Zzz really living up to its name, got me sleeping after just 5 mins in the game. Combat is just so horrendously bland

insert meme: "Our expectations were low, but damn..."

I actually like the tv system because it gives the game a kind of DND vibe

I played this game for like 4 hour. The TV simulation was main reason to unstall this game . I agree with your point combat feels basic its more of switching characters. And my question is why we cant se our pulled character in outside of the combat mode . This game is 50+ gb on pc and this is a zone based game by the way. PGR also a zone based game and its half of the this game size . But the character dilogue and story are really good ❤

Zenless has a pretty popular release and the reviews across the board seem pretty good. I like ZZZ and I don't find the TV system boring at all. I think all the popular Gachas out right now bring something fun to the table including ZZZ. I honestly don't doubt that this will be another hit for Hoyo.

The game will be chilling next to Arknight or maybe Hi3 in terms or revenue after first patch. But I'd say its overhated and overhyped at the same time by 2 different groups. I blame hoyo for this, because they promoted it as combat focused game with a high skill sealing when its not. Its a casual, feel-good game for casuals to button mash and make them feel like they are good at the game.

Here's the thing, I don't like the TV system either, but I think it's only a symptom of a larger problem with the game: the flow. When I sit down to a game I like a fluid experience for the most part, and especially with a the 'main gameplay loop', so, using something like diablo or PSO as an example, I'd load into the game and have unbroken gameplay until I finish a whole area (or even longer) and even then the break is only for a loading screen or, if we're looking at something longer like a trip back to town, then that will also be a fluid experience and also considerably shorter than my gameplay experience in the 'main' loop of the game. In ZZZ the flow is broken constantly and it feels like I spend an insane amount more time out of combat in each play session than I spend in it. Each fight has a little intro, an outro (WIPEOUT!) to bookend it too so even if you somehow tried to fix it by just slamming the fights together in a conga line it'd be very stop-start because each would have to transition to their little arena and do these bits. But they're not... they're constantly separated by chunks of non-combat that are much, much longer. For most, they notice this with the TVs but I can't help but notice it's the Hub world stuff too where I have to go take photos of cats, drink coffee or some other mundane stuff between scenarios and unlike my example of going to town to sell stuff from the Diablo/PSO analogy, these aren't things that serve the main game loop, they're distinctly unrelated things that might have been given some meta connection to loosely excuse why they're there (coffee gives stamina and boost, cat photos... uh.... part of your daily missions I guess?) It's like the cafeteria from monster hunter where it's a one per mission sort of gimmick that's short enough to be inoffensive but strung out and amped up several times over. Also, this too is 'bitty' because it's not one central activity (like selling and getting quests can be nicely rounded out to one or two) but a pick and mix bag of many that breaks that into chunks too. TLDR: the 'main gameplay' of fighting is broken into tiny uneven chunks and the downtime between them is freaking massive.

I tried it , and didn't hook me like honkai did.

I wanna talk like you on my spanish channel, thanks for the music name the other day bro, nice video

Played zzz for 30 min & within 30 min I'm like zzz 💤😴 & uninstalled it

I didn't have any expectations but wtf

tbh, the graphics and animation is superb! but the repeatable combo/swap sequences, the more you do it, the more it gets boring. and the UI of the game is so confusing. the game became mid because of some issue like tv system -_- repeatable combat, the mobs is just standing (but bulky lol)

yeah, I played for a few hours yesterday to give zzz a shot. There's a lot of mixed feelings I have. I like the character designs, the style, and the vibe this game has. Combat can be fun at times. But... I think the story is quite meh for me personally. The TV section is tedious (I can see why beta testers complained sm about it), and the game feels incredibly easy. Ended up deleting it because I just know I won't be sticking to it in the long-term. Maybe if ZZZ gets improved in the future I might return to it, but right now it's not entirely enjoyable enough for me to stick to it.

Good video ! keep it up !

I'm Genshin Impact player and ZZZ is the game i hate the most after playing it for 3 days (I really hate the TV screen). Maybe i will quit this game soon and play WuWa being my side game. In fact ZZZ label a combat oriented games but 80% of game is TV screen (Dungeon Crawler). I'm Level 22 in ZZZ and the tv screen wasn't reduce at all.

