Maybe I wasn't super clear here. I'm not saying that the "coomer bait is going away forever." I'm simply suggesting that hoyo could be trying to capture a different audience with the character's that we have coming up, which MAY be felt in the future direction of the game. #stillaburnicesimp
the thing is that the argument doesnt make sense since your main example is a character that has existed since launch (and even before from what i heard) and whose coolest moment has existed before we even saw a single jiggle from Burnice. Is not a change or indication of new things if they do what they already said they were gonna do.
Honestly, I'm pretty hyped for the possibility of that being a future direction! I'm not really the type to be amused by people commenting on how fine and sexy characters are. I can understand what they mean and appreciate it to an extent, but it makes me a little peeved when they won't talk about anything else. Jane is a cool character, in personality, how she says things, possible story direction and possible backstory. One of my favorite things is coming up with theories or guessing about might happen, so it's a little sad when most of the people I find into ZZZ just wanna talk about Jane being thicctouille constantly. I kind of think that the physics and assets were mainly to reel in an audience, before they chill a bit. Obviously, I don't think they'll stop completely, and I don't think I or most of the fans would want them to, but I do think that it'll be toned down a little. To clarify, I'm not saying I don't want big booba characters with noice jiggle physics, it's just that I like it when that's not the only reason why other people want to pull for a character. In any case, as long as I still like the story, the vibe and the characters, I'll be pretty happy :>
@@idkwhatimdoing5268 I think Jane is a really great depiction of the "fem fatal" trope. Its never really an important part of her character and the story does a good job at propping up how skilled she is and puts her in situations that force her to use skills that have nothing to do with her attractiveness. At the same time she doesn't try to pretend like she isn't sexy but her sex appeal never feels like it takes attention away from her other endearing character traits. Her sexiness is a PART of her character but its not HER character. Honestly, even tho it was a glorified ad campaign, her arc my have the strongest writing in the whole series narrative wise.
I think we are just moving into character with personalitys and styles that don't lend themselves to the "gooner bait" as they call it. We are moving away from a "rough" care free biker gang to a more professional military like group. I'm not expecting that kind of style of character design from section 6 like i would from sons of Caledon. I think zzz is just giving characters alot of different players will enjoy. I'm sure they will circle back around to very style zzz deems marketable as long as the lights are on.
it really just comes down to the fact they gave all these characters and factions so much personality even in the current caste there is a balance between the serious and the silly personalities often complimenting each other.
There's a stark contrast between both factions. The sons of Caladon are free spirited, anything goes, biker gang. And Section 6 is an extremely disciplined, no nonsense, badass, military division. So yeah it's easy to see a gang of biker chicks dressing the way that they do, and the way that the military units dress, but I would honestly be surprised if the VERY next character after Section 6 isn't gooner bait (male or female).
@@chillax319 can't wait tbh... soldier 11 is just here in my account, being the best soldier, but leading teams consisting of either industrial construction workers or biker gang members lmao
@@skirkley268 My top folks consist mostly of....police who shouldn't be doing Hollow Raiding stuff(with exception of Jane) and a biker gang member. Still fun, even if it doesn't make much sense :D
I think its a quite reductive to call the previous cast of characters we have compared to the future to be "coomer bait". I mean obviously certain characters like Jane Doe are extra sexualized but the community talking about asses has been there across numerous games of many different genres. Heck looking at the recent trailers, Caesar's demo trailer is very badass with exception for the last scene, and Burnice's is more derpy than anything else. If we're talking about their outfits, I mean they live a desert.
Imagine thinking man and even a part of women don't play video games to just appreciate the characters and how hot they are. Nothing wrong with sexualization, as long as it's not the main or only reason to exist of something, making it actually interesting. Ppl talk as if it's a sin and everyone's a Puritan Catholic Extremist. Like, bruh, just enjoy life, nothing wrong with that.
This, really. I feel like all the talks about the game's sexiness are a bit overblown (in general, not just specifically this video). The marketing will absolutely lean into the sexiness of some characters, Jane's videos have left zero ambiguity about this, but it's not like this is the only defining characteristic of said characters. In fact I think the story tends to do a good job giving them layers and subtleties even with what screentime they may have (even Jane's videos subtly highlights other aspects of her character, like when she blushes as she gets a compliment from the rat officer lady). And heck, Jane is a femme fatale, making her sexy, especially in a way she's fully in control of, is hardly outrageous, it still fits the movie themes of the game. Even Burnice mixes the biker aesthetic with that of a cheerleader. When you look at it that way, the sexiness doesn't have to be seen as a weird complement added on top, it can be a component of the game like any other. And if it jumps out that much to people, I feel like there's a point where it's just revealing of some prudishness, because it's really not that outrageous. It's also a little funny to me when only bare skin is seen as sexy, as if Miyabi isn't sporting her own more subtle sexiness with an outfit that highlights her own fairly big boob size, or overlooking her pantyhoses because she has a knee-high skirt. It's less overt, but it's there too. Some characters will be more sexy than others, and in different ways. I don't think it's so much a question of eras as ALG puts it, so much as it is simple diversity of characters that are meant to appeal to as many different tastes as possible. And, I dunno, I think the game is still pretty far away from anything too overt or bland with its sexiness, like a character only defined by that and nothing else, or whose sexiness makes no sense in-universe and takes too far.
I cant wait for the next big gacha game to realease so all the tourist can get the fuck out and go hate the new trending thing, that way only the people who actually enjoy the game will stay
Idgaf if a game is heavy in fanservice as long as I'm having a blast playing.. And to hell with anyone judging me on my tastes in gaming. FFS I play snowbreak everyday along with ZZZ.
Good for you. Personally, I appreciate all aspects of the game. Not just fun gameplay, but also a story, visual and sound designs, character interaction, etc.
@@99jenia yup we all have our reason to love a game. Good storytelling can only go but so far. Something else is needed to keep everyone in the fold unless the story is good enough to ignore everything else.
@@99jenia Well I never said I don't appreciate all aspects, for me it's just that gameplay>>visual>characters>story>music/sound, I'm sure many people are similar
Its weird to assume that zzz was made just to make "coomer" bait chars, just like in other hoyo games there will be chars apealing to different audience
Miyabi already been there since beta so ppl already knew what she is lookslike and not will be surprise when hoyo release it later. The one that wanna pull Miyabi not because her sexyness but more to coolness cause how cool she is when using that katana from the cutscene alone. For Lighter and Harumasa they gonna release it for ppl that keep waiting the husbando type agent. Hoyo know their audience very well since this isn't the first game they release so there is nothing to worry about
I'll be ok with anything but I fear them leaning into the lolicon part of their audience. That idol faction is gonna be a problem. I fear zzz will get the blue archive reputation because of it
@@ahlemlora1452 the loli already been there since genshin impact and hoyo still making aton of profits from that game. Aslong they make loli as an option character not as a whole characters then i believe ppl will be okay with it. We already have loli in ZZZ as well like piper, lucy, qingyi, koleda, corin and the game still goin strong cause they not turn all the girls character into loli type but adding more loli character within the game. They do not remove what we already have but giving more option to the other audience that like the loli character for their own reason. i understand some ppl do not like the sexy char, loli char, male char or female char and that's why they make all of em available for us so we can choose which one we wanna pull or skip. We don't have to pull every single character that they release to beaten the end game content too
I mean, the game is always gonna have Gooner characters and gooner bait, but not to the extend of shit like Azur Lane or Nikke. So we are gonna have a very mixed cast, badass/Edgy characters, Gooner characters, Furries, Robots , you name it. So i think is not like the game is changing, is just the character rotation to appeal a wider audience without letting go that massive gooner profit market.
Agreed, this is how ZZZ has been with its character design since day 1. I’m honestly confused why this is even a topic worth making a video on. “Character designs may not be over-sexualized going forward”…okay. Weird.
I dont get this whole coomer thing. Its slang for people who like sexy characters? Like, there have been sexy characters in video games since fucking Donkey Kong. Its not a new concept, so why are people acting like it is?
Eh, it's kinda both? It's both insult by fundie prudes who hate anything shorter than ankle leght skirts and description of incel creepy basement dwellers seeing girls as objects. Sexy is okay (for normal people at least) but then there are two unhinged groups of creeps on both sides of the issue better to be avoided...
I think my brother in gacha is mistaking them targeting demographics of coomer outside his coomer demographic as going away from coomer bait. When in fact, Lighter is just coomer bait for a certain group; and Yanagi is coomer bait for a particular refined sub-slice of coomers. It's coomers all the way down - and it's super cool anime fighters who are badass all the way down. It's both, and I love it.
I think you are reading waaaaay too much into the sequence of near-term releases. A simpler explanation is that each faction has a design theme and the amount of sex appeal per design theme varies from faction to faction. We already have factions where sex appeal is downplayed, like Victoria Housekeeping. SoC has sex appeal played up to the max, consistent with their free-roaming, frontier-battling and the family-you-choose over the family-you-were-born-to nature. Section 6 will have sex appeal toned down, since they are an elite para-military combat group. I'd expect OBOLS Squad to be even more down-played. While Virtual Idols will go for cute-and-sexy. The variations are due to the release order of factions, more coincidence than plan.
I'll just say this. The day Zenless introduces a busty female character whose entire design revolves around a micro swimswuit, then I'll allow people to call it "coomer game". Otherwise they're just parroting words from twitter addicts who saw Jane's trailer and think all the game has that same artistic choice.
