Arknights: Prelude To Dawn: Episode 1 "Predestination" Review

In one last display of the mobile game formula translated into a narrative, Doctor and Rhodes Island's mobile base is introduced: a large moving settlement. Doctor's phone AI introduces them to all the amenities and explains the community that has formed within, just as a tutorial might explain a game's interface with a dash of dietetic narrative fl


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 Games Strategy 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


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


Arknights ' TV series is already almost half over, and thus far the world is compelling and yearning to be shown off through the beautiful artwork more, but the story and characters themselves are mixed. Amiya is a far more interesting protagonist than she was in the first episode, but the cast at large hasn't yet truly impressed


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This anime games collectibles 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


So all seems well, but it wouldn't be surprising if there was some tension arising later, especially given the treatment of infected in the city. For the time being though, that's the least of the characters' concerns, as the episode ends with a new antagonist watching on from h


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


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He is negotiating with the Doctor, Amiya, and the newly introduced Doctor Kal'tsit, about a contract between Rhodes Island and the city of Lungmen, to work together and share intel. With fears of another attack from Reunion, Kal'tsit insists that a contract is integral to stave off disaster and that Lungmen's infected policy won't eschew the ire of Reun


Rhodes Island is cornered by a unit of Reunion led by Crownslayer, a mysterious Arts user who appears to not get along with other generals such as the insane Mephisto. Crownslayer's interest in Doctor gives the impression that she might have ulterior motives distinct from the major facti


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


This episode was an improvement, not in a huge monumental way, but for how it started to dip into more compelling parts of its dark and politically divided world. It also gave some much-appreciated explanations about magic . Magic isn't just cast by those with Oripathy, but also by people who use a material called Origin


Originium is a conduit for energy, but it can also give people Oripathy, meaning that those with the infection can use Arts because of the Originium in their bodies. However, the powers also use life force as fuel, hence Rhodes Island's quest to cure it. It's a fascinating power system with some tangible drawbacks that add dr


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


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