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Vibralldo said:
The Wikipedia page said that the script was rewritten after Glitch picked it up so I guarantee they added her because Glitch has a gooner mandate.
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Ross made the cat girl in the early 2010s. The Glitch series made search results cluttered but can find old art of her from over a decade ago if you dig deep enough.

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Her original design better matched the rest of the cast before she was redone by BacunNG, a Pinup artist who was in charge of the Glitch character designs and mostly takes inspiration from Shantae and Studio Trigger anime
 
I was honestly so fucking bored that I started skipping around during the last couple scenes.
Nothing grabbed on to me not even the characters. Everything was just so boring lol

I very much admire and respect Ross' hard work and passion that was put into this pilot. But I don't think I'll be watching if this pilot ever becomes a full length show.
The art was nice though!
 
Compared to the other pilots, like the ones of GD and KOG, Gameoverse's felt like the weakest of the three. While the concept is great, the characters are just not that good. We got a catgirl who's too busy having PTSD to get anything done, a sentient backpack who's also the only competent protagonist, Barney the dinosaur who got his entire character arc done under one episode, and a dolphin who yells a lot. That's just not a good lineup. The antagonists were an improvement over the protagonist, but only a slight one. I also consider this much fanservice for a pilot to be a bad sign. I know I'm talking about Glitch, but none of their other pilots from the last few years had remotely as much fanservice.

Gameoverse's concept has a lot of potential, but considering it is a Glitch cartoon, there will also be a lot of missed potential. The idea of a universe where each world is a different video game and beating the game is a world-ending event, thus our protagonist has to help the villains to save these worlds while the antagonists have to help the heroes, is a definitely good and unique idea; I have to admit. There are tons of settings these video game worlds could use. You could have more kid-friendly settings, like just what we had in the pilot, but we could also have darker ones, like basing a world on Fallout, Half-Life, or Doom. If Glitch wasn't run by cowards, there could even be a Wolfenstein-based episode in which Kit has to help Hitler of all people. This is what I mean by missed potential. You don't need to be a genius to figure out that the creators will not step out of their comfort zone and will prefer generic settings that Tumblr-adjacent people will gobble up.

Overall, I found this pilot to be just mediocre. I don't have the best expectations for this series.
 
The Wise Shaman said:
If Glitch wasn't run by cowards, there could even be a Wolfenstein-based episode in which Kit has to help Hitler of all people.
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To be honest, while I 'd disagree about the concept being good, I'd pay to see something like that.
The pilot did a pretty terrible job of even presenting what the show is really going to be about. I get that the good guys are helping the bad guys but... what then? Isn't the whole point of a video game that the protagonist can respawn and have infinite attempts to defeat the villain? I fail to understand what is supposed to be the progression of events and I'm surprised by the lack of people pointing this very detrimental plothole, though if I am just being stupid please correct me because I genuinely am confused. I get that they wanted to introduce the dolphin guy to the main cast (fucking WHY you would want a throwaway character like this as a protagonist idfk) but now I have no clue what a "successful" mission would even look like. This isn't a pilot, this is a first episode that expects to already be made into a full show already.
 
Zerpreros said:
Ross made the cat girl in the early 2010s. The Glitch series made search results cluttered but can find old art of her from over a decade ago if you dig deep enough.

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Her original design better matched the rest of the cast before she was redone by BacunNG, a Pinup artist who was in charge of the Glitch character designs and mostly takes inspiration from Shantae and Studio Trigger anime
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Interesting. I guess I was wrong about glitch inventing the character for fanservice, but I still don't like the pilot
 
If we’re really at the point where a female character wearing a swimsuit, not even a super revealing swimsuit, but just a swimsuit, is consider”gooner bait”, then I really don’t know what that says about society as a whole. Like there’d be more of a point if we were talking about the bad lady,, but saying gooner bait seems like a massive overreaction
 
The Wise Shaman said:
You could have more kid-friendly settings, like just what we had in the pilot, but we could also have darker ones, like basing a world on Fallout, Half-Life, or Doom.
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Alright I think that's kinda what bugs me too. So far we got:
Catgirl adventures + robot (probably rated E10 in all honesty)
Education game (babies)
and then the very first episode is still a rated E game, and not only that, but the dolphin fuck with an annoying voice is probably gonna be part of the main cast going forward.

