An anime that dissapointed

[The Geek Lord]

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Well, there's always... Wait, Dawn of the New World was also a game.

The Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World?
I liked that game
But you liked the first one? I think the first one was better, but also liked the second one

Glad you aren't screaming at me about how I suck for not agreeing with you or something. I do so love you guys for that.

Anyways, Dawn of the New World. It's not a Tales of Symphonia sequel.

First of all... It feels like it was written by fans of the original game, not the original game's writers.

Spoiler: Big spoilers be here, folks

First of all, the tree. Why can't they speak the name of the tree? Personally, I think it's because the writers don't know what the tree was named. Fun fact: it's named Yggdrasil. No, I didn't read this somewhere on the internet. I figured it out. World tree. Norse mythology. RESEARCH!

And the ending. The "good" ending. That was not a good ending. Ratatosk was going to take all the world's mana. Then move it towards the demon gate to close it. Why does the gate need mana to close it, anyhow? And then he was going to redirect Yggdrasil's mana to the gate, as well.

In ToS, they establish that mana is essential to life.

And I swear, I called almost every single plot twist a mile off. "Hold on a second, is Emil actually Ratatosk?" About five or six minutes later... "EMIL YOU ARRRRE RATATOSK." My reaction was "You've got to be fucking kidding me."

Next thing, Regal's outfit. Why the fuck do his pants now have an opening leading down to his crotch. Just... Why.

And the combat. That was not Symphonia. it was Abyss. This is what I hate about direct sequels in franchises like Tales. Actually, it was Abyss: Shitty version. TotA had awesome combat. Also, the super moves. Oh good fucking god, the super moves. Hits every single party member, you can't cancel or dodge it, the animations are excessively long, and reduces your HP to one no matter what. That's Mario Kart level difficulty. That's fake difficulty.

Now, I haven't played this game in a while for obvious reasons of "I fucking hate it," so this is all off the top of my head.

Wow. I feel a lot better now that I've finally gotten to rant about that game for a while. Thanks.

... Oh, and Emil was a man *****.

 

[thirion1850]

Death Note - The second part. God damnit, they just -had- to ruin it, didn't they?
Bleach - Whatever happens after the soul society ark. I dun like it, seriously.
Naruto Shippuuden - If I went into the problems this show gained, I think I'd be up here all night.

So far, that's the only ones I can think of.

 

[ZiggyE]

It's been said before, but Bleach.

Season two and three were good. Not only was the whole Aizen thing a total shock, but it also set up the moral ambiguities of Soul Society. That anime had so much potential. Then any sense of intelligence was dropped at a hat and replaced with flashy big attacks and fights that lasted season after season and six frickin' seasons of white pillars against black backgrounds.

Not to mention storylines were forgotten at a drop of a hat. Nel. Grimmjaw. Tousen. Completly shafted for more ZOMGBIGSWORDSANDFIGHTING.

Also, Ichigo is the biggest Mary Sue in any anime, ever.

 

[Guffe]

Snip

Well, there's always... Wait, Dawn of the New World was also a game.

The Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World?
I liked that game
But you liked the first one? I think the first one was better, but also liked the second one

Glad you aren't screaming at me about how I suck for not agreeing with you or something. I do so love you guys for that.

Anyways, Dawn of the New World. It's not a Tales of Symphonia sequel.

First of all... It feels like it was written by fans of the original game, not the original game's writers.

Spoiler: Big spoilers be here, folks

First of all, the tree. Why can't they speak the name of the tree? Personally, I think it's because the writers don't know what the tree was named. Fun fact: it's named Yggdrasil. No, I didn't read this somewhere on the internet. I figured it out. World tree. Norse mythology. RESEARCH!

And the ending. The "good" ending. That was not a good ending. Ratatosk was going to take all the world's mana. Then move it towards the demon gate to close it. Why does the gate need mana to close it, anyhow? And then he was going to redirect Yggdrasil's mana to the gate, as well.

In ToS, they establish that mana is essential to life.

And I swear, I called almost every single plot twist a mile off. "Hold on a second, is Emil actually Ratatosk?" About five or six minutes later... "EMIL YOU ARRRRE RATATOSK." My reaction was "You've got to be fucking kidding me."

