- The animation, like always, is incredibly beautiful. This especially shows in the ability animations. Phoenix’s fire towards the end is absolutely stunning
- Phoenix features heavily in all the episode animatics, as a sort of audience-lens, which works so well!! He’s our protagonist, our wisecracking, reckless, competitive hero, which. I love him, pls don’t let him become irrelevant in gameplay dkfhdjkfhjkdhf
- I love cinematics because they’re able to highlight aspects of characters that aren’t always reflected in game lines. WHICH BRINGS ME TO KAY/O, who, if I saw in real life i would not hesitate to throw hands with and then run for my life. but i love how just Exasperated with Phoenix he was?? and his little “well, that was embarrassing” after the bot completely destroyed him. like okay king you get some points
- CYPHER MY BELOVED MY LITTLE RAT MAN I’LL PLAY CHESS WITH YOU AND LOSE IMMEDIATELY. guys look a cinematic where he didn’t die!!
- raze x killjoy is canon now. they’re literally so fuckin cute together, tinkering and working on bots together. that’s gf activity, change my mind or buy my silence
- YORU AND JETT BETTING POOL WAS SO FUCKING FUNNY. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH
- the explosion in the background while cypher calmly plays chess. im love him so much. his shifty little “victory requires sacrifices” advice to phoenix, like PLS DUDE YOU’RE SO SHADY AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
- i have So Many Thoughts about sage, which i will save for a separate post, because it’s What She Deserves
- WHERE IS REYNA? WHERE IS NEON? MY BELOVEDS (kdhjkhd this is a joke i completely understand that they can’t or just won’t animate in every single agent, and that’s completely fine!! just makes me more excited for future animatics)