Now I'm not saying to immediately go full DOOM mode in the pilot since some things need to ease in, but "desert wasteland Fallout parody" would probably be my pick, you can even parody the quick travel with a faded out map. Really the only issue would be figuring out whatever weird mascot would be the fourth groupie that isn't a robot.
That way at least you've got something that's a bit more rated T, which is what the target demographic is. Hell even the first Wreck-It Ralph movie knew how to parody games like that and leaned right into it.
Fuck, man, at least don't have one of your main protagonists have a voice you'd only find in like a 5 minute flash parody. If they're smart they'll only have that dolphin be parts of short gags and not for anything too serious.

SteelPlatedHeart said:
If we’re really at the point where a female character wearing a swimsuit, not even a super revealing swimsuit, but just a swimsuit, is consider”gooner bait”, then I really don’t know what that says about society as a whole. Like there’d be more of a point if we were talking about the bad lady,, but saying gooner bait seems like a massive overreaction
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Really I only jab at it light-heartedly because here she is with a perfectly cute main outfit and then they go and have a beach episode for their big debut that entirely throws it aside for a swimsuit and cleavage/thigh/ass shots. Like if it was the second or third episode it'd be fine, it's just about first impressions, especially when it's gonna be a while between episodes. Like all the outfits they put her in in the credits are cute.
Also, not entirely related, apparently this whole thing is a remake of one of Ross's older projects?
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
If we’re really at the point where a female character wearing a swimsuit, not even a super revealing swimsuit, but just a swimsuit, is consider”gooner bait”, then I really don’t know what that says about society as a whole. Like there’d be more of a point if we were talking about the bad lady,, but saying gooner bait seems like a massive overreaction
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Im 50/50 on it. Yes I think the cat girl was drawn for gooner bait but like you said it wasnt that in your face.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
If we’re really at the point where a female character wearing a swimsuit, not even a super revealing swimsuit, but just a swimsuit, is consider”gooner bait”, then I really don’t know what that says about society as a whole. Like there’d be more of a point if we were talking about the bad lady,, but saying gooner bait seems like a massive overreaction
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I think it was more about the vibes here, feels like this is Glitch doing a Studio Trigger impression, and it is hard to disassociate Studio Trigger and gooners.

And, I dunno, I guess the pilot was fine, if not a bit flat?

Hard to have any opinion on a rather middle of the road show. Sure, all the props to the guy who's been trying to get this off the ground for 13 years, but I dunno what else to say dude, I get what they were going for, but it just didn't click.

I get that this is just the pilot, but with a premise that the heroes need to help villains to save the world, you do need some spice to keep shit interesting.

Like The Wise Shaman said, are they going to help Hitler in Wolfeinstein? Because That should've been the opening act!!! seeing the heroes doing terrible things to a game's hero and it's NPCs just to turn the tables and see that they were trying to save the world, even if they had to be awful to innocents.

As it is, this is a pass for me, don't care.

But I'll say, I have a low tolerance when a show is trying this hard to be "cute":

"oh, didja see that villain, he is a sheet of paper that helps the heroes win!! I guess he is a "sheet" code huh?? You get it? huh?"

Yes, I got it, very clever, now go back to gooning to bikini cat-girls and leave me alone, you fucking weirdo.
 
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Was pretty fun, I liked the style even though the animation was pretty choppy in parts. I liked the fight between Flappers and Snappers being like an actual videogame boss fight. And I liked that though there was some swearing there wasn't a ton. The best laugh it got from me was the whole "If you're having trouble, aim where they're going instead of where they are." bit. So it was decent but not spectacular, if more episodes come I'll probably watch them but it's not something I'd really miss if that was all either.
 
Gameoverse is probably going to be one of those cases where the creator can make some good parodies of popular IP but when they create something original and serious it's kinda shallow and lacking cause these are random OCs and not the characters you love and know.

It's undeniable that being associated with E-celebs, indie animation names and Glitch is doing a LOT of the heavy lifting for it's popularity and marketing. Glitch is well aware of this too, that's why keep announcing shows from people with pre-existing fanbases.
 
I watched it, it was fine.
Some jokes had potential, but most of them didn’t land. The animation feels a bit like something from newgrounds but with some budget, this is actually not an insult, i liked it.
The weakest part is the story and character writing. Yes, we know she’s sad about her world getting fucked up, no need to remind us constantly and make it most of her personality. Another thing, Kat knows the consequences, knows it won’t work, yet still tries to warn the dolphin, clearly just to show the audience what happens. That’s rookie-level storytelling. There are more moments of this kind of unnatural exposition. Sure, it's a "pilot", but a competent writer would weave it in more elegantly.

Also, please don’t hire youtubers to voice main characters.
 
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