天下制覇

For the record, Zicke Zacke is a game about hiding chickens in dung piles.

Just as a reminder, I'm out of town Thursday through Sunday. I don't plan on posting at all in that span. I'm moving the season preview back up above the Wednesday posts. I'll catch up on things through Monday and Tuesday.

Impressions:

It's hard for me to pick out which of the two segments tried my patience more. The first half was melodramatic dross starring a typical manic pixie dream girl who explodes in sparkles from her innocent joy of life. The second half featured a recitation of board game rules and compelling dialogue like, after picking up multiple game boxes and staring at them for a while:
"This is a board game shop. We should play a board game."
"EEEEH!? These are all board games!?"
"Oh, so these are all board games."
"Yes, these are all board games. This is a board game shop."

Japan, you desperately need to stop paying people by the word. And then the melodramatic one bursts into tears because she's never played a board game before and the pressure is too much. This isn't done as a joke. The dramatic music kicks in and friendship blooms from the unsullied friendship and youth of teenage girls on display. It tries to make about three minutes of hay, not to mention as many different happy-teenage-triumph songs out of "if we roll a three or four, we win. Otherwise, we lose." I can't stomach that when it's Yu-Gi-Oh with pretend monsters and threatening to shadow realm people, and this is trying to celebrate and lionize a teenager struggling with insecurity that keeps her from rolling a die. A die in a game that she's not even actually playing herself. 

Next Episode:

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