It wasn't the worse thing in the world, but the ending did piss me off I'm not going to lie. At the end they did this preachy message of oh humm let's take the game offline completely every Tuesday/Thursday because you nerds need to go outside. Completely dismissing the fact that the two main characters in the movie met each other in game so telling people essentially to go outside and touch grass is a dick move.

Granted, may be getting hung up on that but I find the writing around gamers' lives pretty condescending a lot of the time. It's like most of the time the writers 100% believe in the nerd living in their mom's basement stereotype and they don't realise that while yes there's that sort of person playing there's also a lot of totally normal people out there as well possibly even ones you'd barely ever suspect of being gamers.

Shangri-La Frontier by comparison I feel was a much better done 'gamer' anime which I ended up watching out of boredom but they did a decent job with that. Although I did respect all of the easter eggs and references in the movie the fact that the best game ever created they could come up with was some shitty second life style rip off makes me feel like the writer who did that story was a massive tool.

Even though I find the Japanese concept of introducing stupid RPG mechanics into a real world scenario fairly cringe mostly they do get it right occasionally. I just feel like it's becoming an overused cliché these days and sort of a desperate attempt to try and appeal to gamers generally.

It wasn't the worse thing in the world, but the ending did piss me off I'm not going to lie. At the end they did this preachy message of oh humm let's take the game offline completely every Thursday because you nerds need to go outside. Completely dismissing the fact that the two main characters in the movie met each other in game so telling people essentially to go outside and touch grass is a dick move.

Granted, may be getting hung up on that but I find the writing around gamers' lives pretty condescending a lot of the time. It's like most of the time the writers 100% believe in the nerd living in their mom's basement stereotype and they don't realise that while yes there's that sort of person playing there's also a lot of totally normal people out there as well possibly even ones you'd barely ever suspect of being gamers.

Shangri-La Frontier by comparison I feel was a much better done 'gamer' anime which I ended up watching out of boredom but they did a decent job with that. Although I did respect all of the easter eggs and references in the movie the fact that the best game ever created they could come up with was some shitty second life style rip off makes me feel like the writer who did that story was a massive tool.

Even though I find the Japanese concept of introducing stupid RPG mechanics into a real world scenario fairly cringe mostly they do get it right occasionally. I just feel like it's becoming an overused cliché these days and sort of a desperate attempt to try and appeal to gamers generally.