Charles Dion

A genially enjoyable experience with your friends. There is a lot that can be improved on but for a jumping off point i think this is a great first instalment for what I hope will become a series of games. Where many LORT games these days have been trying to do their own thing this one feels like the creators cared about the source material. Is it the best game ever? no but it's not meant to be. I was able to play with my 6 friends for about 46 hours over a couple of weeks and the only real complaints where about bows accuracy and not being able to dig through walls. For 20 bucks this is a solid game that will keep you entertained and is good fun with friends.

I am not a huge fan of the League of Legends game but this most recent adaption has had me reading through all its lore over the past three weeks. This series appears to have broken the Curse of Videogame adaptions into film. Where as many attempts fall into one of two categories either getting lost in the fan service or forgetting there is a fan base to begin with. The Arcane team has hit a beautiful balance between the two. Allowing for this new story to be told while having nods to the existing lore not just painting over it with broad strokes. While I have seen some have criticized the animation I can do nothing but compliment it. The choice to let the animation team be inspired by modern graffiti art highlights the hope for the future seen in Plitover while separately underlining the despair and lose of innocence found in Zaun. This is all accomplished not through exposition but through color alone. Every shot attempts to show us that things are bad and only uses exposition as a guide through the world not as our only connection with it. What makes this use of color so amazing are the characters of Jinx and Mel who use their paintings to show their state or mind which for Jinx heavily impact the story. My one big complaint is that the script for the first 3 episodes is not really all that great and undermines the story they are trying to tell not by much but it still really bothered me. However the script pulls itself together perfectly in the subsequent 6, with some lines that almost rival House of Cards level writers. This series is one of the best shows I have watched easily with in the last year. Every time I would get up to do something I would be hypnotized by what I was watching. If quality shows like the Arcane are what we have to look foreword to coming out of the Netflix content factory floor, then there is real magic in the works.

This is one of the best shows in Netflix, its full of heart and laughs.