Overall for me, the gameplay is fun and I love the art style and overall npc’s have like more lifelike in them. Combat is fun and it gave me somewhat of a fighting game back then with its retro style. Environment, very pretty and beautiful, characters/Npc’s love the design and animation they have. I understand some people were expecting ZZZ to have open world mechanic like genshin or somewhat to star rail’s but it’s limited.
The story, yes it’s long with quest after quest but that’s the hole lore of it. Sometimes people get impatient or bored because they expecting a top notch game to be popular like genshin when first release because you start a quest then come back to it when you feel like it. But really, it’s a hoyoverse game and your gonna experience a visual novel in any hoyoverse game yet people still try em out.
All I can say is people like to bring games down because they was “expecting” more and they get let down. Really you don’t have to play a hoyoverse game if you gonna be disappointed lol.
Hoyoverse is very skilled when it comes to its world building and character designs, and this game doesn’t disappoint in this respect. This game’s design language and characters are beautifully designed, animated, and voiced. If this was an animated series it would get a pass with glowing reviews. However this is a game, and as such it must be fun and easy to understand for the player to interact with its world. Unfortunately I think Hoyoverse fell short in its design for this game. The UI design was my biggest gripe. I felt so lost navigating so many menus and buttons for simple tasks like upgrading characters. There’s just too many buttons and elements that bog it down and it’s just confusing to use. Another problem for me is the gameplay loop. Combat itself is extremely fun, albeit a bit “button mashy”, with your characters using beautifully animated attack sequences and satisfying parry/ combo mechanics. However the TV exploration mode absolutely killed the fun for me. It completely broke immersion after fun and high octane battle gameplay. Don’t get me wrong, this game is beautifully made, designed, and well polished but the gameplay and game design has dragged it down unfortunately. I love hoyoverse’s creativity and their products, but unfortunately this one fell short after so much hype.
I really want to give this game 4 or even 5 stars as it is truly the best Gacha game I’ve ever played. The combat is very well done, the storylines and voice acting executed well, and the art and music are phenomenal. Even the Gacha gambling itself is pretty forgiving when compared to other games in the genre (or maybe I’ve just grown desensitized to it).
The only thing that really feels outdated is the energy system gating progression and requiring you spend money to progress. Yeah, you get currency for refills, but it is the same currency you use for getting new characters and equipment so spending it on energy feels like a complete waste and a bad usage. Spending actually money on refills feels asinine and a remnant that should of been abandoned by the genre as other revenue streams developed.
Solid game, but just know that you will hit a wall where you are out of energy and need more to upgrade characters to progress in the storyline. Will need to decide if you spend that currency (or actual money) on refills or rolling for new characters, the former just feeling really bad.
I’ve played this game for several hours and I honestly don’t know why people are already hating on this game. People have been complaining about how the game takes up too much space from the get go, but what can you expect when the graphics and animation are as good as they are. This leads into my next point on how people complain about the art style and animation. The animation in fluid and adds character to each scene, and if you don’t like the style, then why play in the first place (you’ve known what the animation would be like, the trailers and leaks have been out for ages now). And finally, people whine over how most of the game is dialogue and that it gets boring, but how can we say that when we are blessed to even have a skip button (yes, I’m prolly firing shots at hsr and genshin). It’s really no diff from any other hoyoverse game. All in all, this game is exceptional in my eyes, and I just don’t understand why people hate on it already (don’t whine about storage, genshin literally takes up like half ur phone).
I would also like to call out the people that say this game is a snooze fest. The game literally has a skip button, so stop complaining about how it’s all talk, no game, when every other hoyo game doesn’t have a skip.
First of all, I’ve been waiting for ZZZ for a long time, and I also don’t normally write reviews. I was so invested in the game because of how fun it is these past few days that I didn’t realize the amount of backlash it was getting.
The main problem I see is not with the game, but rather the criticizing reviewers, who are a bunch of whiny, unsatisfactory kids. Every review I’ve seen so far of ZZZ is either from:
Genshin player that didn’t get an open world experience
People that hate on the game for no reason
People that hate on the game because it doesn’t have “Honkai” in its name
People that hate on this game because it’s not WuWa
This is absolutely absurd, and if someone out there is reading this, please know that the many bad reviews you see about this game are from people who have played pretty much nothing of it, and didn’t even bother PLAYING the game rather than be “I want the new character”.
