Arknights: Prelude To Dawn: Episode 4 "Loyalty" Review

The premiere of Arknights might not be as fun as 2020's Holy Knight Light , but it possesses a similar passion behind it. Having the protagonist command the characters via essentially a smartphone is on the nose, but played straight in a way that's commendable. It will be exciting to see how this world expands and learn why so many have been drawn to Arknights before


For what it's worth, it accomplishes that competently, but if that qualifier sounds a bit dry and sapped of enthusiasm, it's because the premiere is only alright. Competency isn't inherently an appraisal of success but a recognition of hitting the fundamentals, which is to say that the Arknights show may pique one's interest, but it might take another episode or two to really grip the audie


It's also worth considering the cultural blend of influences that inspired the original game, it being a Chinese game and Chinese animation (donghua) having a noticeable difference in style. So it's natural that this anime would feel slightly different, translating an art style that is very against the gr


The story sounds pretty compelling , and the visual style presented through the ads and various cinematics since the game's launch is really enticing. It's an intersection of cute anime girls with militaristic aesthetics that caters to a very specific niche, but the use of color is unique. The whole world is gray, and the monotony is only broken up by vibrant bursts of co


This anime coming to be is something of a blessing to anyone who has been vaguely interested in the series from its marketing but utterly uninterested in playing the game itself. It's a similar hurdle that holds fans of Fate from playing Fate/Grand Order , and why the animated adaptations of the stories are so anticipat


Mobile games like Arknights are some of the biggest teases out there, in that from the outside looking in they present themselves as much larger than it is. People who have seen its myriad ads and animated promotional material no doubt have committed its name and iconography to memory without ever seeing a glimpse of the tower-defense gamep


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As the characters travel through a mostly abandoned and war-torn city, there's a lot of poignant imagery meant to evoke emotion as the story expands on the sociopolitical landscape . They take refuge in a clinic meant to help people with Oripathy in secret, so they aren't sent to quarantine. It's abandoned, as Reunion destroyed their clinic in retaliation for them not help


Obviously, AAA gaming has intermixed story and gameplay considerably in the past three decades, but mobile games still remain challenging to translate one-to-one. Even Fate/Grand Order 's most well-received adaptations like Babylonia or Camelot have received criticism for pacing or the omission of certain story be


In stark contrast to the towering buildings seen in the early episode, the slums of Lungmen appear almost a world away, and it's there that we find Misha, an Ursus girl on the run. She's hidden among the undocumented infected flocking to Lungmen, though not much else is revealed about her thus far. It's only known that she's wanted by the authorities and that plenty of punks in the slums are searching for


Speaking of Ace, his seeming death was perhaps the show's first misstep from a directing standpoint , if only because it is so poorly edited. We are shown him, alone, facing down Reunion at supposedly full strength, and then in the next scene, only he and one member of his unit rem


From the last guard's reaction, Ace apparently lost his arm, but there is no shot of the other arm, making it honestly hard to be certain if that is what happened. That is to say nothing of how confusing it is if Ace survived the previous implied scene between him and Reunion. Structurally, the sequence is all over the pl


The city of Chernobog never moved away from the oncoming catastrophe, even though the cities are established to be mobile, and it's unclear why. Sabotage could be the answer, but if that's the case, it makes one wonder how a similar fate might befall the metropolis that is Lungmen. Having started the series seeing how Reunion can destroy a city, it makes the introduction to a new one that much more interest


Mephisto's attitude and attire immediately make an impression, and it's mostly a positive one, Absbux.Com even if his brand of crazy can feel a little overdone in anime. The action in this episode had its moments, though the choreography and direction weren't spectacular. Once the heroes' backup arrived, they seemed to just appear as a comically huge group as if no one had noticed their approach. They weren't even sneaking up on any


One of the Rhodes Island soldiers angrily expresses that the clinic got what was coming to it, as they had refused to help Rhodes Island as well. What followed was an interesting monologue by Amiya, who expresses that even if they have a commonality, it doesn't make it easy to trust people. She expresses how humans build walls to feel safe because they want some degree of norma