Review of No Game, No Life: Zero

Is this pretty? Yes, it is. Oh cool! Does it have an engaging, different and original story? No. I understand that this could look very cool in the cinemas. To be fair, it's decent. However, if you're not a fan of non-sensical romance with heavy exclamations of love coming at you during half of the movie, I have bad news for you. Robot-romance was never one of my favorite genres, but here the non-sense of all this really hits you in the face. The two main characters are not characters on their own, they just work as projections of the two main characters in the main series.Shwi actually programmes herself to display a totaly cringy baby sister attitude and stays with it during the entire movie. The marriage proposal comes literally out of nowhere when in the meanwhile there is not a speck of romantic interaction between them. Well I guess unless you count all the times other characters were telling the audience there was and kept on giggling about it.

Show, don't tell. Show, don't tell. Show, don't freaking tell!!!

That golden rule was completely forgotten in this movie!!! As a result, unsympathetic and one-dimensional characters whose romance will not interest you a single bit, were the only way to go. I have forgotten how many times I checked to see how much time was left during the course of this movie. The world was interesting, sure, but the movie was too occupied with mentioned "romance" to show anything else on this aspect other than the angsty MC suddenly deciding to be the coolest, cleverest, most awesome guy there is. You know that because he said so, laughed sardonically about it, sufferred and then *poof*, his cool, clever and awesome plan worked!

6/10. A beautiful potato is still a potato.