by jellydonut25 » Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:17 am
Been glancing at some reviews and discussing with some friends who then said, "Yeah, well, people said a lot of the same stuff about the first one, so whatever," and I thought to myself, "Did they?" and just quickly looked.
The first is at 71% on RT, the second at 46% (and falling).
Certainly SOME reviews for the first were about the same as those for Uprising, with phrases like "Big, loud, and dumb" and "Transformers-y" thrown around but there were also reviews praising GDT's world-building, and the visual mastery, the attention to detail, and the quiet moments of introspection that bring it all together "Stupid done smart" was a phrase used, and a lot of reviews pointed out the heart at the center of it all.
Uprising reviews use words like "Generic" and "mindless" and it definitely seems like everything that made the original great has been cast by the wayside to provide more action with less context. The positive reviews seem like the person checked out mentally and just wrote "Eh, whatever. It's kinda fun or something I guess. People like this for some reason. 3/5" while one of the negative reviews really stuck out to me (paraphrasing), "The punch isn't the point. We don't want to see the punch done right. What matters is the motivation behind the punch, why it's being thrown, what people feel about it, what effects it has and what its aftermath are. Punching alone isn't enough."
I still have a shred of hope, but it's down to about a shred.