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EpicCh33se said: Nothing of value would be lost. Oh boy, that'd be something. If they push Rose off as a side character, they'd have to push Dezel off as a side character as well. Those two have a lot of backstory, much more story content than Alisha. The story can only be improved from the mess the game was. The question is if ufotable has capable writers enough to improve it. |
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| that was really something.. very hard to grasp it all |
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Fai said: Let's not even talk about CGI because hooboy, did Berserk leak out into this? The storm had some dodgy moments but the creature was fake as hell. Says the guy who thinks Prillya had "good quality cgi" including terrible cgi monsters of gilgamesh and other PS2-level cgi in the series. I guess i kind of expected this - a blind spot for SilverLink which supposedly does everything right and a hate boner for Ufotable that does everything wrong except for SOME things that are BEARABLE. Something along those lines? Guess one can look forward to those kind of posts on every Zestiria episode thread. Anyway, I've never been impressed with dragons in anime, their weakness was always in animations, like flying. Video games like Dragon age and SKyrim have spoiled me, that have great looking dragons, hell even World of warcraft has better animated dragons than most anime I've seen. The final 2 seconds you saw the dragon could've looked better, but that's not enough for me to judge. It will depend on how well its animated later on in the series. Rage of Bahamut also had a lame dragon, but i loved the series anyway. Other than that i think the whole thing looked amazing, great cgi, effects and particles and they seemed to be on point. I was quite impressed with the ambush action scene, it was on par with a lot of ufotable action scenes (knk/fate) in terms of quality and has a decent choreography with lots of unique and detailed moves. Since it wasn't a significant encounter I imagine there are great things to look forward to.  |
FrozenkexJul 6, 2016 1:04 AM
Fai said: EpicCh33se said: Nothing of value would be lost. Oh boy, that'd be something. If they push Rose off as a side character, they'd have to push Dezel off as a side character as well. Those two have a lot of backstory, much more story content than Alisha. The story can only be improved from the mess the game was. The question is if ufotable has capable writers enough to improve it. Assuming the anime will bridge the gap between Zestiria and Berseria, any major changes they do to the lore will have to not conflict with events that happen in both games. The lore of Berseria as we know it right now is mostly the same lore, but with different names. If they change the way, say, how malevolence works, when players play Berseria, how do they know which lore to go by? The game or anime? Getting rid of Dezel's backstory would make Zaveid's origins even more mysterious. Since Zaveid is known to be affiliated with a character from Berseria, there would be exposition needed on other parts to make up for that. (Perhaps Aifread's Pirates are somehow connected to the Windriders?) On the contrary, putting more focus on Alisha would explain any potential connection between her and Oscar/Teresa from Berseria. Completely changing up the story when there is a prequel game coming out would make a mess really quickly. The most easy thing to do would be to stick with mostly the same story, but with more exposition on the parts that needed it in the game, maybe with some altered scenes or order of events here and there. |
EpicCh33seJul 5, 2016 12:00 AM
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| Worth it. Can't wait for the series. |
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| Didn't like it much. Pacing too fast, no interesting dialogue or character interactions what so ever. |
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| I understand it was just a prologue, but the only good thing about it were the visuals. I learned basically nothing from this other than the fact that some chick has some amazing plot armor that allows her to survive some fire hurricane kind of shit while everyone else gets sucked in by it and fall through fissures on the ground. |
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| This was awful. In the first half the anime just jumps from location to locaction to check off the most important plot point in the most boring and bland way possible. I don't think a single scenes goes on for even 2 minutes before jumping straight to the next. The second half on the other hand was 1 long, tedious and confusing actions scene. Finally, the scene with the little girl was almost comical. They made it look like the evil storm came back just to kill that one girl, because fuck her I guess. |
