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I'm still downloading inZOI myself (Steam doesn't multi-task well with my super awesome AT&T broadband), so here's some gameplay videos to get some first impressions in. First up of course is longtime SL fashionista / blogger Gogo of Juicy Bomb, who blogs her inZOI gameplay here.

"I'm not a gamer, but it's the easiest game ever," she messages me. "Right now they have two cities, third one opening soon one of the cities is a coastal American beach town, I like that more than Dowon, a Korean urban thing… more crowded." By the looks of it, inZOI's US beach town is a mash-up of Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Huntington Beach, i.e. places we sometimes drive to from Los Angeles sometimes and grumble about the traffic coming back. Thanks to Unreal 5, the game vividly captures the distinct SoCal sunlight.

Couple more after the break-up — a comparison of inZOI gameplay with Sims 4, and a guy from IGN who creates a middle aged Zoi based on himself:

Still hoping for more info on the game's Cat God. My own hands-on with inZOI soon, hopefully!