Zenless Zone Zero: a MASTER in Environmental Storytelling

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @FeyHunt
    @FeyHunt  День назад +3

    Which details did you miss? Did you choose to spend time admiring these details? Or did you rush through the story?
    Music used in this video:
    - Ross Bugden - Parallel
    - Yasumu - Left Behind
    - Media Right Productions - Jazz in Paris
    - Kubbi - Formed by Glaciers
    - RAGE - Book the Rental Wit It

  • @Law-of-EnTropy
    @Law-of-EnTropy День назад +18

    These are the type of things i love when i play games. Getting glimpses from what is shown in an environment, big or small, feels immersive. It's satisfying to be able to create images in your head based on inferences and implications alone. An aspect of this in ZZZ that i enjoy seeing is whenever we encounter the NPCs we've met missions or events in the overworld. Then hearing them talk about what they're up to and kinda like acting as an aftermath of their lives after their encounter with Phaeton. It's very human and it grounds you to the world of ZZZ

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Oh yes! Most of the major side quests usually have this epilogue the next day you visit them. ZZZ has a way with making your small choices feel impactful!

  • @maheee
    @maheee День назад +11

    i'm glad someone pointed this out. ZZZ excels in these subtle things.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  23 часа назад +1

      Yeah! That's why I'm here! There are so many good things about ZZZ, primarily in its story and writing. Some that are mindblowing!

  • @DrEnzyme
    @DrEnzyme День назад +13

    ZZZ also actively rewards you for paying attention to these sorts of details. There was a whole ending to the laptop event that wasn't signposted, didn't appear on your quest board or have a marker to inform you of its existence. But if you paid attention to the "mysterious numbers" you were shown and correctly interpreted that they were a phone number, you could call Spacebar's mother and get a resolution to the whole questline.
    There are also hidden quests. Have you noticed the girl holding the sign in Lumina Square? Doesn't it seem a little suspicious that she's being paid a lot of money just to shout some weird slogans?
    I love this sort of stuff. It feels like the devs are saying "Everyone else is going to skip by this without a second thought, but not you. You listened."

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +1

      Yeah! And that makes this game very immersive.
      That ending with calling Spacebar's mother is a perfect conclusion to his story. Very wholesome.
      But that girl who was holding signs in front of NEPD HQ... I honestly thought it was a cruel joke from someone who wants her to promote some drugs... in front of a police station. How else did she get paid a ton from it? 😄😄
      But it turned out to be a more lame gang crimes 😄😄

  • @cawashka
    @cawashka День назад +15

    ZZZ is the first gacha game where I take my time to actually inspect the map. Posters, architecture and assets tell us a lot about the world of ZZZ. Talking to the NPCs gives small glimpses into their day-to-day life in New Eridu, their ambitions and their struggles. There's a hair salon, a clothing shop, restaurants, pharmacies, a police station etc etc. With the shopkeepers actually looking their part & other people going on about their daily lives. Oh and not to forget the cats, which all have a unique name :)
    Great video as usual!

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +1

      Thank you! I find the small events in ZZZ to be an absolute delight! They always manage to sneak little worldbuilding materials here and there. Like that photograph event, which give us more info on the shops in Lumina Square and the bike culture in New Eridu. It's such a delight to read through!

    • @Softlol
      @Softlol Час назад

      Game might be limited to small levels. But it feels more alive than 99% of open world games for sure.

  • @RedHornSSS
    @RedHornSSS День назад +4

    ZZZ probably has one of the best environmental art of all games I've played

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  23 часа назад +1

      In gacha games, yes definitely! We can't compare it to single player or standalone games. But boy, that's not a fair comparison!

  • @Slothz123
    @Slothz123 День назад +5

    Somehow even if zzz is super combat focused they are the best in creating a story, from animations to creating their environment and even their npc's you can just tell how much passion the team behind zzz has in them, even characters clothing can tell you a lot.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Yeah, they really do! They don't need to make Yanagi's naginata display real time clock. But they do it anyway because they can. That's the charm in this game!
      Though, I find the combat is a bit too much for me. I don't know why, but I get tired very easily after 30 minutes of combat in this game. I didn't have that same problem with Wuthering Waves for some reason.