| Prologue, keep in mind. It's not to set up super structured stories and characters. It's just a teaser, showing the very beginning of the story and giving a taste of what will come later. These lengthy comments about the characters/directing being bad is like writing a review for something based on a trailer. It's dumb. Anyways, I liked it. The CGI integrates fine, and the animation/art is the best I've seen in a long time, probably since OPM. The choreography for Alisha's fight scene was great as well. Also, I loved the game, and it was nice to see some of the characters from the game in it. Only thing I thought was dumb was the girl scene, when she got sucked into the cyclone. That was just silly. |
Szadek23 said: They made it look like the evil storm came back just to kill that one girl, because fuck her I guess. Don't worry, next week the storm will come back and stomp the MC's mother in front of her, just so she can proclaim that she will "kill all the storms". Don't underestimate ufotable. |
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| Am I the only one who thinks Ufotable may have a better direction on the story compared to the game? This is coming from a gamer who played games from the Tales series since Phantasia. Zestiria's story was really poor. I'd want ufotable to change it entirely lol. |
| Ufotable is such an impressive studio, their CG is beautiful. After have seen Berserk, the changes are huge! I really enjoyed the movie and this beginning looks promising. I think my only complaint is the last scene with the child, it was predictable and useless. |
| I liked this episode I think the story takes places before that the game (thats if we assume that anime is following the game story> |
thepath said: I liked this episode I think the story takes places before that the game (thats if we assume that anime is following the game story> Prologue, Episode 00... It wasn't hinted to take place before the anime, it was directly stated |
| I'm not one to usually use the word "hater" but Jesus are there way too many haters in this thread. It was a fucking prologue, what do people expect? Fully fleshed out characters and some hand-holding to explain the lore of the world before the first actual episode even airs? People are just looking to bash on Ufotable for no reason. |
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CC9ers said: I'm not one to usually use the word "hater" but Jesus are there way too many haters in this thread. It was a fucking prologue, what do people expect? Fully fleshed out characters and some hand-holding to explain the lore of the world before the first actual episode even airs? People are just looking to bash on Ufotable for no reason. I agree, you can never judge an anime for its first episode, much less for its prologue... |
| I liked this episode. I never played the game since i usually don't like the Tales series and even though i was curious i was not expecting much from this, but it was good. I hope i can enjoy the other episodes as well. |
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Fai you are stupid, please leave. You say this much BS about the FIRST episode of an anime, yet you kept defending Itsuwari no Kamen pacing even tough the anime had 20 episodes of nothing and a lot of people were complaining about it. It was the same thing in Boku no Hero when after the episode 4 you said the pacing was bad...yeah like after 4 episodes...but 20 episodes of nothing doesn't mean the pacing is bad, right? You must be troll otherwise your double standards are just too much. |
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Szadek23 said: Finally, the scene with the little girl was almost comical. They made it look like the evil storm came back just to kill that one girl, because fuck her I guess. Ikr ? i lol'd pretty hard when she got sucked up and then the tornado just turned in fire bcuz FUCK HER IN PARTICULAR |
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| Amazing visuals, as expected. Alisha's voice fits her really well and I liked that she had a lot of dialogue. |
| I found the episode to be rather confusing and a bit boring. I kinda felt that the characters (except Alisha) will die and I didn't really feel much about them. Poor Alisha, I guess. |
| It was goooood. The animation was awesome and the story wasn't bad. I felt sorry for the little girl at the end. |
Frozenkex said: Fai said: Let's not even talk about CGI because hooboy, did Berserk leak out into this? The storm had some dodgy moments but the creature was fake as hell. Says the guy who thinks Prillya had "good quality cgi" including terrible cgi monsters of gilgamesh and other PS2-level cgi in the series. I guess i kind of expected this - a blind spot for SilverLink which supposedly does everything right and a hate boner for Ufotable that does everything wrong except for SOME things that are BEARABLE. Something along those lines? Guess one can look forward to those kind of posts on every Zestiria episode thread.  Expect some Fai blindly hating on ufo in every Episode Discussion. Expect some Fai doing some intense ocular inspection on every minuscule detail that he thinks are wrong in every Episode Discussion. Basically, expect some troll with hilariously obvious double-standards watching an anime from the studio he absolutely despise just to spread his cancer. |