Only way for them to fix this game is let you allow the skip the tv sections.

I was so hyped to play this from the first trailer. It had an old-school Persona 5 vibe. But man, the fighting system totally put me off. No complexity at all. When the new trailer dropped, it looked like the combat would be a strong point (basically a Honkai Impact with a more Japanese high school vibe). I thought the combat system would be good and complex. Oh gosh, I'm so disappointed. I really wanted to play this game, but it’s so bland and not fun at all, even though the graphics are clean and vibrant.

For some reason my ZZZ is stuck at "Checking resources integrity" and it seems that my CPU is the reason for that error. So can you explain what's the TV system is about? Is it part of the combat? Or the world?

First was hard to get used with tvs and ui but with some hours i grown to like it combat is nice is easy but feels good

the story is good written tho. i like how characters interact in this game. it's far from boring to me. fighting will be stale after a moment, but the chilling gameplay is great.

I am first to the goats content

I give it a 6/10 and I'll still play it tho. It could have been probably an 8/10 but fortunately WuWa exists and makes people standard go higher. 😂

enemies feel like they're your friends. combat is simplistic and carrried by the animation. it feels like 8min on TV and 4min on combat. TV mode is mehh. the gameplay basically makes you wanna be brain dead and button mash so when you return to the 📺 TV section you don't wanna use your brain anymore. half the of the cast are kids and the other half are furries. The concept of the game is refreshing . it's a good side game. wish ZZz gets better but until then.... 6.9/10 😴💤

I honestly don't know if everyone is trolling atp or not lol calling this the worst gacha tells u don't play gachas

Game is okay. My issue is the combat. For a combat oriented game it’s very simple. Combo to counter to swap and repeat. It’s a shame too I like the graphics, designs and music. The TV mode is annoying. I got really lucky in the game too. Ellen in 5 pulls.

It won’t even let me play on pS5

i like the story, some modern anime ok but that's just it, all i did was spam billy's dash atk and do some wombo combo swap character (more like button mashing) just to beat a walking punching bag, i'll give it more time but dang that tv tho

I personally was falling asleep playing it like when i did playing borderlands 3 on release. I'll go back to playing Guardian tales, Wuthering Waves, Honkai Starrail & Snowbreak.

bruv the game wasnt captivating from the minute i started it. Didnt get the same excitement like wuwa and hsr did. The graphics and animations are just gorgeous but idk why i feel like the chars feel and look soo kiddish? The combat feels so repetitive tbh constantly having the pop up to swap it was so annoying. I didnt get the fulfillment of the combos tbh. The UI looks so cluttered and confusing man, its not that im lazy to read or what not but the whole screen is filled with words and pop up menus that cant make u focused ffs. The tv wasnt that bad like ppl say but i know itll get seriously boring soon. i just dont see me investing or playing this in the long run. Feels like a honkai impact remake

Ive liked it primarily but dude, the tv system needs to go. The comic book cut scenes are really cool and the combat is ok. You can bump the combat up to more challenging settings.

I think it's a solid 7/10 , TV system sucks, the battle is eh but it's okay , story is funny ngl

i dont like the "main game" argument because theres no such thing as "main games" all games have shell lives/downtimes.

the tv system can be removed and the game will immediately improve

The story and characters are the best part of this game for me. Those 2 things can't keep me interested unfortunately.

8/10 is so high man... I played it gave it 3 hours really tried to be non biased 2/10. Why hoyo had to say the characters are in high school, so weird!

The combat system was definetely designed with mobile as the main priority for the CN audience. When trasferred over to PC it feels like just a ton of left click spamming. Otherwise if they just deal with the TV bs the game is immediately just better.

They should have kept the all the persona vibes and make it turn-based instead. This combat just doesn't fit.

