Gameplay

## Overview

Zizanian is an open-world third-person action-adventure game where the player controls a character of their own creation who is trying to stop the even the Abyss and save the world from certain doom from the two Ultra Zizanians, Redragon and Bluedragon, after their counterpart, Greendragon, disappeared. The world map allows players to have massive adventures without the story being able to travel from cities to forests, to deserts, to caves, and many other places. Using special coins rewarded when doing specific tasks players can buy certain power-ups and unlock certain moves for their Zizanians. By doing certain tasks players can grow up their Zizanians and unlock their Zii-moves to give them an advantage in battle. The player in some parts of the game will be able to control their Zizanians in sneaking and puzzle missions. Players can also fast travel through the map using Taxi's, Zizanians, and Buses. Of course, Zizanians will appear throughout the game, their actual sizes are included. Meaning SpineFlares will be naturally large and Flameleons will be quite tiny.

Zizanian's story engages in certain story quests. Having the player have to travel to certain places in order to continue the story. Quests may have the player fight, sneak, figure out, or interact with the player's characters or Zizanians. Some quests advance the player further into the storyline and unlock achievements such as side quests and minigames.

Besides the main story. Players can get various jobs to gain XP and entertain their Zizanians. Getting a job gives you daily quests based on what job you chose. For example, becoming a policeman makes one of your daily quests to look for a Zizanian poacher. Fighting criminals, Abyss, and thugs will give you Criminal coins. While going throughout the game, players will be challenged by various people, (Other trainers, Abyss, criminals, wild Zizanians) who can be fought for extra loot. Players can also go into the Zizanian Tournament to fight in various modes like fighting various trainers with no buffs or fighting until all your Zizanians faint. Doing this will give you Trainer Coins. Various islands around the Zizanians map are home to the Abyss bases, completing them gives you Base Coins. Abyss Bases can be replayed over and over again to give you coins. Most bases involve fighting, sneaking, and puzzles which will give you rewards based on your time. Getting a gold medal will give you three Challenge coins. Science labs require you to do various scientific puzzles and experiments which will reward you with Lab Coins. Threat Control has you go to a certain area to fight a specific aggressive Zizanian in order to keep it from harming people and Zizanians. Finally ,throughout all the maps players can find Zizanian Notes which give them various info on Zizanians. Without getting these it will be hard to handle some Zizanians.

## Traveling

Players can travel throughout the world of Zizanians, they can walk around, ride a specific Zizanians either from their party or from the stables.  Most Zizanians are used to travel faster, yet some Zizanians can fly or swim in the water to travel. A few Zizanians can also parkour across walls for traveling. Players can also call taxis and buses which will fast travel them to a part of a map they want to go to yet this costs money. You can get fast travels by doing certain things in order to unlock them (for example in the bakery you have to bring a list of items back to the chef in order to get a fast travel and a job).

When traveling players can see multiple beautiful landmarks from the Zizanian world along with things like Aquariums, Zoo's, Carnivals, and Museums. Additionally, players can listen to the radio to listen to the news which is mostly Ecology on various Zizanians. along with some game lore.

Fast travel can also be used to travel to Police Stations, Hospitals, Restaurants, and the Mall so you can travel to work more easily.

## Equipment

Throughout the game, players will get more space to add more Zizanians to their party. During the beginning of the game they only have space for two, yet at the near end, they have space for seven. Upon reaching adult or befriending a Zizanian. Players will get Zii-gems to unlock a powerful and devastating move. Upon getting further into the game, players will receive a drone (Used to spy on enemies), crackle bomb,(Used to catch your enemies attention) a spy-der (Same as the drone but used to get into rooms the drone can't), a decoder ring (Used to decode messages), and a Gem Bracelet (For using Zii-moves).

Zizanians will have access to holding three items per Zizanian. You can also put on "costumes" which are items you can buy in-game that change your Zizanians appearance. There are up to eight different costumes to get in-game allowing you to have a different look for each Zizanian at your party. Costumes will appear in cutscenes and in game. Starter Zizanians have an extra slot (Total of four) so they can hold a crackle bomb.

To increase the amount of slots a Zizanian can have you need to exchange it for tokens, expensive but pretty useful trade.

## Zizanian Gameplay

Many times in the story something will happen to the players starter Zizanian that requires you to play like it. This requires the player to either have to do a sneaking mission and note be seen or try and figure out a puzzle.. In order to access more of the story-line your Zizanian may have to be older and evolved. They also sometimes require a special item to complete the quest (For example a decoder ring).

* 2-7 Zizanian party
* 1-2 Zizanians can be active on the battlefield + the Player Character

## Interacting

Multiple times in the game players can talk and interact with Zizanians and people. They will have a few choices on what to say or do. Some quests require you to try to persuade someone and saying the wrong thing will make you start over or fail the quest. Some actions can only be done after completing a specific thing or requiring an item of some sort.

## Setting

The player is an 18-year-old high school student who recently has gotten his/her Zizanian partner. After Abyss destroyed his/her school and realizing that on New Years Day Redragon and Bluedragon would awake and attempt to bring the world to a new age. The character joins a group of Zizanian trainers to find and defeat the evil group and stop the two dragons from bringing the world to ultimate destruction. Meanwhile, the main character struggles with life outside of infiltrating The Abyss with Bullies, his/her crush, and more.

## Rating

Zizanian is a PG-13 rated game. Multiple deaths and minor gore. Despite most characters no dying on screen. Such as at one point two people are grabbed by a Zizanian and dragged into the darkness. There are a few that are onscreen along with a few Zizanians tragic deaths ( Spineflares neck gets snapped and a Volcanius dies of a body malfunction). Their is a bit of alcohol drinking but no intoxication.