#echoes-location

i think the shorekeeper might be my favorite female character design in wuwa, possibly my favorite design overall. her dress reminds me of ones i see on fashion show blogs - i think they're a little complicated, but still pretty. other female characters' outfits feel like they started out with a base, but then pieces of cloth were removed to be more revealing while random unnecessary bells and whistles were added. i won't deny, that can be said for the shorekeeper, but to a much lesser extent. she truly looks ethereal, perfect for a character we meet as a hologram.

seeing as wuwa's doing the whole lock locations behind the story deal, my only hope is that there will be some kind of travelling merchant that occasionally comes by and sells things like regional specialties and even boss materials, regardless of how far the player's progressed. would seriously help new players who haven't unlocked the regions along with saving caught up players some time

ironic that wuwa's gameplay makes the world feel more alive rather that the characters living in it. TDs will fight each other and there's plenty of quests where you ally with exiles, so those groups feel "real". meanwhile more than half of the characters don't meaningfully interact with anyone else outside of the player.

avinoleum is such a cool place im so glad i never have to go back there

i really really love huanglong's worldbuilding with which TDs are present depending on your location. up north where battles took place there's more humanoids, and down south with less people and more nature it's basically all animal-like. i also love how the bell-borne geochelone has a bunch of hoartoises by it's location, like the feilian beringal with hoochiefs and hooscamps. big leaders and their little followers!

no seriously who at kuro thought "lets have two bosses and their drops look exactly like e/o" I HATE YOU