Agree with alot of your points.. unfortuntaely I had to drop it cause of the exorbitant amount of furries and underage girls... I'm just not the target audience

Sorry, but its very clear that many of the people aren't criticizing this game fairly. The only valid argument I've heard has to be the basic combat. Other then that, everything else sounds incredibly goofy to me. Here are some common criticisms. 1. I don't want to play as a bunch of furries. You mean the only 2 playable furries in the game? You guys act as if majority of the roster contained furries. 2. So many lolis-! If you're a crying purist, sure. But there honestly shouldn't be a problem here.. 3. The TV sucks! I think a lot of people doesn't understand that this is a drastically different game with an entirely different goal here. This game isn’t open to the boring open world games.

It requires to much data, but it's not even open world

Every quest and combat is same and has no diversity in it. Only fun I had while playing was only from Hollow Zero

I mean if your talking about combat then sr is much worse so this game wins in that category by far

Im a genshin player and i disagree i don't like zzz so far

All the hate on zzz was so shocking to me. Even more when i saw people mentioning wuwa (a game thats first impression on me was so bad that i dropped it, heard its good now but its just not my cup of tea) Ive enjoyed the game a lot so far, got absorbed by the game for like 4 hours after launch. The story, combat and characters all dragged me in deep. The tv system was pretty ok, i like how most of them mix with combat and the ones that were full puzzle based were pretty nice. Overall the game had a really good impression on me and im still having fun to this moment. Def not a main game ofc, its a really good side game though. Ig going in not as a wuwa fan helped me out here lol

Thumbnail is misleading, but actually good review thought it was just bashing for 10 mins but no, pros and cons well said but idk bout that 8/10, visuals are amazing imo, cutscenes are cool, combat is just no tagteam impact 😂. Story is okay, not deep but its enjoyable, i fw this review

I love this game, my favorite from hoyoverse thus far. I dont agree with most of the negative comments. I love the characters, setting, combat. Hell and i put no less than 100 hours into HSR and at least 30-50 in GI.

😅😅

The bad thing zzz said is it's a combat heavy game witch is not

I think the people who shitting on tv system really enjoy repetitive corridors with the same design and 0 interaction

Tbh, i dont think the game is that bad. Far from the best sure, but its sth u can hop on a few mins a day and beat. To improve the combat, tbh, i think they should just take a page out of HI3rd's book and add more mechanics per fight, especially for bosses. From something simple like freezing the active character if it stays out for too long like Parvati, or sth more complicated like managing the elemental resistance buildup of kevin. More cool boss concepts like the latest perception boss fight and the shadow screen things would be really cool as well. They've already done it b4, no reason why they shouldnt put it in the game to make it more engaging

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yeah as expected of people with no patience and needing instant gratifaction. If you dont get it now you hate it just cause.

Am I the only one that enjoyed it more than Honkai star rail😭😭 definitely not better than genshin and WuWa though

One of the worst games i've played in a long time. There was nothing i liked about it in terms of gameplay. Like you said, the cut scenes and art style were great but that can't be the best part of the game for this game to excel. The TV's were absolutely horrendous and boring. I can't believe you gave this game an 8/10 after "your brutally honest truth"

Its better to play one punch man and solo leveling than this , ZZZ make me sleep 💤💤😪

even if you get all the characters that you want the gameplay is trash, just spam attack and wait for enemies attack to use that space bar thingy, i even play this with auto clicker and just wait to use space bar thingy and watch how my characters obliterate enemy easily even hard mode its just more hp no other mechanic. this game reminds of i game i played back on android back on 2010. the tv mechanic is annoying.

king

My honest reaction to this game: zzZ

The fact that this is on ps5 is enough for me. Never played weather waves or whatnot. As a dad and someone who works 9-hour shifts, i actually love this game a lot. Maybe it's just made for people like me who dont have time to play games. Not to mention, my back catalog is overwhelming. With the new sword art online game coming soon, and metaphor is coming out. im not going to have any time for these huge open world games. Metaphor is probably going to steal all my attention just like xdefiant is keeping me from playing these trash cod games lately.

The resources wasted on this discount HI3 could've been used to improve Genshin Impact to compete with Wuwa.

