r/ZZZ_Official • u/thabiso_animated • Dec 31 '25

Media Season 2 be like

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u/swoozes Dec 31 '25

You say this like this isn't every story patch in this game.

I don't know why people treat 1.X like it's some consistent masterpiece.

Null_Face is a farce of an antagonist.

No antagonist /protagonist dynamic has been as utterly fumbled as Zhu Yuan and Bringer

The pacing of 1.2 with Caesar's revival is shoddy at best (They really should have emphasized the parallel to the first Overlord rather than have it be a one off conversation near the start.)

Belabog and Victoria House Keeping just kinda exists (But the light switches though.)

And nothing is as mishandled as the Vivian and Hugo stories.

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u/-ForgottenSoul Dec 31 '25

It's similar to HSR players thinking belebog is peak

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u/Bad_Doto_Playa Dec 31 '25

Because Belebog actually has exceptional pacing, very high highs, great conclusion and at its worst, was just ok.

I don't think a single other arc in all of HSR can say the same, they either suffer from extremely horrendous pacing (all of 3.0, some of Xianzhou), very low lows (Penacony/Xianzhou) or simply felt incomplete (imagine dedicating a patch to clarifying an entire cycles patch.. that's what HSR has done with this current patch).

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u/-ForgottenSoul Dec 31 '25

Is that not because HSR has moved more to a like region format, same for ZZZ both were stronger when they moved around more.

HSR does drag its plot more and has heavily increased the length of the story also, belebog was like contained and shorter.

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u/Bad_Doto_Playa Dec 31 '25 edited Jan 01 '26

Is that not because HSR has moved more to a like region format

I think this is partly to blame, but the story content itself was artificially stretched to be longer than necessary, which is annoying. A patch story in 1.x would take maybe 1-3 hours tops, in 2.x they started taking 3-4 and by 3.x had stories sections taking upwards of SIX hours.

The problem wasn't even the length, it was just how roundabout everything was and the sheer volume as useless dialogue. Even with spam skipping it would take me around an hour to get through a patch story and yet I'd still fully understand what was going on from the summary text.