Wuthering Waves may look and sound a lot like Genshin Impact, but it’s stronger than the long-running HoYoverse favourite in a number of areas. The character action combat, in our opinion, is vastly superior – and the release has a pretty cool system where you absorb animals from around the world and can integrate their abilities into your moves.

The title’s coming to the PS5 on 2nd January, alongside its absolutely enormous v2.0 update. And it feels like the perfect time to start playing: you’ll be able to jump directly to the new storyline and Italian-inspired location Rinascita if you like, and there’ll be tons of onboarding to help get you and your characters up to speed.

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

The new environment, which is made up of eight biomes total, looks brilliant: the bulk of it takes place during Carnevale, while tensions rise between warring factions in the background. Open world traversal is being completely transformed here, allowing you to fly and ride on boats. You can even soar up waterfalls, making movement fast and fulfilling.

If you haven’t already been playing on mobile then there will be quite a lot to catch up on, even if you do jump forward directly to the v2.0 storyline, but we reckon you’ll have a great time. Wuthering Waves’ production values are off the charts, and while it does rely a little too heavily on proper nouns like all of these Chinese games, it’s well worth adding to your daily rotation of titles to play.

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