The good (As in, why I didn't give it only one star):
The art and animation in this movie were excellent The extremely large cast of characters is very well managed, there are very few that fall completely to the sidelines, story or writing wise The plot is easily digestible for those who are younger or newer to the medium
The bad:
The plot was mediocre at best, with the way the MC was brought into the plot utterly unrealistic and stereotypical for anime being one of its many unoriginal aspects, however, I could've set aside my qualms about the plot if not for the digital side of the film
The ugly (As in, here's where I make an itemized list so it's not too ragey):
1. The world of OZ is portrayed as impossibly immersive considering the fact that it uses mouse and keyboard or hand-held controls
2. OZ is given an insane amount of access to the world. Considering that even UPS uses an internal network for its in-hub computers, it is unbelievable that computers with control over public works, infrastructure, satellites, and nuclear power plants would be connected to this social network on steroids.
3. The "hacking" is so utterly nonsensical that to point out every single issue would take up the rest of this relatively short review
4. Real life martial arts skills do not translate to video game skills
5. A combat control scheme that requires use of the entire keyboard is utter nonsense and would be considered trash by anyone with even a small amount of gaming experience, and therefore should not have been even remotely popular
6. The number of different platforms OZ is accessible through is difficult to believe, mostly in terms of the DS. Plausible, but unlikely.
7. The supercomputer should not have been able to have OZ installed on it out of the box, installing an OS on the thing should've taken most of the time they had
8. There should have been no way for people to "give" the girl their avatars in the end
9. In-game proximity should have had nothing to do with whether the hacking AI could steal one's account
There's more, but just remembering this movie is starting to upset me, so I'll leave it at that.
The art and animation in this movie were excellent The extremely large cast of characters is very well managed, there are very few that fall completely to the sidelines, story or writing wise The plot is easily digestible for those who are younger or newer to the medium
The bad:
The plot was mediocre at best, with the way the MC was brought into the plot utterly unrealistic and stereotypical for anime being one of its many unoriginal aspects, however, I could've set aside my qualms about the plot if not for the digital side of the film
The ugly (As in, here's where I make an itemized list so it's not too ragey):
1. The world of OZ is portrayed as impossibly immersive considering the fact that it uses mouse and keyboard or hand-held controls
2. OZ is given an insane amount of access to the world. Considering that even UPS uses an internal network for its in-hub computers, it is unbelievable that computers with control over public works, infrastructure, satellites, and nuclear power plants would be connected to this social network on steroids.
3. The "hacking" is so utterly nonsensical that to point out every single issue would take up the rest of this relatively short review
4. Real life martial arts skills do not translate to video game skills
5. A combat control scheme that requires use of the entire keyboard is utter nonsense and would be considered trash by anyone with even a small amount of gaming experience, and therefore should not have been even remotely popular
6. The number of different platforms OZ is accessible through is difficult to believe, mostly in terms of the DS. Plausible, but unlikely.
7. The supercomputer should not have been able to have OZ installed on it out of the box, installing an OS on the thing should've taken most of the time they had
8. There should have been no way for people to "give" the girl their avatars in the end
9. In-game proximity should have had nothing to do with whether the hacking AI could steal one's account
There's more, but just remembering this movie is starting to upset me, so I'll leave it at that.