My 100% Honest Review of Zenless Zone Zero...

Today in Zenless Zone Zero we're going over what I think of the game.

#zzz

0:00 Intro
0:24 Story
1:51 Combat
3:46 Gacha
4:44 My Experience With Gacha
5:43 Challenge Mode
6:27 Story Mode Gameplay
7:29 Hollow Zero
8:19 Sound Design & Music
8:35 Drive Disk System
9:16 Character Design
9:43 Final Thoughts

[Mogawty]

Please keep in mind these are just opinions, as a review should be. There are possibly things I fundamentally misunderstand about the game, which leads to certain opinions, but this was just my experience as a player, not a journalist. I’ve put around 50 hours into ZZZ, so I believe some things I bring up are valid, but you are, of course, free to have your own thoughts.

[tjaymanv]

Zzz is not for everyone, and that is okay. Imo zzz is for the casual players people who have 1 hour of free time to play that's why you can spend your resin(idk what is called) so fast, and maybe that's also why some battles are fast. Daily commissions are like day to day routines like getting your coffee, eat noodles, etc. All those can take about 10 minutes. With a lot of gachas to juggle these days, I'm very happy that I get to look at new characters and play something new without spending hours and hours of repetitive work

[AnimeGeniuss]

The story starts off slow but Im starting to believe the story's biggest detriment is the skip button. We all wished for it and now that its here a lot of people check out the story pretty easily. Which is fine but a lot of people then judge the story with little context. Imo the story is actually pretty decent albeit boring in the beginning. Ya not as good as Genshin or Star Rail but thats a hard comparison since we got stories like Fontaine and Penacony. I'd say the story is better than Wuwa despite it improving. The character writing and world building in this game is actually pretty impressive.

[orrthehunter]

The Main story can be difficult to follow since for now they are going for the Conspiracy storyline where everything seem unrelated but at certain intermissions, they reveal how everything is actually related to each other. There small hints but you need to pay attention to the details to pick them up before they reveal them more directly in Intermission chapters. We do not fully understand how events of Prologue, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 are connected until Chapter 2 intermission while hinting how this Secret Organization may have caused the fall of old Eridu and may even know the origins of Hollows. Chapter 3 focus on setting up that there are other groups and organizations already fighting againsts this Secret evil organization that controls what left of humanity in the shadows.

[mhafiz]

Most of the points given are valid and subjective to personal preferences. But if someone skip the story then talks about how uninteresting it looks is kinda too much. They should add the skip button for the non main storyline at least and must add it to those daily chores that somehow has long ass text.

[MtchndraLrd]

Ngl this is the one game that has been growing on me the more I play. I totally felt your criticism like when I first started the game it felt a little bit overwhelming and confusing how to navigate this game. But ya Ive been logging in daily since launch but Im now really vibing with the whole atmosphere.

Im mostly a story and character player so I can mostly comment on that. The first chapter/prologue is good but the weakest for me imo. That said when we get around to the other factions like Belebog Inudstries and Victorian Housekeeping (even just hanging out with those two from PubSec), that was the peak of the game for me. I hope you gave them a chance because they felt more character driven and you get more attached with the cast. Like for Belebog, I loved the conflict between Koleda and Grace, the goofiness of saving the robots, and dam when Koleda was fighting the robot and remembered her father I felt like I was watching a classic mecha anime and almost shed a tear. Even the PubSec interlude, handing out fliers, trying to prove innocence of Give Change, and getting to see Zhu Yuan stand up for her morals was really charming and again felt like I was just chilling in an anime. So it was confusing at first but then I realized oh the format here is basically each chapter you work alongside and get to know each faction while the overarcing plot is to uncover the truth behind this conspiracy and lore of New Eridu, a neat format that I like how much that makes sense and gets me excited for future stories. Oh plus the game having VHS tapes to rewatch the stories and each has their own cover art on them like that's so clever and more interactive, all this artwork in this game just builds up the atmosphere this game is going for man I love it.

[mattyalco]

tldr he's dropping all non-open world gacha games /s

[AkairoCh]

istg people in the gacha community still don't understand that people can have their own opinions about a thing. Whether they like something or not it's not going to affect your own enjoyment of the game.

