Capitán Laserhawk: Un remix de Blood Dragon

Captain Laserhawk is the wackiest action-comedy alternate history crossover of video games I've ever seen, and it feels like its crossover craziness is comparable to Roger Rabbit and The Lego Movie; but this time the main draw is Ubisoft's many gaming properties.

So basically it's the 1990s here: Rayman is a talk show host, Assassin's Creed accepts talking animals into its syndicate, Sam Fisher is like a crippled Batman, and the United States no longer exists; and the Rabbids are gigantic monsters with peanut brains (probably).

This show is an interesting experiment for Netflix considering they're dipping their toes into ACTUAL video-gaming it doesn't feel like much of a surprise that they're trying to adapt more properties for film and tv too.

Of course the show begs this simple question: will there be a sequel series or Season Two in the future? Captain Laserhawk may be not to everyone's liking, but its zany fun and punchy action is a nice fit for the series and its intentions regarding parodying modern America as a paradox-laden maze of insanity.

Captain Laserhawk may become some viewers' 'gateway drug' to other adult animations on the internet, and hopefully this series isn't a one-off thing for Ubisoft adapting its properties going forward.

3.5/5 stars. 7/10 IMDb points. A fun watch that's uneven at times but never boring.

The show has its good moments. Action and plot twists are a delight to watch.

The show has strong positives in world-building and character development. I hope the pacing will be more streamlined in the future and not a random "plug a bit of everything" as it seems in the first season. The follow-up seasons (if happen) definitely deserve a chance to be better than the first one, given the show solidifies what it wants to be.

As for the criticism: Some characters are too out of place, e.g. The leader of the Eden Army is just too comedic and it doesn't fit well into what Eden represents.

As a person who recognized probably all the Ubisoft characters in the series and did play Far Cry "Blood Dragon", I feel the addition of many was often too stretched and unnecessary. I heavily doubt this show will be made canon, so plugging Sam Fisher from Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed represented by a frog-assassin felt to be just for the sake of cheap fan-grabbing audience, and even there it's done so cheaply that it felt rather repulsive than "a nice touch". It's far more crude that "Arcane" or "Cyberpunk" adaptions of their games.

"Nice touch" was a dedsec logo. "Nice touch" was an inter-dimensional species design. Maaaaybe, a name "Pagan Min" of one of the characters. But the rest was obviously made because "we have dead/dying franchises by Ubisoft, let's add them somehow into the show. I don't care how, just do it", and it feels by the viewer.

The scenes where the animated characters were turned into humans were on the boring side. I'm not entirely sure what was the purpose of that. Actually, no, I straight up don't get why would they do it at all.

It has its flaws Plot super fast! Characters show up, die in the next moment, twists and turns, dilema and drama, betrayl and so on. All shoved into 6 episodes each 20 minutes BUT each minute entertaining.

- It also KINDA requires you to accept what it does, for example to your favorite characters; if you can't tolerate seing rayman involved in adult themes OR a show being very out of nowhere, straight up insane and not explaining you anything then just don't watch the show, its FULL of it.

- Its pretty to look at MOST OF THE TIMES, Visuals were AMAZING, 2d animation of a big budget, many scenes where the show turns into a straight up sidescroller or dating sim. There is one cheaply made visual and it drags on for 2 episodes (EP4 and 5) You will notice it.

TLDR: Retro cyberpunk mixed with 'in-game' pixel animations. Definitely different, but if you liked Cyberpunk 2077 edge Runner, you might find that you enjoy this.

I had NO idea what to expect. Not only had I never heard of Captain laserhawk, im not very familiar with Ubisoft as a whole. So it was like going in blind, with my ears covered. The opening scene made it very obvious it was going to be cyberpunkish, and about 10 minutes in, it was very obvious it was a campy cyberpunk ish with videogame elements to it. It was definitely enjoyable though. The Animation style and story telling almost makes it feel like its part of the cyberpunk 2077 universe, and thats mostly a good thing, as I really enjoyed that show. I dont really have anything bad to say about it except the really push the whole 'gilted romance' narrative. I have no issues with sexuality in general, but its a major plot point to the show when it feels like something that they are focusing more on a lovers quarrel than any other plots in the show for the first half. Almost like the rest of the story doesnt matter.

All that said, interesting show, very different. 6 episodes isnt enough.

Just watched the whole "show" and really wish Netflix and other services would stop chopping what essentially could be a 2 hour movie into 6 episodes of 25 minutes (including 3-4 minutes of intro and credits). But I digress, I thought this was a fun watch, thought it was funny and cool to see characters and lore from Ubisoft games mixed into a story. I know people will call it woke and really I am so sick of that word, it has lost all meaning to me. I enjoyed the show, having played a lot of these Ubisoft games made it more enjoyable. Oh one more thing: Bullfrog and Rayman steal the show, they were awesome.