lots of blood sweat and tears went into this one and no holding back on my thoughts (POSITIVES & NEGATIVES) thank you to those who have been patient for it, and to those new to the channel, welcome to my very nerdy and excessively information dense reviews i have high hopes for this game, but that also means i will call out things i believe need urgent changing or else they won't be received well on launch

This is such a high quality review of this game. No bias, straight to the point, explaining the mechanics and nuances of the game into a very easily digestible format without missing out on important points.. I think this is by far one of the best reviews of wuwa out there. Thank you for making this! That felt like a 5 min video! Also, man.. Really cant wait for this game to be released. I recently started playing pgr, and honestly, i'd say it is the best action gacha game out there rn. I kinda regretted not starting sooner. But i'll for sure be starting wuwa on day one!

35:51 "Monke is monke." Truly an intellectual analysis! Love it.

Gotta be one of the best wuthering reviews out bro. I can feel the effort put into this one. Thanks for taking your time and giving Kuro a solid take on their game. I truly hope it does well on release 😊

QTE energy is displayed by the circle next to the HP bar and skill resource.

My number one concern about WuWa is that Tuning Unlock system on Echoes because I can see that causing burnout REAL QUICK.

Finally, a review that isn't just "OMG NEW GENSHIN KILLER???". I learned so much from this one video, despite having seen several reviews before. I also appreciate you drawing attention to the more niche aspects of the game, like the sound design. I will definitely be sending this video to my buddies who want to understand the game better. Great work 👏

17:14 When it indicate with white waves when the QTE ready, it only means that character will do their Intro skill. If u want the leaving character to do their Outro skill, the circle near the character's health bar should be full.

Thank you for the long review Mr. Xlice! I really like aspects of WW but haven’t quite settled on if I want to get it myself yet, but I’m leaning towards yes, so reviews really help :)

There are plenty of things I've seen that I like (*cough* Jiyan *cough*) but I'm still feeling pretty detached from this game because I've only seen others play it. I need to experience it for myself to judge whether it's something I can see playing in the long-term. That said, this is a great in-depth review! Thanks so much for the hard work, Mr. Xlice. I'm going to say I fall into the "casual" category, so it's going to be interesting how the combat will appeal to me personally! I like a good challenge every now and then, but hopefully they don't make regular farming (e.g., character leveling materials) that much difficult. I also think the story has a lot of potential, with the concept of sound and soundwaves (the Resonators have soundwave tattoos/marks, it looks like + the Echo system, etc.). Overall, I'm pretty excited! I hope it turns out to be a good game, no matter how long it captures my interest. ;)

You can really tell how much work you put into this detailed review into this new upcoming gacha monster and I believe it truly paid off. I've watched many other reviews but nothing compares to yours at all! I know we all appreciate it so much. I've been back and forth with thoughts on this game but I also agree that overall, it's starting off looking pretty good, but there are still my own issues that I'm worried about personally like the combat being a bit too difficult or complicated for my personal playstyle. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this for us.

thx for the review vid. been looking forward to this game

Yeah but PGR had their own Cursed Waves (Roguelike) and Abyss, they just did what they already had in PGR their previous game lol. Other than that, great video ^^

Man is quite rare to see some good game reviews in youtube like this, keep up the good vids man 🔥🔥🔥

Expected nothing less from Mr. Xlice. Truly enjoyed this in-depth review of the CBT2. Very detailed and concise and unbiased. Keep going, Mr. Xlice! Really appreciated this review and your insight is one I enjoy watching.

This is my first time encountering your channel, and I'm really impressed. Thank you for preparing a straightforward review of key elements of the game. This really helped me understand where Wuthering Waves is at currently, and what potential changes to keep an eye out for in the future. I'm very excited to play this at launch!

This is why I continue to watch your guides. Proud of this one son. Keep up the great work.

I’ve been waiting for this thanks!

Love Mr Slice. Content is always top notch and really well measured and articulated!

I like this review.. Unbiased.. Unlike some other reviews

this was a fantastic review. great work!

Oh finally a better review that doesnt yap as genshin killer but as its own.

Can always count on Xlice for the excellent and timely review.

