Youtube randomly recommended me a trailer of NTE – an upcoming character action gacha with a city open world. I heard of this game before. Many people think that it will be the next big thing in the anime gacha space. Then, I saw the view count. 3.44 millions. I can imagine that many youtubers wouldn’t be able to see this number even in their wildest dreams. In fact, many of my favorite youtubers are complaining about how Youtube algorithm affect their livelihood lately… Anyway, I clicked the button and watched it, giving it my full attention.
Let’s just say, in that 3 minutes, I saw a lot of things and listened to a terrible song. Sorry potential NTE fans, I think this trailer is pretty bad.
This makes me think: What is a good trailer? “Oh god this is good”, “Best trailer ever”, “Yoooooo this is smooth!!!”… We read a lot of these comments on forums or Youtube. But what makes a trailer good? If we have critics who review videogames, why not we also dissect videogame trailers?
Therefore, this thread is born.
Please make sure to provide the following in your post:
Here’s my contribution.
NTE (Neverness To Everness)
This trailer has neither a focus nor proper storyboard. It is a whole package of stuff stitched together into a 3-minute long video. I saw a number of characters who tried their best to look cool / mysterious / funny, but after watching I honestly know absolutely nothing about them. What are their narrative purposes? Why are they here? Gacha is usually character-centric because the developers need to ensure that the audience can get attached to the characters. They make or break a gacha game, literally. Unfortunately, this trailer makes very little effort to convince us to care about them.
The cuts of the trailer are a mess, too. For example, at 1 minute mark we saw a car broke down in front of the traffic light, but in the next shot it is literally flying off the road, with police cars on its tails. Somehow the car was mysteriously repaired on the road. In addition, it is baffling that they did not show more about the city itself – because an open world game with a city is not common in the gacha genre. I can safely say that this is the biggest differentiation of NTE when compared with Genshin or Wuthering Waves, but somehow, this trailer is still largely about the characters but not about the city.
3/10. Not my intention to open this thread with a negative review, but I can’t help but voice my disappointment. This does not deserve 3.44 million views.
Let’s just say, in that 3 minutes, I saw a lot of things and listened to a terrible song. Sorry potential NTE fans, I think this trailer is pretty bad.
This makes me think: What is a good trailer? “Oh god this is good”, “Best trailer ever”, “Yoooooo this is smooth!!!”… We read a lot of these comments on forums or Youtube. But what makes a trailer good? If we have critics who review videogames, why not we also dissect videogame trailers?
Therefore, this thread is born.
Please make sure to provide the following in your post:
- Name of the game
- Trailer link
- Your comments
- Give a score (eg. 6/10)
Here’s my contribution.
NTE (Neverness To Everness)
This trailer has neither a focus nor proper storyboard. It is a whole package of stuff stitched together into a 3-minute long video. I saw a number of characters who tried their best to look cool / mysterious / funny, but after watching I honestly know absolutely nothing about them. What are their narrative purposes? Why are they here? Gacha is usually character-centric because the developers need to ensure that the audience can get attached to the characters. They make or break a gacha game, literally. Unfortunately, this trailer makes very little effort to convince us to care about them.
The cuts of the trailer are a mess, too. For example, at 1 minute mark we saw a car broke down in front of the traffic light, but in the next shot it is literally flying off the road, with police cars on its tails. Somehow the car was mysteriously repaired on the road. In addition, it is baffling that they did not show more about the city itself – because an open world game with a city is not common in the gacha genre. I can safely say that this is the biggest differentiation of NTE when compared with Genshin or Wuthering Waves, but somehow, this trailer is still largely about the characters but not about the city.
3/10. Not my intention to open this thread with a negative review, but I can’t help but voice my disappointment. This does not deserve 3.44 million views.
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