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Aug 3, 2023
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I was expecting some amazing mind chess, but a got a sad attempt at that. Yeah, I've watched a lot of psychological anime and I can tell you this one does not compete.

Story - 3
The story is a basic high stakes game premise, and is basically like squid game except for it is a group of friends and not a ton of random people. The story has two big problems though. First, the pacing. The first game is over very quickly, while the second game goes on for like 6 episodes. Think about that, that is the length of a movie for just one game, one that is the least interesting out of all of them too. And it isn't like there are stages to the game or something dramatic changes everything about the rules halfway through, no, it's them going across the board of the game incredibly slowly. The second issue is that while the games are mediocre in terms of how interesting they are, the "mind games" that the characters play to outwit each other are really not that well thought out. They are laughable compared to the mind games in anime like Death Note. Even Kakegurui, whose characters too often relied on cheating to win the games, had better mind games than this anime. They are either stupid and easy to think of, or the methods are so far fetched that the player was relying on an insane amount of luck for it to work.

Sound - 5
The opening is eh, I don't like the ending. The general soundtrack isn't special but is not annoying either.

Art - 7
The art is fine. Some scenes are pretty nicely detailed. It isn't my favorite art style for the characters themselves, but there isn't really any problems.

Characters - 2
The characters are the worst part of this anime. None of them really have a personality, they are all just on a different level of ability to read and trick others well. But you don't really know anything about them. This makes the games so much less fun to watch, because you aren't rooting for anyone. You don't care who wins or who loses, who is suddenly the villain and who was lying the whole time. Even though shows with high-stakes game can grab attention pretty quickly, it won't be sustained if the characters are flat.

Enjoyment - 4
The hide and seek game seemed like it could be kind of fun, but overall this anime was not that fun.

Overall - 4
I wouldn't recommend this. If you really need something game related, Kakegurui is a better bet, but for mind games, Death Note 100%.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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