They need to remove that stupid azz tv simulator, there’s too many useless buttons,where’s my dam jump button, and too many loading screens. I think if your a phone user this is good, for pc players this is straight up garbage, it’s like it took the crappy stuff from persona 5 and left everything else besides the music

The stuff you can do in combat is so shallow. I don’t understand why the still fucking make games with 2 fucking moves and an ultimate, and 2 of them are in cooldown. What depth should this supposed to have

Let me guess... Those LGTV television ruined the game experience?

Garbage 🗑 🚮 played for about 20 mins deleted from my phone. Boring ass fights very repetitive. Not a single character got my attention.

They have Honkai Impact 3rd. Why take that gameplay and make it 10 times more repetetive and boring? The game gets boring real fast. Promise.

Idk combat seems simplistic but feels super smooth after i tried wuthering . Found WuWA to be incredibly bland and just dead of any color and life, whether it was through voices or just the environment in general just like every unreal engine game is barely ran 60 fps and just looked so samey, almost exactly like the first descendant. And holy the story and dialogue in the first few hours of WuWA was dead awful. TV system is okay depends how much it leans into it later on. I just feel like hoyo's worlds are so much more vibrant and lively. Will i play this game for a long time? Depends how the next few days agoes, but i genuinely will never understand how WuWa got as big as it did

This game is so BORING. I had very low expectations but my gosh, they went lower. It was tv this tv that and no gameplay. And the "free 100 pulls" yeah only for it to be STANDARD ONES. Like, as a newly released game why didn't they go the WuWa route and gift us a lot of free stuff. Not like hoyoverse is a small company with indie devs, 20 LIMITED pulls won't hurt you at all.

the tv gameplay kills the game

For those that were saying that the combat is shallow, i think we haven't even scratch the surface yet. for this game i didn't watch any cbt gameplay before and was quite surprised there's a whole lot of variables that came into play in this game. Hoyo aren't lying when they say this game's combat has a low entry point and a high skill ceiling if you want to master it

Ok i was gonna give it a shot but now nah am good 😂

Sorry bro, but its in a no way 8/10 game. Its literally uber mid ok game like many of mobile games but with a just more art style. I am already past lvl20 wall and honestly nothing tog better, only reason why i am still playing because of that new gacha fix. But the most annoying thing about this game for me is damn loading screens. Every damn mode, room or anything you can imagine is a loading screen. As a HI3 vet, i was expecting this game to be at least like that, but its legit dumbed down budget comic version of HI3.

Yeah, I am staying with Pgr

Honestly this game is trash. I played for like 4h now and I am bored out of my mind. The story is boring and the characters just endlessly yapp, the music is on repeat endlessly no variation at all, the gameplay is boring and not even remotely close to as fun or interesting as WuWas combat(why did you even compare them lul) and the overall UI is just garbage. The gameplay may be fun now but in like 1 week a lot of people will quit this game because the gameplay has 0 depth its just holding or pressing left click and you win ^^

Honkai better

you cant say this if you say wuwa is a good game... no way

💤😴😴💤 ahh gameplay

The game is trash

Game sucks ass fr.

Even the one punch man world gacha game is better than this piece of scrap😂

L takes

I like this more than SR bc it’s BORING. It’s on a set path from what I’ve seen & then it’s turn based? Boooring.

I understand the point of this game, 80% TV simulator with a f*cking dialogue 10% Comics 5% Sleep 3% Combat 2% Spending with Belle You know Hoyoverse, when there are huge changes they're not generous enough to make everyone happy with the release. I have no hope for this game, a minor change will not change the fact that it is boring. You don't need to cope, bro I know you will quit on this game I bet. This type of game won't last 🥱. If you don't know, they dropped the development of ZZZ after the success of Genshin 2 years ago and decided to continue after star rail. They're not really into this type of genre, in CN they don't like furry humans, that's why Linyang in wuwa received a lot of criticism. CN also doesn't like how cartoonish it looks rather than anime style, it's a very westernized 3D cartoon. It's a failure, since they already have too many gacha, and the player base is looking forward mostly not only a good but also a change of phase game mechanics, I mean come on it's 2024.