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Wuthering Waves is a 2024 game for iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows by Kuro Games, previously known for Punishing: Gray Raven. It combines elements of action RPG, Gacha Game, Hack and Slash, Mon, and Wide Open Sandbox.

You are a male or female Amnesiac Hero known only as the Rover, sent to the planet Solaris 3 by an unknown woman. Solaris 3 is a world recovering from a apocalyptic event called the Lament, which unleashed monsters called Tacet Discords and hostile phenomena that wiped out most of humanity. Mankind has been rebuilding ever since, fending off both Tacet Discords and human predators with the aid of Resonators, individuals who have the ability to manipulate frequencies to create pseudomagical effects. Going on a journey with newfound companions to discover the truth behind your Mysterious Past, it quickly turns out that this may not be your first time in these parts...

Tropes used in Wuthering Waves include:

• Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Normal gameplay limits you to three characters in a team, of which only one is on the field with the other two needing to be tagged in. Some quests can temporarily add a fourth or reduce the number of members in the party.
• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • Sprinting only requires an initial use of stamina but doesn't continuously drain it.
  • Using the Grapple without any fixed points causes a cooldown, but using it on grapple points doesn't, so you can chain together grapples where the environment allows.
  • There is a pity system where doing 80 pulls on a Convene (the game's term for gacha banners) without having gotten the featured 5-star character or weapon will result in you having a 50% chance to get the target, with the other 50% being one of any other available 5-star. If you still lose pity, the next 80 pulls will guarantee a success.
  • Doing pulls will grant a currency that can be fed back into more gacha currency.
• Counter Attack: Attacking after a successful dodge (as in one that triggers a Bullet Time) results in more powerful attacks.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Chixia is embarrassed by her birth name, Ma Xiaofang.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation:
  • Like most other gacha, you can pull for characters before meeting them in the story
  • Cutscenes will always act like the Rover is present and being interacted with even if he or she is not in the party.
• Gas Mask Mooks: Most of the Exiles wear these. It's not clear why, though.
• Grappling Hook Pistol: You unlock a Grapple fairly early on that can be used to reach designated points or launch yourself into the air.
• Gravity Screw: Rain falling upwards is a sign that the Retroact Rain has reached its third and most potent stage.
• Mon: Killed Tacet Discords have a chance of leaving behind Echoes, golden silhouettes of themselves. Absorbing these allows you to use them in combat both as direct Summon Magic and as passive buffs.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Two Trophies require you to kill enemies at close range with the gunslinger Chixia's Heavy Attack.
• Power Tattoo: Most Resonators have waveform-shaped Tacet Marks somewhere on their bodies. Normally black, they glow gold in use.
• Remember the New Guy?: Lingyang and Yuanwu appearing for the Big Badass Battle Sequence in Act 1 Chapter 6 will confuse players who only did the main questline as they weren't introduced before that.
• Shout-Out:
  • "The Dark Knight Rises" Trophy for killing a number of Gas Mask Mooks.
  • ""I choose the form of Tacet Discord" Trophy
• Talk to the Fist: When you encounter Scar in Qichi Village, the game expects you to play along with his requests. Or you can choose the option to just skip straight to the fight.
• Video Game Caring Potential: NPC redshirts can get into fights with mooks, and you can help them out even though there's no reward for doing so or penalty for leaving them to die.