Can You Beat/Review ZENLESS ZONE ZERO With Only One Character?
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2024
- The highly acclaimed and eagerly awaited new game from HoYoverse, 'Zenless Zone Zero,' has recently opened its pre-registration. Make sure to pre-register for the game using the link here on hoyo.link/3o8f...
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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Hey There - half.cool
Just Evil - Infraction
Captain - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Will 2 Pwr - half.cool
Rubber Necking - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Demon - JVNA
Virtual Roaming Charges - half.cool
...and various music from ZZZ
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![[1.0 ZZZ] Beginner's Lore Guide to Zenless Zone Zero](/img/n.gif)
The highly acclaimed and eagerly awaited new game from HoYoverse, 'Zenless Zone Zero,' has recently opened its pre-registration. Make sure to pre-register for the game using the link here on hoyo.link/3o8fFKAL
>highly acclaimed
>eagerly awaited
I know you got a script and all but lmao
get that bag ig 🤷
Hey Lemon, now do Genshin Impact with one Character only run! I bet so many people including me want to see it ^^
Considering their in their balancing phase, your video has likely cursed the rest of us with nerfed bear
@@kol2456 Oops.
after he beats that one boss with the un-upgraded maid girl you can see that it says "Total Time: 54m25s" 💀
Patience Elemental at work.
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.
It's just the bare minimum at this point
That's true, but they could easily turn that info off in countries where there is no such law. The fact, that they don't do it is a plus in my opinion.
And as lemon said, you don't need to gamble to play.
@@WhitedevilEE😂you’ll always be a shee
@@dimsumboy22 ? I don't get that insult, sorry.
They’re calling you a shill. A corporate drone, a sucker.
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
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.
The Backlogs furry arc was not in my bingo card for this year
I'm ready for more
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.
Energy to do missions systems in games always confused me. Like, you want me to NOT play your game?
@@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty You would be surprised the answer is kinda yes... Let me explain.
Mobile game companies have 2 issues, they want to tackle with limiting playtime being burning out and running out of content so they limit how much you play so they can both keep up on updates and stop you from playing too much you burn out completely.
once again, mihoyo is demanding i hand over my wallet...
Its not even a kind demand its a "do it or else youll fall behind" demand 😭
Just one more pull
Wow, so unexpected, casino wants your wallet
And you will kneel and hand it over with pleasure.
They got me too, comrade. They got me, too..
looks pretty sweet. Challenge run reviews are the best
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.
man i love your channel, keep rewatching old content again and again, good stuff!
You can’t do life alone, Lemon. You need a team. A teeeeeeeam!
if they say *you can you 1 up to 6 members* there always that 1 part of his brain which said *Solo challenge accepted*
my boy lemon just making a challange run and besides that making the best info video about the game ive seen yet.
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.
Agreed. Monetization tied to game mechanics (especially RNG dependent!) immediately make a game not worth it to me.
@@mistermustachiogmc1256 The energy requirement is more of a consequence of laws, I believe in China? But Honkai Impact 3rd, their previous title in the ARPG genre, was super generous with Energy, to the point where I think my account was almost always had more than the max amount of energy at all time. So I wouldn't be too concerned about that.
Who needs type coverage and support when you have a cool spinny blade?
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 )
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!
_less_ predatory, lol.
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.
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.
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.
I like the idea of giving you characters for story missions, but essentially "powering down" your primary character for those same events feels... strange? It doesnt encourage interacting with the other systems in the game AT ALL. Like, why go spend money on the gacha if i can just do the story missions completely for free. I'd understand more if it was a 40 dollar game that gave you an entire 6 hour storyline, and then also has the gacha stuff in there for re-playability, but it seems strange that a game with the main money maker being the gacha, doesnt give much incentive for interacting WITH the gacha system.
Like, i understand giving rental characters, but why not use my versions of characters i already have if they are at/above the base level? It rewards you for interacting with the other systems without outright requiring it for story progression.
@@hyperlink6547 Yeah. The way Star Rail does it, when it does it, is that you can pick between the rental version and the one you have in your account. ZZZ _might_ do it the same way, and Lemon just didn't notice he could swap. There's also likely some big differences between the story version of a level and the "real" version, so you'll likely be back to that area several times anyway.
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.
I hope we get to see more vids from you when the game comes out
I love playing ZZZ! great video.
Like you said, with their current money maker, Genshin. I play every morning after I wake up to spend all my resources, do daily quests, and whatever events are currently happening. Also story missions or side quests if they're any that currently not completed(not the case atm sadly) and that usually takes me anywhere from 3 to 4 hours. Typically, I do other things during this period, like watch YT or make breakfast. You can squeeze hundreds of hours of free content out of Hoyoverse games, though. I only ever spend money when there's a character or weapon I REALLY want. Resin which you use for domains, I have NEVER truly ran out. I could refill it at any point with consumables that I've racked up over my hundreds of hours of playtime. In other words, if you know how to play the system, the game will reward you for it in full. As long as you don't mind never getting to touch some of those passive buffs for the rarest characters... leave that for the whales.
