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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ----------------------------------------  Perhaps as a testament to the game studios quality, Mass Effect anime stands leagues above the quality offered by Dragon Age. Better visuals and better character designs and what not. I could easily see myself being excited to rewatch this over say Dawn of the Seeker. Overall was a good and enjoyable anime at least for the sake of action and space sci fi stuff. Fehl Prime was when it got really intense for the Delta Squad (their first skirmish against the Blood Pack was a good introduction too). Some of the details and stuff did require some knowledge of mass effect lore I guess (Prothean Stuff, Reaper Stuff, Shepard stuff), but otherwise stands well on its own and hey an appearance by Liara T'Soni The story ended up being quite intense at times, bloody. I liked the characters here (better looking than most characters in the game), easily my favorite was Essex, perhaps cause hes biotics but he has best design.   The other characters in Delta Squad are really good, Nicky (tech guy of sorts), Milque (sniper) all interacted well with the others like Kamille (though she had attitude issues) as well as the Asari, Treeya. Major dissatisfaction at the ending So many deaths on my gosh, I mean, anyone I became a fan of ended up meeting such a tragic fate, almost was glad Essex got all the epic action scenes and stuff but then bam, ouch. Worst yet the ending itself, sacrifice everyone for the sake of the Asari, what even, why would you do that, the data not even necessary. Ugh. Vega didnt even do nothing special beyond make decisions, kind of useless. Liked the visuals, the one from the opening hyped me up, I just love the relay and all the biotics stuff, as well as the map displays. The music was good too fitting well within the franchise. I do not think mass effect has never has bad musics. Soundwise, I miss Hatchett Out moments though and EDI. |
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| Quite decent episode, they even put in the elements of the game especially the hard decisions making and the alternative settings when chosen a different path. The ending it self was okey not really all to surprising and well the whole movie was rather on the boring side if I'd say myself but it did got the right Mass Effect feeling! The animation could have been smoother as well as on many occasionally you see that it ain't properly formed. Still in general a good ending! 7/10 |
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| No Japanese voice ? All the ones I found online were english dub. |
| Everybody's crazy for some blue. |
| The sands of hell are magic sands. |
thepath said: No Japanese voice ? All the ones I found online were english dub. Technically, it would be a Japanese Dub. All thought Production I.G. did the art and studio. But, Bioware and Funimation has the say, and they had English as the main. Expect Japanese Dub sometime soon when it hits in Japan or they may just get Japanese subs. ---- Cliche after Cliche of Hollywood movie effects like Slow Down/SlowMo effects, sound effect, and etc. Cliche lines and action scenes after cliche. It wasn't bad at all by no means. It wasn't also stellar. The Funimation VA crew did fine, but once you watch a few dubs you know that they use the exact same 3-4 voice actors (you could say the same for Japanese anime, but look at Chuunibiyou. All underdog or new VAs for the females). It was fun to watch on a boring day. |
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| Well I just got done watching Paragon Lost, from the get go I've never been to fond of the idea that focuses on James Vega. Personally I would've loved a story that featured every character we know and love but I know that isn't going to happen so I just need to continue on with my thoughts on the movie. The story was scratched at in ME3 but now we see what exactly went down. The animation is pretty darn good, the music is clearly influenced by the games, and while the ending was indeed sad anyone who played ME3 knew what was coming. Overall it was a decent film I'm glad I watched it but outsiders to the Mass Effect franchise will be a little daunted by this one. |
| just finished. it was surprtisingly way better than i expected it to be. the thing that annoyed me most was the horrible CGI (at times) and the massive amount of cliche lines. i dunno why it had to be vega..the most uncharismatic character of ME..it fits chronologically tho so maybe thats why they went with it. all i know is i would sell my soul for a mass effect anime with EDI <3 still as someone who played and loved all mass effect games i enjoyed watching this, even with all the flaws. im not so sure if this is something i can recommend to someone who never played the games. |
| Yeah it was surprisingly good I ended up giving a 7/10. The char development was good and Vega was a pretty great MC. The action was pretty great too, they didn't skip out on any blood and the battles were pretty great in general. I'm not sure if they kept true to the game, cuz I havent played yet, but I do have 2 and 3 on my self and plan on getting to them eventually... after I finish Skyrim. |
 "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Well, every character I liked died (as usual). But this has actually made me like vega more, or at least sympathise with him. Whenever I played mass effect he would be pretty much the only character that stayed in the Normandy the whole play through but now I just feel bad about that. Rest assured he'll be getting a little more action in my next play throughs :) P.s ALL the characters I didn't have a particular fondness to are the ones who survived. im mean really?? Kamille, Essex, 'fly boy', the technician, APRIL!!!! What-w-like-----REALLY!? Reminds me of gantz in that way (you know what I'm talking about). |
| Why does everyone like the animation here? Except for the lowest rated anime on MAL, I have never seen worse Japanese animation. |
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Papde said: ... I have never seen worse Japanese animation. u hvn't seen enough bro... |
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| That probably depends how you define the term animation. In terms of art style it was sort of flat especially compared to recent shows. In terms of actual moving animation it was above what we usually see in anime. |