This video is a bit of an odd way to look at the characters, I feel like a more interesting topic to address could've been the upcoming dilemma of whether or not we will start seeing the beginning of limited 5* agent powercreep (and the associated implications with regards to endgame like Shiyu) with Miyabi. We know from the CBT and her general design that Miyabi is going to be an ice element character. And since I don't see them releasing a 4th limited anomaly unit in such a short timespan, she's almost certainly going to be an attacker type, which means she could be contending with Ellen for the ice damage role. Harumasa is also in an interesting position, he's unlikely to be our first 5* support given that S6 already has a support char in Soukaku. He's most likely going to be a 4* unit based on his design and how there are only 2 5* units/faction. I reckon he's going to be either a defense or stunner unit made to pair with Miyabi.
Or... its just a different character style? The Biker Gang has a more Punk look where the next faction is clearly a Mix of Japanese/Military attire. NEPs wernt overly sexualised in their Marketing with the exception of Jane Doe, which we know was a Character she was playing as her Cover. Belebog wernt Sexualised in their Marketing. Victoria housekeeping wernt either. and 1 member of the Cunning Hares wears short shorts. I think you are just reading too much into it.
I don’t think it’s a particular movement towards or away from it, just different kinds of characters coming out. But I feel like this is just blatantly ignoring the angles they used for Zhu Yuan in her demo trailer, the tight shorts they have on Qingyi, Grace’s trailers starting with her bust as the central focus and both focused on the fetish for her feet, and that’s not even mentioning the exaggerated physics they have for characters such as Rina and Yanagi.
@@MagmaSpacer 100% the Physics are over the top, but honestly the animations of the game and its its art direction in general is far more cartoon like than previous Hoyo IP. Personally im looking forward to Soldier 11's faction getting more Characters, wanna see some Military attire, long coat, pistol firing with 1 hand badass Female Major. :P
The coomer bait could be going away? A few updates of more military themed characters = no more coomer characters? In what world is this even a possibility? You've seen how many views Burnice's music video got right? Sure these upcoming S6 characters are dressed more military/profesional but they are still sexualized. How does this lead one to believe that hoyo is moving forward in a less sexualized way afterwords? Each faction has a theme and they have been following it pretty nicely. I'm more than certain we will see some more spicy characters in the future.
this what baffles me about the point the video is trying to make. If Section 6 was a brand new faction that came out of nowhere then i could see the validity of the argument, but they have been there since the start.
As someone who grew up watching stuff like Ichigo 100% and Umisho, hearing people call Zenless Zone Zero coomer bait feels like a bit of an exaggeration. Anything that is anime or anime-adjacent is most likely going to have some level of fanservice, it kinda comes with the territory, but Zenless Zone Zero feels pretty tame compared to a lot of other franchises.
this is annoying, ZZZ is mihoyo's first 16+ game, all their others were rated for younger audiences, the designs are more outrageous and defined because the playerbase is as well. its a more mature game, like it or not. "coomer bait", "gooner game", these characters each have so much more depth than what everyone seems to focus on. if we're going to attack mihoyo for their designs, why bother going 16+ with the rating? its a design choice and it sells because the characters are packed full with personality to them. if some of the scenes in trailers and so on are uncomfortable, like Jane's interrogation, and Ceasers shower, maybe instead of going red faced and accuse the game being gooner bait, see why they did those scenes in the first place. janes interrogation is a showcase of her wits, her tireless fight to stop crime and her masterful skills at impersonating a villain to achieve heroic goals. she sexualizes herself in order to retrieve information and stop crime at the source. We see this in her own chapter. Jane isnt "sexy" simple to be sexy, its for a reason. and Ceaser, her scene was important to showcase how deeply she cares about the Sons of Calydon. how free she is with them, and how much she trusts one another. this feeling is highlighted even more with her chapter, where her final moments wouldve been to scarifice everything, her dreams, her family, simply for doing the right thing. luckily ceaser was able to stay with us, but if it wasnt for that scene, we would have never known how far she considers the Sons of Calydon family. I understand that the game may be excessive at times, or seem like its purposely using sexualization as a selling point, but i beg people to look deeper than attractiveness and body type, if youre not comfortable judging somebody based on their looks in real life. why do the same to characters who obviously have so much more to their story then simply their attractiveness?
The thing is, these sorts of sexualized elements or carefree tendencies are only for the female characters for the most part. You’re not going to get shirtless Ben or have Anton be manly and without filter with his bros like that. That’s only for the gals. You don’t have Lycaon use his charm to get info, he’s just a gentleman. But remember we can focus on Grace’s feet or bust in promotion. All the men are moderately dressed with Anton barely giving his chest. Yet multiple women have tight and short shorts. Obviously there’s more to these characters than the sexualization, but it intentionally focuses on using gooner bait to get people to want these characters or play the game. Heck, it’s going to take us over four months just to even get a limited male in the game.
@@MagmaSpacer literally the leaked character tape for lighter is him shirtless. and anton/ben/billy and even seth are all not characters where sexualization would not benefit their personality. for the other characters it at least has something rooted in their personality traits. grace is barefoot because she wears slip-on shoes and doesn't even like to dress modestly due to working day and night. hence the energy drinks and Ramen trust event. Lyacon doesn't have to be shirtless either to get respect. yet he literally wears bondage inspired clothing. there are reasons for why characters are sexualized and why they aren't.
@@andrewa9279 You’re just making excuses now. You do realize the personalities of these characters are arbitrary right? They purposely gave the characters and personalities to the women so that they could be the ones to show off these fanservice elements as bait. Grace wears slip on shoes and doesn’t like to wear modest clothes because she works day and night? And for what purpose do we focus on her bust? For what purpose is she female? Why does she need to have these personality traits to begin with? There are plenty of people who work day and night yet don’t have their feet out at the focus of the frame. So you saying that it has a character purpose doesn’t really combat the fact it’s still gooner bait. You can have these elements as well without focusing on them. You could also just switch the sexes of Grace and Anton and nothing would change in the narrative, but they time and time again give these elements to the female ones. This isn’t even taking into account things like the focus on Zhu Yuan’s behind which serves 0 purpose at all or the physics on Jane and Burnice. Do the guys have physics? Why not? It doesn’t serve a narrative purpose, it’s just for fun. Now I’m not saying that the game is only gooner bait, but to act like the promotion and a large chunk of it isn’t targeted towards that demographic would be disingenuous. Also they better keep shirtless Lighter
@@MagmaSpacer its a fictional world and it makes sense within the world building, what you're so mad about is relative to real life. that's the problem with you and everyone else who seems to bag on the game for "gooner bait". I'm saying that their style is part of the characters, no matter how outrageous it seems to be. koleda, president of belobog industries, wears half a uniform and a tank top. ben, the accountant, wields a giant flaming rocket cement pillar. anton has a personal relationship with a drill he names bro on his arm, grace is the lead engineer of the company and sacrifices all her modesty and daily necessities like food and sleep for the betterment of her machines and AI. when all of them are put next to eachother, they don't stand out nearly as much as people like to claim. does mihoyo take advantage of the world building and make sure to prioritize what the trailers show? absolutely. but to claim they are ONLY their feet, ONLY their chest, they ONLY exist for "gooner bait" are the real disingenuous claims. i want to have this game stand out on its own, rather than being ridiculed and constantly compared to other similar titles for their designs. the game is rated for more mature audiences, even those 16+, and it clearly shows. if people took a couple seconds to look beyond their "assets" i think they'd learn to appreciate the characters more.
I'm sorry but I must respectfully disagree here. Like what are we, 12? I think Zenless devs know their audience and character design has been amazing so far. There is nothing wrong with sexy characters, if people do have a problem with it as adults, then I'm sorry to say but it's not a game problem. I think it's good that not all characters follow a single pattern, variety is good. I'll be honest, I think censorship and especially being oversensitive to the concerns of those with nothing better to do (gaming press in general) would destroy this game. It's already started with the removal of "TV mode'" and frankly I don't think the fights are varied/deep enough by themselves to maintain interest in the long term. I'm all for respecting the developer's vision and this is the version I want to play. As the old saying says: "In trying to please everyone, you end up annoying everyone and pleasing no one." Chasing the curve makes things bland and visionless. I do understand that probably nothing we say or do on this side of the pond would have much of an impact, it's all about the CN market.
re "There is nothing wrong with sexy characters" he literally said that in the video, did you watch it or just cry the whole time about the woke taking away your softcore porn. "In trying to please everyone you end up pleasing noone" the only people they're not going to please by _mixing in_ characters with less jiggle physics and more conservative outfits is people who ant the game to appeal to them and _only them,_ who see characters that do not appeal to them personally as an existential threat against all media they enjoy. Don't be that person, that's roughly the same kind of person that whined to hoyo until they nuked tv mode. This is coming from someone whose favorite characters are from the sons of calydon. But characters that aren't going to be my favorite, who appeal to other people, can be released. That's not a threat to characters I like, it's doesn't mean i'm wrong for liking the characters I like, it doesn't mean you're wrong for liking the characters you like either. chill.
Just go outside and look around how women on the street, club, school, mall dress. Or just look at twitch. Have you ever opened any social media site and scrolled for at least 5 minutes? Then you can see over sexualization of real people. Zzz is not over sexualized nor is it coomer bait. Anyone can literally google xyz choice of pron, why would they go the extra mile into a game play for hours just to goon? I will never understand modern American prudishness when it comes to healthy sexuality but they are all fine and happy with over the top gruesome violence.
