I think I might straight quit ZZZ. (Tw: Rant, strong opinions)
Season three’s characters are overwhelmingly boring and same-y to the point that I can’t get a vibe from a single one at a glance. The extreme sexualization of their female cast gets worse and worse with each update, to the point the designs are literally indefensible. I don’t really understand the design philosophy, it just looks really bad — coming from the hoyoverse game that used to have stand out designs and a fantastic identity.
It would be less irritating if they were more blatant about the fact that this game was to get creeps living in their mommy’s basement off, but they still wanna pretend that these women are characters. They wanna act like they respect their women and their players by writing “such a good” story for them, but that’s clearly not true.
It’s just atrocious. From one of the coolest designs with such a stylized edge to Yixuan the fourth. What the fuck is she wearing?? Sure it looks better in game, but that’s only because the game graphics are so good. The design is still one of the worst things they’ve ever done. Then such a pretty design (which they already changed in game to a less appealing version) to “waist must be smaller than one thigh!!” Like she is a proportional nightmare absolutely curb stomping Yanagi’s tiny ass head. Sure she kind of gives angelic here… maybe? She’s straight just wearing lingerie, like…
What. The. Fuck. Are. We. Doing.
You don’t CARE about interesting design. You don’t CARE about the characters you’re creating. You don’t CARE about anything but desperately trying to make as much money as possible with the ugliest bait I’ve ever seen. And fucking losers who’ve got callouses on their cocks from rubbing too much eat it up every time. They’re ruining the integrity of the fucking game every single patch.
I’m so fucking angry because ZZZ’s character design was the main appeal to me — even through season 2 which had some serious stinkers. But among them we got Yuzuha and Alice and Zhao and Dialyn and Orphie — hell even SEED who’s design I DO NOT LIKE — are all fun and have character and at least somewhat align with the faction system. These two have NO character. They’re just half naked to be half naked and in super sexy outfits just to be in super sexy outfits. And that’s the entire fucking cast this season.
I don’t have a problem with sex appeal (Nicole, Jane, and Eve are my favorite characters in the game), I have a problem with the way they’re doing it. It’s. So. Unsexy. Your character has NOTHING to do with being hot and sexy, why the fuck is she dressed like that??? Even with previous sex appeal characters, it made sense for them to dress that way.
Jane is an undercover cop who’s infiltrating gangs, it makes perfect sense that she’s wearing a kind of sexy-streetwear outfit. She’s selling herself as any other hot woman you’d see on the street with a dangerous edge, she’s appealing to her sexuality because it gets her ahead.
Nicole is a gal, she likes to show off her skin and go against social expectations of what she’s meant to wear. It’s also street fashion and she’s very much a girl who has lived on and thrives in the streets. It’s cute, and sure it’s not covering much, but it fits Nicole’s character.
Eve there is less defense for, but she is fully covered still. Shes wearing something you’d expect a bodyguard to wear, she looks formal and stiff but clearly has an edge. You can look at her and be like “okay this makes sense” after and before knowing her story.
Ya can’t do that here! Sure we don’t know the story, but like? Look. Use your eyes and you can see just how bad these two are designed. It’s so upsetting and it makes me so fucking mad. I don’t know if I can keep up with the game when I know they don’t respect their players or their characters.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. It was longer than I expected. Please don’t hate me for feeling this way. I love ZZZ but I just can’t believe what I’ve been seeing.
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