#Gods' Games We Play

[newtypezaku]

STUPID SHIT GAME

[animepopheart]

The new clip from the Gods' Games We Play anime is a little underwhelming. The designs and animation are meh. But the series doesn't need great animation to be fun. It's hard to tell from this clip, but I hope the anime can balance the excitement and humor of the light novels.

[characterdevelopmentobsessed]

Spring Anime 2024 Round Up

I have finished watching all of my Spring Anime for this year, and wow there were some good ones! Now it's time to rank them from the best to the worst. So here it is, the good, the bad and the ugly 5 ⭐️

Kaiju no 8

Tadaima Okaeri

Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc

4 ⭐️

The Irregular at Magic High School S3

As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World

Black Butler: Public School Arc

Mysterious Disappearances

3 ⭐️

Dragon Raja

Tsukimichi S2

Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers

2 ⭐️

God's Games We Play

Continuing to Watch in Summer:

Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S3

Dropped:

The New Gate

Re:Monster

Unnamed Memory

Vampire Dormitory

I was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting Magical Ability

The Banish Former Hero Lives as He Pleases

[comic-bastards]

Let's Anime 216 - Do They Play The Banjo? Spring First Episodes

Welcome, welcome! Last season was great for anime, how will the spring season fare? You must listen to find out, but we cover practically every show that's been released prior to our recording.

Shows covered: An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride, As a Reincarnated Aristocrat I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise into the World, Astro Note, A Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases, Bartender Glass of God, Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers, A Condition Called Love, Go! Go! Loser Ranger!, Gods' Games We Play, Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again, I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Price So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability, Mission: Yozakura Family, Mysterious Disappearances, Re:Monster, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Spice and Wolf: Merchant meets the wise Wolf, Studio Apartment Good Lighting Angel Included, Unnamed Memory, Vampire Dormitory, Viral Hit, Wind Breaker, Train to the End of the World.

Is that enough for you?

Listen on Spotify!

[recommendmeanime]

Playing games with gods has never been so average!

[jruthphipps]

Gods' Games We Play episode 3

Surely being able to teleport means that your door is permanently locked, not unlocked?

[hypnotichyenascrunchyrollcatchup]

Gods' Games We Play Kami wa Game ni Ueteiru.

Broadcast: Mondays at 21:30 (JST) Genres: Fantasy, Suspense, Ecchi Themes: High Stakes Game, Strategy Game

Synopsis The supreme Gods who had too much free time created the ultimate brain games "Play of the Gods." Former Goddess Leche awoke from a long slumber and declared to the world, "Bring forth the person who is the best in games in this era!" Fay is nominated to represent humanity as the "best rookie in recent years."

The "Game of the Gods" that is about to begin between the two may be a little too difficult, as there has yet to be a victor throughout human history, because Gods are capricious, very unreasonable, and sometimes completely incomprehensible. However, given the nature of the games, it would be a waste not to have a good time and play with all of one's heart! The ultimate brain battles of a genius gamer boy, a former Goddess, and friends begin!

First Impressions Somehow this show managed to take a premise that was already basically just a copycat of No Game No Life and made something that couldn't even meet the already low expectations I had going into it. Not a single original thought was had in the process of writing this, not even in the areas where it's trying to distance itself from NGNL.

I would say that it's managed to copy and paste every popular anime trope from the past 10 years but I will give it credit for not making this yet another isekai. Not that this makes much of a difference because it still seems like there was very little thought put into the world building. It just looks like modern Earth but with a fake language. No, I don't care that 93% of the world is uninhabitable, why are there skyscrapers and shit? The setting/culture should reflect the lore in a meaningful way, because otherwise what is even the point? The apostles are risking their lives get more opportunities to explore the world but like idk, they look pretty comfortable where they are.

Not only is the show unoriginal, but the writer couldn't even be bothered writing characters with actual...character. Fay looks and acts like every other seasonal fantasy anime shounen protagonist, and the Goddess he's in charge of (I've already forgotten her name) is like every other female lead. Like I can't even rattle off tropes for you because I couldn't tell you a single trait of their personality because they were too busy shoving pointless exposition down our throats. What's worse is, they had the perfect opportunity to give us a little bit more of their character in this episode when they were playing the memory game, but instead of actually getting to watch them play it just cuts to another lady rattling off the rules of the God Games. But like why though? I just know they're going to go over those rules like a million times throughout the series, especially in the next episode, and then we could see Fay teaching her the rules.

I'm starting to think I should just move to Japan and write light novels that Crunchyroll will pick up just because, since this is apparently the bar for the quality of writing I would be competing with.

[justusrstone]

This Light Novel was Okay UNTIL the Author Remembered He was Writing a Light Novel

My review of Gods’ Games We Play by Kei Sazane

[lightbulb-warning]

(You make a grand gesture towards Mirabelle as if presenting a marvelous art piece.)

