moosy85
USA
This review may contain spoilers
Esports drama, bromance, romance
With a more complex script, this Chinese e-sports drama could have been amazing. The actors are fantastic for their age, and they all had good chemistry with each other. I especially loved the team members looking out for each other, and the "brother" of the female lead eventually befriending the boyfriend (male lead).
The storyline was mostly typical of a Chinese e-sports drama: China needs to win the championship in whatever game they are competing in. In this drama, the videogame was a type of shooter game a la Call of Duty. I liked that the game was easy to follow without having complex strategies; this can otherwise be off-putting for people who never played the game. The scenes of the in-game part was done realistically (the team members running around with in-game guns and "shooting" the enemies). instead of CGI, and I am grateful for that. They used a bit of CGI to show where someone got shot, and instead of blood, they used a red outline around the body parts that got hurt.
Another thing I enjoyed is that the team members were all important. It is not the male lead who pulls the entire team, but it is actual team work with members who have their own strengths. I dislike it when an e-sports drama talks about teamplay a lot, but then they all rely on this one genius player. I am glad this was not the case here.
Then the less good stuff: Some of the editing was choppy, making the conversations less natural than they could've been. Sometimes, some of the actors would speak too slowly and clearly, which makes me wonder if there was a lot of background noise during recording, and perhaps they had to rerecord some of the dialogue. The story unfortunately also lost steam quickly, so after the initial thrill of the main leads meeting and finding out the male lead's "secret", you just shrug your way through the next ten episodes, and then it would pick up again around episode 18 or so.
Overall, an okay watch if you are into e-sports dramas, but I would skip it if you are not and go straight to the actor listing to pick out the main actors and go find other dramas they are in.
The storyline was mostly typical of a Chinese e-sports drama: China needs to win the championship in whatever game they are competing in. In this drama, the videogame was a type of shooter game a la Call of Duty. I liked that the game was easy to follow without having complex strategies; this can otherwise be off-putting for people who never played the game. The scenes of the in-game part was done realistically (the team members running around with in-game guns and "shooting" the enemies). instead of CGI, and I am grateful for that. They used a bit of CGI to show where someone got shot, and instead of blood, they used a red outline around the body parts that got hurt.
Another thing I enjoyed is that the team members were all important. It is not the male lead who pulls the entire team, but it is actual team work with members who have their own strengths. I dislike it when an e-sports drama talks about teamplay a lot, but then they all rely on this one genius player. I am glad this was not the case here.
Then the less good stuff: Some of the editing was choppy, making the conversations less natural than they could've been. Sometimes, some of the actors would speak too slowly and clearly, which makes me wonder if there was a lot of background noise during recording, and perhaps they had to rerecord some of the dialogue. The story unfortunately also lost steam quickly, so after the initial thrill of the main leads meeting and finding out the male lead's "secret", you just shrug your way through the next ten episodes, and then it would pick up again around episode 18 or so.
Overall, an okay watch if you are into e-sports dramas, but I would skip it if you are not and go straight to the actor listing to pick out the main actors and go find other dramas they are in.
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