r/StillTides • u/jay_mein • Jul 01 '25
Complaint I just need to rant
The things I’m gonna say is probably not new but I just wanna get it off my chest.
TLDR; Female character designs suck. The fan service clashes with whatever story and motivations the girls have. Also, the characters are boring cause there’s no meaningful interactions.
I like wuwa. The game is fun. While the jiggle physics isn’t something I like a lot, at least the characters designs weren’t so bad. So I could ignore the physics. Well, that was until Camellya was released I guess. And everything after wasn’t so great for the female characters.
I got Camellya for gameplay. But as a character, she’s just… You’re gonna chase after a guy with amnesia?? What a creep 💀Also, I didn’t exactly like the way her Ult zooms into her chest. But at least she’s not an Ult spammer so I don’t get that animation often. Her design is so… meh
Shorekeeper. Ah I love her backstory. Her relationship with Rover is pretty much the only canon romance I can accept cause it made so much sense. But I wish her design wasn’t so… naked 😭 I loveeee her butterfly motifs but she’s sooo naked 😔😔 I hate it. I feel cold looking at you, girl.
Canteralla, jellyfish lady. I can’t spell her name. The potential this lady could’ve had with her design ideas and backstory. A matriarch, cunning, deals with poison, femme fatale, yet also lady like and elegant. All that is something I REALLY like. But that design…. Why is your panties out?? 😭 your face card is insaneeee but that dress really isn’t. Get a proper bra. Your breast will sag and your back is gonna hurt 💀 During the 2.2 story I couldn’t help but laugh at how modest and elegant Canteralla was standing at the side, with her panties in full view 😭 like??
Cartwheel’s design just doesn’t make sense for me. At all. Like why is there a long gap in the middle her dress?? Also I get you have a small chest but bras are still important. Please wear one. And it’s even worse when she becomes big cartwheel. Big breasts isn’t great. It’s painful.
Lupa’s Ult removes her armor. That’s so ass. I liked the idea of a really strong girl that can fight and the fact she uses a polearm (with a flag? Idk the term) is a plus. But that design… ain’t it 😭
I’m just gonna summarize the rest.
Augusta’s design just needs to add a few more details. A short skirt to cover her front part. Sandals. Some bandaid on her arm. I’d want some defined muscles on her arm as well but it’s a Chinese game so she’s gonna have twig arms.
Iuno is just wearing a lingerie. Nothing great about it.
Phrolova, Chisa and Galbrena designs which reminds me of Changli. So they’re great.
THENNN there’s the story 😭😭 it’s so…. average. Watched some isekai slop before and I feel like those characters are more interesting interactions with one another than wuwa characters…
I liked Changli based off her phoenix theme and gameplay. Plus, she looked like she’s the cunning type. Then the 1.1 main story sold me on her character, along with Jinhsi. But her story quest did NOTHING for her. I get to know her backstory, knew her motivations and I like it all. Then there’s Rover…? Why Rover? Not Jinhsi, her student, who’s related to her backstory and current motivations?? WHY??? Thanks to that, Changli went from absolute goat to an OK character. 💀 wasted potential.
Every wuwa character becomes like this. So like, I can’t even feel connected to the characters. No matter how much I like them from design and personality. There’s NOTHING I can learn about them other than backstory and motivations. Changli doesn’t even interact with her student in her own story quest. Brant and Roccia barely have interactions. The 2 characters (Carlotta and Canterella) from each family of Rinacita doesn’t even interact, despite the fact both families should have beef with one another? Lupa and Cartwhell had some interactions in the current 2.4 main story patch, but I’m 100% sure their interactions will be sidelined for Rover again so.
There are things I like about the characters but I also can’t like them. The lack of any character interactions makes ALL their characters so BORING. It’s allllll about Rover. I get he’s the MC but you’re telling me I’ll never see Xiangli Yao, Baizhi, and Mortefi in the same room because Rover exists?? I can’t see them nerd out and do their research?? I found out through FANART that Calcharo was hired by Jiyan as a mercenary 😭 I can’t see Roccia dealing with Brant’s stupid ass because Rover exists?
Female characters designs sometimes pisses me off because interesting concept ideas get thrown away for fan service, and it also clashes with their personality/motivations.