Great review Lemon, watching the growth of this channel has been amazing.
It's crazy that watching you do your challenges and hearing you talk about a game can so easily make me look it up and wishlist it. Either our tastes are very similar or you're a magic man.
what an AMAZING pleasant surprise!!!
and as far as I have played
YES you can play Solo
(my Solo Nicole or Corrin are living proofs!)
Light attacks... heavy attacks xD
i love you lemon!
Okay I wasn't gonna try this one out, not very fond of the gatcha model, but the fact you can do the story without touching the gatcha is great.
Also, the "support" lady's design is 👌
Am i too old to make a fire-bomb innuendo for the support girl? No. You're never too old. Great googly moogly, those grenades need support.
Backlogs is coming in and challenging like the boss he is. I do hope he plays more once it officially releases
Thw Firebomb Godess calls you, to your home, across the fog, which you must conquer in her name
Seeing Lemon also use Grace gave me so much serotonin that words cant even begin to cover it
So with the launch I get the hype, first Gacha game ive wanted to stick with.
Billy is so great
omg i never would have imagined to see a hoyoverse game in lemon's channel
EVERY, again, E V E R Y, Hoyo game is a daily casual game, you can do a lot of stuff, but eventaully it falls behind to be a daily playable game. So, it kinda matchs the their default, i just want then to launch a game that i can buy, i would be so happy
Love the baldy reference 😂
No speedrunning in the halls 😂😂
For a game to look this good and for it still to be free is shocking to to say the least
I think this is probably the earliest I've ever been on a lemon video, also weird post time normally he posts in the morning for me lol
I... may look at this on my PS5 when it comes out...
A challenge mode within a challenge mode!
Yey the evening is saved (now in germany its 8pm)
I like the changes they made from this early build to the final one. Having the story completely non-reliant on the stamina and gacha mechanics is actually super nice. Its got enough for me to want to come back daily without forcing me to grind (for now at least).
God, this game looks SO good. The animations, the badass/fun/hot designs, the combat, the music, everything. I sincerely hope they didn't annihilate it into the trash via monetization, it would be an absolute shame.
I really wanna play this game. For the plot of course.
Nicole: We just passed a normal green light; R255 on the RGB scale.
My artsy fartsy brain: Huh, okay, if you say s- WAIT A MINUTE!!! >: O
Pls explain dis joke
Honestly, they would be wasting such a well designed boss if they game him such less health and all the debuffs. Your maid fight shows how much of a difficult enemy that boss can be. Just needs more attack and becoming immune to stuns much, and god that would be an awesome boss fight even with levelled up characters.
I love your videos so much! I also have a question. Do you plan on bringing back the firebomb academy scholar hoodies or maybe some other merch? I'm really sad I missed out on the hoodies😭
Very very soon!
@@TheBacklogs I'm really excited to see what you'll do!
Hey Lemon, I know this is off topic, but I had a DS challenge run Idea, I will probably try it myself for maximum suffering: dark souls no dodging or blocking.
Two handed Havel build
Well played Lemon. You almost tricked me into watching an ad. Look forward to the next legit video.
now imagine if lemon played code vein -- bullets only XD
Hype video, but when are we getting dark souls 2 and 3 dragon stone runs? Gotta complete the series
You will, but Dark Souls 2 is proving to be worse than the Immolation run, if you can believe it.
@@TheBacklogs considering people have said that the ds2 dragon form is better than ds1, why do I hear boss music
The armor LOOKS better than Ds1/3, but the fire breath damage might as well not exist for how bad it is :/
Mans a chad challenge run gamer, bro challenge runs every game from darksouls to zzz thas krazy 👍
Hearing Lemon go “BEEEEAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!1!” over Ben gives me joy every single time I hear it
This is too positive, something’s off… is he being held at gunpoint again?
Edit: just got to the energy part, OF COURSE!
Farming good reviews before implementing the shop. nice.
Oh course,at least other companies or straight forward with there greed
This looks damn fun and the fact it's free to play blows me away. I am absolutely checking it out when it drops. Cheers for the info, Lemon!
"free to play"
@@sif3398free to try is more accurate
like i say don't hate until u tried it@@sif3398
@@sif3398yes, what about it?
I love this style of game, storytelling, and resource management. If all goes well, the resources remain plentiful and I’ll be happy to buy physical merch of the world and characters.
So much energy in the characters.
howl "the name of the dog" is the best character
Those death noises at the beginning made me turn down my phone real quick lol.
Just one more pull... Not gonna hurt.
SO may be using PC rather than PS5, but I have been enjoying this now that it's out. And I probably wouldn't have looked at it without this video.
