great visuals - subpar plot
The visuals in this anime are great - very stylish drawn animation combined with 3D - it works really well and could change the way many other anime pieces are made moving forward.
The voice acting is very decent -
The world is quite interesting (I haven't played the game).
The characters: This is where the problems begin. While some characters appear quite complex, many are very one-dimensional. More importantly, time and time again, all characters make stupid decisions. It's like a shitty horror film, where npcs do stupid shit, having the viewer perpetually ask 'why would you do that?', all just for the sake of plot progression. While there's plenty of violence in this show, the decisions made by characters are quite juvenile - almost as if this show was made for kids (or perhaps it was, given that it was based on the game?). In the same light, there are no characters to root for - all appear to be either dump or very corrupt.
Plot: Even bigger problems surface there. The first 2 episodes are great - by 3rd episode, all decent characters are dead and we witness a time jump - many years ahead, which changes things quite a bit - for the worse. All decent characters are dead - so we gotto deal with what remains. We are also introduced to many new characters. What could have been a long story arc of revenge turns into a mess of gigantic proportions - where you really don't know where the story is going or what the story's purpose is to begin with.
I have to give this anime 5/10. The first 2 episodes were great - but what followed after turned this into a subpar tv show. It's surreal - they had the visuals - they had the actors - but as is often the case these days, producers saved tons of money by lowballing the writing department.
And fck these producer morons for hiring bots to write spam reviews on imdb. They are easy to spot and most of those reviews really are bot written. Maybe if they spent more money for decent writers, they wouldn't have to buy reviews. dumbarses.