Can You Beat/Review ZENLESS ZONE ZERO With Only One Character?

A few months ago, Hoyoverse offered me a first look at their upcoming game, Zenless Zone Zero.
It looked neat.
But NOW, I've actually gotten my hands on the game! And lemme tell you, this one is worth looking into. But we both know that you don't come here for reviews - you come here for suffering. So join me, if you will, while I simultaneously review, challenge run, AND break ZZZ.

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Just Evil - Infraction
Captain - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Rubber Necking - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Demon - JVNA
...and various music from ZZZ

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[clashcatastrophe]

after he beats that one boss with the un-upgraded maid girl you can see that it says "Total Time: 54m25s" 💀

[keystep]

Just so everyone knows, the game doesn't show the gacha rates out of the kindness of its heart. It does that because some countries legally require it to do so.

[didelice]

I didn't expect that the video about the new Hoyo game from Challenge Runner would turn out to be one of the best in terms of information, and I'm quite stuck in the Gatcha bubble. Well done Mr Lemon

[ChaosWolfRider]

This is why these sorts of sponsorships work so well: the game awards trailer, all the news I was hearing, none of it made me care that much, but this? Five minutes in and I'd registered, just from actually seeing someone... play. That's much better.

[SlimePunkGaming]

looks pretty sweet. Challenge run reviews are the best

[lucascardoso]

The Backlogs furry arc was not in my bingo card for this year

[maesaigo]

7:43 lemon: talk about about the music and how good it is
Me: dude, it's hoyo, when it comes to music, they know what they are doing.

[camokiler]

For all people watching the video, the game is out now and there have been a lot of improvements since lemon made the video including missions NOT taking energy anymore.

[DanieleCanavesio]

It's funny (and a testament to how good you are at presenting the game) the while watching the video I was already pondering how much I was willing to spend to buy it, either immediately or on sale. So when you dropped that it's F2P eyebrows were raised (and I was also kinda worried for a while, then I realized it's published by the same company as Genshin Impact which is know to be less predatory than most competitors on IAP). Also good job on not commenting on the bouncing jugs, must have been hard!

[foxmcqwerty]

once again, mihoyo is demanding i hand over my wallet...

[------------Skyler------------]

Who needs type coverage and support when you have a cool spinny blade?

[EternalFireseal]

As someone who has played a lot of Honkai Star Rail, I can tell you the monetization there is a _lot_ friendlier than gachas around it. You get a lot of resources playing the game, and the game also gives you a _ton_ of Stellar Jades, which can be used either to refill your energy or try for characters/light cones. It does require patience at many points, but I've yet to encounter anything where it felt like I needed to pay money to progress. Here's hoping the company learned all the right lessons for ZZZ.
I'm actually really excited to learn that ZZZ gives you set characters for story sequences. Star Rail is really shy about giving you rental characters for relevant story beats, and it always felt really awkward to have characters deeply involved in events just vanish once the dialogue ended.

[OrcaSnack]

You can’t do life alone, Lemon. You need a team. A

[simosch]

my boy lemon just making a challange run and besides that making the best info video about the game ive seen yet.

[felipemacedo]

man i love your channel, keep rewatching old content again and again, good stuff!

[SneakyTogedemaru]

TOBLERONE
I can imagine a fun Bigg Bear outfit that makes his weapon either into a giant Toblerone or adorns it with them nicely. Would be cool )

[SioxGreyWolf]

It's facinatimg how much changes. Like the home VR missions that teach you how to play the individual characters, as well turning off trial mode letting you bring in your op squad right off the bat, seperating the botbuns from the main group. And requiring materials before you can get the next tier of passive.

Curious how that changes your route. And how ya feel on it now.

And the energy system getting more lax, only be needed for the VR stuff.

[NavnikBHSilver]

It went from a "yay this seems good!" to "oh fuck no" from the 2 negatives you called out. I would've paid 60 bucks on release if those 2 mechanics weren't there.

[_aqualion]

I decided to come back to this video after playing the game for the past 2 weeks, and this video is pretty much entirely accurate to my experience playing as well. The only thing that seems to be different from what was described is the energy system, which is only depleted by doing repeatable resource farming missions, like those in the VR machine. Everything else can be played as much as you want. Of course you can still pay to get the item that refills your energy, but there's actually a limit to how much energy you can gain from that in a day as well.

[djay]

I usually don't sub channels nowadays cause i have too many subs but you made such a good review. It is a must. Thank you.