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CC9ers said: Whether you call it prologue, the beginning or whatever, it is still a first episode technically. The first one that aired. I'm not one to usually use the word "hater" but Jesus are there way too many haters in this thread. It was a fucking prologue, what do people expect? Fully fleshed out characters and some hand-holding to explain the lore of the world before the first actual episode even airs? People are just looking to bash on Ufotable for no reason. It still has the same writing staff and same director as the rest of the show. The writing MIGHT improve over course of the show, but the director won't magically level up in between episodes and this being the "prologue" does not excuse its flaws. Even if Ufo calls this prologue, this is still first episode and the episode people will judge the show on. |
AhenshihaelJul 5, 2016 9:49 PM
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| Alisha isn't my fav, so I was kinda whatever about it. Great backgrounds tho Looking forward to Sorey, he's fun. Hopefully the other girls are more interesting. |
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Tenshi_Shura said: Expect some Fai blindly hating on ufo in every Episode Discussion. Expect some Fai doing some intense ocular inspection on every minuscule detail that he thinks are wrong in every Episode Discussion. Basically, expect some troll with hilariously obvious double-standards watching an anime from the studio he absolutely despise just to spread his cancer. There is so much right in this. |
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Fai said: Szadek23 said: They made it look like the evil storm came back just to kill that one girl, because fuck her I guess. Don't worry, next week the storm will come back and stomp the MC's mother in front of her, just so she can proclaim that she will "kill all the storms". Don't underestimate ufotable. Man what do you have against Ufotable? All you seem to do is hate on them |
| i don't even know what the heck just happened in this episode but anyway! the animation is great as expected from ufotable xD really like it a lot. it gives me a game vibe. that dragon in the end suprised me well tho and many death in this episode especially that little girl and the fact that the tornado turned into fire tornado after the girl got sucked into it......made me said "WTF?!?!" looking foward for the next episode. |
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materics said: So as someone who didn't play the game, I have no idea wtf is happening. Someone care to explain? Are you the type that always post "i don't know what happen" after the episode showed you what really happen? lol. Its just an episode about the princess investigating the black cloud and the cloud obviously not normal which killed her small platoon. AthrunZ29 said: Where will the story really start for episode 1 then? How much of the game story will they keep/change? Where does Velvet come into all this? Will we see the other Berseria characters? WHAT IS GOING ON? Not sure how the story will go, but i don't see a problem Velvet appearing in the series. Berseria and Zestiria do share the same world settings after all. |
valvravetruthJul 7, 2016 3:17 AM
| People should also probably watch the prequel ova if they haven't already. |
Omni_slash95 said: Fai said: Don't worry, next week the storm will come back and stomp the MC's mother in front of her, just so she can proclaim that she will "kill all the storms". Don't underestimate ufotable. Man what do you have against Ufotable? All you seem to do is hate on them It's no use asking my friend. He'll just give you yet another copy-pasted reason from the one he saved in his Notepad titled "ufotable is shit.txt" |
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materics said: How about just waiting until more episodes come out,most likley it's split cour(25 episodes) so we should be getting answersvalvravetruth said: Are you the type that always post "i don't know what happen" after the episode showed you what really happen? lol. Its just an episode about the princess investigating the black cloud and the cloud obviously not normal which killed her small platoon. Not sure how the story will go, but i don't see a problem Velvet appearing in the series. Berseria and Zestiria do share the same world settings after all. I don't know who anybody is. I don't know who those assassin's were. Why were one of those mutant assassins in the desert? Who is the wisp girl and why were they fighting. Why is there a dragon? Why did the mutant guy just let the princess go? Why is the princess investigating the storm? |