  • @alexsanderivan6511
    @alexsanderivan6511 День назад +13

    Hey Fey, just wanna thank you here. I absolutely love your videos. I was ready to brush off ZZZ's story at the beggining, but your video on why the story of ZZZ is so well-written, and decided to give it another chance, and it's now my favorite gacha game by far, and overall a very good videogame in general. Also, gotta love Miyabi. The badass swordmaster archetype is always one that I enjoy, but also she hates work meetings just as much as I do 😅

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +3

      Hi there! Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad to hear you give this game a chance and thank you for listening to my ramblings 😄😄
      Oh, I also relate with Miyabi! I hate meetings and paperwork like her. I just want to code, man! Just end the Zoom call already! 😄😄

    • @alexsanderivan6511
      @alexsanderivan6511 День назад +1

      ​@@FeyHuntI act as a translator in meetings, so not only do I have to stand the yapping, I have to repeat it all in the other language lol

  • @tatteduprising2327
    @tatteduprising2327 День назад +2

    I like that they give you the deep pore if you pay attention to detail & to NPCS even the ones that give you side missions you can learn a lot

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +1

      Yeah! The attention to details in ZZZ is extraordinary! They really take advantage of that small-world environment. Some of the side missions are incredible too, like the one with Kami North.

  • @c.c.anubis
    @c.c.anubis День назад +2

    In Yanagi's trailer, it's shown that the team doesn't let her do all the paperwork and they do pick up the slack when needed, even showing the laziest of them all, Asaba, finishing Yanagi's paperwork as she was unavailable due to her searching for Miyabi, who in turn bought Red Bean Buns foreseeing that Yanagi won't get the chance to buy some herself (which turned out to be the reason why Yanagi didn't manage to get any herself).
    So my take on that part, is that Yanagi does most of the paperwork herself not because the others outright refuse to, but because she wants to make sure everything is done proper and that she herself has all the information needed just in case something happens, big reason for why I think it's like that is because during the HIA simulation "issue", her reading that whole manual was what gave them the upper hand, if she didn't have all the information, the whole team would've been dead.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +1

      I see! I would have to watch that myself then. I don't usually watch ZZZ promotional contents since they're rather spoiler-y.
      Though I would have to point out that another interpretation is that they ONLY picked up the slack when she's not available... as in this is NOT normally what they do. It's like one of those situations where the kids help do chores when one of the parents are sick.

    • @c.c.anubis
      @c.c.anubis День назад +1

      @FeyHunt that can be a solid interpretation, but based on the trailer (there's nothing spoilery in her trailer), I think it's a recently common situation, as when Yanagi searched for Miyabi, she searched in quite a lot of places, from hollows to even a box on 6th Street (meaning at point or another, she did find Miyabi hiding in a box), so if Miyabi goes running away like that often enough, someone has to get the paperwork done, and we all know it ain't Soukaku.

  • @Ssilhouette73
    @Ssilhouette73 День назад +9

    and U know this is the beauty of NOT HAVING Open world settings. Devs can just focus with the same limited space and pour in their hearts to make it come to life. Whether it's bustling city life at noon, cozy city life in the evening, or just a peaceful, quite night sky of the outer ring it just looks packed with small intriguing details that you can't ignore. Even the NPCs and non-interactable objects, buildings, THE MOON (especially), etc. just paint another picture of ZZZ's world.
    You will complain that I start with an immediate comparison with its biggest competitor, but this is the reality. You don't need ethereal, magnificent world elements or spaces to be better. Making that kind of eye candy stuff only holds value for a limited time. What more assets can they put in that world without making the game size bloated to 100GB or more and the time constraints and cost of making it bring with it? Remember the release trailer for the G game 2.0, where it actually showed a dystopian, destroyed world? Well, nowhere to be found the actual game. It follows a simple strategy: have several regions with one or two remarkable landmarks, and that's it. while the rest of the world is bland or straight up boring. Sure, they might look engaging in the first impressions, but are they really detailed? For example, the premise of the game is a post-apocolyptic world, but where do we see that apart from like 1 or 2 places, and that's it. Does it really look like a world destroyed due to a tragedy? Seriously, even Hollow Zero makes that entire thing look like fairy tale settings in comparison; its just that good. Those magnificent ethereal landscapes-what do they even think about too? That's the problem with it. Just A mega bland world

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +3

      Yeah, I think I did cover this in ZZZ world masterpiece video. Everything can be so detailed because the explorable area is small. But then again, comparing ZZZ level of detail with WuWa or Genshin is a bit unfair. You just can't match it, nor will they have any incentive to do so.

