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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1622825" data-attributes="member: 891">Bought a copy at the local store today - even though doing so means it costs $10 more than normal.I kept reading all this stuff about printing errors in so many copies, so I picked up one of the books and counted off every single page. At that point I figured I'd wasted so much time that if I was ever going to get it, I wanted to make sure this was the copy I bought...So I bought it.I've flipped through it now, looking at art, bits of text, captions here and there, that sort of thing.My first impression is Final Fantasy meets Dungeons and Dragons.All it needs is idol singers riding those lightning trains and this setting will be a geek-chic magnet...It's got everything that's -kewl- in video game fantasy. They should have used a bunch of anime guys for the art, it would have fit better.That's not to say that it's bad, or that it's good. They may have taken those elements and put together something workable, or it may be the same high-visual low-quality crap Japan has been sending our way ever since they realized they could sell us on flashy art alone.Only without the flashy art.Visually, it's like seeing anime drawn by people who aren't drawing anime. The energy and symbolism is all there, but the style in the lines is western.Likewise it's using clear anime motifs - the lightning railroads!, the mecha!, the flying ships! and islands!, undead elf lords!, the shapeshifters!, and so on.It has all the right exclamation points.Hopefully, when I read deeper, I wil find it's -not- using anime level of writing...So, it looks really Kewl, but I have no idea yet if beyond that it really is Kewl, or if it's actually and hopefully just cool.</blockquote>

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