I watched first 3 minutes of that Mother's Basement video and noped the fuck out. How did they turn Dragon's Dogma into...this garbage!?
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Mother's Basement : The Roast of Dragon's Dogma (Netflix Anime)
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They could have done a 1:1 adaption the video game story and it would easily be anime of the year. I still think about the true ending and everything leading up to it to this day. It was just so surreal and unexpected.
It wasn't very good at all. I was hoping they would go further with the plot and introduce stuff from the post game. They didn't.
I liked it too. I enjoyed the show very much. So much that I'm a bit confused as to why people in this thread think it's awful.
I guess I'm just easily amused. The show made me buy a third copy of the game - on Nintendo Switch. When previously I had it on PS3 and PC.
But I guess everyone is allowed to like or dislike anything. And it's okay to have different tastes than others.
Austin at Vice Games basically spent 2 minutes on last week's podcast taking a dump on it. Feels like a safe skip from Dragon's Dogma-aficionado Mr. Walker.
Geoff is very, very progressive. He's a white dude, but he's also just a stand-up guy.
Damn, even though i don't like 3D, i was still planning to watch it at some point since i liked the castlevania adaptation...
but nope, it's reaaaally bad holy shit, good thing this video is there
but nope, it's reaaaally bad holy shit, good thing this video is there
Just finished this last night and yep, the show sucks
Everything I could possibly say is mentioned in the video (bland, bland, bland main character, terrible writing that's trying too hard to fulfill an edginess quota, also the incredibly sleazy treatment of women. Seriously episode 6's story is so paper thin that it feels like an excuse to have the MC's already fridged wife's tits on screen). About the only thing I enjoyed about this is Hannah, the main (only) pawn. She was cool. She got treated well by the show. No damselling, no sleazy fanservice, she actually got a better executed arc than the MAIN CHARACTER himself. She even carried the Arisen through a bunch of important fights and all while repping Magic Archer (the best Vocation)
(Man, if DD2 ever becomes a thing, they need to make some special / pre-made Pawn based on her. She deserves better than this)
Everything I could possibly say is mentioned in the video (bland, bland, bland main character, terrible writing that's trying too hard to fulfill an edginess quota, also the incredibly sleazy treatment of women. Seriously episode 6's story is so paper thin that it feels like an excuse to have the MC's already fridged wife's tits on screen). About the only thing I enjoyed about this is Hannah, the main (only) pawn. She was cool. She got treated well by the show. No damselling, no sleazy fanservice, she actually got a better executed arc than the MAIN CHARACTER himself. She even carried the Arisen through a bunch of important fights and all while repping Magic Archer (the best Vocation)
(Man, if DD2 ever becomes a thing, they need to make some special / pre-made Pawn based on her. She deserves better than this)
Wow. Just, wow.
I thought this'd just be a mediocre action anime at worst but holy shit what is this writing? I almost feel like I owe Paul Anderson an apology for crapping on his Capcom adaptations.
Almost.
I thought this'd just be a mediocre action anime at worst but holy shit what is this writing? I almost feel like I owe Paul Anderson an apology for crapping on his Capcom adaptations.
Almost.
I liked a lot of bad games and anime, but I don't think not liking a show for its terrible portrayal of women or questionable moral preaching is a matter of taste.
I mean at least there'd be no weird rape shit.
Or an anti-drug episode in a goddamn fantasy setting.
The story is of the character from the prologue. This isn't based on the main game story.
It's not. They're very similar looking with similar sounding names but the MC from the anime (Ethan) is not the prologue Arisen (Savan). That character actually already has his own canon backstory.
Considering the ending of show has contradicting lore about the Dragon, I'm pretty sure the anime is not connected other than borrowing the names of locations from the game
Seems to be a mix of the prolog, because it follows 0 story beats from the main game. I guess they could try and get around it using the in lore unlimited realities thing, but still an adaptation should try and follow as much of the main story as possible.
I was already put off by how generic and uninspired the setting and art direction were in the actual game were with Dragon's Dogma (considering how good Capcom normally are with such things, I was especially harsh about this), amazed that the story in this adaptation managed to be so bad even by video game anime standards.
Though there are other shows on this list I ended up not being a fan of in spite of liking others among those I have seen, Death Note most certainly had a huge problem with women on top of being just plain nihilistic in general.
Please don't say that name. Something so legendary didn't deserve to be pissed all over like that.
its kind of incredible how awful this shit is from every level besides the action scenes.
ive never seen a show where the villain literally tells the hero the shitty theme its supposed to be preaching directly, like literally one for one
its crazy because dragons dogma themes are hella progressive and smart as fuck. like crazy smart to the nature of what the game is.
i don't think those things are really reproducible in any non-videogame format but if it shared the same writer at all it's so bizarre to see them go from that to whatever the fuck this is.
ive never seen a show where the villain literally tells the hero the shitty theme its supposed to be preaching directly, like literally one for one
its crazy because dragons dogma themes are hella progressive and smart as fuck. like crazy smart to the nature of what the game is.
i don't think those things are really reproducible in any non-videogame format but if it shared the same writer at all it's so bizarre to see them go from that to whatever the fuck this is.
With only 7 episodes and the first 2 episodes not having any meaningful progression I already knew from the beginning it would not be good. But then they even took the great twist from the end of the game and made it into a whole bunch of nothing without even getting to the fun parts.
I don't disagree, I just wanted to highlight "better" anime that are widely beloved and more worthy of one's time than DD.
Death Note has a host of issues, not limited to the second half of the story being a considerable downgrade from the first.