John Schutt

Wuthering Waves wears its inspirations on its sleeve. It’s an open-world gacha game akin to Genshin Impact, with plenty of direct pulls from the most successful title in the genre. Another game did something similar: Tower of Fantasy, with many drawing comparisons between it and Wuthering Waves.

The “‘conversation” about whether Cyberpunk 2077 has never been a quiet one. With the massive 2.0 update, the question rears its head again. But do the updates and the Phantom Liberty expansion make the game what everyone wanted back in 2020? It’s complicated.

Convenience is a funny thing. On the one hand, you have traditional fast travel, keeping you from needing to travel the same road a thousand times. On the other is fast travel in Dragon’s Dogma 2, an expensive and limited resource. For my money, the way this game handles the mechanics is one of its best features.