While Wuthering Waves looks and sounds a lot like Genshin Impact, it is stronger in some areas than the long-running HoYoverse. The character action combat is significantly superior in our opinion – and the release features a pretty cool system where you pick up animals from around the world and incorporate their abilities into your movements.

The title is coming to PS5 on January 2nd, alongside the absolutely huge v2.0 update. And it seems like the perfect time to start playing: if you want, you can jump straight to the new storyline and Italian-inspired setting, Rinascita, and there will be plenty of onboarding programs to help you and your characters along the way , prepare for speed.

More importantly, developer Kuro Games is giving away tons of free pulls just for logging in, and you can earn more by completing events and progressing through the story.

The new environment, which consists of a total of eight biomes, looks brilliant: the majority of it takes place during the carnival, while tensions between rival factions rise in the background. Open world traversal is completely transformed here, allowing flying and riding on boats. You can even climb up waterfalls, making the exercise quick and fulfilling.

If you haven’t played on mobile yet, there’s a lot to catch up on even if you jump straight to version 2.0’s storyline, but we think you’ll have a great time. Wuthering Waves’ production values ​​are off the charts, and while like all such Chinese games it relies a bit too heavily on proper names, it’s well worth adding to your daily rotation of titles to play.