Walking The Stairs ZZZ vs Genshin Impact vs Honkai Starrail Vs Wuthering Waves 

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Star rail one isnt even walking on stairs tho, them just levitate slowly 😂

no way you gave wuwa 8\10 thier knees look like they could break at any seconed from going up the stairs bro 😭😭😭

Bro the WuWa rank was pure bias, you can see it's clearly awkward.

I wouldn't call wuthering waves have the best staircase walking animation... I mean, that look awkward even though their feet do really step on each step, but it just looks like skipping one step at a time.

Wuwa's knees seems weirdly elongated . While ZZZ is the best

NO, Wuwa's movement is so unnatural, no upper body movement at all, even when their foot don't clip through stairs, they look like robots!!! 6/10

Genshins was okay. Honkai star rails characters didn't even looked like they are walking on stairs it looked like they are just walking on a straight path. Wuthering waves for some reason rover walking the stairs made me laugh tho it was okay okay. Z.Z.Z's was so far the best they were actually walking on stairs

I feel like right now genshin looks the best. Their legs and body didnt move awkwardly, the leg dont randomly snap like wuwa and zzz. Althought sometimes it clipped through the stair, overall it looks nice and clean

1:05 Excuse me what? Best animation so far? Are WuWa fans actually that blind, look at their Knees bro 💀

Even though in genshin the feet doesnt land on steps or sometimes out of bounds, the animation is so smooth and it feels natural unlike in WW and ZZZ the bending of knees kinda weird and the spacing of steps in WW is huge comoared to others. HSR has its own way if waliking in stairs 😂😂😂

Fun fact, the stair hitbox needs to be smooth for walking to be optimised, but the way the characters walk is different depending on the character so they bend and clip a little

Wuthering waves does not have walking upstairs animation. You can see that their upper bodies behave the same as if they were walking forward. The walking upstairs is handled entirely through inverse kinematics, which is not the same as bespoke animations. It's basically algorythm that forces their legs to raise to match the elevation of surface they are standing on. Which is why it looks kinda awkward. It's obviously better than nothing like HSR, but I wouldn't call it best. If anything, despite being less precise, genshin's upper body movement matches the legs better somehow... can't belive I am complimenting genshin.

In wuwa the feet still phase through the stairs lol Also the animation is stiff af clearly biased rating lol 8/10 my a**

WuWa makes their upper bodies look like uncooked spaghetti noodles

Might be a bit biased toward wuwa there buddy.

genshin with its clipping issues looked fine to me cuz the secondary hand motion (the waving arms) looks good, it's like there's a weight to it. also the characters are looking up. i think it should be scored higher. HSR = 0/10. i think they dont have a special animation for stairs, just regular walking animation. holy that wuwa animation gave me nightmare.. it's good but somehow very wrong, like some sort of uncanny valley. if they would just lean a bit forward and it'd be perfect. belle slouch a bit so it helped alot with the animation. She looked down the steps, and also the bounce is very good.

I prefer smooth and natural movement like genshin , even they don’t step accurately on the stair 😊

Somehow WuWa looks even worse than HSR, i'd prefer no stair animation over that nightmare. ZZZ has almost the same problem, while being a little bit better. Overall GI was the best

Bruh how can you rate Wuwa 8/10 This problem has got me tingled as a first day player. The animation is so bad and their clothes are clipping during that animation too bruh😭

I appreciate Genshin's posture leaning slightly forward though. The other 3 examples look so silly maintaining that 90 degree angle torso when their legs are going to town.

How do you walk up stairs? Rover: BIG STEPPY!

Now you know why it's called Honkai Star Rail not Honkai Stair Rail 😂😂

genshin actually has the best one and more natural motions, aside from the feet missing the steps... wuwa looks like the characters' backs are too stiff, and the leg motions are a bit awkward ... hsr has the worst for sure because its basically normal walking animation

Bruh WW one deservers a 6/10, not 8. Its hella unnatural, there's no balancing at all like in Genshin (Characters don't lean) and worst of all is that the legs don't even raise themselves to the next step. It just straight up teleports to the next height. It looks goofy as hell.

