Why couldn't this just take place inside of the game the entire time or just have it be real instead? People just literally playing the game seems kind of stupid. It's not even VR or AR or whatever, they're just sitting there playing it and then it awkwardly transitions to in-game...which would be fine if this was a comedy series since it's a common practice for pretty much any show that plays around with games as a way to set up jokes and dumb situations and whatever. The way this is now it just seems a dumbass commercial, which I was fully expecting but they could at least try a little harder. I mean, the setting is perfectly fine to framework a story, why not fucking do it.
The Ragnarok Online anime is much better. Hell, Rage of the Bahamut was a retarded mobile card game and it had a fucking awesome 12 episode series based on the cardboard basic concepts of its world and characters. Straight up recommendation, by the way. You guys watch Rage of the Bahamut right now.
Although the Sega references were pretty neat, gotta admit.
