Wuthering Waves has found itself in yet another plagiarism spotlight — and this time, the target is Capcom's iconic Monster Hunter franchise. A Bilibili creator dropped a devastating three-part video series doing frame-by-frame model comparisons, and the verdict was brutal: they're basically identical.
The original post was made in the Wuthering Waves subforum on NGA, but it was swiftly locked by moderators. Undeterred, players manually reposted it to the general board with a title that went straight for the jugular: 'Let me show you what REAL identical copying looks like,' complete with all three video links. The thread blew up instantly.
The top-voted comment nailed the community's reaction in one sentence: 'Done reviewing — Wuthering Waves just earned a new nickname: MingChao (明抄).' It's a wordplay pun: 鸣潮 (Míng Cháo, the game's name) sounds like 明抄 (Míng Chāo, meaning 'blatant copying'). The meme spread like wildfire, with one player quipping: 'The game literally calls itself MingChao — not copying would be the weird thing.'
Some defenders tried the classic 'but Genshin does it too' argument, but that counter got buried under the mountain of evidence. Monster Hunter veterans pointed out that Wuthering Waves didn't just copy the models — the animations were carbon-copied too, yet somehow the knockoff was less smooth than the original. 'Even when they copy, they can't match the polish,' one commenter noted.
What made things even spicier was the community digging up the developer Kuro Games' track record. Their previous title, Punishing: Gray Raven, had a co-op hunting mode that was widely suspected of being a Monster Hunter ripoff too. Players even called out absurd details like 'a mechanical dragon that somehow drools,' pointing to specific inspirations from Monster Hunter's Tigrex and Valstrax designs.
As for the thread getting locked, players weren't having it. A highly upvoted comment put it bluntly: 'The more you dig, the more you find — but hey, the thread in the other subforum is gone now. Did it hit a nerve, or are the mods just afraid of the fallout?' The censorship only made the allegations seem more credible.
And so the developer's old nickname — 'Tailpipe Factory' (尾气厂, implying they only breathe other companies' exhaust) — came roaring back. 'That's just how the tailpipe factory works: miHoYo copies, so they copy too,' went the closing burn. The comparison videos continue to circulate, and as of now, there's been zero official response from Kuro Games.
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