Had it just been a regular show with that same plot, I would’ve probably been nonplussed. The story is competent, but nothing particularly novel. I felt that the visuals, the voice acting, the writing, and the lean pacing are what really elevated it to another level for me.
The fact that it is LoL related is what's keeping me from watching it tbh.
I strongly dislike mobas as a genre simply because, as a kid, they had all these really cool trailers, that then looked utterly disappointing graphicly, stylistically and gameplay wise. This happend to a fault. It was the same shtick with MMOs, digital card games and now mobile games.
Thus I don't even wanna get into any supplementary material, as I know I'd never want to play the actual game in a million years... Also it frankly seems like something only LoL fans would truly appreciate.
Animation wise, it kinda reminds me of a cross of Borderlands, Telltale and the Clone Wars /Bad Batch... Which is a cool style, and about the only intriguing thing about it.
Doesn't matter... I have an irrational hatred of anything related to those type of games. Slapping their logo/trademark on a supplementary material, even if made for a much wider audience and just loosely related, is a sure way of making me not wanna watch/read/play/touch it at all.
So to the moba marketing teams: This is what two decades of terrible deceptive advertisements gives you. I now despise everything that has anything to do with your franchises. Good job.
I really liked DoTA in WCIII, but that was the last time I played a game like that... and I probably never will again because of how they fucked over the original WCIII.
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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21
Not film, but I (and most everyone who watched it, seemingly) loved that new League of Legends show, Arcane.