No way you are rating WW's as the best. Look how lanky and weird those characters move.

Tell me you’re a Wuwa simp without telling me

I don't know man, for me walking in WuWa looks ugly as hell. Sure, in HSR they got lazy and didn't even change the motion - characters walk as if they were on flat surface - but it is still relatively good to look at.

I remember how once I needed to code something similar to a step animation for a university project... It's hard... like really hard... and the solution I found was probably super unoptimized as well... But to me, WuWa and ZZZ look super weird, It might be a hot take, but I think genshin nailed it the most out of these four, instead of focusing on the part most players won't be noticing, they added extra detail to the motion people would be paying the most attention to... going back to the project I mentioned, I ended up scratching that Idea, and instead, just lifted the camera upwards a bit when using stairs so that the feet weren't as obvious. sometimes the easiest answer is also the correct one

nah wuwa is lower than genshin. who walks up the stairs with their body leaning backward? genshin gets it right since the characters lean forward.

I dont know why, but Wuwa's creeps me out, they walk like weird aliens

Why do I always feel so strange when I see wuwa characters climbing the stairs? 😰 Their feet seems elongated?

The glazing on wuwa is crazy💀🙏

i dunno, but in my genshin when my character steps on stairs feet stacks perfectly to the stairs, not floating like that

Walking in wuwa? No no we run. 😅

Wuwa body is just upright not leaning.. it looks weird. Like they only made legs and arms swing but forget the rest of the body

something about the wuthering waves animation is unsettling, the way their knees bend so much??

The rating towards wuwa was pure bias ngl

Wuwa's problem is that the upper body doesn't move with the legs so it looks like they stretching like their legs some kind rubber.

it sems like wuwa just programed to attach the feet on the ground, in any contour/surfaces, so basically it just walking animation. Genshin put more detail in animation, they lean the character body forward when the character touch stair, problem is the stair model is not humanly ergonomic, so probably they just lock the animation like that to mantain the movement quality, or it will end up like wuwa.

The only thing I see is that is hard to animate characters walking on stairs 🤣

Fun fact because Wuwa is using Unreal so the way it was done is totally different from Zzz and Genshin, pretty sure unity engine already had similar function for characters climbing a stair I am not sure why it wasn't done for Star rail tho

Admit it. Genshin has one of the best stair animation. Be it the domming-bopping descend or the im-bout-to-beat-the-shit-out-of-you ascend

Wuwa's is kinda like me trying to walk on wooden stairs without making any noise

Starrails animation looks like they are walking on an invisible slanting plane

As an animator, it is clear to me that Genshin > Wuwa > ZZZ > HSR; The difference between HSR and the other games is that it lacks Inverse Kinematics, one of the most important advancements in 3D animation especially for gaming. It was first displayed extensively with Shadows of the Colossus, it is the tech that allowed character's limbs to interact with surfaces, recognising they are standing on or climbing on them. When a 3D model makes contact with a polygon surface, e.g an arm, IK calculates the angle of the limb based on settings so that the limb looks correct, it also prevents clipping, enables heel and feet to animate in reaction to the ground, hands to "open doors" etc. Genshin and Wuwa has IK because they have climbing mechanics, which requires characters to recognise surfaces and interact with them, in this aspect Genshin also tops Wuwa because of better animation. You can see that while walking up the stairs Genshin characters actually shift their center of gravity over their feet, while Wuwa characters lean back, showing a lack of center of gravity and weight, along with janky knee movement, a result of lack of tweaking of the IK settings. ZZZ has minimal IK just for walking up slopes, which stairs essentially are, HSR just has no IK at all, so their limbs clip straight through surfaces.

