Due to the quality issues of Wuthering Waves, CN genshin players have started to apologize to Genshin Impact.

Genshin's Livestream Announcement post

(Livestream Announcement usually only has around 4k comments.this one has 26k comments and still going up)

Here are some comments:

Before your sub gets overrun by trolls, I wanted to share a little positivity and talk about how Wuthering Waves got me through some dark times with insomnia.

I won’t go through my whole backstory, but once my insomnia started it was hard to sleep. 8 hours becomes 4, 4 becomes 2, and soon I’m getting anger issues throwing shot glasses at the bartender for cutting me off. I can’t even go to half the bars in my town because I’ve been thrown out of them all.

Anyway, a couple days ago I saw Wutherkng Waves in youtube and everyone was saying that it was the Genshin Killer. Ever since then i waited days for it to release and now, after just playing the 30 minutes of the game earlier, I finally have a good nap rest i haven't had for years. So for the others out there who are having trouble sleeping Wuthering Waves, give it a try, just read some dialogue and lore for a couple of minutes and you will never have to experience trouble sleeping again.

KFC Official posted about the new collab, Genshin replied under them, but did not retweet it.

Going to summarize various issues I have with the game.

Story: it’s by and far the worst aspect of the game. The devs saying they rewrote 90% of the story post cbt1 was a huge red flag in hindsight. It’s a cliche plot, but that’s generally a lot of gachas. What kills the story is the delivery. It’s ass to the max. You’re thrown fictional jargon on every new line, and they basically never bring it up again, so you’re just wondering what the point of introducing so much pointless terminology was. And for the other terminology that is actually lore-relevant, there’s just so much of it, sometimes 3-4 random terms you can barely remember thrown in a single textbox that you’re immediately turned off. Please fix the story. 2/10

Exploration: the movements are janky. I know the exact people out there that were praising this game’s parkour and exploration to high heaven during cbt2, but we have to be honest. It’s janky, glitchy, and not always intuitive. You also pretty much press the run+forward button and you can cross over pretty much every terrain. Whether that’s a positive thing or not is up to you, but I think it takes away from the immersive nature of moving through the map. The map is also empty, not enough monsters at all. There’s also not a lot of verticality in the map. It makes exploration dull. The background views don’t really change. 4/10

Combat: easily the best aspect of the game. It feels crisp and the animations really carry the fight. I’m not completely sold on the longevity of the combat system though. It does start to feel samey after a while and there is no overarching system (example: elemental system from genshin) that really makes a difference in how characters are meant to interact and flow with each other. Still easily my most positive experience with the game. 8/10

Graphics: there’s a strange blur to the characters and backgrounds that makes you wonder if you’re developing cataracts. I’m not sure what’s going on, but the game doesn’t look as good as advertised. When I saw demo footage, I genuinely had thoughts about the graphics being on par with Genshin, depending on the individual’s general taste. However, my experience with this launch, while playing on maxed settings, didn’t impress me. I like most character designs. 6/10

Technical performance and bugs: some people are having issues, while others are having smooth performance. Unfortunately, I drew the short end of the stick. Lots of stuttering, lag, visual glitches. Dialogue boxes were cutting out lines. Field dialogue were cutting into each other and repeating 3-4x sometimes. Lots and lots of bugs in general. There were also apparently 3 redemption codes for rewards and only 1 worked for me. That’s embarrassing. 2/10

Voices/Localization: EN terrible. There was no voice direction here at all. The recording qualities were bad and the lines were unnatural and performed with no energy. I switched to JP, but it’s still noticeably not the best. General localization was also mediocre and plays into the terrible story. For example, why would Kuro translate “dragon” in Chinese to “Loong” in English, THEN write a tiny translator note on top to clarify that “Loong” means dragon, when it could have been simply localized as “dragon” in the first place? Just makes things needlessly more confusing. And of course, these details combined with the billions of fictional terminology basically makes it unreadable. There’s so many other examples I won’t go into. 5/10 (taking into account EN and JP)

Music: almost all generic elevator EDM. I think Kuro did all their music in-house for the most part, and it really shows here. It’s disappointing for a game that revolves around sounds as an overall theme. Was not as wuthering as I’d hoped. 5/10

Final score: 4.5/10 as of launch

Possible improvements from Kuro in the future