[Moon-epyk]

for me the games get better the more you progress, story chapter 3 so far has been the best but the combat can be a bit stale after awhile

[Julliangg]

All the points for why people don't like this game is honestly 100% Fair Imo, and its usually all the exact same things across many people. As someone who loves it, Even I have my gripes on certain things (*cough cough* TV's for the most part). Much respect for giving this game a chance with 50 Hours. It's definitely not for everyone and that's totally fine. I think the style, Vibe and Insane animations of this game kept me going. Idk it's just... different I guess

[sunset]

I've been having a lot of fun with the game and have not lost interest despite grinding way too much for the 300 pulls on standard since I have no interest in some of the upcoming characters. I honestly like the designs and they feel different from genshin and star rail which is something I really like. The story was also good for me since I mostly play genshin and star rail for the story anyway (more casual player) I like the feeling of being a hacker working with everyone. Right now I have 5 S tier characters/weapons: Grace, Nekomata, Lycaon and the other two being weapons. I'm not frustrated at the combat right now as I have all the A tiers so far mostly ranked up besides Anby and Ben. I am Inter-knot level 41 I believe and the main thing I want is more story since I think it gets better after chapter two. I do like how the agent stories are quicker and don't take as much time as character quests like in genshin. The animation is funky and great, I love Billy and Lycaon a lot. I also like the Hollow Zero and other game mode despite being more casual. It's good for me since I have the time to just grind in games. I also don't mind the tv system?? I got kind of annoying with some story quests with just watching it and the puzzles are way too simple, but it's alright. I can't complain cause I get somewhat annoyed at genshin or star rail having shorter talking scenes and then being brought back to the overworld for a short time before going back. Idk, so far, I don't see the reason to gacha besides very specific characters cause they give you the trial characters anyway (for story) but with the characters we have right now, it's alright. I'll probably just play like I do star rail and genshin. I can understand not liking the game that much but the hoyoverse games are the only ones I really like for just playing while listening to other stuff. All of them have problems with their systems, but hey, it's a gacha game.

[yezssims]

THE TV CONENT SINGLE HANDEDLY MADE ME QUIT I HATE IT SOOO MUCH.

[miya]

Thanks for the review! A lot of points resonated with me, especially regarding combat

[BadAtGamesDanii]

I feel like ZZZ, has devs that want to make a standalone release, but for some reason they just dont break from the gatcha format, I think EVERY game by hoyoverse would be 10 to 100 times better if it was just a standalone, offline, with no gatcha with the stories standing on there own.
I got to level 30 within a week, but the energy basically makes it to where you can only upgrade maybe 30% of a characters stats within a 24 hour period, which when you dont really have any side story events with interesting dialogue to indulge in, and pulls start to feel like a waste of time to even farm for, it genuinely made me not want to boot the game up, I went from playing everyday, actually enjoying the game, to timegated to maybe only 30 minutes of possible gameplay (as mundane as it became) within a 24 hour period, and the only way to escape any of those problems would be to drop maybe a hundred dollars to actually get back into the actual game, so at the end of the day I would say... ZZZ was a good game, until the tutorial ended, because once you unlock almost all functions, the game starts making it very clear they do not care about any gameplay experience you have that you arent paying for.

TL;DR:
ZZZ would be a great game if just sold as a standard release without gatcha mechanics, and even as a gatcha game it is painful to play due to the fact they seem to ignore the "Game" part of a "Gatcha Game", visuals are great, characters are interesting, I had some good laughs at some of the story, and thought it was quite good, but I wouldnt spend your time on the game unless you plan to spend thousands of dollars as well.

[lloydtitre]

This entire video is instantly void for me. "I didn't listen to the story"

Cool. I'm not listening to your opinion then cause its obviously full of holes.

[kass_fame]

"BETTER THAN GENSHIN, BUT THAT BAR IS UNDER THE FLOOR" I'm out, that phrase almost made me fall of my chair i swear lol 😂😂

[lilghoul]

Not gonna lie… I’m a balance between someone who likes a challenge, but also just love casual style gaming, the combat it’s short and simple but I also find it exciting, love the character designs, and the more you get into the story it’s really dope, one thing I’ll say is that the game just came out, so I wouldn’t knock it away immediately, games manage to evolve overtime along with the mechanics and way it is played, but as long as you actually have FUN playing it then that’s the best thing possible

[dweemiesdarkmount]

the games wish system is stingy as hell compare to WuWa, Genshin and HSR. I manage to get Jiyan and Jinshi and still have 2k leftovers but this game, its just me scrounging for scraps like a racoon in the middle of the night. even HSR isnt this stingy. at least the repetitive combat is still fun for me.

[wrathfullys]

true the story is too underwhelming at the very start. felt like ch1 was supposed to be ch2 and it’s missing the beginning of the story where it hooks people in

[CRTea]

jest got a zzz ad on this vid, what timing