Fun fact: in spanish Mihoyo means My hole so it becomes a joke everytime any X company releases a colaboration with my hole
Holy shit, nah this game got one of if not the highest praise lemon can give, he watched. The story.
Billy is the best character in this game. Change my mind
Took the words right out of my goddamned mouth.
I have watched so many reviews for this game and this one has been the most informational and just outright entertaining. all the others ive seen either didnt cover everything that you did or just didnt cover it as well.
Okay, first impression, I LOVE the art.
I know this isn't the first game to use this aesthetic, but I love that semi Anime + reality combo, it looks so nice and clean.
Man i not even see your videos so much but i want to say to you, God bless your soul man you if you are strugling with something it will pass. ( Sorry for bad english)
Gotta say, I thought the game looked kinda cool before. However, this vid is what pushed me to actually try it. Pretty damn fun so far ngl. Hope they add more characters soon though
I haven’t enjoyed mihoyos other games but this… this looks fantastic
Lack of lockon is mainly an issue for controller and even then, with a very subtle assist or if the game controls tightly it's not much of an issue.
Sadly, I cannot says Shadow of Mordor/War does this well
Sometimes I wish I can double like the videos I enjoy
14:30 Bear!!!!!!
Man. I really wish this wasn't a gatcha game. The combat looks incredible and they are always very good at their character design. But as someone who gets very easily sucked into gambling, I will not be getting into this one :/
Have not been feeling good lately so i have not been able to see your strearms but i hope your happy and all is good
"I'm still a student. Give it to me for free." HA me
10:24 there is a lock on you just have to press the right stick
I can’t be the only one that thought of Bleach when he said Hollows
Why is everyone here hours ago the video has been out for less than 2 minutes
Early release for channel members
@@AaronCorr ah
That laugh give it all 😂😂😂
1:21 seems like the game maid a fool of you
Oh, hey, looks fun, might consider checking- BEEEEAARRRRR
Yeah...
Despite all the promise, I hear all the serious red flags involved with games like these. That energy system in particular... Yeah...
One of those games that looks like it will be fun at first and then gradually devolve more and more into a lesson of frustration, grinding and constant reminders that if you spend just a little bit of money, things could be so much faster and you could be having so much more fun™.
Games that lock basic functionality such as, you know, actually playing the game, behind a timegate system and lock all progression behind a grindy gacha system (which is heavily restricted by the timegate system) only have one realistic end state.
Looks like a game that could have had a lot of potential as a proper well thought out bought game with good progression but will be dragged down by it's freemium system.
And naturally that will make the publisher shittons of money because that's the market.
Have a good day
"Includes Paid promotion"
"Is Paid Promotion."
This seems like a fun game to play now, and only now. I can totally see the company adding spongy bosses where you need crazy gear or the right build to progress, or to increase the duration of energy recovery. I am still soured by gacha games in general, with their abusive monetisation practices. I was going to try zzz out, but then you mentioned time gating and that was it for me.
did i miss something? where was the time gating mentioned?
@@hyperlink6547 Sure, it starts at 25:20 👍
if it helps, genshin is known for being very f2p friendly and the hard combat content in that game never got frustratingly hard (in fact quite the opposite, a lot of people ask for harder content all the time). The energy mechanic is mainly used to gate gear optimization. None of the things related to the main story or challenge content are gated by energy. Ofc this is a different game so i cant be sure how it'll turn out, but it probably wont be much different.
I’m tempted to buy this just for the sound track
It's free
@@subletto you're free
Hey wait a minute this was supposed to be a silly, slightly amusing challenge run!
You aren't supposed to make me actually want to play the game!
This must have been a difficult challenge run seeing as you not only used 1 character but also 1 hand to play the entire time
Every game needs a BEAR!!
It does look fun. And not just thanks to Lemon's unique style.
But Mihoyo is such a massive red flag.
How is mihoyo a red flag? They make great games
If I had a nickel for every pizza cutter weilder in a cute dress I now know of, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird I now know two.
(Specter from Arknights in case anyone is wondering.)
what a great ad for this game, hope it's coming to xbox
Hey Lemon, it's Taz.. im here watching this banger video. I'm definitely going to like and subscribe.. i would say comment, but thats kinda redundant, huh?
Lemon you might make me get this
Wait, there's a Mr Driller clone in the arcade?
...
10/10 game of the year 2023 bring arcade to other Hoyo games
i like the grovy music
I kinda really want this game....
Consistantly have enjoyed Mihoyo games, but extra curious in this one, solely for the fact that the bears name is fucking "Ben Bigger."
I wish it wasn't a free to play game and would get rid of gacha and energy mechanics instead -.-'
These mechanics really dampened my exitement... but I am looking forward to maybe watch you do another great challenge run and maybe cover the story too!