LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA REVIEW FULL

It doesnвЂ™t help that I found the voice acting to be sub-par for Scanlan, Keyleth, and in the first half, Grog. I donвЂ™t know how you do this better, but they just felt out of place and sounded awkward.

Throughout the season, I found there to be many of these little quips characters would give, almost as if they were thinking out loud. Or what about the fact that Uriel seems to hire Vox Machina simply because they have a bear and he liked their song?.So why doesnвЂ™t Uriel buy it for them? Later on, he winds up giving them a whole keep, he canвЂ™t buy them a sword that aids in killing dragons, when a dragon is literally destroying towns across TalвЂ™Dorei? Gilmore has a Sword of Dragonslaying that is more money than Vox Machina can afford.These episodes are fan service and were supposed to be, but the poor writing choices stand out like a sore thumb. Everything is turned up past 11: the pacing, the comedy, the vulgarity (we literally have Keyleth puking inside the mouth of some guy sheвЂ™s fighting, and Scanlan about to have sex, animated boobs, and all). Unfortunately, the rest of season 1 doesnвЂ™t match its two-part intro. I really think this mini-arc would have benefitted from more screen time as a fantastic one-off 60/90 minute special, not directly related to season 1 (at least not as an introduction to the series).В But alas, it was always supposed to start this way, due to the Kickstarter campaign backers were promised a new story that took place off-camera (before the events of the first streamed episode of Critical Role). In the first two episodes (The Terror of TalвЂ™Dorei) the pacing is extremely fast everything flies by. What I can criticize in season 1 - the writing and pacing from the writers and showrunner. I canвЂ™t really criticize the plot or character decisions of season 1 because itвЂ™s literally based on events of Critical Role Campaign 1, and being critical of choices made by Vox Machina (the players) would be silly as itвЂ™s from a game of Dungeons and Dragons. Throughout the season, many of the fights were more implied than actually shown, with lots of quick cuts and arms swinging. To me, it seems as if they saved their budget for episodes 11 and 12 (or itвЂ™s possible that Amazon took care of funding for those final 2 episodes since it was part of their original 14-episode expansion order). Overall, I found the majority of the battle sequences to be pretty disappointing, especially since this is a band of adventures, that do a lot of fighting. That isnвЂ™t to say all is bad IвЂ™m pretty sure some of the battle sequences in episode 11 used CGI during the battle against Sylas, and it turned out great, as this sequence was my favorite part of season 1.

The cart chase scene with the undead werewolves/direwolves pop out and look out of place. My issues mostly come from the use of CGI I thought the dragon Brimscythe looked pretty bad, as CGI can look very out of place without the proper budget. I have some issues with the animation here and there maybe a bit too many scenes of lips flapping on mostly static frames of animation, but I understand thatвЂ™s going to be the case during non-action scenes. ItвЂ™s got that, I donвЂ™t know what to call it, American вЂњanimeвЂќ style? Character designs and background art are all fantastic. The art style of The Legend of Vox Machina is amazing. I know a lot of moments and scenes are complete fan-service, but for my personal review preferences - I will be critiquing The Legend of Vox Machina as a stand-alone animated series.

LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA REVIEW FULL

They had full creative control in their deal with Amazon, so if you think this is a 5 out of 5 and amazing awesome, IвЂ™m happy you loved it. Critical Role was able to create the show the way they wanted to have it. So other than that and reading some wiki entries, IвЂ™m a Campaign 1 newbie.ДЇor this Season 1 review, let me start out by saying - for backers and Campaign 1 veterans, I understand that this is amazing.

My experience with Vox Machina is minimal only watching some one-shots and basically clips of Grog with (and IвЂ™ll say this without spoilers), his fun magical item. For reference, IвЂ™m a critter (the designated name for fans of Critical Role), but I fell in with Campaign 2 (the story of the Mighty Nein), not Vox Machina and Campaign 1.

Legend of vox machina review