I assume you don’t play other Hoyo games. There is no coomer bait, if you want coomer bait go look up Nikke. ZZZ in general has characters show more skin but it’s also the only game that takes place in a game where fashion is closer to ours in the real world as opposed to space China. The character designs are tame when compared to other non Hoyo gacha games, and the only coomer parts you are thinking of are what you’ve seen in your own mind. As a small creator you shouldn’t insult your viewers.
This is a weird video, because for the argument about there being a change to have any merit it should be noticable shift or change of plans but there isnt. The game launched with a trailer that showed all the groups and characters we would get and they have been following that plan withouth skipping a beat. The coolest Miyabi scene was in the launch of the game..... so where is the change? Then there are those characters teased on the video "Where miracle began", so those elements has always been there. There have always been cool and gooner aspects, sometimes at the same time because they arent mutualy exclusive. They know you have to add more to than jiggle physics to actually sell characters. For all the bouncieness that Caesar has, the attention she got double after a shoujo manga music video of all things.
It's most likely just going to be a mix of the 2. Some characters will be badass or sexualized or just a mix of the two. That's all. Miyabi seems to be more of a vergil inspired character. So she'll most likely appeal to those people. Everyone will get there fill. Its just a matter of which patch/update will be focus on what.
The one thing ZZZ has done right is to have the art style focus on the character theme. The sex appeal has always fitted, or at least in my opinion, the character to some large degree. Section 6 looks more toned down because they're supposed to look professional. There's still an element of sexiness because poly doesn't sell itself but the theme of the character isnt sacrificed for the sake of sales or at least they try preserve the nature of the character.
The crucial thing that makes or breaks a character being s3xualised is whether it's in character or not. Like for example, Qingyi from the neck down has the worst design in the game period. I don't even care that the artstyle makes her look like a tween, it's so unserious for the designers to expect people to suspend their disbelief and believe that this costume is somehow up to code in this universe. Soldier 11 is arguably even worse in this regard. Gaming industry has learned nothing from the Quiet from MGS fiasco lol.... On the flipside characters like Nicole, Jane Doe and Burnice harmonise with their character design because all three are the type of character to use their feminine wiles to disarm people, Nicole is a con-woman, Jane works as undercover intel and regularly cozies up to criminals, and Burnice is a bartender who just wants people to forget about their worries and for them to have a good old time. I think this lends itself well to Zenless because the girls are allowed to wear actual clothes that are cute and trendy instead of gooner tactivomit garb. Thank you for listening to my longwinded rant
To be completely tbh, I do not see your vision on this. As others have said, the Section 6 cast have all been plainly visible for as long as the game has been public, so I don't think Hoyoverse is considering moving away from cheesecake, and for another thing, I don't think it could possibly work if they tried it. It doesn't matter how many sensibly dressed, reasonably proportioned characters they add in the future, new players will still have to start the story from the beginning. You start off playing as a girl in a miniskirt with visible thong straps, whose boss is decked out in full gyaru fashion, and they're joined by a petite catgirl in bicycle shorts who wiggles her butt in the air for her Ult. Get through that, and Chapter 2 introduces you to Grace, with her giant pudding boobs and her Agent Story that contrives a reason to get her out of her boots. Making it through that takes you to the intermission, where you'll meet two female officers with prominent posteriors, and the one with more skin exposed is awfully young-looking... If our hypothetical cheesecake-hating new player is still with us, in Chapter 3 they'll be introduced to Victoria Housekeeping Company, where two thirds of their maids are highschool girls and the third has a bust to match Grace's, but hers are covered in leather straps that don't seem to serve a purpose beyond framing them. I'm sure you see my point by now: Zenless Zone Zero as it exists can't feasibly court a new audience, because anyone they manage to draw in will be filtered right back out by the existing content that was designed to appeal to the initial one.
to add to your point, courting really REALLY hard those who are filtered by the sexualization would make their existing audience feel unwanted and disrespected. So they would risk loosing what they have by chasing this unicorn of a bigger audience.
Hard agree! I'm sure they're coming, but given hoyo's record I imagine in a year or two we'll be around 60% hot girls, 30% hot guys, and (if we're lucky) 10% hot enbys
Oh, damn. When I clicked on this video, I thought it was going to be an analysis or speculation on how teams/meta/content was going to be changing. Not that there might be less jiggly bits on character models. Kind of an L video, but I guess we'll see where the game goes soon enough
such an odd topic. yea some characters will be marketed differently based on designs and story, shocker. an interesting point u did bring up was miyabi in a bikini. im wondering if they would change her design a bit to make her more appealing. i dont need her to be sexy per se but personally, i think everyone in section 6 looks bland besides soukaku
I mean, looking at your pinned comment, you clarify that you didn't mean they were going away forever, but the video definitely gives off that impression. Here's the thing, love it or hate it, ZZZ attracted people who are into those designs, they knew who they were targetting, and they knew who they were going to draw in, far before the game released. Those characters aren't going away. But if anyone genuinely thought that those were the *only* characters we were getting...I'd have to ask if they've never seen Hoyo's other games. While they made ZZZ to give fans of fan service a game of theirs to play, they can't just alienate their existing fans who are playing the game either. It's a balancing act that they're going to have to perform. While many would argue the opposite, I don't really think the characters before Jane were all that heavily sexualized. More than in Genshin? Probably, yeah (I have no idea about HSR, so I can give no comment there), but far less than Jane and Burnice. We're going to see more modestly designed characters for sure, I'd honestly argue we'll get more of them. But I don't think they can get rid of the fan service characters without losing a sizable chunk of the games fanbase; I don't see them scrapping them.
guys guys i really dont know whats the trouble with characters having uber sexy designs, in a gacha game of all genres. let them design the way they wanna design. characters being sexy have nothing to do with them having depth or good gameplay. have we not heard of bayonetta, 2B, or Chun LI? my doods we can have all of them. the beauty of zzz is that they have a really distinct and diverse directions for the faction/character designs. hence why s6 looks so unsexualized. i dont see why theres an idea that "theyre focusing on badassery as opposed to assery" is going around. Let them look cOomER bAiT af by all means please if thats what the devs want cuz at the end of the day, those who play the game know that their attractiveness is just a part of them and that they have interesting personalities and stories to tell too.
This video is more about what "you" want, who is the author of this video, not what the community want. Also "Characters Are About To Change In ZZZ (Zenless Zone Zero)" is a pretty clickbait title so I'm gonna leave a dislike for that, because in the end you provide nothing but how you want it to be. My prediction : This video is gonna age like milk.
I doubt it, it seems he is trying to appeal to the twitter normies currently complaining about Burnice and calling the game goonerbait. People who have never played ZZZ and should have their opinions disregarded.
@mordakie3805 Fanservice and attractive female characters are not "gooning," and you need to stop mindlessly echoing zoomer slang. If you want oversanitized slop from your videogames and media, then gtfo of Anime and Gacha games and go enjoy western AAA sweet baby slop. This game is not made for you, get filtered.
@mordakie3805 Sanitizing media destroys the art as well as the existing playerbase. You are a brainrotten zoomer who can't remember a time when videogame women were universally hot and nobody cared, in fact, people celebrated it. Unknowingly you are parroting the same drivel of Anita Sarkeesian.
I love the design of all the characters honestly and yeah some of them are kinda bait but i also feel like hoyo has put enough personality in each character to make them all enjoyable beyond their physical appearance
This is funny. I thought this was going to be about what happens when decibel energy isn't shared by the characters and you can use multiple ultimates. Or maybe a healer.
Bro really posted this like Miyabi isn't hot. People have been saving for her since they saw her for the first time 😂 Any character can be sexualized, it's just a difference in how it's done. You don't necessarily need to show a lot of skin or give them big tits to do that.
@AverageLuckGamer I have a feeling that they will release this in the future characters like 1500pts 1st ult phase (can be daze%, damage% another or buff%) another 1500pts 2nd ult phase (Big damage or others).
When/if we get the rest of OBOL squad (soldier 11's faction) it'll probably be the same, very serious characters who are more on the cool side than the sexy side
I think the devs have actually done a pretty good job of mixing up the character types, even from the start. So it's pretty cool that they are mixing up the limited S ranks too. Hopefully they keep dropping something for everyone.
That's okay, tbh every gacha game needs to have a balancing act between gooner bait and cool/badass stuff to excel in the long run imo. I started playing the game because of how lively and fun the animations & characters' personalities are, as long as they keep that, nothing could stop me from continuing. That's not to say that the gooner bait isn't 12/10, but to me, they sort of just prop up an already amazing game
My guess for 1.3 is it will be a chapter 5 with for yanagi and we will get a character story with lighter and 1.3 will be a part 1 of a 2 part story and 1.4 will be the part 2 with miyabi and harumasa like chapter 5 and chapter 5.5
Fortunately unfortunately there’s at least two patches worth of idols that i will be happily skipping at some point. Fortunately because i can save up polys. Unfortunately because i still have to suffer for two patches with characters before something remotely interesting shows up.
I'm tired of Mihoyo's Disney-fied bullshit. If they're in the mood to be gratuitous because of the higher age rating, then they should go for it. At the end of the day, gameplay is all that matters to me. I tried Nikke out and no matter how "great" those character models are, I quit after a month cos the gameplay is nearly non-existent.
