People who love opening a menu and pressing the "Claim" button to receive upgrade materials will be overjoyed about this one.
Admittedly, I was keen to give this game an earnest shot from the jump, because the presentation appeared to harken to Studio Trigger animation sensibilities (namely Brand New Animal, if anything), along with a kind of Splatoon, DJMax Respect, CRT mulch that somehow overall appeals to me very much. True enough, it's another Hoyoverse game, meaning it's absolutely fucking rife with upgrade material sinkholes you'll be expected to pump orbs into from as many dailies as you can before the Dark Patterns begin to nip at your heels. It's so fascinating to me how the gatcha genre essentially punishes you for pulling a new rare character because you're expected to babysit their stats, skills and equipment to bring them up to par with the rest of your crew? If your game was good in the first place maybe you won't need fifty different layers of player retention systems draped over it. Is this the passion project they used their Genshin Star Rail wealth to produce or is this yet another oil rig that will further milk dry the people who can't escape their number go up impulses. With this meaningless numerical approach to character action, it's a shallow affair of pressing your two attack buttons until the special bar refills, allowing you to press the special attack button - progress-gated only by character stats rather than skill or player expression. The cutscenes are animated curiously well but it's still in favour of nutrient-deficient writing, voiced by people who appeared to grow up on vtubers rather than anime, which is kind of becoming the new industry standard I guess.
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Daily Missions:
READ BEACHEPISODE'S LOG ENTRY FOR ZENLESS ZONE ZERO - Complete!!
Reward: 100x Inter-Knot Credit + 4x Attack Component
(Claim)
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Admittedly, I was keen to give this game an earnest shot from the jump, because the presentation appeared to harken to Studio Trigger animation sensibilities (namely Brand New Animal, if anything), along with a kind of Splatoon, DJMax Respect, CRT mulch that somehow overall appeals to me very much. True enough, it's another Hoyoverse game, meaning it's absolutely fucking rife with upgrade material sinkholes you'll be expected to pump orbs into from as many dailies as you can before the Dark Patterns begin to nip at your heels. It's so fascinating to me how the gatcha genre essentially punishes you for pulling a new rare character because you're expected to babysit their stats, skills and equipment to bring them up to par with the rest of your crew? If your game was good in the first place maybe you won't need fifty different layers of player retention systems draped over it. Is this the passion project they used their Genshin Star Rail wealth to produce or is this yet another oil rig that will further milk dry the people who can't escape their number go up impulses. With this meaningless numerical approach to character action, it's a shallow affair of pressing your two attack buttons until the special bar refills, allowing you to press the special attack button - progress-gated only by character stats rather than skill or player expression. The cutscenes are animated curiously well but it's still in favour of nutrient-deficient writing, voiced by people who appeared to grow up on vtubers rather than anime, which is kind of becoming the new industry standard I guess.
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Daily Missions:
READ BEACHEPISODE'S LOG ENTRY FOR ZENLESS ZONE ZERO - Complete!!
Reward: 100x Inter-Knot Credit + 4x Attack Component
(Claim)
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3 Comments
Waiter, more anime girl PNG slot machines please 🥺
I'm already tired of seeing the game's waifu of the week on my Twitter timeline. It has a good visual style, but I don't trust Mihoyo to make a good game.
aCupOfJuice
2 days ago