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Critical Role Critical Role show kickstarter update: Backers have to get Amazon prime to get the show
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Chaosmancer
Legend
The trailer is pretty good, they've released a few others but this is the "official" trailer
Argyle King
Legend
How much anime influence would you say is part of the action style?
Nikosandros
Golden Procrastinator
In Italy the trailer is currently on Prime and they state that the series will arrive on January the 28th.
Impossible to say, since things are so heavily blended these days. What I see is a lot of Studio Mir similarities, which is South Korean, and they are generally not considered to be anime in the geographic sense. But how much have they been influenced? Who knows.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
During the Kickstarter, they sold it as anime style show. The animation studio did the Legend of Kora previously.
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Chaosmancer
Legend
Agreed, that one is amazing.
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Did you watch the trailer? Because if you did you would have seen as much of the show as I have, and could make your own determination.
The animation is smooth, the designs are closer to styles considered "anime" than He-man from the 90's or South Park.
If you are asking how over-the-top is the action... again, if you saw the trailer, you'd know as well as I do. There was a pretty intense sword fight and a clash of spells, but no one is blowing up mountains or punching out asteroids.
I guess at the end of the day... I have no idea what you are trying to ask. To me the question comes across almost like "how much American music influence is in the soundscape". There is such a wide diversity of what you could be asking... and it is a two minute clip.
Argyle King
Legend
Fair enough.
From the clip, I'm on the fence about whether or not I think I would enjoy it.
I'll likely try an episode when I'm between watching other stuff and see how it goes.
For what it's worth, Reviews are saying Episode 3-4 are when it really clicks into place.
(Similar to how Arcane really clicks at Episode 3 for many)
Gammadoodler
Hero
And now I know..psychic damage is real.
Chaosmancer
Legend
You know, this is so bizarrely true of so many shows. To the point where I have an explicit rule for myself that if I am watching a new show I have to watch at least 3 episodes, because episode 3 always seems to be the one where things really hit off.
I wonder why that is, between pilots and "explaining the premise" or if there is a third reason for it.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
IMO it the logistics of setting up the premise getting in the way of the pilot episode really being It's own thing, and everyone involved is still warming up.
overgeeked
B/X Known World
Interestingly, Critical Role itself is one such company. Their new book will apparently not be released on Amazon.
darjr
I crit!
I thought I saw it there? Must have been third party?
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
I suspect a lot of it simply comes down to the cast and crew getting accustomed to what they're doing and, for the cast, figuring out their characters a bit more now they've had a chance to spend a few days/weeks playing them. More than that, they've started to figure out how the characters will interact with each other, beyond anything the script might say.
And with some shows this process can take way longer than three episodes. One could argue it took until the third season with ST:TNG. Conversely, some shows nail it in the first episode and never look back e.g. Game of Thrones (which paradoxically had all its stumbles at the end instead).
Hexmage-EN
Legend
It could be that with this show the first two episodes are weaker than the third partially because those two are based on events that happened before Critical Role began as a show. From episode three on they have literally hundreds of hours of footage to use as a reference.
I'm also reasonably certain those first two episodes will still be important to help set up something that happens later.
I'm also reasonably certain those first two episodes will still be important to help set up something that happens later.
KahlessNestor
Adventurer
They are also currently doing Star Trek: Lower Decks, though that is obviously a different style of animation.
teitan
Legend
And Prime is offered on a monthly basis and not just a yearly for those who can't dish out the yearly all at once. It also pays for itself on shipping costs alone.
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