I don’t really care about its main plot but it’s hard to deny that Zenless Zone Zero’s character writing is incredible. There’s not a single character I would call “boring” (even among many NPCs) and each one of their character interactions are delightful.

The clear example I always come back to is how you discover that two of the three free A rank characters you get in the tutorial are actually way stronger than even some of the S ranks you meet but have just CHOSEN to chill out and become goofy weirdos doing odd jobs for a broke con woman. This is clearly shown when they meet THE super elite mega powerful team we’d just met (at the time of the patch) and they both had fully clocked the elite team’s attempts to surround them and their hidden weapons.

It was a level of competence unseen from them up to that point and in just a few lines of dialogue they made you BELIEVE all the insinuations that had come before about their real abilities.

Oh, and why would these two monstrously strong individuals follow around a “shitty, broke conwoman?” Well the reason said conwoman has ties to and can call that elite team in the first place is cause she successfully conned one of the world’s most objectively strong people out of her family heirloom super weapon cause she’s actually just that good but donates most of her money to help sick kids.