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| Well... That was pretty dang intense. And it looked really dang awesome. Can't think of much to say about this, the whole thing left me kind of speechless, like, just processing all that was going on, the situation, the music, everything was freaking intense as heck. It was good. |
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| I liked what I saw, but am slightly confused as to what's going on in the show. Also, is it just me or did the characters look off sometimes? Like they were 3D models but not? I don't want to say like they traced a 3D model, because that would have been silly. |
siradix said: I liked what I saw, but am slightly confused as to what's going on in the show. Also, is it just me or did the characters look off sometimes? Like they were 3D models but not? I don't want to say like they traced a 3D model, because that would have been silly. Didn't notice that myself, i'd need to see some examples to see what you mean. |
| For everyone who is saying how hilarious it is how the storm came just to get the little girl, you really should go watch the OVA! It explains why it seems that way... |
| I wish for once the stupid Main Characters would stop showing mercy to their foes who are trying to kill them and stop crying in the middle of the battlefield >.> anyway |
| First seeing that Ufotable (Fate Stay Night UBW) made this, the animation was top notch. The scenery and landscape was amazing. This series seems interesting. Will follow up with the actual Anime. |
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| It's all very shallow isn't it... Stunning visuals, yes, but other than that, I don't care about any of the characters, and I have no idea what is going on. I'll give this until episode 4, I know it's the prologue. |
Maybe it's just the lack of shadows, I don't know. |
| Not bad. Liked the setting and art. But I don't know if I will like the main series and all the other chars. There seem to be a lot. Hopefully the princess will still be importand and hopefully a bit politics (that pope-like guy and the other noble guy that wanted to use the festival to recruit people for army were interesting). How is this related to http://myanimelist.net/anime/24459/Tales_of_Zestiria__Doushi_no_Yoake Main series and episode 00 have a relationship connection here on MAL. Probably animating some game (I think all of the "Tales" anime are based on games?) fully or at least a part of it. Was that other Zestiria anime sequel/prequel to this? Or unrelated (maybe only set in same world but different chars/story). Scoring this episode 00 with 8 and going to watch the series. Hopefully something 7-8 worthy. |
Luthandorius said: Not bad. Liked the setting and art. But I don't know if I will like the main series and all the other chars. There seem to be a lot. Hopefully the princess will still be importand and hopefully a bit politics (that pope-like guy and the other noble guy that wanted to use the festival to recruit people for army were interesting). How is this related to http://myanimelist.net/anime/24459/Tales_of_Zestiria__Doushi_no_Yoake Main series and episode 00 have a relationship connection here on MAL. Probably animating some game (I think all of the "Tales" anime are based on games?) fully or at least a part of it. Was that other Zestiria anime sequel/prequel to this? Or unrelated (maybe only set in same world but different chars/story). Scoring this episode 00 with 8 and going to watch the series. Hopefully something 7-8 worthy. The other series was just a OVA that adapted the very start of the game, so it shouldn't affect this new anime adaptation in any way since they're separated entries. This prologue is 100% new content revolving abouta Alisha, a character that is important to the plot |
The characters are CG in the last pic but don't see anything wrong in the first two. Luthandorius said: Not bad. Liked the setting and art. But I don't know if I will like the main series and all the other chars. There seem to be a lot. Hopefully the princess will still be importand and hopefully a bit politics (that pope-like guy and the other noble guy that wanted to use the festival to recruit people for army were interesting). How is this related to http://myanimelist.net/anime/24459/Tales_of_Zestiria__Doushi_no_Yoake Main series and episode 00 have a relationship connection here on MAL. Probably animating some game (I think all of the "Tales" anime are based on games?) fully or at least a part of it. Was that other Zestiria anime sequel/prequel to this? Or unrelated (maybe only set in same world but different chars/story). Scoring this episode 00 with 8 and going to watch the series. Hopefully something 7-8 worthy. The OVA content will be in the anime with some changes |
Dab1za9Jul 10, 2016 8:09 AM
| ufotable... wow just wow.... the animation is so awesome... cgi too... really well done |
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| I didn't understand a single thing about this episode. Sure looked gorgeous, though. |