I love these hot characters as much as the next person, but absolutely, we don't need to be Nikke -- we don't need every character to be Burnice and Jane. A healthy balance is great. Sure, I'm here for the eye candy, but I'm also here because I love these characters for their actual **character** and I love the story and the mystery of what's going on with Belle and Wise and everything. And I'm sure we'll still continue to get more hot guys and girls too. Heck, we still don't know what Trigger looks like, but, looking again at Nikke, I wouldn't be surprised if she looked somewhat like Maxwell or Delta. EDIT: Actually, I just saw that we do have Trigger concept art, and I think she actually does look a bit like a mix between Delta and Maxwell lol
Anyone complaining about these being "coomer" characters. and "no matter where you have the camera you can still see her booty jiggle physics" - like YES, because that's how the character model is designed. Just like real life people if you had a 360' camera around them. if you don't understand than you've never had a hot GF before. Im a gym junkie, and when me and my girl go to gym, or out for errands, she wears gym wear for comfort and it's usually booty shorts or Yoga pants. No matter the angle you look at her, at least from my perspective, you will see her cheeks, and figure. Thats just how perspective works on attractive human forms. For refernce tho, she's really into Hoyo games as well, and ZZZ because of the more modern style. She like Zhu Yuan, Burnice, Jane Doe, and Nicole the most out of the girls, because of their styles and animations...(even tho her fav chars are Anton and Seth, because women are as thirsty as men are.. lol). Tho because she plays a lot of genshin, she like Zhongli and Diluc, and Arataki Itto. She played a lil Star Rail and says she likes the guys there more, but doesn't like the turn-based style so much.
My problem with section 6 is that they are a team for special operations in like military (i guess) group but they are just wearing shirts, skirts etc. Yanagi is basically just a secretary with a sword-spear so its not really interesting design imo
I think they're gonna go deeper on the lore at 1.7 which can be a gateway to more characters and intros Personally looking forward on how they're gonna narrate more hallow lore
Yup. Miyabi and Section 6 will focus more on Hollows and the ongoing investigation about that Sacrifice creature most likely. I would bit be surprised if in the future we will get playable flashback from siblings perspective from the time of the fall of old Eridu.
I think having variety in sexiness levels is good for the long-term health of the game. Players can skip who they’re not excited for, and save for the characters that feel good to them. And remember Syndrome’s theorem: “When everyone is gooner bait, no one will be.”
You seeing "modest" characters in the upcoming banner and thinking the game goes to a different direction is cute. Section 6 is dressed accordingly to lore, not to mention Miyabi was out since CBT1 so the faction was planed before the release of Sons of Calydon or other upcoming factions.
The most of the characters might be really sexy, but Miyabi just cuts right through my heart so easy. She is cool, elegant, beautiful, and yet she gives that cute social dummy impression.
I think From the start, till Section 6 are just to attract people with characters and BIG personalities. After Section 6 banner, we probably get a Persona's quality type stories & lore on previous Hollow Incident. All I can say, sh*t about to get real after section 6 sequence. Probably a dark turn.
No those are legs at that angle. I hate these dumb buzzwords - all I want from a game like this is some challenge and fun and from YTubers covering this to enjoy the fun and give gameplay advice. I don't want echoes of the new puritan Left and their jargon. I don't want pointless meandering talk.
One faction you may have looked is Obel Squad, Soldier 11's faction. Im sure that they will boost her relative power level, but if I was Hoyo Id be in a hurry to push them out asap before she is powercrept to graveyard tier As for the possible change in design direction.. Ive always been for "cool" outfits over sexy so Im here for it. I wish Hoyo would sell more(reasonably priced) skins, could make everyone happy
I don’t really get this whole coomer doomer thing. Like who fucking cares. And tbh even if I acknowledge it, it’s not only part of the style of the game, it’s also been doubly useful in keeping ZZZ’s popularity far away from certain segments of the Hoyoverse community. So yeah. I’m in love with the game as is, and hope they don’t detract too far from their roots trying to appease too many people.
The last time a game tried to swerve hard away from 'Coomer bait' it was called Concord and they served into instant obscurity.... But jokes aside from a illustration / design standpoint 'Coomer bait' is simply catering to an audience. It is imo, in Hoyo's best interests to cater to as wide as an audience as possible but not fall into the trap of catering to everyone at the same time. The Coomers got what they wanted, cool. Now they aim to cater to someone else. That idea is not novel or shocking and nothing says they cant return to the 'coomer well' whenever they so please. So...i guess im a bit missing the point of the video.
Of all the members we know of from Section 6, Yanagi is definitely the most "coomer bait" able of the four. Miyabi is very conservatively dressed and leans more into being a badass swordswoman. Meanwhile, Harumasa doesn't look to have *that* kind of appeal. Soukaku may have some, but she's pretty much a child. The biggest hint towards Yanagi being "coomer bait" material would be from her drip marketing with a comment mentioning flowers on her desk on Mother's Day, hinting that she is a mother (MILF lovers enjoyment) or is simply seen as a mother to the people of Section 6. We'll probably find out more when she releases in v1.3
Fern from Frieren: 1st time? I think its a mix of 3 things? BA, cutesy, coomer bait characters. The leaked idols lean into more cutesy Big Daddy, lighter, miyabi =BA That nun, yanagi coomer I guess it depends on their line ups I guess.
I think a good balance would be the target idea. Currently we are leaning more to the one side than the other when recent releases are considered, but I think it will probably introduce characters that appeal to many differnt subsets of players - thats probably a good thing aslong as they do not compromise the awesome gameplay beacuse of it.
You forget Obol Squad as a faction that's been introduced but not fully revealed. What if their story is about kidnapping Anby to force her back into the Obsidian Division 😱
Just remember that the money you spend during each banner define what works and what we'll continue to get in the future. Be it lighter or the hotness slider of characters. So whatever happens it's all up to the devs and the majority of the player base so there's no reason to complain whatever the outcome. If anyone don't like where the game is going they should just stop playing and talking about it
Maybe I wasn't super clear here. I'm not saying that the "coomer bait is going away forever." I'm simply suggesting that hoyo could be trying to capture a different audience with the character's that we have coming up, which MAY be felt in the future direction of the game. #stillaburnicesimp
the thing is that the argument doesnt make sense since your main example is a character that has existed since launch (and even before from what i heard) and whose coolest moment has existed before we even saw a single jiggle from Burnice. Is not a change or indication of new things if they do what they already said they were gonna do.
@@AverageLuckGamer they're tryin to catch fancy coomers and edgy coomers 🤣🤣🤣
Honestly, I'm pretty hyped for the possibility of that being a future direction!
I'm not really the type to be amused by people commenting on how fine and sexy characters are. I can understand what they mean and appreciate it to an extent, but it makes me a little peeved when they won't talk about anything else.
Jane is a cool character, in personality, how she says things, possible story direction and possible backstory. One of my favorite things is coming up with theories or guessing about might happen, so it's a little sad when most of the people I find into ZZZ just wanna talk about Jane being thicctouille constantly.
I kind of think that the physics and assets were mainly to reel in an audience, before they chill a bit. Obviously, I don't think they'll stop completely, and I don't think I or most of the fans would want them to, but I do think that it'll be toned down a little.
To clarify, I'm not saying I don't want big booba characters with noice jiggle physics, it's just that I like it when that's not the only reason why other people want to pull for a character.
In any case, as long as I still like the story, the vibe and the characters, I'll be pretty happy :>
I don't give a fk. I already have cake Yuan, Jane dough, Burnice in 9 pulls and yanagi and miyabi is guaranteed coming home.
@@idkwhatimdoing5268 I think Jane is a really great depiction of the "fem fatal" trope. Its never really an important part of her character and the story does a good job at propping up how skilled she is and puts her in situations that force her to use skills that have nothing to do with her attractiveness. At the same time she doesn't try to pretend like she isn't sexy but her sex appeal never feels like it takes attention away from her other endearing character traits. Her sexiness is a PART of her character but its not HER character. Honestly, even tho it was a glorified ad campaign, her arc my have the strongest writing in the whole series narrative wise.
Only thing changing is my credit score
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We will pull till we can't anymore..
I think we are just moving into character with personalitys and styles that don't lend themselves to the "gooner bait" as they call it. We are moving away from a "rough" care free biker gang to a more professional military like group. I'm not expecting that kind of style of character design from section 6 like i would from sons of Caledon. I think zzz is just giving characters alot of different players will enjoy. I'm sure they will circle back around to very style zzz deems marketable as long as the lights are on.
Yup. Now it's time for sharply dressed waifus and husbandos. With idols fans of cute characters will get their fit
Bruv thinks folks dont love a girl in a tight uniform
it really just comes down to the fact they gave all these characters and factions so much personality even in the current caste there is a balance between the serious and the silly personalities often complimenting each other.
There's a stark contrast between both factions. The sons of Caladon are free spirited, anything goes, biker gang. And Section 6 is an extremely disciplined, no nonsense, badass, military division. So yeah it's easy to see a gang of biker chicks dressing the way that they do, and the way that the military units dress, but I would honestly be surprised if the VERY next character after Section 6 isn't gooner bait (male or female).
Obol squad also most likely will be composed of tacticool characters
*looks at Sokaku* yeah very disciplined....
Nah but jokes aside i agree with your point.