The artifact equivalent grind sounds kind of miserable considering the range of stats available. It seems like its also a major feel bad that you can't even tell if a piece is even worth leveling until after you have leveled it. If that is going to be the case I think that the EXP you get for foddering a piece should be higher to compensate. Just a suggestion. Either way great review looking forward to the game.

thank you for keeping this review real, this is what we all no cbt plebs needed :D

WuWa, amazingly well put together video!

29:00 hey cbt2 players here, while those 5 are almost always the good stats, it also depends on the characters, for example Chixia. She is a basic attack characters, so I'd argue basic attack damage bonus is really great for her. Although that doesn't mean that I am comfortable with the artifact system right now, it is pretty hellish to find the good substat. Man even going for main stat is pretty rough, especially on the "3" cost echo. One type of monster can have 3 different type, as in it can be spectro, fusion or other things. And it's really really hard to get fusion echo that have fusion damage bonus main stat. It's hell.

14:40 not to be a downer but be wary of these types of features since getting free dupes of characters can mean nothing if the game is balanced around having them, i.e. dupes of characters are a requirement to beat content instead of optional

WuWa! This was indeed a very complete and honest review. Congrats on your dedication and hard work, mr. pp.

Great review💯✨

I've watched a lot of youtubers review games over the years, but you're one of the few who stand out. Lots of thoughtful bits of wisdom in this video. Your hard work is appreciated, Xlice.

I was thinking of giving this game a chance, but apparently, it is not for me. The discussion on echoes drown any interest. Thank you for the review! Great work.

Great video , really enjoyed it, was on the fence on whether id try playing the game but your insight made the decision a whole lot easier, much appreciated

0:30 Simulated Universe is more akin to PGR's Cursed Waves Rougelike gamemode...and also don't worry about boss fights...seeing on how Kuro did the bosses in their previous game PGR, you will ABSOLUTELY not be disappointed...you are one of the 4 CCs that I've heard great and proper reviews about the game...as a Kuro fan, i can't thank you enough

very high quality review , thank you

WuWa! Looking forward to your content for this game

With all these things, there is one thing that scares me moving forward in Wuthering Waves: powercreep. I really hope KuroGames can keep the powercreeep under control, because being forced to continuously pull to have a chance to keep up with the game feels miserable. I say that mostly because of the accessibility of 5 stars weapons. I don’t think KuroGames will go on full throttle with character powercreep, but I definitely see gear powercreep being a thing in Wuthering Waves. Edit: also, 120FPS and actual character gameplay tutorials are 2 killer features. I know the latter has been done many times before, but it feels like a lost art recently.

Nicely done!

Ill wait for next video New subscriber btw 👍

Not even 2 weeks in and I'm already burnt out from dailies and the 3 cost echo farm. It's killed all the hype I had for launch.

Wuwa!! I'm excited for this game

Why are we called frogs again?

WuWa looks really good, looking forward for its release. But I hope they do something about the Echo leveling system, like refund stat tuners if we use an Echo as Exp.

when I first heard of the game, i didn’t care about it. even when i saw that you were playing it on twitch i wasnt interested…. but your explanations are always phenominal. thank you man, seeing the gameplay is really interesting! i definitely am excited to see how echoes and the colors change in game. WuWa!

One of your best vdeos good job

The echoes look so disgustingly terrifying

I want them to give more emphasis to the weakness/element system, if the only thing that matters is damage + successful paring/dodging the game will end up powercreeping every character. Strategy should also be important.

I’m so excited!!! 🥳 there’s a mini that reminds me of Nahida that I’m super hyped for!

WuWa. Balls. I have my reservations about the echo system but we'll see. Im probably crazy enough to go for perfect pieces..

