Skip Sand Land's Game, Watch The Anime Instead

Summary

Skip the game and watch the anime for a more dynamic and emotion-filled experience with Sand Land.
The English voice acting in the game is lackluster, while the Japanese version offers a much better performance.
The anime delves deeper into character relationships and world-building compared to the shallow game adaptation.

I’ve never been a hardcore fan of the late Akira Toriyama. I have a passing knowledge of his work, and I’ve never read the Sand Land manga. I did, however, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:review the game. I figure𒁃d that since Sand Land is a standalone game intended to act as an approachable, complete adaptation of the manga in its own right, it wouldn’t matter if I’d read the manga or watched the movie or anime adaptation. Turns out there is a lot of Sand Land out there.

Unfortunately, the game isn’t very fun. A large part of this is due to the English voice acting b🌸eing generally mediocre to bad, and there’s no option to change to the original Japanese. Dialogue is sometimes poorly paced and often delivered with strange inflections and pauses. The characters don’t seem to have deeply developed, interesting relationships with one another. The game’s villains aren’t particularly dist𒅌inctive or compelling.

I thought that maybe Sand Land was just like this – uninspiring and shallow. But Toriyama’s legacy is great for a reason, and his work i෴s beloved worldwide for even more so. I decided to check out the anime to see if it was more of the same, because I’m not going to rag on an adapta🌼tion for having a boring story without making sure that the others are equally as bland.

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Sand Land has received both a movie adaptation and an anime adaptation in the last year, with the movie following the manga’s original story and the anime having an additional second arc that’s replicated in the game. Since the anime is closer to the game, and it’s on Disney Plus, I decided to watch it. Within minutes, I was enraged – not because it was bad, but because it was so much better than the game. Both had si🔜milar aesthetic styles, portrayed the same events, told the same story, and had the same characters, but somehow, the anime di🙈d everything better.

The cinematography, from the very first scene, was far more effective in the anime than in the game. While the game does have some moments of nice camera movement, the anime feels so much more dynamic. The characters’ relationships are far more fleshed out, an🐎d I started to see aspects of their personalities that never showed in the game.

Without the strict adherence to Beelzebub’s point of view that the game arbitrarily enforces, the anime could move to show us what our antagonists are doing outside of Beelzebub’s knowledge, further fleshing out their characters and developing the context of the world. It is shocking that despite taking quite a bit of dialogue and adapting scenes wholesale from the anime, the game manages to lessen the emotional and thematic im💃pact of Toriyama’s story to a huge degree.

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That said, I did watch the anim🏅e in Japanese. The English VA cast is the same in the anime and the game, and both performances are woefully underwhelming in comparison to the Japanese casts’. I switched between the audio languages a few times while wat💞ching the show to see how much of a difference it made, and while I’ve never been a strong advocate of a blanket rule for subs over dubs, Sand Land really does make it a necessity.

Even if you play and watch Sand Land with the sound off, there’s a distinct gap in the q⛦uality of the cinematography, attention to detail, and the quality of the๊ writing and animation. As much as I’d like to tell you, as a person who loves video games, that the game is a worthy contender for best Sand Land adaptation, it’s not. You can get a better, shorter, better-crafted experience from the anime, so just watch that instead.