Arknights: Prelude To Dawn: Episode 2 "Flame" Review
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
In this world, there are those infected with Oripathy, an infection that causes people to slowly crystalize until their body fractures and spreads the disease. The cost seems to outweigh the primary benefit, which is the ability to cast magic . The world of Terra is prejudiced against those who possess Oripathy, even though it isn't spread through to
Prelude to Dawn continues to find clever ways to turn what would traditionally be a tower defense battle segment into a narratively legible sequence that pushes the story along. Doctor's drones being temporarily taken out makes it clear that the tower defense conceit of the source material isn't so rigid within this series that it can't be subver
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Arknights ' premiere had promise, but it didn't quite go above and beyond to offer a climax or plot hook that felt particularly strong. However, its artwork and direction were just striking enough to pique curiosity and instill some hope that it could get better, and that bet seems to be paying off so
Once again, the background art of locations is stunning, with the use of depth of field to give the imagery a particularly filmic look at times. This is the kind of globe-trotting adventure story that thrives specifically because of its art direction and with Anime Games patch notes's arguable decline in background art quality, the industry should take notes from this s
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It speaks to the groundwork laid in the first three episodes that these deliberations might be the most interesting part of the story thus far. There are the competing motivations of the factions, the political landscape complicating the discourse, but also a mystery that has gone unexplored by the characters as
So when watching the scene it seems like there might be tension between Rhodes Island and Lungmen's government who are using the PMC as hunting dogs . However, by the end of the episode, Amiya, the Doctor, and the two from Blacksteel meet Misha and convince her to come with them toget
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
Unfortunately, the only way it appears on the planet is through catastrophes. This obviously makes living in one place for too long a big risk, and as the episode explains, the cities in the world of Terra are mobile , a surprise revelation that makes a lot of sense. As the characters themselves point out, the mystery is why Chernobog didn't m
Ace's death should serve as some catalyst for character growth; a tragedy that pushes the characters forward, but it feels like it just happens, which is unfortunate. This episode also leads one to worry about how fleshed-out the characters will be in this series, given a clearly large cast, but only limited time to show t
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It doesn't help that some characters don't feel like they were conceived as real characters , such as generically named "Guard" which is hardly an effective codename among an army of lookalikes. All the characters are named such that they feel like code names rather than true identities, and it really emphasizes that this is all based on a mobile game. It can take one out of the experie
This episode also introduces members of a PMC group called Blacksteel that occasionally works with Rhodes Island. Just as Amiya learns about Misha being hunted by bad guys from the children in the slums, the two members of Blacksteel talk about searching for her on the orders of Lungmen's Guard Departm