on the map, press a button on the back of the terribly-handling motorbike, and you're done. Any sense of rewarding exploration is dead. A shame since the environments are huge and filled with potential, so having them be this empty feels like a waste.
- 3.0 performance is a joke.

Gameplay is mixed.
- Combat is flashy and satisfying and carried by amazing animations, but you just spam rotations in 99% of all content. There is a skill-based boss challenge mode which offers one-time rewards, but the repeating endgame modes are mindless stat-checks for whales. If you stay F2P, expect to take a year or more to even get enough characters to make any dent in these.
- Story gameplay is brain-dead. You cannot die in combat. You can't fail QTEs. They are just there for... vibes I guess?

I draw the line though at the anti-consumer practices announced for the recent collab. It breaks with its established monetization by having a new resource for pulling characters, which does not inherit nor carry over pity to the now-ironically-named limited banners. You could as a F2P player think of your time as being an investment into eventually getting some character you are interested in. Miss a 50/50 and you get a shot at something else at least.
Not this time. If you miss in this short window, that's it. You get nothing.

They'll make a lot of money, so ultimately what I say doesn't matter. Just know that after hundreds of hours (and hundreds more not even tracked on steam) this is the first time I really feel disgusted and burned by their greed.

I got a ♥♥♥♥ ton of time on my phone, too, so I got a lot of hours in this game. Please, for your sake, do not play this game. It's not worth your time, just play something else for God's sake. I'm already in deep and always come back, but please don't start this. Even if you like it at first, like me, you'll eventually get sick of it and play with straight hate in your heart.

Story is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and you're forced to sit through it just to upgrade new characters. Thankfully there's a skip button, so it's not too bad, but the story is just so bad. All quests are just some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fetch quests. Every time I'm forced to play story, I spam tf out of that skip button. When I'm forced to watch a cutscene or do some slow walking or investigation ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I do it with pure hate in my heart. Maybe I'd actually follow along to the story and pay attention if I wasn't being forced to play it just so I can get the resources to make the new character I got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ playable.

Endgame is just a DPS check in the tower and whatever the ♥♥♥♥ the other thing is called where the enemies have a billion HP and you can't really max out rewards at a moderate difficulty without specific characters and their signature weapons. I'm max level and have a ♥♥♥♥ ton of high level characters and can't for the life of me get 3 stars in the middle tower ever. Only time I did it was when Zani came out and I got both her and her weapon and dedicated team. She was lowkey OP at the time so it was actually doable. Haven't been able to do it since because of HP inflation. The tower is the worst offender of this, the other one isn't too bad yet, but still pretty bad.

Optimization is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the cities after 2.0. Looks like it's CPU bound, so if you got a weaker PC than me, expect under 60 fps in cities. Events are also terrible, like why tf am I playing cards or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slots or whatever the hell in an event where the main gameplay loop is the combat. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying because the pulls are always locked behind those events. They also take way too long for the rewards you get. Just let me play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. Dedicated character weapons are also basically mandatory, otherwise the character lowkey sucks and loses out like 20% of their damage. The 4 star weapons suck and the ones you get for free also suck, so ♥♥♥♥ all the people saying it's generous. Community also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks because they praise these ♥♥♥♥♥♥ like it's the second coming of Christ himself. Just because it's better and more player friendly than Genshit, doesn't mean this doesn't have it's own issues.

Only good things about the game are the graphics, character designs, combat, and exploration. I hope to god this review saves someone's time. Play a real game instead of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or any other gacha out there for that matter.

Wuthering Waves, while a fun game to play, continue on their path of anti-consuner practices. In the latest Cyberpunk update, they made it so that players have to buy an entirely new type of currency in order to get the limited time characters and weapons. This disheartens people who have been saving pulls for what looked like a good event, and takes advantage of players fomo in the hopes of squeezing some extra cash out of them. Not worth it.

David Martinez is dead

The collab with Edgerunners brought me to the game and the storyline with Shorekeeper hooked me.

WuWa is a good game but new Cyberpunk collab is amazing

best gacha OAT
incredible storyline, goated resonators
cried to Aemeath's questline