0:16 casually steping on air

Genshin 7/10, HSR 0/10 (no animation), WW 5/10, ZZZ 5/10. Can't really rate the games much higher when RDR2 does far better stair matching, I'd give it a 9/10.

Notice how the ZZZ showcase is on a better angle 😂

Is genshin the only one where the characters look up/down when going up/down stairs

Zenless player here. Of the animations in this video, Genshin has the most natural going up stairs ive seen outside the clipping issue. I wish i could also see them going down the stairs as you only showcased Zenless going down stairs which i do like the animation for that but going up they definitely need more forward lean and for the feet to not look like they're sliding to the stair

Why do people blindly hate on Genshin these days at least give credit where it is due. Genshin clearly had the best animation out of them all lol

wuwa's doesn't look better than genshin's, genshin characters lean forward to maintain balance when climbing the stairs which makes it 8/10 for me. wuwa characters' feet pass through the stairs as well when going up and their limb proportions don't look right which makes it 6/10 for me

Wuwa was a solid 1/10, it’s creepy. ZZZ 8/10

Zenless Zone Zero only has to animate 2 characters so it's easier. You can't see your gacha characters outside of combat 😢

8/10 for wuwa because the feet step on the stairs? While everything else is an entire list, glazing frrr

I still remember in GTA V when your character sprint/jog then met stairs, they will take small stippy step adjusting their feet to individual stair steps

Didn't realize how the feet is always stepping on stairs because most of the time the player just running

WuWa has horrible stair animation. The backs are the exact same as walking on a flat surface even though people normally lean forwards or arch their backs while going up stairs. And who when going up stairs raises their legs up SOOO high your thighs allign with your waist???? They could've just done what Genshin did and it would've looked better. Like wow you added this for stairs but your game runs like shit on the first day, real quality work. (I don't play genshin I play HSR)

Wuwa’s characters look like their legs are breaking when they walk up the stairs lol

8 for WW are you sure ?

I feel like a problem that both WuWa and ZZZ share in common is, it feels like they're walking backwards and not lifting their legs high enough above the ground nor tilt their torso, which makes it look like the feet just slide up and get rubbed against the stairs. Or for WuWa, it feels like the characters lift up the knees a little too high, which makes it look like they're crouching and dragging their legs instead, while the characters' torso is completely straight Genshin nailed it pretty well in terms of movement, it doesn't feel stiff or unrealistic, with the exception that the characters are practically floating over the stairs or even clipping through HSR just wasn't meant for moving around as openly, it's more combat-focused and it's more about the story than the walking, so it's pretty fair that they didn't bother making an animation for walking up the stairs, especially since they would probably have to tweak a few things in the mechanics and the models. Most of the surfaces are pretty flat, so it's only normal All in all, these games did really well in this video, but they all have their flaws of course

Was expecting wuva to be amazing ngl but after watching this, genshin seems to be the best one. Wuva and zzz appear to have that same weird thing on their legs in which they tried to make the feet placement too realistic by having a "physics" element since the feet actually rest on the stair/ground model which just makes it look like a spider's movement instead of just having an animation. Of course having a hand crafted animation has it's downsides as well but, no clipping aside, the most realistic one appear to be genshin's.

WW walking animation always looked a little less smooth to me compare to GI and ZZZ. But hey making this stairs animation better is kinda tough. Most AAA games also struggle to make it perfect

what 300k views to see game characters walk up some stairs 💀💀💀💀💀

wuwa's animation is literally me when the stair is too short to walk one by one

imo genshins the best then its a tie between ww and zenless and hsr doesnt have stairs animation

here's my personal ranking: Genshin ZZZ Wuwa Hsr Genshin's looks more fluid and it ain't stiff Only problem is feet glitching through the stairs ZZZ is good, but the legs are suddenly snapping and feet is glitching through the stairs Wuwa looks very unatural and stiff, like who tf walks like that and the legs are snapping AGAIN and the bending of the knees looks very awkward hsr isn't even walking up the stairs, they are levitating through them. im not sure whether wuwa and hsr should switch places tho-

Wuwa looks like a robot HSR looks like walking in that travelator😂

I feel like wuthering waves looks like how aliens would try to imitate walking up the stairs. It looks stiff and awkward, and kind of wrong.

