The WfM prologue is simply amazing. The animation is tight and fluid and there are never any overt signs of them resorting to CGI to pad the budget. The soundtrack is a perfect complement to every scene, swinging from orchestral highs to bassy digital lows that underline everything happening on screen. Additionally, the sound design itself is so clear and crisp that there’s an impact and almost addictive tone to everything. The designs of the mechs themselves, which will always fall under the territory of subjective taste, are all incredibly solid and interesting machines that highlight the differences in design philosophy between the two companies present, like in the later WfM media.
And while you’re not given much time to be invested in these characters and the struggle they’re facing, it truly does the best it can to make you invested in them with the little time it’s allotted.
No matter what you think of the series that followed, this is as close as you can get to a perfect prologue.