  • @hewhosayszonk
    @hewhosayszonk День назад +1

    I really appreciate this sort of content. I find that gacha and MMO games are not very well covered as pieces of art - most of the time, they get a launch review from gaming sites, and then the majority of commentary is content creators explaining or speculating about the lore, discussing optimal builds, sites publishing walkthroughs, and players discussing which items are worth spending real money on. There's not a lot of analysis of the techniques and effectiveness - at least with ZZZ I have seen animators talking about the cutscenes and animation, but very little commentary on storytelling and themes the way that you get when a TV series puts out new episodes.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Thanks for the kind words! Yes, I guess I find a niche I enjoyed talking about. Though, I do understand why they didn't do it. As you may have noticed, these types of contents don't do well with youtube algorithm. Only certain people like you and me enjoyed this kind of deeper analysis on the storylines.
      And hey, if you want to see more, be sure to stick around!

  • @tatteduprising2327
    @tatteduprising2327 День назад +2

    I played other gachas but personally I fell inlove with Zenless it’s much more unique and original

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +1

      Yeah! It has its own charm. The world, the vibe, and the characters are so refreshing.

  • @HeroDarkStorn
    @HeroDarkStorn День назад +1

    Thank you for pointing these out! I must admit I was so focused on the story (and combat) that I barely noticed even the things they do comment on XD

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Haha, glad I could show you some of them! These things are what I lived for!

  • @opelem6051
    @opelem6051 День назад +4

    Man , this is really great video. I enjoyted it quite a lot.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Hi, thank you for the kind words! There will be more coming soon!

  • @galonski64
    @galonski64 День назад +1

    In yangi trailer, assaba did do paper work that she was supposed ro or naybe he was, but it put a smile on her face on top of maybi getting sweetbuns

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +1

      Haha, did he grumble about it? I have to watch that myself then! 😄😄

    • @galonski64
      @galonski64 День назад +1

      @FeyHunt not sure, but I do feel it continues to support all of zzz faction theme of found family, in some way

  • @MilkMyth
    @MilkMyth 5 часов назад +1

    I'm really hoping that Neverness to Everness does a lot of environmental story telling. Being an open world city gives them so much room to do stuff.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  4 часа назад

      @@MilkMyth I do hope so too. But I doubt that'll be the case. Being an open world means that you can't make every inch as detailed as a small open world like ZZZ. You can pick and choose which area to detail, but it's still gonna be difficult.
      Because the resources and manhours needed will be so expensive if you detail everything.
      Speaking of which, I should probably start making video on that game. It looks interesting.

  • @siloved5272
    @siloved5272 День назад +2

    yesterday I just talk to random npc who stand in fron of train station, some how I pay attention of what they said, try to follow what they told and I get explore quest. And today I just what around each map to sneaky listening what npc they talking about wish I got some new surprise quest.😅😅😅

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Oh yes! There are A LOT of hidden quests that didn't even got listed in your schedule. You just happen to run into conversations, pick up the payphone, and then suddenly you got a 3 hour questline! 😄😄

  • @RieBec-K
    @RieBec-K День назад +1

    I just play for Billy, and theres nothing about him yet, i love the game

    • @rarelovell1093
      @rarelovell1093 День назад +1

      we learn a LOT about him in the 1.2 patch lol

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Yeah, I'm afraid this might be one of those c*ck tease that would be answered 4 years down the line. Hoyo is just notorious for this, especially in Genshin "the sky is a lie" thing.
      We only did learn in 1.2 that
      - He was one of the champions in the arena and seemingly leave that life for his safety
      - He was first found among the rubble on an ancient facility
      But those doesn't seem enough to me. That's just lore teaser.

  • @judgeude
    @judgeude День назад +3

    love it. miyabi doesn’t seem like “i want to train” vibe, so much as she’s a fox thiren and hates being put into corners, being told what to do, and constraints in general. she strikes me as “wait… i’m supposed to be the void hunter here, leave me alone. stop asking for things.”

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      She could be! I don't think we have concrete evidence either way. What we do know is that she does care about her teammates and doesn't pull ranks when Yanagi force her to do better. She _exclusively_ only hate her superiors.

  • @ekapratama2894
    @ekapratama2894 День назад +1

    I was confused at the part where you mentioned Soukaku is a Glutton because I heard Glutenless Demon instead lol
    And yes it seems the HQ does use Eather powered AC since its getting more & more common in New Eridu. Seems like Eather powered stuff is on the rise in New Eridu hence the rise in demand for Eather Crystal. Even Lucius was trying to get his hands on tons of Eather Crystals in the outerim.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Haha, it _would_ be even funnier if Soukaku need Gluten-free food instead. What a headache that would be for Yanagi! 🤣🤣
      I was curious about that Ether AC though... It seems like it's directly leaking Ether to the air. I was wondering if that would be dangerous to everyone outside...

