I finally realized my main issue with WuWa’s storytelling

And it’s how empty the world feels in terms of character building.

Normally, any introductory patch like 2.0 will introduce most of the cast so we can meet them and bond with them, and thus care for them and the story more, but in WuWa, every patch is an island! It feels very alien and simply doesn’t feel conjoined even with characters who are supposed to interact together.

Some examples I thought of are Carlotta and Cantarella as heads of opposing families, Augusta and Iuno with more meaningful interactions, Lupa as newly budding gladiator and Augusta and so on.

Now I don’t want to compare but will have to, but the sheer difference I felt by the experience HSR 3.6 story with March and Dan Heng having built both as your companions versus Yangyang not even appearing is atrocious, and makes the story very superficial.

This leads to the story being very fragmented and isolated and creates a “Each episode is a different arc” feeling to the story, in a way that makes it not as interesting.

What do you all think?