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Feb 1, 2008 8:40 PM
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If this ep doesn't convince you that Votoms is great I dunno what will. the only complaint that I had is that it's sometimes a bit hard to tell which AT is piloted who who, but other than that that's one of the best medium scale mech fights I've seen in a long time.



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Feb 3, 2008 2:13 AM
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You're right, the first episodes really put me off but I don't drop shows that easily. This episode was great, good and clever fights and nothing that seemed too unreal to believe. I'm sticking with it now.

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Feb 3, 2008 8:27 AM
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If this ep doesn't convince you that Votoms is great I dunno what will. the only complaint that I had is that it's sometimes a bit hard to tell which AT is piloted who who, but other than that that's one of the best medium scale mech fights I've seen in a long time.

The older series convinced me :D
Feb 3, 2008 5:19 PM
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Nice ep.
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Mar 1, 2008 6:43 PM
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Notice that this is one of the only times a fatty "explodes". Otherwise, it's very realistic and made of win.
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Nov 27, 2011 4:01 PM
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A watchable military procedural/action piece.

I'm disheartened to see animation short-cuts even though it's already in cheap CGI, though to be fair, it is much more dynamic than any traditionally-animated VOTOMS story.

It's a drag to see how much plot armor the main cast has, though. Their enemies fail to hit them even when they're dashing in a straight line towards them and several times they simply don't fire even when they have a protagonist's AT totally flat-footed. This is pretty bad action writing.

I think it still has a tendency to treat ATs as if they were foot-soldiers. If they were powered armor, that'd be OK, but they're still vehicles even though they're on the small side for anime war robots.
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Kochak doesn't seem like he belongs in an AT, but perhaps there's something about him that we don't know yet.

The five managed to get the job done, though.

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This was actually really good. Probably one of my favourite action scenes from the whole franchise.
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