    • @ekapratama2894
      @ekapratama2894 22 часа назад

      @FeyHunt that's possible. But if I have to guess it's just a visual effect telling us that it's Eather powered

  • @Voxet1
    @Voxet1 День назад +1

    I think asaba is hinted to have some dark past from a quote that was in his drip marketing in ZZZ's community post tab, him not wanting to work could be apathy

    • @Voxet1
      @Voxet1 День назад +1

      I just checked the quote is "as a child he was enthusiastic for everything. If it weren't for his master..." and thats it, there's definitely something there

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Good to know! Though it seems like he was forced to work on this job against his will. That would make an interesting character story in the next version, if they decided to dive into it.

    • @chillax319
      @chillax319 22 часа назад

      @@Voxet1 Looks like his master managed to kill the drive and enthusiasm in him, thus why he appears lazy now.

  • @chasedownall6492
    @chasedownall6492 12 часов назад +1

    I’m glad that I’m not the only one annoyed that Section 6 are being babies and putting everything on Yanagi.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  4 часа назад

      @@chasedownall6492 Yeah, that's something that always irked me. That also means Yanagi would have a serious death flag on her to enable character growth for the rest of her team.

  • @KillerBlaze
    @KillerBlaze 3 часа назад +1

    Honestly, Miyabi might just be genuinely unable to beat Soukaku at Tic Tac Toe lol

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  2 часа назад

      That would be so funny if true! 😆

  • @muhammadrafif6160
    @muhammadrafif6160 День назад +3

    Nice video. But how is your project about Wuwa storytelling needs help ? IM still waiting for it

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад +2

      Haha, I'm working on it. I have other jobs, so it can be slow at times. I'm very happy with what WuWa is doing so far though! They're improving at a fast rate.

  • @progaming-ok8tq
    @progaming-ok8tq День назад +2

    miyabi

  • @Kamiyartz
    @Kamiyartz День назад +2

    Asaba constantly reporting sick is only realistic if you live in countries where serving National Service is compulsory like Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and etc. Those who don't want to be part of it will always report sick and make excuses.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      I heard about this! Or some rich people who want to have exception made for their kids.
      But it's clear that New Eridu doesn't have conscriptions, since young adults like Belle, Wise, and Koleda never seem to take any military experience.

  • @Soyo_Nagasaki07
    @Soyo_Nagasaki07 18 часов назад +1

    To me ZZZ has the most improved storytelling in all Hoyoverse Games, its straightforward with some deep lores sometimes, mixed with some comedy & action-packed scenes and dialogues. Coz even other Hoyo-games are already long & well-established in their newest stories...They all still have some flaws & major issues before like in GGZ where the Power Scaling is so outrageous, & in HI3 where there are so many unnecessary long & heavy explanations mixed with convoluted dialogues.
    While HSR & Genshin's stories from the 1st up to their 2nd regions are basic & simplistic, they still have many issues with the very slow & boring pacing with some unnecessary yapping & failed showing & storytelling. Even Inazuma & Penacony have many major issues in their storytelling. But they managed to improved it overtime, especially in Sumeru, Fontaine, & Natlan...so my expectations for Amphoreus is really high especially that their Lore Teaser is really amazing.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  16 часов назад

      Yeah, and that grounded story focusing on characters in ZZZ is very refreshing. For once, we're not dealing with 30-minute yapping about worldbuilding concepts.
      Genshin and HSR didn't really impress me for different reasons. I played Genshin for 2.5 years from launch and left it since the story didn't go anywhere in quality. I tried HSR and stopped until Belobog because the gameplay is just too boring for me.
      But it's good to hear that they're appealing to someone else and are actively improving. That's what I always wanted for gacha game storytelling.

  • @thaqifkhirudin6610
    @thaqifkhirudin6610 День назад +1

    Asaba portion, bgm music too distracting.

    • @FeyHunt
      @FeyHunt  День назад

      Got it! I will have to tone down or replace the music on future video.

  • @demonic_myst4503
    @demonic_myst4503 24 минуты назад

    Acept your wise bell one is wrong belle is canonicly more into sports than wise wise barely cycles and bell does exstreme sports