I was at least pleased to read 1 honest review here. The rest, no offense, seem to be out of fanboyism or from people expecting very little. I will not include any spoilers and get straight to the point so that people know what they are in for and so that the review isn't avoided being read by those who have not yet seen it.
The characters often do not look like people would expect them to look like from the games. Some characters are left out and some are included that were not in the first many SFII games or parts of backstories. The stories of the characters can also differ from the games.
The first 13 episodes were decent for what it was with consideration that the characters and story are extremely loosely connected to the games. After this point is where a viewer might wonder if the producers' budget was greatly reduced as the quality of the show drops off greatly. The show begins to rely on constant reuse of the same animation frames over and over again. Then to make things worse they start slowing the scenes down and playing them very slowly as if you set your video player to 0.5x speed. They also include scenes that are entirely redundant and use the same repeated animations in scenes proceeding them. I had never seen such blatant over-use of the same animation frames. It isn't even like when a background is repeated with new cells drawn overtop, the entire frames are reused, and excessively at that. It blows my mind that people can overlook this so much to still give it such a high rating and raving review. Then, to make things worse, there are not just illogical events but even horrible inconsistencies in its own story (not inconsistencies with the games as others mention).
If all of that wasn't bad enough, they also tease some fan favorite characters in the background as if they will come into the story later but instead, they never do. At this point you might be thinking "it doesn't still get worse, does it?" to which I sadly have to say that yes, it does. They go so far as to forget to bother even continuing main characters' story lines towards the end of the movie and just drop them from the rest of the story, never bothering to explain what happened to them.
If you want to enjoy it as a smaller short series (the good part of it) I suggest just watching the first 13 episodes and then ending it there. If you are willing to sit through what I had mentioned or are interested to see for yourself in detail what I was talking about then by all means, watch the full 29 episodes. There might be some moments past the first 13 episodes that you still enjoy and find worth watching. I know that I did. However, at least you have been warned about what happens with the quality of the production and story during this part.
People are welcome to dislike my review and not find it helpful but do know that all I did was tell what I thought to be the truth about this series from a proper "film review" perspective instead of just talking about how "cool" I thought it was or writing a synopsis for it as a review.
The characters often do not look like people would expect them to look like from the games. Some characters are left out and some are included that were not in the first many SFII games or parts of backstories. The stories of the characters can also differ from the games.
The first 13 episodes were decent for what it was with consideration that the characters and story are extremely loosely connected to the games. After this point is where a viewer might wonder if the producers' budget was greatly reduced as the quality of the show drops off greatly. The show begins to rely on constant reuse of the same animation frames over and over again. Then to make things worse they start slowing the scenes down and playing them very slowly as if you set your video player to 0.5x speed. They also include scenes that are entirely redundant and use the same repeated animations in scenes proceeding them. I had never seen such blatant over-use of the same animation frames. It isn't even like when a background is repeated with new cells drawn overtop, the entire frames are reused, and excessively at that. It blows my mind that people can overlook this so much to still give it such a high rating and raving review. Then, to make things worse, there are not just illogical events but even horrible inconsistencies in its own story (not inconsistencies with the games as others mention).
If all of that wasn't bad enough, they also tease some fan favorite characters in the background as if they will come into the story later but instead, they never do. At this point you might be thinking "it doesn't still get worse, does it?" to which I sadly have to say that yes, it does. They go so far as to forget to bother even continuing main characters' story lines towards the end of the movie and just drop them from the rest of the story, never bothering to explain what happened to them.
If you want to enjoy it as a smaller short series (the good part of it) I suggest just watching the first 13 episodes and then ending it there. If you are willing to sit through what I had mentioned or are interested to see for yourself in detail what I was talking about then by all means, watch the full 29 episodes. There might be some moments past the first 13 episodes that you still enjoy and find worth watching. I know that I did. However, at least you have been warned about what happens with the quality of the production and story during this part.
People are welcome to dislike my review and not find it helpful but do know that all I did was tell what I thought to be the truth about this series from a proper "film review" perspective instead of just talking about how "cool" I thought it was or writing a synopsis for it as a review.