Oct 4, 2017
The only good part of this show is the that the NPCs are basically real people and have meaningful strife with the real players. Unfortunately, that's only about 30% of the story, and far less of the overall screen time.
The characters are somewhat enjoyable, though none are particularly strange enough to claim any significant feelings from a viewer over any set of characters from any other show.
The real issue is how much of this scenario is supposed to be an MMO and how absolutely fucking terribly the show portrays it. They literally live in
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an MMO, which has supposedly been around for 20 years(though is still the most poorly made game to ever exist), yet less than 1% of players have hit max level, and nobody in the entire game, including the veterans, acts like they've ever played anything. Every single character has severe brain damage, nobody ever uses more than 2 abilities in their repertoire of 10 minimum, and several times, abilities that previously were shown to do something, now do something else.
I feel I need to give some examples, so that anybody who has a shred of common sense or cares at all about video games will steer clear of this show. In an early episode, the main character uses an ability that does 1k true damage per ally hit, 5 times(max level character of the tankiest class has only 14k hp max), and then after that deals 50% of the opponents max hp. Clearly this has to be the most overpowered ability ever created, and maybe the author realized this too, because next episode the 50% hp shred was straight up removed. Did i mention that the main character only has buffing abilities, has only played solo, and was one of the first people to hit max level?
In that same scene, a low level healer needlessly puts out healing of about 5hp/sec, which the main character for some reason has her "hold until the right moment." Then she levels up a few times, from about 19 to 24, and suddenly in a later battle she randomly puts out healing of over 1k/sec, which hilariously outheals any form of damage the entire gangrape on enemies had been doing.
Tanking things in this game works on a damage based aggro scale, so high dps people or tanks with "fake high damage" abilities tank enemies. Later on in a dangerous battle, the bard, who has been shown to have 0 damaging abilities, is in a 1v2 against the same enemies as the tank right next to her is 1v1ing. This takes place after a heartwarming several episodes where their troop learns common sense, and clearly proved that they at the very least knew how tanking works. This leads to a rough battle, where the "smartest strategist" in their group realizes their tank is about to die, here's how that scene plays out.
"I need to use [shield ability] on [tank] or he'll die, but its on a 10 second cooldown still!" It then shows her HUD, where we can see that ALL of her other abilities are up, several of which we have seen be fairly useful. "But wait, that [shield ability] doesn't even work against these enemies!" Why in the world was she using it then, nevertheless ONLY using it.
Also this tragedy of a battle starts with all the max levels characters sitting it out, because they have to "regen their mana", even though we've seen that mana fully regens in 1 hour, they haven't done anything involving mana in at least a day, and they have a plethora of mana potions.
The relative OK-ness of this show's characters and story barely make an attempt to outweigh the pain that is the scenario.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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