14:11 i've seen this in other gacha games and it's honestly weirder that genshin or hsr or other hyv games don't implement this sort of purchase ability for its player base. Granted even on those games, like Arknights, the amount of currency required to purchase their potential (constellation equivalent) is still pretty steep for an f2p, but hey at least the option is there. That aside, thanks so much for this in-depth review! As someone who's more focused on the combat (I like to have a bit more oomph in my fights like in aether gazer), seeing what you think about the combat system + farming to further enhance combat is helping me decide whether to play the game or nah upon release. edit: typo

one thing ive notice about the echoes is the stats you can get out of them are much lower over all, to the point that multiple other stats might be considered better till so many other options are stacked into. one of the thing that make crit build better in other games is because of layered factors. genshins case we got so many ways to buff dmg% and atk/other scaling so much that the only efficent way to build chars is the least buffable stat that effects the over all dmg, crits. infact crits despite being a higher % stat by 33% to elemental dmg in genshins case requires actually 2 to function, be it crit rate has a cap and does make crit dmg the better stat if others are equal, but to get to that is entire dedicated builds. atm the best we got in genshins crit buffs is 10% rate thats mostly super conditional and 40% crit dmg that is con locked with conditionals, well bennett still provides at least a 50%+ atk boost to most setups. back to wuthering, the amount of crit that appears to be possible isnt that good as genshin to the same range as genshins because sub stats cant be upgraded, sure crit dmg can roll something like 20.4%, but it can also only roll about halve that on crit rate for CV of 41.4, well rare on genshin its possible to get the unicorn tier of 50+ CV, realistic is 45 after a long a rather long time. WuWa average higher tier if they do crit will probably be 30 per piece, not sure on max weapons, but it looks like a CV of maybe 200 from echoes and weapon. well even using 40CV+crit weapon on genshin already breaks 300. despite all that, all the other buffs that weve seen so far(which is subject to change) are on a much smaller scale then what we have in genshin(seriously bennett is a hell of a benchmark for a buffer). so basicly anything that can increase any of the rotations even if its a bit char specifical might over all prefer those other stats then just crit. flats are still probably the worst sub though.

WuWa ;) Thank you for a lot's of information

At the end of the day, I play Genshin as an RPG game. I interact with all the artifact and such systems, but WW will need to have the story and exploration quality to keep me going. That said I really hate the laziness of most of the UI.

Man they have a brand new game, their own game and they could make the "end game" whatever they want. And what do they do? Time trial, of course time trial, the laziest most brain dead DPS check you can possibly go with. I dunno man. I am getting pretty sick of GI, but I'm not sure this game is up to the task of replacing it.

WuWa! Can't wait for the game!

5:59 a 100% agree on this one. Some animes have such epic fight scene and crisp animation but the immersion gets butchered by bad sound effects etc. A great example of is the first two seasons of AOT, the directors did such a great job.

WuWa what im hoping is that they implement s when using an ultimate. Ive had many instances where i used my ult and was locked in the pretty animation and therefore took damage i could have avoided if I were able to move and such. It's a bother and not really fun to have to move out of the way to ult safely lol

the banner sounds pretty nice, although I wish the shop currencies were more similar to Nikke's mileage shop where 200 limited pulls lets you buy 5 star characters, even ones you don't own, that are currently on banner. they also have the standard mileage for dupes. makes it significantly easier for f2p and whales to get characters and dupes that they want, say if 2 limited characters come out and you were lucky to summon one and then use your mileage for the other. because wuwa gacha rates are still very low a system like that would be greatly beneficial. the weapon banner change is also good. i don't mind character pity being much higher than PGR even though you're guaranteed characters, but they did make the weapons a bit better with the increased cost. feels like characters got more expensive and adding a 50/50 that kind of stings. echo farming concerns me a great deal... as well as daily stamina systems. if wuwa endgame is not tied to stamina systems, is varied and fun enough it won't be too bad though. i do hope that wuwa makes more co-op content than Genshin has, being able to explore with a group of friends and actually get exploration done would be a godsend. doing co-op raids and challenging boss battles together would also be awesome. I'm so tired of doing everything by myself with no incentive for making friends. for open world exploration i seriously hope they make it enjoyable. mounts to easily traverse massive worlds, easy ways of finding chests, puzzles, and other missing treasure without internet websites or months of grinding for a gadget is essential. open world games must be fairly easy to traverse, fun to explore, and rewarding to players finding every nook and cranny. copying Genshin's events would really kill the excitement for me though, they absolutely need to be as long as the entire patch and replayable when they are gone. Missing flagship major events because I was too busy for the first 20 days of a Genshin patch has meant that despite being a day 1 player I have missed like 80% of the events in the entire game. I can sit down for 4-6 hours and play but I might not log into a game for 1-2 weeks or more. HSR has helped tremendously with that. the things I do absolutely adore is the fast and fluid combat system, the gorgeous graphics and environments, the detailed, expressive, and mature character designs. I hope they keep the majority of the world duller and darker because the tiny spots of colorful tranquility makes it all the more stunning. the difference in music diversity is incredible and I want to see them continue peaceful exploration/intense boss music. character personality/story is something I have to personally hold off until the final release, its very STC and without English voice acting I can't say get too attached right now.

