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Slay the Spire wants its Silent poison build back.

Impressions:

I wonder if this show is supposed to be a comedy. If it was, you'd think it'd have some jokes, which it doesn't. It has a girl. She sort of makes stupid faces if you want to stretch a point. She does read a lot of status screens. Uh… I'm not really sure what else more there is to it than that. Like I said in the season preview, I'm always a bit mystified by shows like this because they act like they're about MMOs and/or RPGs but don't seem to know the first thing about them. In this case, it sets up the premise that "By singlemindedly grinding, and overspecializing, you can completely break the system." Okay, that's sort of a start of a thing that is broadly true about most RPGs. It then follows it up by going "Well, what's a long time to grind? Like… five minutes? Well, she's doing it for an hour. Isn't that quirky?" …Not really? It's not even trying to play it off as intentionally ridiculous like, say, One Punch Man's "I did 100 push ups a day." And this is the closest thing it has to a joke.

At its peak, its a girl Doing Her Bestest nibbling on a dragon, and at its default level, it's a girl reading off RPG status screens. I remember the promos being better animated too, not to mention having what at least appeared to be some action, which I guess was in the next episode preview somewhat. This episode was absolute tedium and stupidity though, written by people who don't know enough about RPGs to either adequately parody, reference, or even describe them, which is kind of damning when you're putting so many of your eggs in the basket marked "reading the manual."

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