Now, I like the more expressive and exaggerated animation path they want to go for with Zenless Zone Zero, it’s pretty much the best thing of the game that sells it to people, if a bit too much, and the story/world is just alright, relatively adaptive depending on story progression and whatnot. But what makes this game seem so much more intrinsically flawed than the company’s reluctance to implement features/more engaging graphics for Genshin or contradictory story-building for Honkai: Star Rail, is the fact that exploration is a drag to play through, and that’s not something you want in your free-roam gacha RPG.
Exploration in the main quests (and most other side quests other than more-or-less unique puzzle quests that play with the features), just play through TVs and enter combat if prompted, but switch from the pretty switching animations and combat environment to the bore that is switching from an overhead set of TV screens is just way too stretched out to engage (or interest) me into playing the game, as opposed to Genshin and Honkai: Star Rail’s more-fleshed out story and natural exploration.
Even when taking out the comparisons to the other flawed games that Hoyoverse has taken on, ZZZ feels like a half-baked capitalization on an already running hype-train from HSR/GI, for all that the company that wants to treat Genshin terribly, I’d rather be in frequent returns to that game than ZZZ.
I love this game I’ve played it for longer than I probably should have in the last day I’ve had it downloaded. There are a few things that I don’t like all that much though, one of those things being timed event characters. Now I love this game and I will continue to play and enjoy it but one of the reasons I got the game was because of Ellen Joe, every single ad that I got, that was straight into some story stuff surrounding a character, featured Ellen in some way. Now that I have the game I was wondering how to unlock her character, so I went online only to find out that it wasn’t going to be available for a long time. And other than characters that are in timed events, the only other thing that I don’t really like about the game is the size of it, 25 gigabytes is a lot for a mobile device user. However I will recommend this game to my friends and I will play this game on the regular.
I’ve played Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and Wuthering Waves. Zenless Zone Zero has to be my second favorite. People rate this game 1* mainly because they’re mad or something. ZZZ is a very good game overall. When I saw 3.7* as the overall review I was amazed. Like, why? Storage would be the main reason but just play on a different device! The character designs are so pretty! My game runs smoothly so that’s another reason why I love it. I love that there are combos to attacking. Even though Bella nor Wise can fight, that’s not really a problem. Different characters mean different move sets. A lot of people just play for the free pulls. I did too but realized this game was so much more! I don’t pay attention to that stuff at all! To me, it’s an absolutely great game. But you can’t change another person’s point of view. “No matter how hard you try to understand other people’s hearts, people aren’t able to change others. Every time, you have to change yourself.” (If you know the reference you know) If you’re mad about the amount of pulls you don’t get, character designs, gameplay, or any other thing, stay mad. ZZZ is a great game, just like the others. When I first saw the trailer, I was like, “There’s gonna be a new Hoyo game?! Eh… Should I get it?” The only reason why I started to play, because of that one Billy add. Anyways, peace!
I personally really enjoy the games simplicity. There are some gameplay moments that are really dragged out but overall I enjoy the simple gameplay. This is one of those games for me that is something easy to pickup and play especially when you don’t have a lot of time in the day to invest into a game. I understand there are some who don’t like this game for the TV segments but I really don’t mind it. It’s unique and does a great job at playing a role in the story telling instead of it just being a simple puzzle segment. This will be one of my games to play when I just wanna relax and actually enjoy a game instead of try harding. The animated cutscenes and voice acting really stand out and is amazing. I love the expressiveness in the voices, animation, and the style of the game. The game also gives me some nostalgia of how Honkai Impact 3rd was when it first released. When it first released it was a very simple button mash fighter similar to how this game is now as of (1.0). Maybe it’ll become more complex just like how Honkai Impact 3rd’s gameplay ended up becoming with newer Valkyries and mechanics. Excited to see where this game goes!
So people are complaining about the animation style. It’s..been like that? You KNEW it would be like that? Why’re you complaining???? Then they’re complaining about the gameplay as if it’s not similar to HI3rd. Also the “blackface” people complain about..is a penguin. Not blackface it’s a literal penguin that people claim is blackface bc apparently if you have a penguin and the company is known for racism it’s automatically racist. Also stop review bombing the game just bc you’re being a baby over another game. They are most definitely run by a different team. Genshin and ZZZ r run by different people so it’s just stupid to complain. How about you complain on the official page of Genshin? Why risk a new game’s success because of another game? Just complain about the game with racism. Until there’s actually shown racism in ZZZ, which there hasn’t been yet, don’t review bomb about racism. The gameplay is unique and I love the story/character designs minus all the fanservice.
