Hoyoverse – Sick Gaming

While Zenless Zone Zero can appear to be the least popular of Hoyoverse’s extremely strong trio of games, it’s coming back with a vengeance right now thanks to the latest update bringing plenty of freebies and a super-strong character.

The action-based gacha game is climbing up the mobile revenue charts across the world right now. It’s sitting at number two in the Chinese App Store, up a gigantic 191 spaces, all thanks to Ye Shunguang‘s release. It’s also up 86 spaces to number one in Japan. To put that in some context, it’s about 450 million Yen in sales. These figures come from SensorTower and HXG_Diluc on X.

We’ve all been super busy over the festive period, so you may not have noticed all the goings-on in the game – the big 2.5 ZZZ update is here, which means Ye Shunguang is heading up the banner, along with Zhao. Reruns will begin in a couple of weeks with Alice, Soldier 0 – Anby, and Astra Yao becoming available.

If you’re wondering how to afford all of these new characters, don’t fret – you get a free copy of Zhao. Just like that. No need to unlock her, she’s just there, ready to build! There are plenty of rewards other than that, including 1k free polychromes and an entire free ten-pull coming our way in January. Also, new areas provide plenty of opportunities to earn more through exploration.

We do recommend going for Ye Shunguang as she’s proving to hold up the Void Hunter title, and be as powerful as Miyabi and Yixuan before her. I’m still sad that the devs shortened Banyue’s banner for this, but if Shunguang can help me clear the endgame content, I can’t be too mad.

Ah, Sandrone, The Marionette, Seventh of the Fatui Harbingers – what a cool design and a sassy character. She and her personal ruin machine Pulonia strike a formidable pair in Genshin Impact, but what’s going on with her (or their?) playable status?

Some information has, allegedly, come out regarding The Marionette’s playable release. Bear in mind this leak is marked as ‘sus’ on the subreddit, but stranger things have (unfortunately) happened. The leak comes from 神威难藏舅, translated by Columbina Mains.

Supposedly, Sandrone will release in update 6.7 – we’re currently in Genshin Impact update number 6.2, so there’s still a while to wait, but whoever releases in 6.5 will be a support for her, with a cryo vision. Allegedly, remember.

We’ve never seen Sandrone’s vision, but it was heavily assumed to be geo, given her vaguely yellow color palette, and the rise of the lunar crystallize reaction in Nod-Krai. According to this latest leak, she will actually be electro. This does kind of make sense given her whole machine vibe, but I was looking forward to a geo-based Harbinger. She may focus on the superconduct (electro and cryo) reaction.

As the Nod-Krai story has opened up, we’ve met Sandrone in the story. She confronts the Traveler in the middle of the city, in a sassy conversation, and then appears with her robots, who unfortunately get attacked by the Wild Hunt. She’s in Nod-Krai to generally oversee the entire Kuuvahki Experimental Design Bureau, and retrieve Columbina, a fellow Harbinger, and also Moon Maiden in the region.

But apparently, Sandrone won’t be known as Sandrone on her release and will have a very different personality. For me, this is kinda disappointing. This marks another Harbinger that has had its evil side watered down, renamed, and potentially had a personality made more approachable and nice. Scaramouche became the cheeky Wanderer, Arlecchino recently wore cat ears in an event, and Columbina is barely a Harbinger anymore and is actually… a goddess? Don’t get me started on what might happen to Dottore.

Anyway, regardless of how you feel about this, it may not be true and may be entirely fake news. Only time will tell.

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