The film does give some hints of the whole thing being inside a game here and there though. The hero fights back and kills the virus, saying that his memories with the game are real and worth cherishing Luca is helped by an antivirus who was disguised as the slime companion all this time. The virus procedes to delete the game world The climax with the villain in-game is interrupted by a virus, created by an unnamed offscreen hacker that hates people who immerse themselves in games stories, claiming that their experiences are fake.
Turns out that all the events of the film were actually happening in a fictional VR remake of DQV inside an arcade during a rando's playthrough Oh, and the soundtrack is great, obviously.Īnyway, what's gonna get people talking is the twist at the ending. I could stare at Luca, Bianca and Nera's renders for hours. Fuck me, they tweeked Toriyama's designs with just enough subtlety to make them their own and by God it worked.
The fights were good too.Įasily the best part of the film is the visuals. Luca meeting his past self was actually a bit touching. Not to say that there weren't any highlights.
It's abundantly clear that the movie was made for fans of the original game, most of whom already know what to expect. Most characters are hardly developed, with Luca (the Hero) just barely scraping by. So by virtue of condensing the story of a fucking JRPG into 1h40 the pacing is absolutely horrible, especially in the first 20 minutes where they just straight up machine gun the whole thing, making it hard to keep up despite some important details containing in it. Keep in mind that while I did play DQV it was a long time ago and don't remember most of the details.