Nov 4, 2013
I prefer the first one. I'm here to say that if you don't get all the hype about Brotherhood its okay.
That said I think the ending of Brotherhood was all around put together 5x as well. In all the anime was pretty good and was pretty interesting, but I don't get why it averages such high ratings. I prefer the sad ending of the first one, but the story had already fallen apart by that point. Brotherhood on the other hand knew exactly where it was going and attempted to get there at 10x the speed of the first one and with 1/3rd the character
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development.
Believability: I would prefer Brotherhood's composition with the first one's story. I just didn't find it that believable. What can make a break a story's believability is the action scenes. Every single antagonist that they fought in Brotherhood should have won. The only fights that could conceivably end in a win were ones with Scar and the only reason I think that is because Scar is a bamf. The biggest hit to the believability of the story was everything to do with the main antagonist. Everything about him including how he lost is hard for me to believe and made it impossible for me to immerse myself in the story. If you care less about how believable the means are and care more about the results, then Brotherhood is great for you.
*****Spoiler Section*******
- For people who want specific examples of what i mean when i talk about the fight scenes I have provided a few examples below:
-Fight with Pride: This is the fight I look back to when I try to recall an example. It is simply ridiculous. Why didn't Pride just stab them where they weren't blocking? There is no reason except the plot. They had to beat him therefore they did. Every time Ed blocked all of Pride's spikes with his one arm I did a facepalm.
-Fight with Lust: She can just spear you with her "Ultimate Spear." She is unbeatable except when she needs to be beaten for the plot to progress.
-Fight with Greed: There was actually no problem with this fight technically, but Greed supposedly had the "Ultimate Armor" and yet he has fairly obvious weak points all over his body? There are no huge weaknesses to the other homunculi abilities and yet his is made inferior just by that fact of him being a homunculus? When I think about him I remember how Ed beat him in the first one. His armor had no real weakness, Ed just used his brain and made the armor not armor.
-For those who have seen the anime and wonder what I found unbelievable about Father I have provided a few things below:
Alchemy: How did Father not know about the foreign versions of Alchemy. He was made of the stuff in the first place. That simply makes no sense.
His Death: Talk about cliche... Ed fit into every single male protagonist cliche when he fought Father. Somehow a guy who can do above average Alchemy can beat a being made from the stuff, who can use alchemy with a thought? What!? One might make the argument that Father was out of energy during their fight. Well... isn't that convenient. He could have squashed them at any other time, but didn't because he correctly assumed they were nowhere close to his strength. It is the classic villain loses because of his own arrogance instead of any real actions taken by the heroes. It just seemed like the story could have simply been about Father and how he tried to become God and failed because it wasn't possible and have no mention of any of the main characters except to have them kick start his ritual.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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