Gameoverse is officially out and while this thread seemed to lean toward the negative side, I remained cautiously optimistic. After watching however, I would like to admit that I was wrong. Gameoverse is not good.
Overall it feels like someone got their more famous friends to do them a favor and help them make a show when they have no idea how to create a show. I don't really know how else to explain it.
The animation is good. Little stiff in some areas, and while I am disappointed that the animation style is not different for the game worlds, the animation is the best part. It's pretty. It's colorful. It's expressive. It does what it needs to.
That being said, the girl characters are in bikinis for most of this episode. It's clearly fanservice and especially on the first episode, it's incredibly apparent what the goal here is.
The plot is... fine. If the main character wins the game world is destroyed, so the main heroes have to team up with the game's villains to stop the hero from winning, and the main villains have to team up with the game's heroes to help them beat the game. There is some interesting things you can do with this concept, but none of that was explore here.
The main character is incredibly incompetent. Outside of her constant flashes of PTSD, without her backpack, she gets her ass handed to her like three times this episode.
The purple dinosaur thing went from not knowing anything about what is happening, to being incredibly knowledgeable, to giving an (absolutely forced) motivating speech to the main character. It's a character arc that should have been across the entire series, but was instead crushed down into half an episode.
The robot backpack has a filter on his voice that makes it feel unnatural. Not the beep beep robot kind of way, but the uncomfortable and off putting kind of way. Nothing noteable to say here. Just kind of there.
Fuck the dolphin! It's his voice. It's Arin's high pitched child voice and Jesus Christ stop! I was hoping this character would die, but no, he's going to be a main character. Fuck.
There are two big voice actors Chris Sabet and Erica Lindbeck. You'll probably know them best as Vegeta from DBZ and Futuba from Persona 5. This might just be a me thing, but they have incredibly distinct voices and they get around, so hearing them yet again was more annoying than anything. Imagine eating the same meal for three weeks in a row. It doesn't matter how good the meal is, you start to get sick of it pretty quick, and it did hurt my enjoyment.
Other than that, no jokes made me laugh. Some of the references were slightly dated. There was an "oof" joke and I haven't heard that word in maybe five years. Probably the best part was the dynamic between the paper villian and his partner. It was better than Arin's pilot a couple years back, but I still wouldn't call this good or amazing. I would recommend avoiding this one.
I know these are scattered as shit notes, but I'm typing this with the headache. I can not stress how bad that fucking dolphin voice is.
