Now with its own YouTube channel, Critical Role has 1.58 million subscribers and is reportedly the highest-grossing Twitch channel, alongside xQc and NICKMERCS.
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Teaming up with Amazon Prime and Titmouse, the new animated TV show The Legend of Vox Machina is about a band of mercenaries trying to avenge personal losses and fight an evil lord and his gang of horrifying miscreants, adapted from the original Dungeons & Dragons table-top game played by the original Critical Role cast.Ĭritical Role, which has streamed since 2016, aired first on the YouTube channel Geek and Sundry, which launched as part of YouTube’s 2012 original channel initiative funded by Google.
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The Legend of Vox Machina episodes 1-3 are out now on Amazon Prime.How do you take 1,000 hours of playing through a talky dice-rolling game, in which it takes at least 20 minutes to get through every five seconds of battle, and make it into a worldwide phenomenon? The cast of the creator-owned streaming show Critical Role, which specializes in games of Dungeons & Dragons played by professional voice-over and improv actors, figured it out.
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The Critical Role team are used to working in a much longer format – and while their animated series gets off the mark fast, a little character development would go a long way.Ĭonsidering the series’ origins though, I think it’s only a matter of time and patience until the creators deliver exactly what this story is calling out for: emotional connection and unexpected outcomes. While The Legend of Vox Machina has yet to leave a mark on me, something about the show that has convinced me it eventually will. Image: Critical Role / Facebook Closing thoughts And it’s that feeling that has kept my engagement with The Legend of Vox Machina high, despite it not really blowing me away so far. Subverting expectations has become a dirty term since Game of Thrones was done in by inept writing and questionable choices, but I have a strong inclination that we’ll soon see a few curve balls from the writing department. I have a sneaking suspicion that the web series wouldn’t have received an adaptation as lush as The Legend of Vox Machina if it doesn’t eventually go somewhere more fascinating. As a Critical Role virgin all I have to go on is what’s right there in front of me. Unless of course, there’s something more interesting at work here. Image: The Legend of Vox Machina / Critical Role Productions You know the drill, these are the characters that you’ve met time and time again, and here they are, again, in The Legend of Vox Machina. The do-gooder priest, the mysterious rogue, and the cheeky bard with an enormous libido are all present. There’s the big barbarian with more muscle than brains and a love of grog (he’s named Grog). Or rather, they come across as Dungeons & Dragons stereotypes.
Perhaps though, because of the abbreviated nature of the adaptation, the characters don’t come across as particularly interesting. The animation is pretty great, the voice cast (mostly whom also featured in Critical Role) are game, and the writing wastes no time getting the action started. After watching the first three episodes on Prime I felt slightly underwhelmed, despite being amused throughout the brief runtime. Does The Legend of Vox Machina do Critical Role justice?
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