adambenjamingibbons
Joined Jun 2014
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Not flawless but the flaws don't matter enough to give this any less than 10.
The scene setting, the OST, the world, the graphics, the story, the characters, the voice acting and the combat. It is an absolute beauty.
The reason it's so good is that everything I just mentioned all work together, the tone is set perfectly. It doesn't just gel, it's gorilla glued together in to a cohesive mass of almost video game perfection.
Negatives are invisible walls. A lot of bits look like they should be explorable and they're not but other than that it gives the feeling of watching a great film, in a stunning world, with great writing.
I went in expecting to be disappointed, as I don't really like turn based combat. Nothing disappointed. It paces perfectly, from introduction, to tutorials and the whole atmosphere is captivating. The OST is like Amelie but for an RPG, which fits the setting to perfection.
Battles are fun. The real time aspect to add power to attacks, or dodge/parry in defence, eliminates all that turn based boredom of sitting through animations, cos you're actually doing stuff throughout.
The dialogue is very full and varied but without sounding wordsmithy, like it's trying to throw every word in the dictionary at you. It keeps the tone modern enough to feel relateable, whilst not detracting from the period setting.
Where it shines is where I mentioned before with the cohesion, it combines all the elements to set the tone perfectly. Everything feels like it belongs. It will go down in gaming history.
The scene setting, the OST, the world, the graphics, the story, the characters, the voice acting and the combat. It is an absolute beauty.
The reason it's so good is that everything I just mentioned all work together, the tone is set perfectly. It doesn't just gel, it's gorilla glued together in to a cohesive mass of almost video game perfection.
Negatives are invisible walls. A lot of bits look like they should be explorable and they're not but other than that it gives the feeling of watching a great film, in a stunning world, with great writing.
I went in expecting to be disappointed, as I don't really like turn based combat. Nothing disappointed. It paces perfectly, from introduction, to tutorials and the whole atmosphere is captivating. The OST is like Amelie but for an RPG, which fits the setting to perfection.
Battles are fun. The real time aspect to add power to attacks, or dodge/parry in defence, eliminates all that turn based boredom of sitting through animations, cos you're actually doing stuff throughout.
The dialogue is very full and varied but without sounding wordsmithy, like it's trying to throw every word in the dictionary at you. It keeps the tone modern enough to feel relateable, whilst not detracting from the period setting.
Where it shines is where I mentioned before with the cohesion, it combines all the elements to set the tone perfectly. Everything feels like it belongs. It will go down in gaming history.
For starters I had to turn it off and put youtube on to check my TV wasn't having a funny because it was so ridiculously dark. Turns out it's just bad filming.
Secondly the sound is pretty awful too. Bad music and sound placement in general.
The story is so slow. I'm 5 hours in and little of any substance has happened. It's like the Wish version of Kin.
Actors are actually pretty decent for the most part. A lot of them did well but the source material that they're performing is just amateur. Weird things in the story where the behaviour of characters doesn't align with the plot.
There are a few gangster moments, murders and what not that alter the path of the story but other than actual events like that, which are about one or two per episode, the story is pretty dead.
This should have been condensed to a long film like 3 hours because it is a very slow series and not that entertaining. I'd have been done after episode 1 but as my gf is watching it, I have carried on and I would happily have dropped by the end of ep2, 3, 4 and 5 too. There has been nothing that has changed and made me think oh it's just a slow burner, it's getting good now. It's still just bad.
Some actors have been great though, so I won't discredit the cast. Just the sound, film and writers.
Secondly the sound is pretty awful too. Bad music and sound placement in general.
The story is so slow. I'm 5 hours in and little of any substance has happened. It's like the Wish version of Kin.
Actors are actually pretty decent for the most part. A lot of them did well but the source material that they're performing is just amateur. Weird things in the story where the behaviour of characters doesn't align with the plot.
There are a few gangster moments, murders and what not that alter the path of the story but other than actual events like that, which are about one or two per episode, the story is pretty dead.
This should have been condensed to a long film like 3 hours because it is a very slow series and not that entertaining. I'd have been done after episode 1 but as my gf is watching it, I have carried on and I would happily have dropped by the end of ep2, 3, 4 and 5 too. There has been nothing that has changed and made me think oh it's just a slow burner, it's getting good now. It's still just bad.
Some actors have been great though, so I won't discredit the cast. Just the sound, film and writers.
For starters this is the worst script writing and acting I have ever seen in my entire life.
For seconds the website that hosts this site just takes one wrong click to share your data in a hell of a lot of places.
In fairness. 3 of them - the main couple and the grandad could probably act ok if given a better script. I think they did OK considering the total mess they were given.
There is hope for the scriptwriters too. Bioware probably has a job lined up for them ready to ruin something, they'd be perfect for the role.
Do yourself a favour and ignore any reviews above 1/10. It's pretty much the worst thing you'll ever watch. It's not a case of difference of opinion, it's a case of the high ratings are people outright trolling.
For seconds the website that hosts this site just takes one wrong click to share your data in a hell of a lot of places.
In fairness. 3 of them - the main couple and the grandad could probably act ok if given a better script. I think they did OK considering the total mess they were given.
There is hope for the scriptwriters too. Bioware probably has a job lined up for them ready to ruin something, they'd be perfect for the role.
Do yourself a favour and ignore any reviews above 1/10. It's pretty much the worst thing you'll ever watch. It's not a case of difference of opinion, it's a case of the high ratings are people outright trolling.