天下制覇

What palpable excitement.

Impressions:

For once, it'd be nice if one of these things were made by somebody who had, at any point in the last twenty years, actually played a video game. Like the promos indicated, it is obnoxiously well-animated… when it bothers to animate anything, which is a rare affair. And that is where the compliments end. As always, it is mainly about calling up, purusing, and explaining the various status screens that it does so love to call up over and over and over and over and over and over. It makes one joke at the start about kicking the heroine of a game and then spends the rest of the time explaining the basics of how RPGs work.

It is the same as every goddamned other one of these. He puts all his points into Luck and grinds for… two whole hours, at which point he is already well on his way to becoming an unstoppable demigod with broken abilities and equipment. Two hours. Everything must be explained at exhaustive length, by him or by a narrator, occasionally by both. Even the fact that the MOST FAMOUS GAME IN THE WORLD PLAYED BY A FULL 5% OF THE ENTIRE EARTH'S POPULATION exists. It'd be like not realizing Legend of Zelda exists and so we sit down and read the entire back of the box. Once every seven minutes or so, it seems to remember its premise about the dude playing bad games and re-explains that. In this case, bad means riddled with bugs, not just banal or poorly designed. No jokes there. Just reminding you of the premise before it's back to the status screens. 

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