@@chillax319 can't wait tbh... soldier 11 is just here in my account, being the best soldier, but leading teams consisting of either industrial construction workers or biker gang members lmao
@@skirkley268 My top folks consist mostly of....police who shouldn't be doing Hollow Raiding stuff(with exception of Jane) and a biker gang member. Still fun, even if it doesn't make much sense :D
Looking forward to the inevitable yanagi fanservice trailer. 😎 haters stay hating
I think its a quite reductive to call the previous cast of characters we have compared to the future to be "coomer bait". I mean obviously certain characters like Jane Doe are extra sexualized but the community talking about asses has been there across numerous games of many different genres.
Heck looking at the recent trailers, Caesar's demo trailer is very badass with exception for the last scene, and Burnice's is more derpy than anything else. If we're talking about their outfits, I mean they live a desert.
Imagine thinking man and even a part of women don't play video games to just appreciate the characters and how hot they are. Nothing wrong with sexualization, as long as it's not the main or only reason to exist of something, making it actually interesting. Ppl talk as if it's a sin and everyone's a Puritan Catholic Extremist. Like, bruh, just enjoy life, nothing wrong with that.
This, really. I feel like all the talks about the game's sexiness are a bit overblown (in general, not just specifically this video). The marketing will absolutely lean into the sexiness of some characters, Jane's videos have left zero ambiguity about this, but it's not like this is the only defining characteristic of said characters. In fact I think the story tends to do a good job giving them layers and subtleties even with what screentime they may have (even Jane's videos subtly highlights other aspects of her character, like when she blushes as she gets a compliment from the rat officer lady). And heck, Jane is a femme fatale, making her sexy, especially in a way she's fully in control of, is hardly outrageous, it still fits the movie themes of the game. Even Burnice mixes the biker aesthetic with that of a cheerleader. When you look at it that way, the sexiness doesn't have to be seen as a weird complement added on top, it can be a component of the game like any other. And if it jumps out that much to people, I feel like there's a point where it's just revealing of some prudishness, because it's really not that outrageous. It's also a little funny to me when only bare skin is seen as sexy, as if Miyabi isn't sporting her own more subtle sexiness with an outfit that highlights her own fairly big boob size, or overlooking her pantyhoses because she has a knee-high skirt. It's less overt, but it's there too. Some characters will be more sexy than others, and in different ways. I don't think it's so much a question of eras as ALG puts it, so much as it is simple diversity of characters that are meant to appeal to as many different tastes as possible. And, I dunno, I think the game is still pretty far away from anything too overt or bland with its sexiness, like a character only defined by that and nothing else, or whose sexiness makes no sense in-universe and takes too far.
dude, their tits jiggle so much that it makes my non-playing friends cringe.
Space Marine 2 has it fair share of memes about Astartes arses too.
I cant wait for the next big gacha game to realease so all the tourist can get the fuck out and go hate the new trending thing, that way only the people who actually enjoy the game will stay
There’s room for both, as long as gameplay is fun I don’t really care. Characters being extra cute and hot is just a bonus for me
Idgaf if a game is heavy in fanservice as long as I'm having a blast playing..
And to hell with anyone judging me on my tastes in gaming. FFS I play snowbreak everyday along with ZZZ.
Good for you. Personally, I appreciate all aspects of the game. Not just fun gameplay, but also a story, visual and sound designs, character interaction, etc.
@@99jenia yup we all have our reason to love a game. Good storytelling can only go but so far. Something else is needed to keep everyone in the fold unless the story is good enough to ignore everything else.
@@99jenia Well I never said I don't appreciate all aspects, for me it's just that gameplay>>visual>characters>story>music/sound, I'm sure many people are similar
Its weird to assume that zzz was made just to make "coomer" bait chars, just like in other hoyo games there will be chars apealing to different audience
People getting so broken over Burnice just being a cute and fun girl who likes to dance.
"..more focus on gameplay, and less on looking at butts"
-both? both. both is good.
thats why this game is hated on bru 🤦♀
@@lildookn3712 hated by whom? Lmao. They are doing great, people want a third hoyo game with the same tiresome Genshin designs? Really? 😂
@@lildookn3712 being hated by very annoying people is a W
@@Nu_r0gahated by twittards
Miyabi already been there since beta so ppl already knew what she is lookslike and not will be surprise when hoyo release it later. The one that wanna pull Miyabi not because her sexyness but more to coolness cause how cool she is when using that katana from the cutscene alone. For Lighter and Harumasa they gonna release it for ppl that keep waiting the husbando type agent. Hoyo know their audience very well since this isn't the first game they release so there is nothing to worry about
I may try to get Harumasa if it turns out he has two movesets. Ranged and melee. He may be a bit like Childe in Genshin in that regard.
I'll be ok with anything but I fear them leaning into the lolicon part of their audience. That idol faction is gonna be a problem. I fear zzz will get the blue archive reputation because of it
@@ahlemlora1452 Lolis and huge badonkas are the best shield from toxic fandom people. Let the idols come.
@@ahlemlora1452 the loli already been there since genshin impact and hoyo still making aton of profits from that game. Aslong they make loli as an option character not as a whole characters then i believe ppl will be okay with it. We already have loli in ZZZ as well like piper, lucy, qingyi, koleda, corin and the game still goin strong cause they not turn all the girls character into loli type but adding more loli character within the game. They do not remove what we already have but giving more option to the other audience that like the loli character for their own reason. i understand some ppl do not like the sexy char, loli char, male char or female char and that's why they make all of em available for us so we can choose which one we wanna pull or skip. We don't have to pull every single character that they release to beaten the end game content too
I mean, the game is always gonna have Gooner characters and gooner bait, but not to the extend of shit like Azur Lane or Nikke. So we are gonna have a very mixed cast, badass/Edgy characters, Gooner characters, Furries, Robots , you name it. So i think is not like the game is changing, is just the character rotation to appeal a wider audience without letting go that massive gooner profit market.
Yeah, I like how this game feels like it's more free to do different things with characters.
Agree
Agreed, this is how ZZZ has been with its character design since day 1. I’m honestly confused why this is even a topic worth making a video on. “Character designs may not be over-sexualized going forward”…okay. Weird.
If MIYABI is not having vergil and the chair reference, it's Joever
I dont get this whole coomer thing. Its slang for people who like sexy characters? Like, there have been sexy characters in video games since fucking Donkey Kong. Its not a new concept, so why are people acting like it is?
You underestimate how lifeless Twitter users can get.
Eh, it's kinda both? It's both insult by fundie prudes who hate anything shorter than ankle leght skirts and description of incel creepy basement dwellers seeing girls as objects. Sexy is okay (for normal people at least) but then there are two unhinged groups of creeps on both sides of the issue better to be avoided...
A gooner wrote this.
I think my brother in gacha is mistaking them targeting demographics of coomer outside his coomer demographic as going away from coomer bait. When in fact, Lighter is just coomer bait for a certain group; and Yanagi is coomer bait for a particular refined sub-slice of coomers.
It's coomers all the way down - and it's super cool anime fighters who are badass all the way down. It's both, and I love it.
I think you are reading waaaaay too much into the sequence of near-term releases. A simpler explanation is that each faction has a design theme and the amount of sex appeal per design theme varies from faction to faction. We already have factions where sex appeal is downplayed, like Victoria Housekeeping. SoC has sex appeal played up to the max, consistent with their free-roaming, frontier-battling and the family-you-choose over the family-you-were-born-to nature. Section 6 will have sex appeal toned down, since they are an elite para-military combat group. I'd expect OBOLS Squad to be even more down-played. While Virtual Idols will go for cute-and-sexy. The variations are due to the release order of factions, more coincidence than plan.
all this guy does if read too much into the game to make click bait video titles
Miyabi is the composed serious sister saving you from trouble compared to Burnice who'd be the sister that most likely drags you plenty of fun messes.
HE TOOK THE BAIT!!! NOW!!! SEND IN PULCHRA!!! BACKED UP BY THE LOLIS!!! COOMERS 4 EVA!!!
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Talk to em king 🗣🗣
bro think he out of the wood bc section 6 drop, nobody tell him about furries lady or loli with 4" mini skirt
Pulchra, pulchra, pulchra!
Cheer for coomer designs all you want but I refuse to cheer for sexualising children
I'll just say this. The day Zenless introduces a busty female character whose entire design revolves around a micro swimswuit, then I'll allow people to call it "coomer game". Otherwise they're just parroting words from twitter addicts who saw Jane's trailer and think all the game has that same artistic choice.
This video is a bit of an odd way to look at the characters, I feel like a more interesting topic to address could've been the upcoming dilemma of whether or not we will start seeing the beginning of limited 5* agent powercreep (and the associated implications with regards to endgame like Shiyu) with Miyabi.
We know from the CBT and her general design that Miyabi is going to be an ice element character. And since I don't see them releasing a 4th limited anomaly unit in such a short timespan, she's almost certainly going to be an attacker type, which means she could be contending with Ellen for the ice damage role.
Harumasa is also in an interesting position, he's unlikely to be our first 5* support given that S6 already has a support char in Soukaku. He's most likely going to be a 4* unit based on his design and how there are only 2 5* units/faction. I reckon he's going to be either a defense or stunner unit made to pair with Miyabi.
Bruv thinks the "office lady" asthetic isnt gooner bait lol
Shhhh dont let people know that Miyabi wears heels and stockings instead of a more pratical attire, for SOME REASON.
We gooners stand united, undaunted, and unopposed
Or... its just a different character style? The Biker Gang has a more Punk look where the next faction is clearly a Mix of Japanese/Military attire.