This review is by far the most detailed I've ever watched, especially mentioning the graphics and BGM. It means a lot to someone like me who feels the gameplay along with the music.

Excited for WuWa it's very remiscent to my ToF brainroy from before

2 things that make me disappointed are 1. the over world, u know like in zelda or genshin element can interact with grass water but its not in wuwa so it just feels like overworld just there and not affected the combat at all. it just typical hack and slash combat, that matter only character and mobs not environment that aspect kinda make me feel like the overworld just "dead" i guess thats the point they only make the combat between character vs mobs only 2. is the hard content i thought the hard content would be in overworld but i guess is not it so silly "hard open world" like ppl say but it ended up hard content in "domain" just back to pgr or hi3 if it the case just my opinion other than that everything is solid also this is one of the best review i think fair and not overglazing

If they keep the echo system the same grindy way I might give it the star rail treatment and only get my characters geared up to the point progressing the story, daily/weekly stuff and exploration easily.

I'm really interested in the echo summons. They remind me of the soul cores from Nioh 2, which was one of the additions that made it such a huge step up from the first game.

Thinking about the echo system, they should increase the exp drop from the domains or reduce the amount of "resin" used on it. In addition make the tune system a little bit different. Make the substats unlockable by leveling up the echos and the tuning itens reroll thebsubstats. That way they can maintain the rabge of possibilities from the substats...

One week away from release, I’m now really excited for this game 😻

WuWa! I'm honestly looking forward to echo balancing. I've heard that there were changes that they are implementing for the live version of the game. But I still think the substat grind and resource requirement to unlock said substats needs a bit more balancing. Other than that, I'm honestly looking forward to the game, and might end up finally quitting Genshin, only to just play it for the story and lore reasons.

I hope they will keep a reasonable ratio of guys and gals

I like the gacha and I like the gameplay so far. If it stays, I’m sold. Hoping it comes out soon!

WuWa ❤ can’t wait for this game to come out and replace my current main game. Looking forward to the story development and fast paced gameplay

can't wait for WuWa!

7:31 That character alongside Rover has so badass animations bro. I'll reroll for her once the game releases if she's a high rarity character. PS: WuWa !

kudos! very high quality review!

The fact there isn’t a 5 star selector on the standard banner in genshin is insane 💀

Thank you Mr PP ❤

about the rng of echo's substat, Rexlent is also irritate with this. So I think Kuro will have some changes to them, maybe bring the memory resonance system from PGR to WW will solve that problem

Very down to earth review.

honestly i think the echo system is better bcuz its easier to get main stats and substats r less important due to ur ability to not have a skill issue unlike genshin and hsr where if ur substats arent good ur cooked i actually can see the difficulty of getting cracked echoes as a plus bc that means itll be harder to just end up one shotting every boss -ar 60 in genshin/45 in hsr

I was planning to play ZZZ when it releases, but when I heard of wuwa, at first I never liked it bc of the visuals but after the improvements I’m sold, I can’t wait for its release. I also have never played a skilled base game most games I play that includes combat are just button mashing, I want a pretty difficult game to play

for that large range of substats, we should actually know what substats we get at +0. a 3x difference is enough rng to encourage farming. it is like getting 3-4 hits of the same substat in genshin

Great video.