| I haven't played Mass Effect yet (maybe in the near future) and all I got was general background that you casually glance in any game synopsis, in spite of that I was really entertained watching this. I happen to like some of the support characters in such a short time and shallow character development, that I was upset when Nicky died, he was my favorite character. TT_TT 27CansOfTuna said: I could easily see myself being excited to rewatch this over say Dawn of the Seeker. I just saw that one several hours before this and I'd choose this one in a heartbeat. XP 8/10 because I really enjoyed it when I wasn't expecting anything out of it. |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| Hmmm I'm kinda disappointed, the ending was stupid though I understand that be was put in a really bad situation. Usually the "hero" chooses to sacrifice one for many and that's kinda how I think it should be. He let all those people die, it was a bad situation between info on the enemy and a lot of lives. I just don't really agree with his choice considering the people were closer anyway and saving whats her name and the intel was more time consuming and not a sure save. That's just my opinion of course and its really only about that one part. Other than that some of the characters were not likable and the combat was only good half the time. I'm not trying to say it was all bad, because it did have some good parts. I was just expecting more after playing the games which were some of my favorites. 5/10. Not terrible but also not good. |
| If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime? |
| That was essentially the plot of Mass Effect 2 in movie form. James didn't even need the data. Shepard is like, the fucking Collectors of humans and gets everything done for everyone. |
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| Really liked this movie. Didn't thought that i will like it so much, because i never played the games. 9/10 |
| Trying to watch all available anime series so you won't have to anymore, the list of anime I can recommend is still in progress, tho |
| Pretty good movie, if only for getting the opportunity to understand Vega's issues in ME3. I toatally expected him to save everyone instead of the doctor. I like to think that Shepard would have done the opposite. But, the Collector data would have been useful. The "fight" between Vega and Shepard has some added context, now. As an aside, I love how careful they were to never state Shepard's gender. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| My thoughts are pretty much the exact opposite to 27CansOfTuna's. The characters looked terrible. The best visual aspects of this movie were the backdrops and the weapons, even though the latter had some scaling issues. So for an anime it was pretty bad, I think. The actual story, as in the details of the plot, if you were to write them on a piece of paper instead of seeing them realized in this animated movie, was pretty good and better than I expected. Having the original voice actors for Vega and Liara in this was nice, too. |
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| It was pretty good, it was nice to see and learn more of James backstory before Mass Effect 3 happened. |
| just a shame he makes the wrong choice. Even by Mass Effect 3 the alliance still don't believe any of that "data" he got (even with all the evidence). so it was useless, as Shepard got most of the info anyway by the 2nd game. worse, the alliance learn nothing, as during the 2nd game a colony gets attacked even after this has happened... just in time to save ashley. so the alliance learned squat from James' sacrifice. So he should have saved the colonists. bad choice. he just wanted some sweet lovin'. stupid meatshield that he is. too many inconsistencies should have went with an original "no mention of Shepard at all" animation. |
deplorableMay 16, 2014 3:21 PM
| the look and style was sub par. I would feel sorry for fans of the genre if I thought they would dislike this based on taste rather than their love of the franchise, which was just soso anyways. 2/10 and the dub version...uh.... lol |
deplorable said: just a shame he makes the wrong choice. Even by Mass Effect 3 the alliance still don't believe any of that "data" he got (even with all the evidence). so it was useless, as Shepard got most of the info anyway by the 2nd game. worse, the alliance learn nothing, as during the 2nd game a colony gets attacked even after this has happened... just in time to save ashley. so the alliance learned squat from James' sacrifice. So he should have saved the colonists. bad choice. he just wanted some sweet lovin'. stupid meatshield that he is. too many inconsistencies should have went with an original "no mention of Shepard at all" animation. Well with the information that was available to James he certainly DID make the right choice. It's not James' fault that the story was handled poorly-which is the real reason why his data seemingly didn't have any effect on the events of the trilogy. |
| I know the discussion for this is long done but I just have to say way too many people missed the point of the ending. No, Vega didn't pick the Asari because he wanted a piece of that blue ass, he did it because he felt like the information to perhaps save other colonies from the Collectors outweighs the lives the colony he worked in, sacrifice a few to save many, which is a reoccurring talking point throughout the ME series. To blame James for the data being useless is just simply hating on the character for the sake of it, he had no way of knowing Shepard was taking down the Collectors at the time, hell, it wasn't even until the end where he found out Shepard was alive. The ending was handled beautifully, showing the impact of someone that wasn't Shepard bare the weight of a massive decision. Now if I had any complaints about this; The romantic relationship between Treeya and James was way too forced and honestly makes me wonder why there's absolutely no mention of her in 3. Not even a brief cameo. I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time believing a few Alliance soldiers managed to bring down a Collector ship. Granted, most of them died but still. Other than that, this was definitely a welcomed addition to the ME lore and now makes me look at Vega in a brand new perspective. I just wish more people would stop mindlessly hating on him. |
RagootsJan 24, 5:59 PM
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| I guess you can't blame the guy for choosing the girl over numerous lives, he wanted to know what's it like with a blue! |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| RIP Junpei. Even though he's Cerberus, he's still da man to me ;_; For real, though, what's the point of this movie? All it does is answer questions that were already answered in the games, and give Vega a tragic backstory. I guess, if nothing else, it does explain why you can't romance Vega in ME3. Not that I'd really want to. |
| Some flaws IMO pretty ugly animations bad script irritating characters and other problems But it also have good moments when it shined, I like the collector part of the story .And I enjoyed the Mass Effect video game series so this movie was a bit interesting to watch. Even if I dont love It! I still think it was decent overall. I give it 5/10 |
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