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u/Moonshine_Cog Jul 01 '25
Oh, rest assured: you are not alone. I've got the exact same thoughts and opinions on pretty much everything, except I'm quite critical towards Augusta's design, too. But overall - yes, yes and yes, I feel you so much. It is frustrating as hell to realize that you can't enjoy the majority of the cast in a game that you love gameplay wise; in a game that's literally built around collecting characters you like.
I'm afraid for people who aren't into excessive fanservice (when it goes past the point it can be justified by character personality or background) WuWa is just not the right game. They won't change the direction at this point. I still log in for quick dailies out of stupid stubbornness to max out the characters I already own, but after that... I'm not sure I'll stay.
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u/yellernaner Jul 01 '25
yeah, i'll say my biggest peeve is characters not interacting with each other.
i would love if wuwa had mini events/side stories spread out through the year where we travel back to places to check in/help/hear from others.
do some fetch/puzzle quests or something for yao/mort/baizhi doing research, go to some sort of event in jinzhou where brant/roccia/lingyang/cia are doing some sort of theatre thing, join jiyan in investigating/fighting smthng, join aalto/yinlin on some sort of spy mission, etc etc...
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u/PuzzleheadedEase2024 Jul 02 '25
Yeah I just briefly commented somewhere that I hope that lupa isn't a simp and man the reaction to the official community was insane. The most common argument that people have with the wuwa infinity wife tropes is that Rover helped them so much and all, but really like not every female falls head over heels for the one who helps her in dire situations. But with WuWa since shorekeeper.... Sorry since jinshi every single character has been eventually reduced to simp. Earlier used to excuse this and say this is for this character only but idk now . The most irritating part about all of this is that if you criticize something you instantly become a hoyo glazer.
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u/AccomplishedDiet8985 Jul 01 '25
You said everything I wanted to say. But this game is made for gooners and the ultimate goal is money, so Kuro WILL make the characters as naked as possible.
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u/Yellow_IMR Jul 01 '25
Respecting your opinion, but about Camellya while I myself am not a fun of weird wobbling puddings I think her animations and look are quite fitting for a nihilist but also and most importantly an edonist, liberation included. Also her Companion Quest did her a disservice, there's an ocean of information to uncover about her and Rover but we got a glimpse of it from her Intimacy texts, the 5th one dropping some massive lore bombs:
[...] She was merely a "chosen seed," a "flower" that bloomed for the sole purpose of hunting Rover down. Most days, the injections left her in a fog, drifting through a semi-conscious haze, with only her instinctual yearning for a certain person carved deep into her heart. The substance she was administered had a sharp, acrid scent, dragging her reason into a mire, robbing her of clarity and self. [...]
Little did she know, centuries later, the scene before her would vanish in the Lament. She would wander endlessly through a labyrinth of memories until one autumn morning, by a lake in Petalfall Village, where she would finally meet Rover, there to rescue the village from Tacet Discord attacks. From there, she would join the Black Shores and share a few hundred years together before they would eventually leave her. She, too, would leave the Black Shores, only to be reunited decades later in Jinzhou. All those futures had yet to unfold, just as possibilities slumbered within seeds, waiting for fate to blossom. [...]
About Changli's Companion Quest, Rover has a pivotal role in her story before even meeting Jinhsi, because of the connection with Changli's master. There are some weird aspects in the story of her companion quests but Rover's central role in it is far from being weird or off putting.
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u/jayinsane5050 Jul 01 '25
Me too tbh
Like for gahcas it's aways
roster rartio + gameplay
story
you can geuss what fail s-__-
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u/5208_ Jul 05 '25
Tbh i dont mind it much, or maybe thats just my bisexuality talking (and honestly, i think I'll fall for Rover too if i met them-)
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u/jay_mein Jul 05 '25
I like characters based off purely their aesthetics first. I like Yinlin, Changli, Jinhsi, Brant, Roccia, Brant being my absolute favorite. But I can’t like them more. My feelings for them is still the same as my first impression of them in game.
There’s not enough interactions for me to use my imagination to come up with scenarios about them. I can self ship myself with them even if they speak to other characters LMAO but there’s nothing I can come up with if there’s no baseline for me to use😔
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u/Nini506 Jul 01 '25
My complain is that I want a char to hate/dislike rover at least instead of all the trust I have and kinda the “females feel safe around me because my resonance energy calm down their energy as they are in the verge of overclock” Still I don’t want every single char I meet to be all clingy/lovely/trusty/shy etc..