Zenless Zone Zero Looks Like Yet Another HoYoverse Hit

The music in this is fantastic

So there's now this, Genshin, Honkai Star Rail, Tower of Fantasy, Blue Protocol and Project Mugen. It's kinda depressing how all these games feel like AAA anime games but the gacha mechanic ruins it for me as late game it is necessary to get characters multiple times, if only developers could make actual single player games that look this good and not include Gacha/MTX

@UltimateOtaku91 I understand what you mean by gacha putting you off as I was the same also. I've play Honkai star rail since launch and have got all the premium characters except the 1st one as I did not know how the gacha mechanics worked at the start. So far I've only paid £15 and and intend to stop when I've reached full AAA game value and that was just cause I ran out of Exp materials and did not want to grind for more to level up the new premium character I unlocked. The thing about these gacha games is that there will be so many characters to choose from and a lot of them will perform similar roles so just keep a look out for those you want. There's always enough in game currency to get the characters (In star rail anyway).

@KaijuKaiser I will definitely be playing that on release, just wished more JRPG developers took more time with their games and upgrade the visuals, I mean look how outdated YS and Trails games still look. Only Jrpg I've played that's impressed me visually this gen is Tales of Arise.

@VanguardKaiser For HSR the premium characters are on banner pulls. use the in game currency (stellar jades) for the premium only and ignore the other temptations. There is a small percentage to unlock the character but at 90 pulls its guaranteed. This means u need a max total of 14,400 jades to hit 90 (I usually get them around the 65-70 mark). There is a pull counter that shows you how many times you've done it. The jades can be obtained fairly easily from chests, events and daily login quests.

@UltimateOtaku91 : I get what you mean. One can say what they want about most modern 3D games (gacha or not) developed anywhere in Asia outside Japan, but from a visual perspective, especially if its "anime" themed, a LOT of them have been killing it (HoYoverse included).
That fact alone should be something the JP gaming business (and definitely those wanting to make a triple-A anime RPG) should be taking notes of and compete against, instead of seemingly ignoring it for the most part.

@KaijuKaiser I think mostly that was NISA America that has been charging for PS5 ports. They been doing it with the Caligula Effect games too. It's been mostly in the west.

I enjoyed Honkai Star Rail it may not have the open world of Genshin but I found it a lot easier to get stellar jade's than primogems in Genshin. Gameplay for Zenless Zero looks fun too. I'm impressed with the variety of gameplay that Mihoyo has been doing over the past while.

@UltimateOtaku91 "I mean look how outdated YS and Trails games still look." Because it's not necessary and they don't look outdated because they are going for a specific style that fits their art. Not to mention they want to make their games able to run on switch without much of a hitch. They've NEVER made games that are graphically demanding because they always prioritized portable consoles.