An elven
assassin, Tallis, is on a mission to redeem herself against a rouge mage.
We all love
Felicia Day, spelling out all the reasons we like her so much probably deserve
a whole individual post, suffice to say that she is an incredibly creative
person, and very cute too, who is cutting a whole new original path in the
world of media and she is doing it again with this one.
Dragon age:
Redemption is a six part web series set in the world of Dragon age, very famous
videogame for those who don’t play.
Web series
normally are limited to ten minutes per episode, the old you tube limit, so we
are talking of roughly one hour of footage. Major studios normally don’t want
to touch this format, apart from the occasional so called “viral videos”, so
this is mainly the domain of independent productions.
This is
certainly an interesting experiment and very original. Felicia Day’s character,
Tallis, is also the protagonist of “Mark of the assassin” a downloadable
expansion of the video game developed alongside the web series. You can’t get
more cross media than this! And it certainly pushes the boundaries of what is
possible with the format.
Many users,
as is traditional in the terrible comments section of You Tube, bashed its
production values, basically calling it a “sub par Xena Warrior Princess Episode”
without realizing that this has all been developed with a fraction of any
normal daytime show budget. Felicia Day put on our screen stuff that simply it
wasn’t supposed to be possible, there is a reason most of these web things are
guys talking to the cameras in their bedroom.
Sadly the
storytelling is not up to her usual standard; while she certainly looks the
part she clearly has trouble with delivering the most epic parts of the script.
Both her writing and her acting are clearly more at ease with the funny
interplays between the various characters.
It remain a
genuinely enjoyable experience, a recommended viewing for fun of the genre
considering that is there on the web only a click away.
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