Dark Revolution Episode 1 was posted on Jan 23, 2017 by Icerift Fyera. It clocks in at over 25 minutes long, and with that said, I\u2019m Knightmare, and let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n
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We start off with [clip] AHHHHHH NARRATION??? Vix-damnit. Well. Through this exposition dump, we get the world building for this series: two beings balance each other out, the bad-bean gets upsetti spaghetti, and good-bean has to lock bad-bean away. It\u2019s not bad narration, and the visuals that go along with it are nice. I like the world building, but I will say it\u2019s something I\u2019ve seen a million times before. These sibling forces battle and one of them is defeated but that won\u2019t last forever\u2014it\u2019s been done time and again, but I\u2019ll be interested to see Icerift\u2019s take on this. After the narration, we\u2019re greeted with our first human characters, and\u2026wait a second, is this a trailer? We get multiple characters speaking, and like an overview of stuff going on\u2026and it feels like a trailer? Not part of the episode? That\u2019s fine, I guess, but\u2026I suppose I would\u2019ve like some sort of warning? Idk.<\/p>\n
The opening plays, and it\u2019s short and concise\u2014which I like\u2014and we open on\u2026someone\u2026running. Okay, my intention isn\u2019t to bash Ice here, but again, I\u2019ve seen this a million times in this community\u2014where we open on someone running away from someone else. And I know not all my other videos have addressed this, but I watch a lot of amateur series in what little spare time I have, and so many of them open this way.<\/p>\n
This character runs as fires burn around them and sees some people down below. The ground collapses beneath them, but they are caught by this winged fellow who says [clip]. So\u2026I\u2019m going to guess that what you\u2019re standing on somehow doesn\u2019t count as rubble?<\/p>\n
We get a name, Rahzeer, and we get a delightfully forced line [clip]. I\u2019m not critiquing the voice acting here, I\u2019m critiquing the line. I know Ice is trying to tell us these two are somehow related despite looking nothing alike, but I guess I never hear siblings say these sort of things to each other? And this may just be me and my brother who act this way, but unless I see Rahzeer somehow keep this semi-expositional way of talking through the entire series, I\u2019m going to say this line should\u2019ve gotten re-worked.<\/p>\n
Rahzeer asks if his brother has seen three different people, and we get flashes of the ones he\u2019s talking about as he says their names. I\u2026think I like this? It\u2019s not something I\u2019ve seen before, but I think it works. Just don\u2019t expect me to remember their names. I\u2019m having a hard enough time remembering Rahzeer\u2019s. His younger brother expresses concern as to if their friends have been killed, and Rahzeer gets suddenly extremely peeved and seems forceful? He grabs his brother and flies into the air and asks if his bro can see anything. But\u2026why did you get so mad at your bro who was just concerned? Your attitude before seemed pretty calm? And then you\u2019re taking your bro into the air, when I could\u2019ve sworn you had eyes? And you could see yourself?<\/p>\n
Rahzeer spots something and lands, and then yells at someone named Naboo. When I first watched this, I could\u2019ve sworn he was yelling at his brother from the way this shot was composed, so it was a surprise to me to see the two characters actually spotted two other characters nearby.<\/p>\n
Naboo is introduced, and is fighting some dude. He insists he doesn\u2019t need Rahzeer\u2019s help, but Rahzeer gives it regardless.<\/p>\n
Rahzeer and Naboo banter about Naboo getting into fights, and Rahzeer tells him to take his brother and leave the city. But\u2026why would the three of you go separately? That seems super dangerous. It\u2019s like asking a wildfire not to catch things on fire. You just know<\/em> this Naboo character is going to get into some trouble. We\u2019re given the other brother\u2019s name, May-on. These two leave, but come across some large creature with armor and fire. As I suspected Naboo tried to attack and Mayon had to pull him away. They get chased to a dead-end where some mysterious lightning character comes along and seems to protect them. Yaiku is the name Mayon shouts, and dear Vix, I\u2019m getting concerned we\u2019re going to have a massive cast in this series that I can\u2019t keep track of. Yaiku leads them away, and turns back into his human form to help the others get onto a tall rock. He expresses that they should be safe from here on out before getting stabbed. But\u2026where did this guy come from? We get quite a few shots of the area around them, how did no one hear or see this guy? How did we, the audience, not see this guy from the different angles we were shown? Also, I thought they were on a rock, not on dirt? KM is confused.<\/p>\n Naboo and Mayon escape, and Naboo rants about everything we basically heard in the narration. See, this is why I hate narration. The episode itself is doing a good enough job explaining what\u2019s going on at the right times. Guys. Please. Narration is practically useless and mostly lazy. Unless you can somehow do it perfectly, and do it at the right time, and have phenomenal writing, I\u2019m most likely going to get annoyed by its existence.<\/p>\n Naboo turns back to his four-legged form, and\u2026I guess Mayon does, too? I mean, last time we saw him he was human but he\u2019s canine now. That\u2019s\u2026chill. Confusing maybe, but not a big deal. The two rush off and we jump\u2026holy shit, to four years later? Damn, I guess nothing else important happened in those four years? They just got away? Safely? Okay. I\u2019ll take your word on it.