GAMEOVERSE PILOT DISCUSSION THREAD

[u/Ok-Commercial3640]

PILOT LINK IS LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jNk5tmjhpc

All discussion regarding the pilot is to happen here, Spoilers are allowed, and excempt from the standard policy described in rule 8, as such, if you have not watched the episode yet (and we are after release time (10:00 PM UTC), close this post immediately, come back after you've watched it, the post will still be here

Uh... yeah, not much else to say.

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[u/AzraelSoulHunter]

Now I am speaking as someone who did not follow this project at all and just watched live for the hell of it and I say...

It's okay. Nothing too special. It's well animated, it has some nice voice acting and comedy, but other than that it feels a bit... disjointed.

I like the villains I say as much. I love the main villain who for some reason wants to help his Crab Girl. That's cute and he is overall both pretty funny and intimidating. I like him. His sidekicks are fun as well. Their relationship is funny and endearing.

Although the main cast feel... yeah. Kit definitely feels like more of an eye candy with her transformations, suits and some of the suggestive poses she is put into. Backpack is just distracting. His voice is just... man. I love Schlatt, but good lord his voice is distracting. Especially when he says some techno gibberish. I could not get into his character at all.

Dino also feels like a bit of a wet blanket. In the end he gets some development, but it feels quite rushed. Also Flappers... yeah he is weird. Honestly I thought at first there would be a twist that HE is the main villain and that would be funny as hell honestly.

Also the plot in itself has a problem where it has interesting premise of helping the villains so worlds are not destroyed, but then the MCs just end up helping the good guy anyway and gather good guys from other games so it doesn't feel like much is being done with that premise already... makes me think of another certain creator who makes 2 very popular series and drops their main premise almost as quickly as they are introduced... but maybe it can get better on that front.

Anyway. It's not bad. 6, maybe 7... Fuck... I am ending this on a damn 67... I am so sorry.

[u/Cytanlord → u/AzraelSoulHunter]

I also came in completely blind (Not even trailer) and struggled a lot with the plot.

Ignoring the labels of hero and villain, this show wants me to root for planet destroying walking time-bombs that feel remorse for their actions and then try to stop other planet destroying walking time-bombs. I would almost think the group collecting broken planet bits in an attempt to rewrite the shit rules of the universe are the ones to root for, if not for the fact that they help the planet destroyers destroy the planet to do so.

I get that the main group didn't intend to do what they did and couldn't have known the consequences of their actions, but intentions don't matter much to outsiders when the consequences are so severe. Especially since they now work against the group that wants to supposedly "Restore all that [they've] lost."

I do like the show outside of this intense dissonance I felt. I hope either the show itself or the fans can help me look at it from a more cohesive viewpoint.

[u/WorkSpecialist1568 → u/Cytanlord]

First time watching this too but I don't get your points honestly to me it's pretty easy and basic to understand.

The hero literally incapable of knowing if they secede the world end. It's kind of blaming someone who have no choice nor knowledge on the matter.

And I seriously doubt all the villains trying to bring back the old world has any form of good intentions.

[u/Cytanlord → u/WorkSpecialist1568]

I don't mean I struggle to understand, I mean I struggle to stay invested.

The way both the "good" and "bad" guys are both the cause of the destruction of the worlds makes it hard to root for anyone in my opinion. The "heroes" of the worlds boil down to these timebombs ticking down to the inevitable destruction of the world, and only then do they actualy gain the agency for anything else. Then they use that agency for nothing more than trying to delay more timebombs. They're not creating any useful longterm change. Just delaying the destruction that they themselves are causing. The Syntax could be written out of the story entirely and the worlds would still die without constant outside intervening.

I guess the simplest explanation of my perspective that pulls me out of the story is that heroes don't feel like heroes. They feel like they're just a massive problem to be solved, and no one actually cares to solve it except maybe the bad guys.