NEPs wernt overly sexualised in their Marketing with the exception of Jane Doe, which we know was a Character she was playing as her Cover.
Belebog wernt Sexualised in their Marketing.
Victoria housekeeping wernt either.
and 1 member of the Cunning Hares wears short shorts.
I think you are just reading too much into it.
I agree with that
Yeah I think he's looking too deep.
Zhu yuan was sexualized
I don’t think it’s a particular movement towards or away from it, just different kinds of characters coming out. But I feel like this is just blatantly ignoring the angles they used for Zhu Yuan in her demo trailer, the tight shorts they have on Qingyi, Grace’s trailers starting with her bust as the central focus and both focused on the fetish for her feet, and that’s not even mentioning the exaggerated physics they have for characters such as Rina and Yanagi.
@@MagmaSpacer 100% the Physics are over the top, but honestly the animations of the game and its its art direction in general is far more cartoon like than previous Hoyo IP.
Personally im looking forward to Soldier 11's faction getting more Characters, wanna see some Military attire, long coat, pistol firing with 1 hand badass Female Major. :P
The coomer bait could be going away? A few updates of more military themed characters = no more coomer characters? In what world is this even a possibility? You've seen how many views Burnice's music video got right?
Sure these upcoming S6 characters are dressed more military/profesional but they are still sexualized. How does this lead one to believe that hoyo is moving forward in a less sexualized way afterwords?
Each faction has a theme and they have been following it pretty nicely. I'm more than certain we will see some more spicy characters in the future.
this what baffles me about the point the video is trying to make. If Section 6 was a brand new faction that came out of nowhere then i could see the validity of the argument, but they have been there since the start.
Dang, makes me realize Burnice already surpassed the views on Caesar’s demo even though it had much more ambitious animation. 💀
Chat is it coomer bait to show a little skin
Lets hope you are completely wrong about this... Genshin and Starail are already safe enough, let us keep the physics over here
saying "the twins" triggered some boss ptsd
Twins are ez pz I solo them with Ben.
As someone who grew up watching stuff like Ichigo 100% and Umisho, hearing people call Zenless Zone Zero coomer bait feels like a bit of an exaggeration. Anything that is anime or anime-adjacent is most likely going to have some level of fanservice, it kinda comes with the territory, but Zenless Zone Zero feels pretty tame compared to a lot of other franchises.
Do not worry, I will make sure that my Yanagi and Miyabi will be showing off their assets by grace of modding.
this is annoying, ZZZ is mihoyo's first 16+ game, all their others were rated for younger audiences, the designs are more outrageous and defined because the playerbase is as well. its a more mature game, like it or not. "coomer bait", "gooner game", these characters each have so much more depth than what everyone seems to focus on. if we're going to attack mihoyo for their designs, why bother going 16+ with the rating? its a design choice and it sells because the characters are packed full with personality to them.
if some of the scenes in trailers and so on are uncomfortable, like Jane's interrogation, and Ceasers shower, maybe instead of going red faced and accuse the game being gooner bait, see why they did those scenes in the first place.
janes interrogation is a showcase of her wits, her tireless fight to stop crime and her masterful skills at impersonating a villain to achieve heroic goals. she sexualizes herself in order to retrieve information and stop crime at the source. We see this in her own chapter. Jane isnt "sexy" simple to be sexy, its for a reason.
and Ceaser, her scene was important to showcase how deeply she cares about the Sons of Calydon. how free she is with them, and how much she trusts one another. this feeling is highlighted even more with her chapter, where her final moments wouldve been to scarifice everything, her dreams, her family, simply for doing the right thing. luckily ceaser was able to stay with us, but if it wasnt for that scene, we would have never known how far she considers the Sons of Calydon family.
I understand that the game may be excessive at times, or seem like its purposely using sexualization as a selling point, but i beg people to look deeper than attractiveness and body type, if youre not comfortable judging somebody based on their looks in real life. why do the same to characters who obviously have so much more to their story then simply their attractiveness?
Well said!
The thing is, these sorts of sexualized elements or carefree tendencies are only for the female characters for the most part. You’re not going to get shirtless Ben or have Anton be manly and without filter with his bros like that. That’s only for the gals. You don’t have Lycaon use his charm to get info, he’s just a gentleman. But remember we can focus on Grace’s feet or bust in promotion. All the men are moderately dressed with Anton barely giving his chest. Yet multiple women have tight and short shorts. Obviously there’s more to these characters than the sexualization, but it intentionally focuses on using gooner bait to get people to want these characters or play the game. Heck, it’s going to take us over four months just to even get a limited male in the game.
@@MagmaSpacer literally the leaked character tape for lighter is him shirtless. and anton/ben/billy and even seth are all not characters where sexualization would not benefit their personality. for the other characters it at least has something rooted in their personality traits. grace is barefoot because she wears slip-on shoes and doesn't even like to dress modestly due to working day and night. hence the energy drinks and Ramen trust event. Lyacon doesn't have to be shirtless either to get respect. yet he literally wears bondage inspired clothing. there are reasons for why characters are sexualized and why they aren't.
@@andrewa9279 You’re just making excuses now. You do realize the personalities of these characters are arbitrary right? They purposely gave the characters and personalities to the women so that they could be the ones to show off these fanservice elements as bait. Grace wears slip on shoes and doesn’t like to wear modest clothes because she works day and night? And for what purpose do we focus on her bust? For what purpose is she female? Why does she need to have these personality traits to begin with? There are plenty of people who work day and night yet don’t have their feet out at the focus of the frame. So you saying that it has a character purpose doesn’t really combat the fact it’s still gooner bait. You can have these elements as well without focusing on them.
You could also just switch the sexes of Grace and Anton and nothing would change in the narrative, but they time and time again give these elements to the female ones. This isn’t even taking into account things like the focus on Zhu Yuan’s behind which serves 0 purpose at all or the physics on Jane and Burnice. Do the guys have physics? Why not? It doesn’t serve a narrative purpose, it’s just for fun.
Now I’m not saying that the game is only gooner bait, but to act like the promotion and a large chunk of it isn’t targeted towards that demographic would be disingenuous.
Also they better keep shirtless Lighter
@@MagmaSpacer its a fictional world and it makes sense within the world building, what you're so mad about is relative to real life. that's the problem with you and everyone else who seems to bag on the game for "gooner bait". I'm saying that their style is part of the characters, no matter how outrageous it seems to be. koleda, president of belobog industries, wears half a uniform and a tank top. ben, the accountant, wields a giant flaming rocket cement pillar. anton has a personal relationship with a drill he names bro on his arm, grace is the lead engineer of the company and sacrifices all her modesty and daily necessities like food and sleep for the betterment of her machines and AI. when all of them are put next to eachother, they don't stand out nearly as much as people like to claim. does mihoyo take advantage of the world building and make sure to prioritize what the trailers show? absolutely. but to claim they are ONLY their feet, ONLY their chest, they ONLY exist for "gooner bait" are the real disingenuous claims.
i want to have this game stand out on its own, rather than being ridiculed and constantly compared to other similar titles for their designs. the game is rated for more mature audiences, even those 16+, and it clearly shows. if people took a couple seconds to look beyond their "assets" i think they'd learn to appreciate the characters more.
3:11 gooner era is finsished guys? Didnt complain at first but i guess now i can tell people i play zzz lol
Tell them anyway, they're the ones in the wrong for judging
Why don't you just own the things you like and not worry about perception.
@@virtualmartini nah it was just a joke lmao, i dont really care what people say about what i play
I'm sorry but I must respectfully disagree here. Like what are we, 12? I think Zenless devs know their audience and character design has been amazing so far. There is nothing wrong with sexy characters, if people do have a problem with it as adults, then I'm sorry to say but it's not a game problem. I think it's good that not all characters follow a single pattern, variety is good. I'll be honest, I think censorship and especially being oversensitive to the concerns of those with nothing better to do (gaming press in general) would destroy this game. It's already started with the removal of "TV mode'" and frankly I don't think the fights are varied/deep enough by themselves to maintain interest in the long term. I'm all for respecting the developer's vision and this is the version I want to play. As the old saying says: "In trying to please everyone, you end up annoying everyone and pleasing no one." Chasing the curve makes things bland and visionless. I do understand that probably nothing we say or do on this side of the pond would have much of an impact, it's all about the CN market.
re "There is nothing wrong with sexy characters" he literally said that in the video, did you watch it or just cry the whole time about the woke taking away your softcore porn. "In trying to please everyone you end up pleasing noone" the only people they're not going to please by _mixing in_ characters with less jiggle physics and more conservative outfits is people who ant the game to appeal to them and _only them,_ who see characters that do not appeal to them personally as an existential threat against all media they enjoy. Don't be that person, that's roughly the same kind of person that whined to hoyo until they nuked tv mode.
This is coming from someone whose favorite characters are from the sons of calydon. But characters that aren't going to be my favorite, who appeal to other people, can be released. That's not a threat to characters I like, it's doesn't mean i'm wrong for liking the characters I like, it doesn't mean you're wrong for liking the characters you like either. chill.
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This is only normal in gacha spaces, where there's a community of people that are waiting to get exploited
Fr i like tv mode cause it changes stuff up
Eh, it doesn't matter. Just skip the characters you don't like. Screw meta.
Just go outside and look around how women on the street, club, school, mall dress. Or just look at twitch.
