Magacu Wahrheit: Zuerst

This is pretty much a long prologue to the MMORPG smartphone app. If you are interested in playing Magatsu Wahrheit, then this anime series is worth a watch, because it is about what happened from the beginning (hence the word Zuerst which means first in German) and it even supposedly puts a lot of things from the game in perspective, so you are not going to feel like the very first mission is kind of out of context. If, like me, you had no idea about the MMORPG smartphone app, then you will probably think this is a pretty mediocre, occasionally interesting anime series that does not really even have any atmosphere and does not really sell itself. The story is pretty well thought out even though it does not really hold any excitement or surprise for the audience. The soundtrack is below average and, except for the last episode, does not really contribute anything of worth to the overall experience. The animation sometimes looks quite pretty (such as the scenes when "the light came on"), however, at other times you can see that there is room for improvement in terms of fluidity and movement, for example. The monsters are not scary, and the plot twists do not leave a lasting impression. The characters are also quite insipid and uninspired, and when I started to find them at least a little bit interesting (like with Elfriede or Conrad), the screenwriters seemed to have always made sure they had put something in the story to kill any fascination I may have had. I did not find the central duo entertaining, as one is an insipid nice guy and the other is a coward "looking for his balls", which just does nothing for me... I might have even been interested in how the story continues if it were not in this format (and I hardly play smartphone games at all), so I am going to stop at the prologue, and I am not going to award this more than 4.5/10. (12/31/2020)