I guess I was expecting more, given the good reviews.
The animation is fantastic and the voice acting is good, but those are the only major positives I can think of.
The story is just "okay". It's a bit rushed and force and we don't get much time to care about any of the characters or process what's going on.
Character development is bad for almost all the characters. Vax and Keyleth go from never talking to one another to instantly being in love. It comes out of nowhere and has no time to grow at all. The only character who has half decent development is Percy. Everyone else is a bore. Pike is another one who comes out of left field. Her development happens way too quickly and we never get a chance to know her first.
The humor is mostly terrible. I don't mind potty jokes or cussing at all. I LOVE South Park, and that's a show that does crude humor right. But it seems like Vox Machina's creators think that saying the F word randomly = funny, and that *any* sexual reference = funny. 90% of the time the jokes are just forced and lame. Cussing for the sake of cussing isn't funny, it's just bad writing.
Overall I finished this, so it wasn't awful, but I was never pulled into it at any point.
The animation is fantastic and the voice acting is good, but those are the only major positives I can think of.
The story is just "okay". It's a bit rushed and force and we don't get much time to care about any of the characters or process what's going on.
Character development is bad for almost all the characters. Vax and Keyleth go from never talking to one another to instantly being in love. It comes out of nowhere and has no time to grow at all. The only character who has half decent development is Percy. Everyone else is a bore. Pike is another one who comes out of left field. Her development happens way too quickly and we never get a chance to know her first.
The humor is mostly terrible. I don't mind potty jokes or cussing at all. I LOVE South Park, and that's a show that does crude humor right. But it seems like Vox Machina's creators think that saying the F word randomly = funny, and that *any* sexual reference = funny. 90% of the time the jokes are just forced and lame. Cussing for the sake of cussing isn't funny, it's just bad writing.
Overall I finished this, so it wasn't awful, but I was never pulled into it at any point.