Baldr Force is based on the VN by the same name and is part of the larger "Baldr" series of games, which have a bit of a reputation for piling on long sections of setup and worldbuilding, two things notably absent from this anime.
And therein lies the issue with this series, it tries to compress roughly 30 hours of story content spread across multiple routes into a two hour time span.
As a result characters are undeveloped, plotlines come out of nowhere and if I hadn't played Baldr Sky before watching this, basically nothing related to how the Wired works would've made much sense to me.
And it's a shame that it had to be this way, since the Baldr games tell some of my favourite Cyberpunk stories with some truly interesting ideas for their stories and setting, but that kind of story can't be conveyed properly in such a short amount of time and as a result you end up with a fairly generic cyberpunk anime about ugly, but well animated cgi mech fights with multiple sub-plots and plot holes that aren't properly resolved or explained due to time restraints, a romantic side story that was cut for the adaptation but is still alluded to for some reason and a final arc that feels like the studio was given a rough summary of the true route that someone had accidentally spilled their coffee all over and then were told to adapt that, resulting in an unsatisfying conclusion that leaves a ton of stuff unexplained and doesn't give much closure to anyone besides the MC.
The only redeeming quality of this show is the music made by KOTOKO, who made most of the vocal tracks for the Baldr series, and which was simply reused from the VN.
I've purposefully avoided spoiling any plot details, so if you're still interested in watching this show, please instead go and play the original VN instead.
it's the only Baldr game besides Baldr Sky you can find in english as far as I know and it tells the same story infinitely better and includes a competent mech-brawler on top.
