An Honest and FULL Review of Zenless Zone Zero's CBT2

After playing the closed beta 2 for quite awhile, I've finally come out with my review of the entire experience. I talk about the good and the bad of Zenless Zone Zero and roughly what we can expect when the full game is released some time in 2024.

0:00 | Content and More
2:46 | Visual Fidelity
10:04 | The Mobile Experience
16:34 | Event and Other Issues
19:46 | Gacha and Premium Currency
24:16 | The Endgame
27:20 | Closing Statements

#zzz #zenlesszonezero #watcherofrealms

[sir_squeeb]

As a colorblind person, I genuinely cannot tell the difference between the dodge or parry enemy indicators. I really hope they do something about that for the full release.

[hriata]

Not being able to run around with the characters i pull is a big downside for me

[Apolloyd]

The TV portion is quite a deal breaker if it left unaddressed because I want to use character that I pulled rather than just staring at glorified dungeon crawler menu for extended amount of time.

[Shokukun]

I love how flowy and more animated the characters look. It looks so fun

[masonqin]

The XBOX One development team would definitely love the TV TV TV experience here

[jimperson]

8:13 Good to hear that it's great to play on mobile. I haven't heard any CC mention mobile gameplay so thanks for that. Not being bogged down by ping is gonna be a godsend especially with the type of gameplay ZZZ demands of you (dodging and parrying). Gonna be looking forward to playing the game.

[david]

During the 2nd beta, I actually really liked the TV navigation and I guess I'm in the minority. I think the puzzles are fun and it gets the gears in the noggin moving. It also adds some flavor to the game, so I never got tired of the combat because it was broken up with what's basically dungeon crawling.

[nobrainnogame]

I like the polish they gave to all their NPC. Genshin started the trend but ZZZ might be on another new level if the manage to deliver it consistently on release.
The combat animation look very natural despite being pretty fast which pleasantly surprising. One pitfall ARPG tend to fall in is to favor speed at all cost making the animation look very unnatural, rough and unpolished. That's said the MC walking animation might need a bit more work (he really look constipated when he walks).
I don't think I will play ZZZ, I just can't keep up with another gacha, and prefer Genshin vibrant and bittersweet world, it remind me of the old classic fairy tales.

[IIIEPJIOKb]

I really like the atmosphere of the game. It really stands out from other Hoyoverse games. Pacing and music are excellent. Though I am not fond of fighting the similar looking faceless enemies. Hopefully as the story progresses we will be provided with interesting villains with backstory (like My another concern is the reason why it is necessary to spend stamina to play main story quest. That's wild unless they're going to be generous in this regard.

[saltynoodles]

The Bangboos are basically the elf support from Honkai 3rd, damn that’s rough

[NewWave]

Played beta 2 as well, I really like the game. It’ll be a lot more of a chill game to play on the side of the other bigger Hoyo games I feel, but I like that. The battles are very fun at higher difficulty Hollow Zero and Rally comms, swapping characters during a characters EX skill animation to have multiple characters dealing damage, doing their hidden techs and stuff, it’s all quite fun. I like that characters and the lore, so we’ll see how they expand on the game once it launches.

[RavenShugo]

The generous premium rewards are only for beta testing, cause you can't buy any right now. The moment game goes out, the max you will be able to get per day will be half of pull and then maybe 2-3 pulls for weekly quests and that's a generous assumption.

[MonShadwVT]

You can lock yourself out of the possibility to spend Resin also in Genshin. This can occur when you are in a quest that "transfers" you to "another location" - imagine the "Samsara" Quest. When you are doing such quests you cannot exit to go to a domain. At least you receive a message that warns you that you will exit the quest. Never actually tried to exit such quest, so I am not aware if you are losing progress, but I assume so.

[aiman]

Hoyoverse should reduce the TV section significantly if they want people to keep playing this game when it comes out.

Most CBT players said that the tv section brings down this game

[Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters]

The difference between A and S bangboos is looking a lot more P2W than we are used to in Genshin and HSR.
It seems everyone agrees the TVs are the worst part of the game, but at this point it doesn't look like they are going to do anything about it.
Being unable to use characters outside of combat is a big downside to me.
The combat and animations really caught my attention, but everything else is just negatives and I hope they change some things at least.

[screamingroomba]

There are way less npc's here than in GI, so it makes sense that they'd make different npcs

[Tone]

As a content creator how are you feeling about handling so many similar systems of gameplay across each hoyo title. Even as a pretty invested gamer, I'm finding it hard to enjoy the prospect of gear farming in a 3rd game as well even if there are some aspects of ZZZ combat that look fun to me as someone who plays Genshin and Starrail daily still at this point.

[neogery]

I also tried the beta and I cant ... I like the fighting and the aestethics but idk... I wont be playing it probably cause of the constant tv puzzle gamemode... I dont want to have to constantly think and navigate through giant puzzles where you dont even know for sure what the goal is... but overall its a metter of taste and this wasnt cutting it for me personally.

[Roma]

the client side combat is a nice touch

[zatuark]

I feel sorry for all the people who dont get access to this cbt coz i just stopped playing this game as the event started most of it because of the tv gameplay . Its just bad, i feel so burn out after doing all the main and side quest that involves tv. I feel like im just not meant to test this game, there are many puzzle lovers who love to try this cbt but it is what it is . If youre looking for combat in zzz just like me, youre probably will be burn out before the combat end game part even begins😅 lets hope they change something abt the tv gameplay .