Finished up totally all the episodes in Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, that animated netflix show that contains a ton of Ubisoft IP in a cyberpunk setting. Show is better than it has any right to be, it's great even for my opinion. I loved this show and these characters.
It is of course enormously adult but everything feels Earned imo in some way. (Be aware, sex, blood, death, you know how this goes) Nothing feels like it was done Just because we're in an adult show and we can do whatever we want now. Plotlines are just cool and great. Every character is just nicely realized.
The animation is incredible and they have a lot of gags of switching up the animation from the main 2D style. The show will go into pixel art, into anime, into FMV sequences for gags and stretches of the show. The movement and look is just, good. I loved how this show was drawn a lot, I want to see more from this studio like this now.
I was personally never really annoyed by almost anything and laughed at a good amount of the jokes, but at least smiling most of the runtime.
It's six episodes long, average 25mins per. Short show, you can crack it out in a day.
This show has the best pixel art in a show I've seen so far, I think they got legit pixel artists on this. Puts Sonic Prime to shame.
Okay so like, this is neither a positive or a negative, but they have a couple real life wrestlers show up, like Kenny Omega, and their cameos are kinda ??? Like very short and not particularly impactful or entertaining. I just feel like they coulda used these boys a bit more if they were gonna get them at all.
It's a cyberpunk show and, I think it gets that more than most other cyberpunk media right about now. There are incredibly fucked up fascist things that this show contains and that The Overlords do to citizens. It felt like the writer(s) weren't just saying "Oooo cool glowy city", they had a legit idea about the kind of opression that rampant capitalism and facism would cause and what they wanted to criticize.
Minus maybe oooone franchise, I think all the Ubisoft IP is used really well. I dug what they did with Rayman in this show, and if you've only seem him snorting coke, like, that happens. But there's more to Rayman's story and arc and character in this than just pure shock value. If someone is a fan of multiple Ubisoft IP there's surprising references and characters that show up, it is a show that very much loves Ubisoft's IP. (Ubisoft being a french gamedev and this show being done by a french animation studio.)
Soundtrack was just okay. Functional. Especially comparing it to Cyberpunk Edgerunners, there were A LOT of jams in Edgerunners that I could throw on my spotify playlist. I wouldn't throw a single Captain Laserhawk song on my spotify.
Show is gay. It shows male to male gay explicitly and without hiding it or implying it, a few of these boys are GAY. The main CHARACTER, the PROTAG, is GAY. But it doesn't have any other LGBT letters.
I could feel the Budget at times. Sometimes there would be a freeze frame of animation to end a sequence. But I could mostly just respect what they DID do with what they had.