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[newtypezaku]

Oh shit, guys, she's a VIP

[nymphachilles]

Post Gods Game

Ares loves his sister. They fight 99% of time just like every sibiling🤺🤺🤺 you csnnot tell me otherwise

[characterdevelopmentobsessed]

Spring Anime 2024

These are the shows that I am currently watching for the spring 2024 season, but I have way to many!! I will probably have to drop some as the season goes for time reasons 😭 As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill... (This title is WAY to long) Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers Dragon Raja

Gods' Games We Play

Kaiju No. 8

Mysterious Disappearances

Re: Monster

Tadaima, Okaeri

That Time i Got Reincarnated as a Slime S3

The Irregular at magic High School S3

The New Gate

Tsukimichi S2

Unnamed Memory

Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master

Why are there so many good shows this season! Theres no way I'll be able to keep up with 14!

[comic-bastards]

Review: Gods’ Games We Play – Episode 2

By Dustin Cabeal

Usually, I save my reviews for the podcast, that's Let's Anime, but Gods’ Games We Play episode two frustrated and pissed me off so much that not only did I already vent to my co-host Lindsay for at least one-half an hour, but now here I am writing this goddamn review.

The second episode picks up where the first episode left off, which is at the beginning of God's Go hide and seek. In which a giant Titan is smashing a city. We have a group of players, and we are about to explain the rules, even though it seems like the game has already begun when they yelled, “Gods Go Hide and seek.” Instead, one asshole interrupts this little weird floating God turd thing and is like, “statistically this should be a versus God game.” To which the little floating God turd thing goes, “Yeah, no. We’re suddenly bored with doing that.” I mean, you just introduced the concept and the stats for that, but no, we're not going to do that. That's pointless. In fact, we don't even know why we talked about it. We hired someone to say that line just so we could say no. A character and their role on the team was introduced to the story, just for a floating God turd to say, “You’re wrong and now useless to the story.”

The group, mostly led by our main character Fay, starts asking questions like, “What are the rules? How do you win?” This little shitty floating Titan God thing is this like let me give you some abstract ideas. So, they have half the rules. Half the equation to win and then they run from this giant Titan thing. It doesn't take long for the giant Titan thing to just step on someone, but instead of them dying, half of them turn red, but they cheat the story, and you only see the red half. Our main character and the Dragon God figure the shit out and then confront the Titan. Instead of just winning the game and then explaining to us how they won, he allows himself to be smashed, which then reveals his power, which is to never fucking die and nullify all effects. It's a mega cheat. How the hell are you ever supposed to get this guy to lose? But before he's even won, he explains how he's won. I'm like, no asshole. Finish the fucking game. Then tell me how you won. You’re standing on a smashed building, yelling at a giant Titan… finish the game first. They finally do win the game, which I'm like Titan, why are you even letting them compete? They have told you, their plan. Why are you not stopping this? Do you want to lose? You seem to want to lose. And I swear to God, at one point Fay asks, did we win? And the Titans like, no. And then they did win. In the next scene, they're just like adding they won. Okay, sure. Why the fuck do I care at this point I’m just glad this “smart person’s” game is over.

It's also revealed pointlessly that Faye is on a goddamn break or was on a goddamn break before this game. He was on a hot streak, winning three in a row. They need ten to get ultimate wishes, by the way. And he already won three on his own. But they were like, hey, we found this dragon lady frozen in ice for 3,000 years. She wants to play games with you so she can become a God again. Oh, but her cheap power is nothing compared to yours. She smashes stuff, but she's good at games. And then she analyzes the footage of them winning and she's like, we should have gone to this other building instead. I'm like, you already won. The plan worked. What does that analyzation tell me other than you're an idiot and you came up with a different idea to which you could have gone up to the Titan and said, “we're going to win, and this is how we're gonna win.” It added nothing to her character and cheapened their victory because she was like, we could have done better. No, you couldn’t have. You didn't play football, you didn't play basketball, you ran around a city, and you were playing Reversi and there was no fucking way anyone could figure that out because this show is stupid and had to explain it to me before they even won. There was no clue until the characters were explaining the clues. I was like, ohh, that's weird. I didn't see them being half red until you explained it to me. I hate that, analyze mistakes, not things that worked. It worked, there’s no reason to be like, “we could have done better here” because it doesn’t matter anymore.

Overall, I did not like this episode. It wasn't even that bad. It was just the logic behind everything that was so stupid that it was aggravating. It was treating me like I'm an idiot, but it's doing nothing to allow anyone to figure out what's happening. And it wasn't even that good. It's like we're playing three games at once. We're playing tag, we're playing hide and go seek. And we're playing Reversi, and you have to figure that out. Oh, but why would you? Because I used to play battle games. Yeah, so good luck. Especially when we've never apparently built up any sort of situation that you would have been able to pull from before this. But because we found fucking frozen dragon lady, we are switching everything. This guy likes to play games. We're switching everything. Mostly we’re just combing games and ruining all of them at once… but I used to do battle games.

Lastly, the art style was annoying. Everything looked faded. I don't know if that was because they were in the “God Realm,” but it looks shitty and unfinished.

I will probably watch the third episode, but only because it just came out.

Watch or Pass Rating: Pass

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