Where Winds Meet

I saw a couple of shorts on youtube, advertising the game and asked the viewers about some of my curiosities regarding it, however i never got a reply… hence i decided to go full on Thanos mode (fine… i’ll do it myself) and thus… here we are. The game has some very good graphics. The visuals are indeed awesome. The combat seems quite interesting. The game gives you a lot of content. It will keep you occupied. YOU CAN PET ANIMALS! But now we move to the problems of a casual player’s point of view. The game is ridiculously convoluted. God help us, everything I did would activate a new system that had systems in its systems with systems and menus in the menu of a menu that was made of menus. Later I was trying to find the same functions and I could not in the mess of so many menus. I also have a bone to pick with how fake the freedom of picking different fighting styles appeared in this gacha game. Also very poorly made is the way you experience the story, cause you are not allowed to progress with the story if you don’t play other aspects of the game. Bad explanations. From prompting you on self healing before that is possible, to telling you that healers are gonna heal you for free for also being a healer (fake)... we have many functions that are not explained correctly. I tried the animal moves training and while it looked like I was doing nothing wrong, the game was failing me constantly. Turns out the instructions were wrong. You find some special insects that you need to grab and the game tells you, shoot them down… I did… nothing happened. I ran towards them, grabbed it as it was flying around, victory. You unlock a skill to grab things from a distance, game tells you you can disarm enemies with it and to go practice on some bandits... it does not activate… I tried several times and only days later I found out how to use the snatch skill. Not to mention that the first time I passed by a snake camp I was prompted to use that skill to grab the item in their midst, but I had not unlocked it yet. Due to the game’s explanation I was trying for several minutes to find how the snatch from a distance worked, till I eventually lost my patience and charged on the snakes only to be obliterated. You see two people stealing horses early on and the game tells you to look for them. I go the way they went and see a dude on a horse with the same model. I get close and try to talk to him, only that this was a different dude and the “talk” was “snach horse”… so i’m now a horse thief. Also the victim would not let me go after trying to steal their horse no matter what and I had to kill them. No consequences. As for the gacha system. The amount of different currencies used for every pull made it a mess. More about this later. Now… all the above are a very negative impact to my impression of the game, however i’m sure that by checking media, having enough time/patience to experience in the game and/or with a supportive community you can overcome and as such… the game would have gotten a positive rating from me… but now come the actual bad stuff. Why i’m NOT recommending this game: 1) The story is bad. The pacing is terrible… Seriously... One of my top listed games for bad passing...You open up with a couple of dudes that show up, act as is a medallion is a big deal, but only mention the medallion and not the MC, making you think that the MC is with them only for sentimentality purposes, but then your name is on it and the MC is important, but nobody cares about them. Then the dude at the start of the game throws a sword at you and next thing that happens is that he vanishes for years… Your OH SO IMPORTANT medallion is stolen and a minute later nobody cares… Look… I did not experience everything in the game, to know if the story is worth it or not… but what I know is that for the few days of progression i got, the pacing was so terrible that I didn't even care to see the rest! I mean... There are only two characters I cared about in this game... They both die a hero's death and the story goes: "OH NO... Anyway... let's build a mansion now".Things are constantly happening, then a moment later you are at a totally different vibe and nothing matters about what happened previously. 2) Way too much time-waste. The game does give you a lot of content and that’s a good thing. If you want to commit and you are looking for something to fill your time then this is awesome. But they kinda exaggerate. 3) Forced co-op. Game literally forces you to play co-op. For someone that has a terrible experience in co-op such as me, this is a MASSIVE negative. 4) Way too many bugs. At the very start of the game you go down the mountain and see something like a theater troupe or something with dead bodies all around, advertising a great battle.  I go in and a cutscene plays and as soon as it ends it starts playing again... and again... and again. I skip and the battle starts. As soon as I take down the dude, fight resets and i have to fight him again. I beat him and 2 "puppets" show up to fight me. I take them out and i have to fight the dude again, only that as soon as I beat him the first cutscene plays again and i'm back at the beginning of this fight. Eventually i fall and game is like "come back when you are lv.30 n00b". Right... Cause i totally didn't humiliate your champion multiple times right now. And this "reset" happened another couple of times with other bosses. An events of trying to chase a cat launched me to the stratosphere. Cleared a martial arts training quest with the dude resetting every time and when I reloaded my game he was no longer there. My gacha pulls got reset. Also here i'm gonna talk about bad design of quests/events. You are platforming to get a chest and mid-jump game starts a "cutscene" stopping you, messing you up or straight out killing you. Not to mention areas where you can multi-jump, you are going for a chest only to find out at the last step without warning that you multijump has been sealed away and you fall to your doom, resurrecting in a totally different area and having to walk a long way to get back to your chest. Now these are bad design flaws but they are so random I consider even those bugs. Speaking of, I used my 10 free pulls and the game reset the pull... only that I no longer had the 10 pulls available.It just went back to the initial pulls page... I checked if i had any new items or presentation looks but there was nothing... and here is my final issue 5) Support inefficiency. I reported that my free 10 pulls got cancelled and waited for a reply... only to never get one. Just to be fair, I waited for a couple of days before giving my final verdict, but no reply came. Look, the game has great graphics and huge potential. But it really did not click with me. The way the story is portrayed, the confusing systems, the huge amount of time needed to clear dailys and the huge amount of bugs encountered that did not get a reply from the support even after days. Especially when one of those bugs hit the core of the game, it's gacha... No man. I'm out.