Next thing, Regal's outfit. Why the fuck do his pants now have an opening leading down to his crotch. Just... Why.

And the combat. That was not Symphonia. it was Abyss. This is what I hate about direct sequels in franchises like Tales. Actually, it was Abyss: Shitty version. TotA had awesome combat. Also, the super moves. Oh good fucking god, the super moves. Hits every single party member, you can't cancel or dodge it, the animations are excessively long, and reduces your HP to one no matter what. That's Mario Kart level difficulty. That's fake difficulty.

Now, I haven't played this game in a while for obvious reasons of "I fucking hate it," so this is all off the top of my head.

Wow. I feel a lot better now that I've finally gotten to rant about that game for a while. Thanks.

... Oh, and Emil was a man *****.

You're welcome, first of all I don't like to flame people and I like the your theory on the tree, and it seems possible.

Yeah I didn't like Emile either. If I remember correctly they explained that the animals... that had the cores/eggs could somehow keep the balance of mana in th world and everyone would still be able to live? It was a long time since I played it...

Well I enjoyed the read and even thou I liked the game I must say the first one was a lot better. Also the second one was too complicated -.- Everything was so well explained in the first one while this one was full of "surprises"

Happy Holidays!

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Umineko. I loved Higurashi, one of my favorite animes, but Umineko dissapointed.

Agreed. I loved Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, and was excited to spot another in the same saga, but Umineko no Naku Koro Ni just didn't start out particularly interesting, compared to it's predecessor. I kept going, thinking it would get better, but it just seemed to be going in circles with people repeating mistakes for no good reason. That, and I think I figured out the twist half way, since the main character kept dancing around it but not actually saying it. I couldn't watch it to the end, it just ended up a big disappointment.

On that same vein, I was slightly disappointed by Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai. Nothing to do with story or characters, it was overall enjoyable and interesting to watch, but the slowed down pace and lack of violence is very distracting, especially times where they'd have been graphic in the first season. Not so much a case of the series disappointing me, just that one aspect was confusingly absent.

Oh, and Soul Eater. I was pleasantly surprised by it's quality at first, and was really enjoying it, despite a lack of direction. Around the last third though, it just lost what was good about it. Not enough to be terrible, but a noticeable quality drop. The ending though...ergh, horrible. They introduce new things for under a minute, negate them, then don't explain them. The bad guy dies because he falls out of character. Other bad guys just wander off without resolution. Ended on a low note, and I hope there's another season coming eventually to put things back together.

 

[Stoic raptor]

Umineko. I loved Higurashi, one of my favorite animes, but Umineko dissapointed.

On that same vein, I was slightly disappointed by Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai. Nothing to do with story or characters, it was overall enjoyable and interesting to watch, but the slowed down pace and lack of violence is very distracting, especially times where they'd have been graphic in the first season. Not so much a case of the series disappointing me, just that one aspect was confusingly absent.

I agree, but they redeemed themselves by explaining what the fuck was going on.

 

[Safaia]

The second half of BLOOD+. That show was always weird and a little off but when

Spoiler

a young innocent character is raped by a demon thing for the sake of baby making

it was pushed into the realm of uncomfortable.

 

[Sacman]

Deathnote was completely overrated and Soul Eater just shit itself inside out in the second season and don't get me started on the ending... 4 words: The Power of Friendship...<.<

 

[ahrnygoose]

Literally finished watching the last 4 episodes of E's Otherwise 20 minutes ago. It was quite disappointing. It had potential, but it failed in the delivery.

Also, Bleach.

 

[King Kupofried]

Samurai Champloo, the first episode was absolutely amazing and certainly made me believe it would be just as wonderful as Cowboy Bebop. It almost immediately crashed landed after that though for me. All the mid episodes couldn't really seem to focus on anything. They seemed to want to have some overlaying story, trying to find the samurai that smells like sunflowers, but it kept getting side tracked. Made even worse by the fact that every episode was constantly switching back and forth between the three characters all doing something completely different.
It could have been fine having a few self contained episodes but the fact that their goal kept being brought up without seeming to really move towards it made it feel like the creators were just killing time until the end.