Have you ever opened any social media site and scrolled for at least 5 minutes? Then you can see over sexualization of real people. Zzz is not over sexualized nor is it coomer bait. Anyone can literally google xyz choice of pron, why would they go the extra mile into a game play for hours just to goon? I will never understand modern American prudishness when it comes to healthy sexuality but they are all fine and happy with over the top gruesome violence.
If you think Miyabi isn’t coomer bait… (I love her. She is the ultimate waifu)
watch her be thigh high feet bait in the trailer :sob:
Not every character are going to be fanservice, that would be boring. But it won't disappear, i'm pretty sure.
I assume you don’t play other Hoyo games. There is no coomer bait, if you want coomer bait go look up Nikke. ZZZ in general has characters show more skin but it’s also the only game that takes place in a game where fashion is closer to ours in the real world as opposed to space China. The character designs are tame when compared to other non Hoyo gacha games, and the only coomer parts you are thinking of are what you’ve seen in your own mind. As a small creator you shouldn’t insult your viewers.
This is a weird video, because for the argument about there being a change to have any merit it should be noticable shift or change of plans but there isnt.
The game launched with a trailer that showed all the groups and characters we would get and they have been following that plan withouth skipping a beat. The coolest Miyabi scene was in the launch of the game..... so where is the change? Then there are those characters teased on the video "Where miracle began", so those elements has always been there.
There have always been cool and gooner aspects, sometimes at the same time because they arent mutualy exclusive. They know you have to add more to than jiggle physics to actually sell characters.
For all the bouncieness that Caesar has, the attention she got double after a shoujo manga music video of all things.
It's most likely just going to be a mix of the 2. Some characters will be badass or sexualized or just a mix of the two. That's all. Miyabi seems to be more of a vergil inspired character. So she'll most likely appeal to those people. Everyone will get there fill. Its just a matter of which patch/update will be focus on what.
The one thing ZZZ has done right is to have the art style focus on the character theme. The sex appeal has always fitted, or at least in my opinion, the character to some large degree. Section 6 looks more toned down because they're supposed to look professional. There's still an element of sexiness because poly doesn't sell itself but the theme of the character isnt sacrificed for the sake of sales or at least they try preserve the nature of the character.
Damn looks like the last character I will buy is Ellen when she reruns then lol that’s good for me I guess my wallet will be fuller
I wouldn't mind a break from the coomer characters, but I hope it's just a temporary one
Am i the only one that likes the "sexualized" characters not because they are like hot or sexy or whatever, but because they are geniunley cute?
The crucial thing that makes or breaks a character being s3xualised is whether it's in character or not. Like for example, Qingyi from the neck down has the worst design in the game period. I don't even care that the artstyle makes her look like a tween, it's so unserious for the designers to expect people to suspend their disbelief and believe that this costume is somehow up to code in this universe. Soldier 11 is arguably even worse in this regard. Gaming industry has learned nothing from the Quiet from MGS fiasco lol.... On the flipside characters like Nicole, Jane Doe and Burnice harmonise with their character design because all three are the type of character to use their feminine wiles to disarm people, Nicole is a con-woman, Jane works as undercover intel and regularly cozies up to criminals, and Burnice is a bartender who just wants people to forget about their worries and for them to have a good old time. I think this lends itself well to Zenless because the girls are allowed to wear actual clothes that are cute and trendy instead of gooner tactivomit garb.
Thank you for listening to my longwinded rant
You got filtered bud.
@@goblez5900 feds at youtube HQ at it again
@dubwubwubstek244 You got filtered by Qingyi, etc.
Perhaps a game like Concord or the new Dragon Age has female characters more to your tastes.
Based on how hoyo does Ayaka, Miyabi will have gap moe but different flavors than Caesar's.
To be completely tbh, I do not see your vision on this. As others have said, the Section 6 cast have all been plainly visible for as long as the game has been public, so I don't think Hoyoverse is considering moving away from cheesecake, and for another thing, I don't think it could possibly work if they tried it. It doesn't matter how many sensibly dressed, reasonably proportioned characters they add in the future, new players will still have to start the story from the beginning.
You start off playing as a girl in a miniskirt with visible thong straps, whose boss is decked out in full gyaru fashion, and they're joined by a petite catgirl in bicycle shorts who wiggles her butt in the air for her Ult.
Get through that, and Chapter 2 introduces you to Grace, with her giant pudding boobs and her Agent Story that contrives a reason to get her out of her boots.
Making it through that takes you to the intermission, where you'll meet two female officers with prominent posteriors, and the one with more skin exposed is awfully young-looking...
If our hypothetical cheesecake-hating new player is still with us, in Chapter 3 they'll be introduced to Victoria Housekeeping Company, where two thirds of their maids are highschool girls and the third has a bust to match Grace's, but hers are covered in leather straps that don't seem to serve a purpose beyond framing them.
I'm sure you see my point by now: Zenless Zone Zero as it exists can't feasibly court a new audience, because anyone they manage to draw in will be filtered right back out by the existing content that was designed to appeal to the initial one.
to add to your point, courting really REALLY hard those who are filtered by the sexualization would make their existing audience feel unwanted and disrespected. So they would risk loosing what they have by chasing this unicorn of a bigger audience.
Look in a simple person. I just want hoyo to make even fan service for both guys and girls (please i stg give me some boys)
Amen. The solution is not less fanservice, but more fanservice for all. ✌️
@@Nu_r0gaBig robot man with even bigger sword is my type of fanservice.
Hard agree! I'm sure they're coming, but given hoyo's record I imagine in a year or two we'll be around 60% hot girls, 30% hot guys, and (if we're lucky) 10% hot enbys
Oh, damn. When I clicked on this video, I thought it was going to be an analysis or speculation on how teams/meta/content was going to be changing. Not that there might be less jiggly bits on character models. Kind of an L video, but I guess we'll see where the game goes soon enough
You can feel the genshin player coming out in this video.
Yeah this video screams tourist for some reason
video is a click bait Miyabi was there since CBT so uh ya.....these characters were planned way before the game even became playable
Being more story-focused and sexualization aren't really mutually exclusive honestly, Nikke is a big example.
such an odd topic. yea some characters will be marketed differently based on designs and story, shocker. an interesting point u did bring up was miyabi in a bikini. im wondering if they would change her design a bit to make her more appealing. i dont need her to be sexy per se but personally, i think everyone in section 6 looks bland besides soukaku
There is leaks about upcoming blond character that even more sexualize than Burnice lol, and there is nothing wrong with it.
I mean, looking at your pinned comment, you clarify that you didn't mean they were going away forever, but the video definitely gives off that impression. Here's the thing, love it or hate it, ZZZ attracted people who are into those designs, they knew who they were targetting, and they knew who they were going to draw in, far before the game released. Those characters aren't going away. But if anyone genuinely thought that those were the *only* characters we were getting...I'd have to ask if they've never seen Hoyo's other games. While they made ZZZ to give fans of fan service a game of theirs to play, they can't just alienate their existing fans who are playing the game either. It's a balancing act that they're going to have to perform. While many would argue the opposite, I don't really think the characters before Jane were all that heavily sexualized. More than in Genshin? Probably, yeah (I have no idea about HSR, so I can give no comment there), but far less than Jane and Burnice. We're going to see more modestly designed characters for sure, I'd honestly argue we'll get more of them. But I don't think they can get rid of the fan service characters without losing a sizable chunk of the games fanbase; I don't see them scrapping them.
guys guys i really dont know whats the trouble with characters having uber sexy designs, in a gacha game of all genres. let them design the way they wanna design. characters being sexy have nothing to do with them having depth or good gameplay. have we not heard of bayonetta, 2B, or Chun LI? my doods we can have all of them. the beauty of zzz is that they have a really distinct and diverse directions for the faction/character designs. hence why s6 looks so unsexualized.
i dont see why theres an idea that "theyre focusing on badassery as opposed to assery" is going around. Let them look cOomER bAiT af by all means please if thats what the devs want cuz at the end of the day, those who play the game know that their attractiveness is just a part of them and that they have interesting personalities and stories to tell too.
Don't take my coomer bait away.
This video is more about what "you" want, who is the author of this video, not what the community want.
Also "Characters Are About To Change In ZZZ (Zenless Zone Zero)" is a pretty clickbait title so I'm gonna leave a dislike for that, because in the end you provide nothing but how you want it to be.
My prediction : This video is gonna age like milk.
I doubt it, it seems he is trying to appeal to the twitter normies currently complaining about Burnice and calling the game goonerbait.
People who have never played ZZZ and should have their opinions disregarded.
@@goblez5900gooning doesn’t broaden the player base
@mordakie3805 Fanservice and attractive female characters are not "gooning," and you need to stop mindlessly echoing zoomer slang.
If you want oversanitized slop from your videogames and media, then gtfo of Anime and Gacha games and go enjoy western AAA sweet baby slop. This game is not made for you, get filtered.
@mordakie3805 Sanitizing media destroys the art as well as the existing playerbase.
You are a brainrotten zoomer who can't remember a time when videogame women were universally hot and nobody cared, in fact, people celebrated it. Unknowingly you are parroting the same drivel of Anita Sarkeesian.
@@mordakie3805 Highest grossing gacha is a borderline hentai game so, yeah it definitely can lmao.
Bro, hoyoverse never denied the allegations, have you even read the company slogan?
