Check out the Dead Cells: Immortalis trailer!

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  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    Hello Legion Gamers!

    A bit of good news! Last week, Bobbypills studio (that gave us Captain Laserhawk last year) shared some art from the upcoming animated series based on the Dead Cells game, Dead Cells: Immortalis. And this weekend we got to see the first trailer, check it out:


    The series will release in just a few weeks on the 19th of June. It will be 10 episodes around 7 minutes long each, cut in half between the 19th and 26th of June, so save the date if it looks good to you!

    As for me, I am looking forward to it, but I do have two issues with what I've seen here. The first one is that I was hoping for the style to be the same as in the famous trailers for this game. The trailer style is different and more elaborate than the animated show. To be fair, I was sort of expecting them to keep the style because of the show teaser they shared before:


    This is closer to the original trailer style than what the animated show looks like. But oh well...

    And the second issue is that they gave the main character a voice. In the game, The Beheaded is famously unable to speak (having no mouth and all) and expresses himself using gestures (mostly either a thumbs up or a middle finger, but we can see his inner monologue commentary sometimes). It adds to his overall personality, and it would have been interesting to see that in the animated series as well, more so as there are many famous characters who do not speak (Snoopy or Perry the Platypus or Gromit to name a few), but they decided to give him the ability to speak instead. I guess it is easier for gags?

    And for @GoLLuM13 and @ramax, the extra good news is that as it is a Paris studio, the original is in French. I wonder if all the gags will translate well in subs...
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  • GoLLuM13's Avatar
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    @DoctorEldritch oh my... We're spoiled 😁
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  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    @GoLLuM13 Between this and Mars Express I'd say things are looking pretty good for you, yeah 😅

    Will you watch it?
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    @DoctorEldritch I'll try at least
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    @GoLLuM13 My one fear is that it may have too many toilet jokes (though it may be because of the doo-doo gag from the trailer). Sure, anything sounds romantic when spoken in French, but still...
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    @DoctorEldritch French sounds romantic only to those who doesn't
    Fun fact in French versions the romantic language used is Spanish or Italian 😁
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  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    @DoctorEldritch French sounds romantic only to those who doesn't

    That may be true 😅 I may be biased because of my appreciation of chanson...

    For me, Italian is the language of music, seeing as how music terms like staccato came from it, and because it is a traditional language of opera (up to a certain point, at least). So in that sense, maybe.

    I'll have to think about Spanish, though. But I can say it never seemed particularly romantic to me.
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    @DoctorEldritch the trailer has a very French comic-book style

    If French is known as a romantic language, it's because we have dozens of synonyms for every word, variants, words of literary language, to express our emotions and our state. (At least that's what I've been told) But I think it's more an attitude than a language. But that was before! Because today, the whole of Europe is totally Americanized in terms of culture, it's flat and empty.
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    @DoctorEldritch the trailer has a very French comic-book style

    I am sad to say I do not know that many French comics. For me, the quintessential French comic is the Asterix.

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    I think English is famously rich in synonyms, more so than French. Though this is hard to measure, for example, if one uses dictionary words as an indicator, then Korean or Portuguese rise to the top. French seems to have as many synonyms as other languages on average.

    For me, it is more the way it sounds. Russian, for example, has ample synonyms to work with, but the phonetics of it can lack the flow somewhat because of the amount of consonants. Or Japanese, it can cram complex meanings into relatively short kanji words. But compared to French they both, to me, lack that easiness of flow. French flows like a forest spring, pleasing to the ear.

    But maybe that's just me. 😅