Xebek’s Blog

An evil priest tries to resurrect the Demon King Arawn.

Impressions:

Disclaimer: I don’t feel like pretending I don’t know what is going to happen, and writing a section without spoilers and then one with them, as I’ve played the game. This post will contain massive spoilers to the whole plot. If you don’t want to be spoiled, then don’t read on. I won’t spoil anything simply for the sake of spoiling it, no needless spoilers, but they will be there. Final warning.

I’m not going to make any comments about the character models, as I did a whole big post on it and it’s out of my system. Seeing them in action they aren’t horrible, and I definitely don’t dislike them, so just saying, no talk on that. If you want to hear my opinions o the character changes, read the post on it in this category. Anyways, moving right along.

Arawn’s summoning was certainly a lot different from the game. Previously it was actually kind of funny, they summoned him and nothing happened, and he kind of casually walked through a door they weren’t expecting. Here there was a whole big spectacle with some weird evil glow to him. It was interesting and I think a little better to show it like that, except they actually showed him all demon like. He doesn’t have a demon form… Although, this could actually be interesting as it may give the illusion of him actually being a demon, instead of someone who just had the title demon thrown on him.

I actually like that they showed Ogam seeing this giant burst of light. Before they never explained where the hell he came from. He just kind of was there in the crypt with Arawn when he woke up. They never explained what the hell he had been doing there. It makes much more sense for him to go to that location after seeing or sensing something. On a small related note, it was very cool seeing the only five second clip at the beginning of the destruction of the gold age. They never showed anything related to it in the games, just said that it was destroyed by the falling moon, which you see. All those dragons getting killed and the destruction of such a powerful species would be cool to see. Hopefully they’ll show more of that when they talk about how the ages were destroyed later.

Everything else seemed fine. It’s on the first episode so can’t say too much, but I do hope the series goes nicely. I really do love the story of the game and hope they don’t screw it up somehow, though I’m sure it won’t be anywhere near as good as the game.