"Tech Otakus Save The World"
Like, they don't care blud 😭💀
WE ABOUT TO GET THE MEN META
I love the design of all the characters honestly and yeah some of them are kinda bait but i also feel like hoyo has put enough personality in each character to make them all enjoyable beyond their physical appearance
This is funny. I thought this was going to be about what happens when decibel energy isn't shared by the characters and you can use multiple ultimates. Or maybe a healer.
Bro really posted this like Miyabi isn't hot. People have been saving for her since they saw her for the first time 😂 Any character can be sexualized, it's just a difference in how it's done. You don't necessarily need to show a lot of skin or give them big tits to do that.
Just wait for the virtual idol faction and everything will break loose
@AverageLuckGamer
I have a feeling that they will release this in the future characters like 1500pts 1st ult phase (can be daze%, damage% another or buff%)
another 1500pts 2nd ult phase (Big damage or others).
When/if we get the rest of OBOL squad (soldier 11's faction) it'll probably be the same, very serious characters who are more on the cool side than the sexy side
I think the devs have actually done a pretty good job of mixing up the character types, even from the start. So it's pretty cool that they are mixing up the limited S ranks too. Hopefully they keep dropping something for everyone.
Oh this is 100% only temporary. Hell even when they aren’t gooner bait they’re still highly anticipated like miyabi.
You really underestimate the power of black tights! Miyabi is VERY coomer bait character. Just look at fan art of her)
Theres definitely gonna be art of her feet in thights or smth weirder
That's okay, tbh every gacha game needs to have a balancing act between gooner bait and cool/badass stuff to excel in the long run imo. I started playing the game because of how lively and fun the animations & characters' personalities are, as long as they keep that, nothing could stop me from continuing. That's not to say that the gooner bait isn't 12/10, but to me, they sort of just prop up an already amazing game
My guess for 1.3 is it will be a chapter 5 with for yanagi and we will get a character story with lighter and 1.3 will be a part 1 of a 2 part story and 1.4 will be the part 2 with miyabi and harumasa like chapter 5 and chapter 5.5
"Sector 6 and Big daddy are the only factions yet to drop yet"
*sad Obol Squad noises*
Fortunately unfortunately there’s at least two patches worth of idols that i will be happily skipping at some point. Fortunately because i can save up polys. Unfortunately because i still have to suffer for two patches with characters before something remotely interesting shows up.
lost 50/50 on m2 burnice to neko, i need some condolences (burnice is my wife)
Our wife sir.
I'm tired of Mihoyo's Disney-fied bullshit. If they're in the mood to be gratuitous because of the higher age rating, then they should go for it. At the end of the day, gameplay is all that matters to me. I tried Nikke out and no matter how "great" those character models are, I quit after a month cos the gameplay is nearly non-existent.
the real question is Why would we WANT to beat the coomer allegations?
This lol. Compare the shitshow that is the Genshin community to something like Nikke or Azur lane.
Personally I like to walk around the city with burnice facing the camera instead, that jiggle is second to none
I love these hot characters as much as the next person, but absolutely, we don't need to be Nikke -- we don't need every character to be Burnice and Jane. A healthy balance is great. Sure, I'm here for the eye candy, but I'm also here because I love these characters for their actual **character** and I love the story and the mystery of what's going on with Belle and Wise and everything. And I'm sure we'll still continue to get more hot guys and girls too. Heck, we still don't know what Trigger looks like, but, looking again at Nikke, I wouldn't be surprised if she looked somewhat like Maxwell or Delta.
EDIT: Actually, I just saw that we do have Trigger concept art, and I think she actually does look a bit like a mix between Delta and Maxwell lol
I love how you’re staying respectful even tho you’re talking abt gooner stuff
Anyone complaining about these being "coomer" characters. and "no matter where you have the camera you can still see her booty jiggle physics" - like YES, because that's how the character model is designed. Just like real life people if you had a 360' camera around them. if you don't understand than you've never had a hot GF before. Im a gym junkie, and when me and my girl go to gym, or out for errands, she wears gym wear for comfort and it's usually booty shorts or Yoga pants. No matter the angle you look at her, at least from my perspective, you will see her cheeks, and figure. Thats just how perspective works on attractive human forms. For refernce tho, she's really into Hoyo games as well, and ZZZ because of the more modern style. She like Zhu Yuan, Burnice, Jane Doe, and Nicole the most out of the girls, because of their styles and animations...(even tho her fav chars are Anton and Seth, because women are as thirsty as men are.. lol). Tho because she plays a lot of genshin, she like Zhongli and Diluc, and Arataki Itto. She played a lil Star Rail and says she likes the guys there more, but doesn't like the turn-based style so much.
Speaking of lighter, what is up with the supposed „strongest fighter of the outer ring and the boss‘ bodyguard“ being a stun unit?
That's thigh....my God. From the bro with constant ass innuendo.
My problem with section 6 is that they are a team for special operations in like military (i guess) group but they are just wearing shirts, skirts etc. Yanagi is basically just a secretary with a sword-spear so its not really interesting design imo
I think they're gonna go deeper on the lore at 1.7 which can be a gateway to more characters and intros
Personally looking forward on how they're gonna narrate more hallow lore
Yup. Miyabi and Section 6 will focus more on Hollows and the ongoing investigation about that Sacrifice creature most likely. I would bit be surprised if in the future we will get playable flashback from siblings perspective from the time of the fall of old Eridu.
I think having variety in sexiness levels is good for the long-term health of the game. Players can skip who they’re not excited for, and save for the characters that feel good to them.
And remember Syndrome’s theorem: “When everyone is gooner bait, no one will be.”
You seeing "modest" characters in the upcoming banner and thinking the game goes to a different direction is cute. Section 6 is dressed accordingly to lore, not to mention Miyabi was out since CBT1 so the faction was planed before the release of Sons of Calydon or other upcoming factions.
The most of the characters might be really sexy, but Miyabi just cuts right through my heart so easy. She is cool, elegant, beautiful, and yet she gives that cute social dummy impression.
I think From the start, till Section 6 are just to attract people with characters and BIG personalities.
After Section 6 banner, we probably get a Persona's quality type stories & lore on previous Hollow Incident. All I can say, sh*t about to get real after section 6 sequence. Probably a dark turn.
I think we will see the idol faction by 1.5. That could be quite a vibe change lol
Angel fanction be like are we a joke that has waterkuma stamp of approval
you're trippin. also twitter isn't real
No those are legs at that angle. I hate these dumb buzzwords - all I want from a game like this is some challenge and fun and from YTubers covering this to enjoy the fun and give gameplay advice.
I don't want echoes of the new puritan Left and their jargon. I don't want pointless meandering talk.
One faction you may have looked is Obel Squad, Soldier 11's faction. Im sure that they will boost her relative power level, but if I was Hoyo Id be in a hurry to push them out asap before she is powercrept to graveyard tier
As for the possible change in design direction.. Ive always been for "cool" outfits over sexy so Im here for it. I wish Hoyo would sell more(reasonably priced) skins, could make everyone happy
I don’t really get this whole coomer doomer thing. Like who fucking cares. And tbh even if I acknowledge it, it’s not only part of the style of the game, it’s also been doubly useful in keeping ZZZ’s popularity far away from certain segments of the Hoyoverse community. So yeah. I’m in love with the game as is, and hope they don’t detract too far from their roots trying to appease too many people.
The last time a game tried to swerve hard away from 'Coomer bait' it was called Concord and they served into instant obscurity.... But jokes aside from a illustration / design standpoint 'Coomer bait' is simply catering to an audience. It is imo, in Hoyo's best interests to cater to as wide as an audience as possible but not fall into the trap of catering to everyone at the same time. The Coomers got what they wanted, cool. Now they aim to cater to someone else. That idea is not novel or shocking and nothing says they cant return to the 'coomer well' whenever they so please. So...i guess im a bit missing the point of the video.
Of all the members we know of from Section 6, Yanagi is definitely the most "coomer bait" able of the four. Miyabi is very conservatively dressed and leans more into being a badass swordswoman. Meanwhile, Harumasa doesn't look to have *that* kind of appeal. Soukaku may have some, but she's pretty much a child.
The biggest hint towards Yanagi being "coomer bait" material would be from her drip marketing with a comment mentioning flowers on her desk on Mother's Day, hinting that she is a mother (MILF lovers enjoyment) or is simply seen as a mother to the people of Section 6. We'll probably find out more when she releases in v1.3
Fern from Frieren: 1st time?
I think its a mix of 3 things?
BA, cutesy, coomer bait characters.
The leaked idols lean into more cutesy
Big Daddy, lighter, miyabi =BA
That nun, yanagi coomer
I guess it depends on their line ups I guess.
"more badassery and less... uh... assery" is too funny 😭😭
Come on do you really feel like there's a lot of coomer bait?
Literally the only over sexualized character is Jane everyone is ok compared to her
I think a good balance would be the target idea. Currently we are leaning more to the one side than the other when recent releases are considered, but I think it will probably introduce characters that appeal to many differnt subsets of players - thats probably a good thing aslong as they do not compromise the awesome gameplay beacuse of it.
You forget Obol Squad as a faction that's been introduced but not fully revealed. What if their story is about kidnapping Anby to force her back into the Obsidian Division 😱
Hoyoverse watching this video: "Hold my beer."
Just remember that the money you spend during each banner define what works and what we'll continue to get in the future. Be it lighter or the hotness slider of characters. So whatever happens it's all up to the devs and the majority of the player base so there's no reason to complain whatever the outcome. If anyone don't like where the game is going they should just stop playing and talking about it
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