WuWa! I'm really looking forward to the release of Wuthering Waves, but I am very hesitant on the Echo rng. As someone who left Honkai Star Rail due to burnout where a major chunk of it came from horrendously poor luck on relic rng for just the main stats, there is a good chance with the things they are now, I can see myself leaving WuWa if I can't clear content with time limits because I'm being damage-gated due to poor Echo rng. I really do hope they make improvements to that system, and seeing how Kuro Game made massive overhauls from CBT1 to 2 because of player feedback, I'm still optimistic that they will improve the Echo system. My 2 cents on how they could improve echos would be having every 5 levels unlock a substat, but the roll's value can range between the current minimum roll and half of the current maximum roll, but you can use tuners X amount of times dependent on how many substats you unlocked to roll an upgrade on a subtat (maybe only ones that haven't been upgraded yet) for the same range of values as unlocking it (current minimum to half the current maximum). It'll be harder to get perfect roll values, but you won't get hit with an equivalent of a lvl 0-4 Genshin artifact worth of substats on a maxed Echo. Either that or introduce a resource that can reroll a substat that's also reasonably obtainable as an F2P. It would also be nice for us to do something with our lvl 0 Echoes, because I can see inventories getting very cluttered fast if the game's lifespan does pass the test of time since it would really feel bad to just waste Echo exp to chain feed bad Echoes to get rid of them.

Damn I’m looking forward to this!!! A little break from genshin burnout haha

Thank you for giving this game an unbiased review as much as possible.

It is nice to see how much more hardcore generally this game is going to be, and not mobile constrained (i expect mobile support to die fast). How are items in the game, can you generally use them minus in the abyss/SU equivalents?

I actually love the range of stats that the echos give, because the vast majority of them are useful to any character. 8 of 13 are actually useful, just because of how they make their characters. all of the ability damage bonuses are good for all characters because all of the chareters (at least that I have seen) use all of their abilitys quite a lot. so it's generally unlikely to get an echo which is majority bad.

Those substats are nutso, either take away the dice used to show the substat or reduce the amount of substats. Unless crazy stats are not needed like Xlice said.

Looks good ngl

Such a w review

QTE energy gauge is located at the left side of your health bar, the colored circle

I really hope this game is successful. I don't plan to play it cuz time is rough just as you said. I already have 4 games (Genshin, HSR, R1999, Aether Gazer), and also plan to play Zenless and Endfield when they release, my main reason is simply as you said, a familiar UI, your points of positivity towards the familiar structures are good and convincing, but for me personally, I'd hate to do the repetitive process of artifacts and stuff Genshin and Star Rail are too much already. And again, hope everyone enjoys this game when it releases, and don't be too toxic to the devs.

I hope they make Elusian realm similar to Cursed waves in PGR rather than Simulated universe. It's a lot more farmable and entertaining cause you get a pool of characters to choose from, and there's gimicks in fights that makes a run feel different every time. I've actually capped out the level on it unlike simulated universe which i got bored with quite quickly.

I've seen so many reviews, and yet no one seems to mind that we don't have the option to ride a wolf or something to manually travel faster. That would be such a nice feature to have imo. Do people really not care at all about that? Maybe I'm a bit weird in that regard, but something like that would be extremely valuable to me.

for echoes stat/substat wuwa dev should learn from com2us summoners war dev, that game is also a heavy grinding stat game and the dev able to handle it way better, like how they allowed the player to reap and strengthening the stat they want to achieve their ideal rune stat, giving some resources back when they sold some rune etc., and maybe wuwa could implement this stuff when their game officially released

As aether gazer player, this game is very similar. I'm looking forward to it.

WuWa! Honestly just want WuWa to become the game that betters others. I'll definitely give it a shot but characters are what motivates me to keep playing and so far no one has my attention except Baizhi atm but she's given for free.

Biggest improvements I hope to see are the Echoes system, as they are like Artifacts but somehow even worse, and the elemental system. The character elements, and weapon types, don’t have much meaning to them. There are very few reasons to pull a character: really just you like their appearance or they are strong. That doesn’t give much space to make units appealing and will likely lead to faster powercreep to keep new characters appealing. If I had reasons to care that a character was wind, havoc, broadblade, sword, etc, then that would give more reasons to pull without strictly raising character power.

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I appreciate the time and effort, but I can't trust the opinions on a pre-release build because I know how crazy different these things can be from their full release. I just hope that they take what people like you are saying in to account when regarding what's good and bad in their game and adjust on that feedback. I know that's the point of a closed test/beta but too often I see that nothing changes xD.

I want to play this game mostly for the combat style

Concerto energy = small filling circle to the left of the hp and "core" passive.