Tbf there actually not many AAA openworld games with fully accurate stair walking animations that dobt look jank in some way. GI and HSR basically focused on the animation itself using proper body language elsewhere to make walking look somewhat convincing if you don't examine it up close which if Wuwa did would make theirs look more natural

No wuwa character angle looks weird I still think genshin stair animation is best

Yeah the HSR movement on stairs is TERRIBLE... But it's Still my Fav Game of these ❤

Out of everyone, HSR's stair walk is actually just their normal walk cycle with the characters being lifted up lmao. Everyone else's actually have their legs bend in a way where you would if you're walking up stairs (with the exception of feet going into said stair though).

my opinion: 1. zzz 2. genshin 3. hsr 4. wuwa ・wuwa is low because of the streched out knee

WuWa fans once again proving how biased they are towards WuWa and trying to make other games look bad for the 1000th time

I'm sorry who TF walks up the stairs with their back straight.

Aint no way he said WuWa walking up stars is the best💀

Wuwa is such a buggy game

HSR: stairs are upwards flat plain, no characters interaction to the geometry GI: similar to HSR but characters physics can moderately interact to the stair WW: just like genshin but it’s trying a lil too hard to make every steps land on the stair(results in weird animation) ZZZ: WW but more polished👍🏻(still can be janky tho)

Ww looks like something from a fever dream..

"that is not how to walk through stairs". HSR: "rule made to be broken".

IMHO WW is the worst here. So jagged and unfinished. - horrible inverse kinematics. HSR not even tried to make stair animation, it is just a walk animation with z axis movement. But even that looks better then WW.

0:45 oh well, for some reason honkai is the only game that works in my phone lol

No way wuthering waves stair animation is the best, it looks so weird to watch, even though I can't pinpoint it exactly, it looks unnaturally funny especially rover

The characters look like habing busted knee cap walking like broken shadows goblin, 8-9 point fot them. Realistic where?. The bounce looks natural?. Where?. Everytime they step that stairs they looked like monwalking in reverse.

Star rail uses walking animation, nothing less, lol.

why is it so satisfying to watch belle go up and down the stairs-😭

admin is uncertified 3d modeller for sure 😂😂

You played all games in compatible mode that's why they are glitches.

Wuwa trying to snip the feet to the stairs, that why the legs animation look weird tho

In any case, the animations for walking up stairs in all games look really cool, but they also have problems

I can't agree with you. Genshin is my favorite by far, bc their whole stance changes. The characters lean forward, look up and look like they're actually walking stair by using different muscles. Yes, their feet sometimes phaze through the stairs, but the animation is the best by far. Having their feet step on stairs is not important when the rest of the body looks weird, imo.

Wuwa looks like an exhausted marathon runner when the legs are about go give up😂😂🙏

I just got a zzz ad, then a honkai ad, then a genshin impact ad 💀💀💀

I cant believe they made ZZZ's one look as good as it does when theres like... 2 stair cases in the entire game you can walk up

Genshin has a different walk animation for going up an incline while as opposed to flat ground. Wuwa only has the flat ground animation walk up inclines. This is why Wuwa's walk feels more robotic and unnatural.

Star Rail is just using the same walk animation but adds sort of levitation everytime a player ascends or descends a stair

This is embarrassing for all games involved. Genshin 6/10 ZZZ 5.9/10 WuWa 2/10 StarRail 1/10

I'd have to take a closer look later, but from the looks of it, the last two may jitter subtlely, because the feet snap to the mesh of the stairs when it gets close enough. Like hair or jiggle physics, those aren't exactly animated, but rather reactive to the environment. I believe in this case they animated it, but also made it so the animation allows the feet to snap to the stair closest to it's proximity. :D