"CTF cyber-security esports world" in the description, uh, CTFs and esports together in one sentence? Idk how…
You can pretend they play CSGO (there is some Counter-Strike content left in the show, but it's not very much considering how long this thing is). Everyone Loves Me has much more CS.
While GYR has a graphically unpleasant MOBA (surely programmed for the show!), the arena scenes and player cams…
In GGS, they have an over-engineered and under-used CSGO set. I really wish they had used it more and used it better. It's great to see it, but at the same time sad how much potential they wasted there.
In a late episode they also play CSGO music for a moment, as another nod.
I dropped gank into your heart? Because the game is WHAT THE HELL? So as this one too. For a game theme this one…
While GYR has a graphically unpleasant MOBA (surely programmed for the show!), the arena scenes and player cams at least have some effort put into them, and it's played on computers. YAMG and FIYS are better dramas, but they use some murky phone games, including phones mounts for the actual competition that are as offputting as the poor animations in GYR's game.
If you watch GGS, you can sometimes notice it is actually about CSGO just like FIYS is actually about League. (In terms of what made it to the drama itself, Everyone Loves Me by the directors of GGS and GGS2 is much more of a CSGO show.)
Of all dramas I watched, this might have the most (really amateurish?) dubbing transitions between audio takes recorded in clearly different environments. Then again, it's still better than being replaced by an entirely different (Standard Mandarin) actor?
I'm not seeing https://mydramalist.com/702917-really-miss-you on your list (= Mo Bao Fei Bao: https://mydramalist.com/people/18856-mo-bao-fei-bao…
Ah, it's *all* romance. I was giving you those recommendations because of Snowstorm & Squid. So if you are not in the mood for that now, definitely don't binge it at the moment.
Imagine a drama where the annoying clingy 'monkey girl' SFL just doesn't give up and perseveres until she finally gets the guy. It is "Female Chases Male First" taken to the max, if you so want.
There's also a strong friend group focus, like Reply without any of the ajummas.
The producers of this sometimes have no idea what they're doing with the foreign-language music they licensed. For a few of the OSTs, it is a whole 10 hours (!) into the show when they finally try to make them fit the scenes. Earlier a song praising the adored's kissable lips was thrown at... adolescents punching each other. Similarly, there is an apologetic & regretful song that is grossly misused for all sorts of things in the first 10 hours before finally being employed for mending a relationship between two characters.
In case you care for that sort of thing, the kissing scenes ain't exactly passionate or convincing.
It is cute. It came out the same time as Hidden Love and I watched both at the same time. I have only watched…
I thought Hidden Love was a bit better, but not dramatically so. (Unless you're rating in terms of, uh, kiss quality.) Both shows have kind of weak OSTs and some bad dubbing here and there.
can someone spoil me if there’s any love triangle or very annoying side characters? any good kiss scenes?
There are several SML suitors, the FL isn't interested in them and the ML attempts to get rid of them. The kiss scenes aren't great. With the ML you watched the much better Love Scenery and with the FL you watched the much much better Love Me Love My Voice.
While I don't know in how far "Chinese censorship" really killed this, it certainly feels like the poor, poor writing often has to replace some other planned (or even filmed) content that suspiciously went missing. Chemistry is... let's say on the lower end of the scale here. The OST is very boring and a lot of the background music is bad or even bothersome. Besides the FL's sassy and sometimes violent character, I'm not sure what I could even be praising here.
Since someone else complained that the treatment of animals in various scenes was dumb and nonsensical, let me say that the same applies to the game development and computer stuff here. They even have the standard scene where the ML remotely crashes someone's PC "just like that" to make them stop talking that no pre-teen hacker movie can do without.
Unless you are a Lin Yi super fan, want to see Zhou Ye in something MUCH worse than 'Love Me, Love My Voice', or just need to watch every gaming-related show there is no matter what, you can easily find better shows to spend your time on. Maybe in a parallel universe there's an uncensored director's cut of this that doesn't suck...?
What is Meco and how can they be worse than Rio?I still wake up drenched in sweat sometimes, deeply traumatized…
... I actually just posted https://mydramalist.com/702917-really-miss-you#comment-16941441 and praised it for not killing me with adverts, but that is because I thought the characters feeding each other milk tea every two minutes was supposed be charming...
Everyone Loves Me has much more CS.
In a late episode they also play CSGO music for a moment, as another nod.
YAMG and FIYS are better dramas, but they use some murky phone games, including phones mounts for the actual competition that are as offputting as the poor animations in GYR's game.
If you watch GGS, you can sometimes notice it is actually about CSGO just like FIYS is actually about League.
(In terms of what made it to the drama itself, Everyone Loves Me by the directors of GGS and GGS2 is much more of a CSGO show.)
Spoiler command below expands on GGS.
Then again, it's still better than being replaced by an entirely different (Standard Mandarin) actor?
So if you are not in the mood for that now, definitely don't binge it at the moment.
I didn't watch https://mydramalist.com/37243-a-murderous-affair-in-horizon-tower yet and https://mydramalist.com/697563-kai-duan is not quite dark and not romance-free, but at least they sound like they'd better fit your current interest.
There's also a strong friend group focus, like Reply without any of the ajummas.
The producers of this sometimes have no idea what they're doing with the foreign-language music they licensed. For a few of the OSTs, it is a whole 10 hours (!) into the show when they finally try to make them fit the scenes. Earlier a song praising the adored's kissable lips was thrown at... adolescents punching each other. Similarly, there is an apologetic & regretful song that is grossly misused for all sorts of things in the first 10 hours before finally being employed for mending a relationship between two characters.
In case you care for that sort of thing, the kissing scenes ain't exactly passionate or convincing.
Both shows have kind of weak OSTs and some bad dubbing here and there.
The kiss scenes aren't great.
With the ML you watched the much better Love Scenery and with the FL you watched the much much better Love Me Love My Voice.
Chemistry is... let's say on the lower end of the scale here.
The OST is very boring and a lot of the background music is bad or even bothersome.
Besides the FL's sassy and sometimes violent character, I'm not sure what I could even be praising here.
Since someone else complained that the treatment of animals in various scenes was dumb and nonsensical, let me say that the same applies to the game development and computer stuff here. They even have the standard scene where the ML remotely crashes someone's PC "just like that" to make them stop talking that no pre-teen hacker movie can do without.
Unless you are a Lin Yi super fan, want to see Zhou Ye in something MUCH worse than 'Love Me, Love My Voice', or just need to watch every gaming-related show there is no matter what, you can easily find better shows to spend your time on. Maybe in a parallel universe there's an uncensored director's cut of this that doesn't suck...?