Who doesn’t love a surprise narrator to over-explain everything?
Impressions:
Well, it made me laugh at least. Nothing in this episode was meant to be funny, but I couldn’t help but laugh at the slaver-torturer narrating feeding people to monsters wasn’t enough explanation for the scene, so a second invisible narrator had to cut in and do a bit of extra narration on top of it. Almost literally, some random woman cuts in and announces “The girl, determination in her eyes, resolves to pick up the sword and fight.” This may be the most egregious violation of telling instead of showing that I’ve seen in quite a while, which given the state of the medium is really something.
It wouldn’t improve from there. Literally everybody is a cackling drooling lunatic, except for her slave girlfriend who only knows being a slave and therefore wants nothing more than to be her slave. She looks at the status screen for the sword and gasps when she realizes it’s super cursed, but all its effects are reversed. Wait a minute, reversed? Reversal is the name of my Skill! That must mean that its effects are reversed. If its negative effects are reversed, then they become positive effects. Positive effects are good. Having high stats means that my statistics are high! If that was painful to read, imagine how it would feel to listen to. At least the status screens look weird and different instead of the usual Dragon Quest blocky mess. That’s the one little bit of credit you get in an otherwise barely animated, barely adapted package.