<\/p>\n Mayon wakes up, apparently from having the same nightmare he\u2019s had for several nights in a row, and we get an endearing scene between him and Naboo. I really like this scene, and the brotherly concern feels pretty heartfelt. It switches into a more hostile tone part way through, which, again, is pretty accurate to sibling interactions. The two go back to bed, and in the morning we\u2019re introduced to more characters! Shit son, how many names am I going to need to write down? We\u2019re treated to some people still being pissed about not finding the body of the Nameless god\u2019s reincarnation, whether or not a child was really the reincarnation, and one dude storms out in anger. As this guy talks about his\u2026audio\u2026lines\u2026suddenly get distant and not so good? Definitely something that happened during production and probably not anyone\u2019s fault, but it\u2019s definitely distracting.<\/p>\n The two of them sorta talk about becoming a man, I guess, with some sort of preparations being in place to make this so, and then they say\u2026something about Maleksthel\u2026? Mal-eek-thell? And Cheetu dragons? Okay. Okay, I\u2019m all for being left in the dark about things, but I\u2019m being overloaded with characters and world information, that I\u2019m getting a little lost. What\u2019s being referred to here, and why is it important? Why is any of this interaction important? Would it be better if we didn\u2019t see all this, and instead just stuck with our main characters? I don\u2019t know, because I\u2019m confused.<\/p>\n Speaking of, we get back to our mains, and we see one of our fellows here, Naboo, doing some magic? Mayon wakes up, and starts to apologize for being super closed off the previous night, and Naboo is now totally chill with it? What happened to being concerned over your brother? Where\u2019d all that brotherly love go? Did one night\u2019s rest really calm you down and convince you that your brother is now fine, and you don\u2019t need to know why that nightmare is plaguing him? I. Do not. Understand.<\/p>\n Mayon mentions that they\u2019re running out of food, and they haven\u2019t found anything \u201cworth hunting down.\u201d Okay, but isn\u2019t any sort of prey a few proteins better than starving? You\u2019d think you\u2019d eat anything if you were that hungry. How\u2019d they get food in the first place, anyway? They\u2019re in a desert it seems, so unless they frequently go into town, as Naboo is about to suggest, then??? How did they get food, where are they carrying it, why are they concerned about going into town if they\u2019ve visited it several times? I have so many questions. I really, really, do not understand.<\/p>\n Naboo mentions that if any of the citydwellers find out they\u2019re survivors from O-zehn-bell, they\u2019re done for. But it\u2019s been like, four years, right? So why would anyone be really thinking about that? And that\u2019s not me bashing on trajedies of entire cities being slaughtered, but the general populace has a really short memory. We are easily distracted and easily forget about terrible events. It\u2019s unlikely anyone in town would even care if they found out, because people move on.<\/p>\n Then Naboo mentions they should just hunt for something around here\u2026what the fuck? Okay, you just mentioned you might need to go into town, and you and your brother already concluded food around here is sparse and not worth hunting, so why are you saying this? This is such repetitive dialogue? I don\u2019t? Get it?<\/p>\n This chick mentions something about Drawd and, again, what the fuck is a Drawd? Also, why do some of them have ears when they turn into humans, and others don\u2019t? *deep inhale* Whatever, I guess! [clip at 12.14 about \u201cfulfillment will watch over us] *stifled screaming* what the fuck is a fulfillment, is that a god? I don\u2019t knowwwwwwwwwwww<\/p>\n As the conversation continues, Naboo reveals that this city they\u2019re going into was the city that attacked theirs and killed everyone inside. Which clears up some questions about why they\u2019re hesitant\u2014sorta?\u2014to enter this town. But that doesn\u2019t answer why they\u2019re near this town in the first place. Are they travelling somewhere? Or just staying on the move? Why? Can\u2019t they find some place with actual resources and stay there, and keep a low profile? If they\u2019re travelling somewhere, did they really come through this area unprepared, and want to risk entering a town where someone might recognize them and kill them? That\u2019s another thing\u2014how are these guys recognizable? It seems like others are able to turn into animals, so are all of them survivors of O-zehn-bell? And they\u2019re somehow in the clear because they don\u2019t have red eyes? Then why not just have someone with non-red eyes do all the city-going? I know some of these questions might be answered in later episodes, but to be honest, I\u2019m having a hard time following the logic here.<\/p>\n Then Mayon mentions how this city couldn\u2019t have come to help Ozhenbell, because it\u2019s on the other side of the country. So is this a bad city or not? Were they allies who didn\u2019t come to their aid? How the fuck are they allies with that great of distance between them? Did they attack Ozhenbell or not? With that, the group heads into town, and that\u2019s where I\u2019m going to leave this part of the review off at. Sorry for not making one giant episode, but boy, I\u2019ve got a lot to say, apparently! Tune in for part 2 later, and let me know what you think of Dark Revolution so far! Make sure to give Icerift some love, as, despite all my nitpicking, I did really enjoy watching this episode. Make sure to follow me on one of my many social media sites, I\u2019m Knightmare, thank you all for watching, make sure to hit like, subscribe, and I\u2019ll see you guys next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dark Revolution Episode 1 was posted on Jan 23, 2017 by Icerift Fyera. It clocks in at over 25 minutes long, and with that said, I\u2019m Knightmare, and let\u2019s get started. We start off with [clip] AHHHHHH NARRATION??? Vix-damnit. Well. 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