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I guess this was just 8 ep long, but I'd rather have 8 well done ep over 12 not so great ones.
As someone who has played the game, I mostly like the adaptation. The thing with the game is the dialog is poorly edited. It's bloated and needlessly wordy, what should be simple and short conversations tend to drag on. This eventually got to be too much for me and I like others I know who play it, soon started skimming the story, then eventually skipping it all together.
The adaptation cuts out all the fat so you get just the meat of the plot. It's a much more focused narrative with very little filler. This is on top of some pretty decent production values.
It's far from perfect however. I could nitpick, but there's two main things that stuck out to me. The first and lesser of the two is that it felt like they had too many characters, mainly on the villains side, but maybe in general. They kept Road Island fairly compact at first and focused on just the important characters, then they add in a couple characters from one PMC, and then a couple more after that from another PMC, then a couple more characters from a different faction, all the while bringing out a few too many villains I think. I think it be a little hard to keep track of who's who for people who haven't played the game. It would be fine if the ep were twice the length they are, but it's a lot for 8 24minute eps, the cast should be a bit more condensed. They could have easily cut out of the PMC and had the other be twice as fleshed out. I doubt many would complain if they removed black steel and gave penguin double the screen time. On the villains side they probably should have just kept it to the big baddy and one or two of her henchmen, which is what they 'mostly' did with skull "shitter" and W. But that fight with maphesto really should have been with skull shitter instead (I love how they pronounce Skull Shatter).
That said, my main issue is the Doctor, the character you play as in the game. They... don't translate well at all into this adaptation. Everyone goes to such great lengths and sacrifices so much for this character, and they come across as pretty useless. For most of this season, they're just 'there', standing around not saying or doing much, and certainly not helping. They're supposed to fill this leader/commander role, but old donkey ears takes that position instead, making the Doctor feel redundant of not pointless.
Yes, they have amnesia which is the excuse the game and anime use to explain everything about the world to the view though the Doctor, but in spite of their lack of memories they're still a naturally good commander, which is why they do the commanding and base management in the game. In the anime, it comes across like they don't really do much of anything other than take up space while Donkey does the doctor's job. It might sound crazy, but I feel like the anime might have worked better if they just cut the doctor out all together and changed things around so that Donkey is the leader of Roads Island instead, lord knows she acts like it and gets treated like it anyway. It's not helped by how flat out weird the character looks, which is really saying something with the range of character designs here. There's not really any explanation given to why the doctor wears what looks like an ugly knights helmet, even at home base. I do like the theory that it's a hazmat suit, and that they're the only ones with enough common sense to protect themselves from this virus, but that's still just a theory.
They 'do' have the doc command things via their smartphone a couple times, which I have to say is a bit embarrassing to watch. I get it's a phone game, but really now?
Overall it's still pretty decent, but it could have been better is all.
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