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

The sense of space can be hypnotic , and the characters traverse this huge underground facility with spiraling staircases and huge, liminal spaces. Outside, the overcast sky lets the tension loom like the storm in the distance, which the characters refer to as a "catastrophe." It's unclear what that means or why such a catastrophe happ


In Episode 2, there was a line about how the Ursus Empire was using fake news to quell worries about the riots, by claiming that Chernobog's unrest was already contained. The idea that there might be a larger conspiracy at play is compelling, and as the writers have adeptly expanded on the world with each new episode, so too has the conspiracy evol


Last week, Doctor woke up with no memory of who he was, being escorted to safety in a city overrun by terrorist rioters, before remembering enough tactical wherewithal to coordinate a defense. When we left the members of Rhodes Island, they were attempting to leave Chernobog to avoid the impending catastro


With that said, Arknights ' premiere does a fine job of introducing audiences to the world of Terra through the eyes of the protagonist much in the same way a game might. Perhaps the amnesia trope and the resulting exposition can come off as a tiresome conceit to the mobile game's trappings, but it's all in service of translating the game's mechanics into a functional st


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Last week, the powerful fire-wielding Talulah cornered the members of Rhodes Island and saw fit to incinerate the lot of them. As Episode 3 opens, Amiya demonstrates her own power in shielding her allies, though only so far as to hold off what seems like an inevitably bloody bat


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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 news's arguable decline in background art quality, the industry should take notes from this s


Arknights isn't going to be a long series, but after this second episode, it's hard not to be excited about the remaining six. Every new gorgeous background shot or character introduction makes the investment more worth it, but what elevates the series as of now is the world itself, how it operates, and how it has molded these charact


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


Granted a lot of mobile game promotional material is produced well but in short bursts, hence why the Fate/Grand Order commercials always look so unbelievably detailed. However, through effective use of digital effects work and keen directing, Arknights' visual style isn't so detailed that a TV animation couldn't be imagined in a similar qual


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


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


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


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