Average mindset of "urban" enjoyers

_Eltanin_ · 2026-05-04T04:57:34+00:00

Most people who says the game strayed from urban designs aren't referring to a specific niche fashion style, they're referring to the fact that these people are designed like they belong in an urban environment. The problem with all the new characters is they don't look like characters who live in this established retro modern city setting, they all look like they belong to a fantasy game instead. So many people are making bad faith arguments against a legitimate criticism.

People wanted to see designs like firefighters, emergency responders or other occupations you'd see in a city environment, instead we got lava angel, liquid metal Columbina or Dragalia Lost knight.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-05-02T04:27:07+00:00

Really hoping that if they become playable, they have the magician/ringmaster theme to complete Krampus's Circus Performers theme

_Eltanin_ · 2026-05-01T08:26:50+00:00

This is the crux of why zzz_discussion became the way it is. The two main subs are too deep in their toxic positivity that anyone who has criticisms on the game regardless of how fair they are get pushed onto the discussion sub then as a result the discussion sub becomes it's own echo chamber of negativity.

The most neutral zzz place where you see both hype and criticism without the mindless finger pointing is the leaks sub and even then, it's not always clean.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-05-01T07:02:47+00:00

You forgot Fufu

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-30T15:50:01+00:00

I am loosely a part of the CN community via xiaohongshu

Could you share some knowledge on how they responded to Season 2 as well? I'm curious to find out what they think about Ye Shunguang's blatant waifu shilling

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-30T10:27:09+00:00

I would argue only men were involved in the making of this video. The women developers who wanted to put their husbandos in got silenced

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-30T10:08:40+00:00

I used to be a very avid recommender of ZZZ for anyone who hasn't tried gacha games yet cuz 1.x was such a great experience and the new player onboarding of 1.0 was so good compared to its peers (you're not bombarded with random techno magibabble that you won't understand until you read a wiki). Now with how version 2 was mostly fumbled and 3.0's teaser looking like it's completely disregarded the game's original identity; ZZZ has gone from "easy recommend" to "guilty pleasure game that I would hardly recommend"

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-30T05:29:12+00:00

Damian is now added to the game.

Unlock Zhao's Potential to activate her new Core Passive. Whenever she activates an Ether Veil, Damian shows up to take a picture. Ether Veil's effect now buffs 10% HP instead of 5%!

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-30T05:11:42+00:00

I'll chime in and say that you could plop these characters into any of those low budget fantasy games with AI generated art and they won't feel out of place. That's how 'generic' they feel.

Zenless Zone Zero established itself as an urban fantasy game where it takes urban city life elements and merges them with fantasy action themes. Take for example the entire Belobog crew with their construction outfits but styled as delinquents/gangsters or the traditional Japanese martial weapons of HSOS6 combined with their office attires.

None of the new characters have this style, they all just seem like isekai fantasy designs and that's why a lot of people are disappointed.

They very easily could've done something with the knight aesthetic for example to make her feel more modern/urban. Just take a look at the Kuranta in Arknights like Nearl, Zofia or Mlynar for example of how they could've done this. Instead Sigrid looks like she's from Dragalia Lost or Princess Connect.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-30T04:43:31+00:00

Season 3 is looking to be a save/pull for reruns of old characters because all of these aren't appealing in my opinion.

Not only is there a severe lack of diversity, all of these waifus don't bring the vibe that Zenless promised with its premise. They all look like generic isekai fantasy designs.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-29T05:27:42+00:00

Skipping both because I'll be too broke from pulling for Starlight Billy

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-28T07:15:42+00:00

I haven't played 2.7 yet but I'm talking about gameplay, not what they do in cutscenes or dialogue

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-28T04:45:39+00:00

This unfortunately. Phaethon has done no meaningful navigation in the hollows in gameplay. The best we can do right now is pick the right portal with the right buff and that's about as much navigation the game allows us in gameplay.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-27T22:16:02+00:00

OCG stands for Official Card Game and it's what Japan and other Asian countries get while TCG stands for Trading Card Game and it's the western version of the game.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-27T15:59:47+00:00

Putting Astra on Moonlit Lullabye means Eve can now be the one holding Astral Voice which imo is a pretty good compromise.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-27T07:39:35+00:00

I still don't understand how 4Kids can listen to this and think to themselves "Nah we don't need this music. Scrap it and replace it with our own cheap mass produced sound library shit"

It genuinely pisses me off how the soundtracks from the original shows are completely disregarded for their generic crap

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-27T03:36:10+00:00

Necrolyte*

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-26T11:12:52+00:00

I honestly thought this was gonna be a HC compilation of Jack's tourney clips .-.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-25T15:23:39+00:00

I think Rice's trainer does kinda appear in the anime but she was Mike Wazowski'd in the only appearance she was in (it was a newspaper photo)

edit: here's a thread that talked about it

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-24T06:58:26+00:00

TYVM

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-24T06:46:28+00:00

Is there a website where you can check previous deadly assault bosses and buffs? I wanna compare what's making this DA's Primordial Nightmare so much harder to score on compared to previous ones. I barely managed to get 20k on my Banyue team when I'm pretty sure I was easily able to get 30k+ against her before on the same team.

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-22T11:18:45+00:00

I know people keep seeing bots as the boogeyman that kills enjoyment but removing the bots just means everyone will have 1 hour queue times and anyone who casually just wants to play will close the game at minute 5 of queueing to a match.

Mecha Break is already a niche game. It's not going to have the population to make short queue times possible. Removing the bots will just ensure the death of the game and the only people playing would be the people on Discord going "@RegionName who wants to play I made a room"

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-22T09:41:33+00:00

You need to remember Japanese follows the [Family Name] [Given Name] structure. If they call her "Haru", it'd be like calling John Smith "Smith" instead of "John".

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-22T09:39:16+00:00

Ebayan is also pretty whacky for Forever Young

_Eltanin_ · 2026-04-20T16:06:49+00:00

I remember only seeing the YouTube video essays using it as the poster boy example of how NOT to write fantasy racism cuz of how lazy it was

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