you want the real the truth behind this game. take it from someone who has tried all three of their biggest release’s in the last 4 years. that includes genshin, star rail, and now zzz. the real issue is the publisher (hoyoverse, mihoyo) themselfs. they bot views on twitch. they false advertise products. they promise alot of rewards. but those rewards are subpar. zzz is no exception. they promise 180 pulls. but in my two days of playing up until the lockout at level 16. id say i have around 60 pulls. i think the real issue no one talks about is the censorship. nicole and belle. having there models changed after closed beta 2. do you like safety pants ? and white spats ? this is the company for you. do you want a more refined experience, go play wuthering waves from kuro. they know combat way better. and trust me, parrying and dodging in this game is not as fluid as what wuthering has to offer. yeah im done with hoyoverse products. ban me if you want hoyoverse. but its the truth. dont like the truth ? delete my review. i will screencap this just to prove i called you out. if you see a guy named Geoff Keighley advertising these games. its over, what hope you had for a good product goes out the window.
Like the game, but game keeps crashing after the Belobog industries scene where the creature absorbs the machines after the “seal” is broken
I’ve attempted skipping and just rewatching multiple times, but it always crashes at that same spot and so I can not progress in the game
There are cats, I only just started playing this but there’s a part where you get to pet a little black cat with mittens. 5 stars. The gameplay itself is repetitive for the most part. There are a few story and exploration commissions that are a bit different, but there isn’t too much variety. I don’t really focus on the story, but it’s fine in my opinion. That being said, I enjoy how easy it is and the repetitive nature allows me to actually do the main thing I enjoy doing in the game - fighting and exploring the different playable characters! I joined for Ellen and I really just enjoy seeing how each of the characters move in fighting, regular play, and cutscenes.
This game is (in my opinion) one of the best gacha games on the market right now. It’s not trying to be anything else, and the story is really well done. I will however point out, the main beats of the marketing is the Gacha aspect; always advertising “Free Pulls when you download from this video” yet that does not happen. I’m not sure how they can get away with the blatantly misleading advertising, as any average consumer will watch an ad and assume “When I download this game from this video I will be able to draw X amount of characters for free.” Which is never the case. This game should be advertising its amazing combat and beautiful art design. I love the advertisements that show off new characters, like the shark maid one that is currently in the rotation for pulls; as the advertisements for this character are exceptionally well made, with great voice acting and animation to boot. I can’t wait to see the future of this game, and I feel if they shift their marketing to try to attract consumers on other platforms such as PC and Console then they will develope a more hardcore player base.
I’ll keep this review short for all the zoomers that might see this. This game is pretty dang fun, has absolutely clean animations, some witty dialogue, persona style social simulators, decent puzzles, fun and extremely fluid combat, and a great story.
But you have to be patient. You won’t just have access to these features right away, heck I probably played for 6-8 hours before I unlocked the ability to do my dailies and use my energy resource. When you start getting an idea of how the combat system works, it’s incredibly fun to play around with, but you have to just stick with the characters the game gives you for quite a bit of time.
As you can see, there’s quite a lot of 1-star reviews, and it’s another movement from the community to cry and soil themselves to try and make a change, probably to boycott another game if I’m being honest. My final tip is also to try to avoid engaging with the community in earnest. Lots of weird internet drama in these groups if you let yourself get sucked up in it. Hope you enjoy the game!
hoyoverse is disgusting for how they approach black/brown characters. they released a nation for Genshin; Natlan, and proceeded to make every character either snow pale or a slight tan. this is a nation based off African culture (as well as Brazillian and Hawaiian culture) and they horribly designed the characters by making them pale. Disney does black culture better and they have history of bad stereotypes of black people 💀 for gods sake Moana is darker than Mualani (whos clearly designed from Hawaiian culture). Honkai Star Rail also did Penocony, a place based of Jazz culture which originated from black people, dirty as well by not giving us a single playable black character.
as for ZZZ, they are not exempt from this issue as well. Nekomata's model is black skinned, and yet in the drawings from cutscenes shes pretty pale (i get lighting, but hard lighting doesnt make a black person WHITE) theres also a black NPC thats literally placed right next a poster with an obvious racist chariacture, one you'd find in the really old American cartoons from back in the 60s. absolutely disgusting. hoyo can easily fix these issues by simply going into the textures images and coloring the characters skin darker, its that easy. theres no excuse for any of this.
fix Natlan, fix the whitewashing and harmful stereotypes in ZZZ and give us actual black characters from Penocony.
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