This is also mainly because people like me, who are enjoying ZZZ, are too busy playing the game rather than writing hypocritical reviews.
If you don’t like gacha games, that’s fine, but no reason to scream at others to not play this game, and also complain like a wimp because they have to actually play the GAME to get polychrome for pulling. It’s called a game for a reason.
I throughly enjoy this game but there are many issues especially with the advertising. The advertising was very misleading especially with the 100 free pulls. To get the free pulls you have to grind and that takes time that some people don’t have. BUT the animations is absolutely breathtaking and the combat is super clean and fun! With the puzzles (aka the tvs) can be challenging and they definitely aren’t for everyone, but be prepared to do a lot of puzzles. I actually do like the puzzles cause it makes you have to think. I think the puzzle mechanics are very cool and the concept is honestly super smart. But like a said before, not everyone is gonna like the puzzles especially if your impatient or easily annoyed. The Gacha system is about the same as honkai star rails so you know what to expect if you play star rail. I like Gacha so this is an immediate pro for me! Anyway if you read this hole thing the dang your persistent but thank you anyway!
The storyline is interesting and fun, getting S ranks is really easy. The soundtrack is really good, I could fall asleep listening to it, the character designs are so detailed and clean, the gameplay is smooth, and it saves your progress from where you left off so you dont have to restart, I can tell the developers put a lot of effort into ZZZ, and the developers are really generous! Even the loading screen is interesting to watch! I experienced a few bugs though, like my game crashes when I get to the boss fight on a commission, which is annoying so I cant progress. some of the characters clipping through things, like Cori, when she stops moving, her knee goes through her dress, which is unnatural and when Im running around as Belle, theres like cloth on the floor and her legs get clipped into it, these are minor bugs, but I would still appreciate it if you fix this! Thank you ZZZ developers
don’t get me wrong! i love the vision of the game; a neo-setting RPG with expressive characters. one of the first things i noticed was the suuuper smooth animations + 3d/2d art!! but i feel like some of the characters are lacking in “personality”… but only to a certain extent! they’re creative, but some are sort of stereotypical — that’s just my opinion! (I.E., many players would love to see some power moments for our girl nekomata)
on a more technical perspective, i think that the actual gameplay resembles that of HI3, but if it were…simpler. “simple” is something that this game is in lurve with!! not in a bad way. i just think that this game doesn’t hold the gameplay mechanic capacity that players need from mobile games. point blank: it’s only an attention grabber with it’s visuals.
but that isn’t to say there’s no hope for this game. hoyoverse, you can always update your games. i believe in this game!! but only if you do first, hoyoverse.
Update: Bumped it up one more star for two reasons. First because 3/5 implies average and I do think this is better than the average game on the App Store. Secondly because it might be the first gacha game where I don’t feel the need to play it daily, this is one I can enjoy at my pace whenever I want, and I find value in that.
First: The full game, on Day 1 takes up 25gb of storage. Do with that info whatever you want (and remember it’s only increasing from here). As for the game itself, it’s alright. The UI and music are amazing but the walking sim and [extremely simple] combat will get old fast. If you want more strategy try Honkai Star Rail, if you want more difficulty (more “Souls-like” even) try Wuthering Waves. But if you want very simple, passable, flashy combat then this is good enough. The real pull of this one is the dialogue, character interactions, story, cutscenes… Overall it passes you know, it’s fine. It’s just not another Genshin or WuWa. Even Honkai Impact 3rd felt more engaging. Personally, I’ll play it on the side here or there but I won’t be splurging on this one. Might get the soundtrack if anything.
So i’ve never played any games by Hoyoverse, and i’ve been getting a lot of ads by these guys with there 2 most other popular games; Honkai Star Rail and Genshin impact. so when I saw an ad for this one, and was looking for an action packed game, it’s just what I needed.
it’s got a great and funny story to it, it’s not like the other games where there’s 10 million ads, or it’s pay to win, or some game mechanic where you have to wait before you can start playing the game again. There’s 2 game modes as you go throughout the game, which is really nice, and it was really easy for me to understand the game. i’m completely addicted to a game that not only has all of that, but an actual account to save your data, and it being just as easy for me to play the game on mobile, or any other device. im addicted! Awesome game!!!
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