Amazon deserves no credit for this! All the credit goes to Dave Wilson for directing this episode, J. T. Petty and Justin Rhodes for writing it, Blur Studios for animating it and of course, credit goes to whoever brought Syama Pedersen in to work as a Layout Artist! Syama Pedersen was the sole animator, director and writer behind Astartes and you can see a lot of influence from that here!
Looks like Brother Titus's time alongside the Black Templars while serving in The Deathwatch leveled up his "Suffer not the Unclean to Live"! IT's OVER 90000!
I love the little detail when the sorcerer enters each of the marine's minds, and you see their pupils dilate on the 1st marine and on Metarus ....all except Titus’s
On a platform full of hyped up OTT fake reaction videos, what a delight to see your genuine kid in a candy store reaction. Like you, I approached this short film with concern and scepticism. But, also like you, I was blown away by just how good this is. Loved your including some tabletop footage and the description of how you experienced the same emotions watching the episode. That was this tabletop veteran's experience too. While Amazon giving the creative freedom for this does not completely remove my fears and skepticism, it did give me cause for some cautious optimism re: the live action series in development. No real deviation from the lore in this one. Quite the opposite. Loved it and you did a great review.
Beautiful reaction & review! I felt the same about this being on Amazon. I didn't watch it on first release because I didn't want something I loved destroyed again. But, I've now seen the episode about 5 or 6 times and I loved each viewing, usually finding some detail I missed. Thank you for a great review! Subbed.
Chaos sorcerer really didn't pay attention to who he was picking a fight with... like bro.... one of these guys is scared shitless of the idea of one of those three brothers turning to Chaos. Like... guy is not scared of Chaos itself, but what that specific brother could turn into in Chaos.
One aspect I really like about "Astartes 2" is the fantastic display of power levels. The depiction of the Astartes in battle as stone cold, brutal, unstoppable killing machines in comparison to us tiny fragile humans, and then, how those trans humans get fucked up by a chaos daemon (although it is credited as a sorcerer?). That truly showed our (human) place in the "food-chain".
I just want to make one thing clear that I saw many people who play SM2 ore watch Secret level Warhammer think, which anoys me as a 12 year long fan of w40k, they think Titus is the mc of 40k Titus is a nothing. I dont mean this in any negative way. In reality he is nothing his existence and death would not impacted the setting a single bit. No inside the Imperium would mourne his death except his battle-brothers. He is a very cool character although pretty one-dimensional.
Quite impossible to transport the sheer vastness of the 40k lore in a computer game. I for myself started reading 40k books, just two years ago, my collection is now around 190 books, and I started with the really old ones which are no longer canon I think. But dude, after Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn, some Ultra Marine stories and Space Marine chapter books, I started some weeks ago with the Horus Heresy. I cannot describe the chills I had reading the first three books!
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Bruh, as a decades-long 40k fan I gotta say something that I never thought I would hear myself say... "I kind of want an Ultramarines army now".
facts.
I've been collecting since '89 & the true shame of that can be answered with 1 question. Which armies have you collected so far?
I'm not there 😂 but I do appreciate them more now
maaaann...I guess Robust Grillman is a pretty cool primarch
i love Robotic Girlyspark
Amazon deserves no credit for this! All the credit goes to Dave Wilson for directing this episode, J. T. Petty and Justin Rhodes for writing it, Blur Studios for animating it and of course, credit goes to whoever brought Syama Pedersen in to work as a Layout Artist! Syama Pedersen was the sole animator, director and writer behind Astartes and you can see a lot of influence from that here!
Looks like Brother Titus's time alongside the Black Templars while serving in The Deathwatch leveled up his "Suffer not the Unclean to Live"! IT's OVER 90000!
I love the little detail when the sorcerer enters each of the marine's minds, and you see their pupils dilate on the 1st marine and on Metarus ....all except Titus’s
On a platform full of hyped up OTT fake reaction videos, what a delight to see your genuine kid in a candy store reaction. Like you, I approached this short film with concern and scepticism. But, also like you, I was blown away by just how good this is. Loved your including some tabletop footage and the description of how you experienced the same emotions watching the episode. That was this tabletop veteran's experience too. While Amazon giving the creative freedom for this does not completely remove my fears and skepticism, it did give me cause for some cautious optimism re: the live action series in development. No real deviation from the lore in this one. Quite the opposite. Loved it and you did a great review.
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Beautiful reaction & review! I felt the same about this being on Amazon. I didn't watch it on first release because I didn't want something I loved destroyed again. But, I've now seen the episode about 5 or 6 times and I loved each viewing, usually finding some detail I missed. Thank you for a great review! Subbed.
Your eyes lit up like kids at christmas morning when the action started 😎 Nice reaction, dude!!
1:59 That headbutt echoed through the Warp and merced that guy's ancestors.
Chaos sorcerer really didn't pay attention to who he was picking a fight with... like bro.... one of these guys is scared shitless of the idea of one of those three brothers turning to Chaos. Like... guy is not scared of Chaos itself, but what that specific brother could turn into in Chaos.
One aspect I really like about "Astartes 2" is the fantastic display of power levels. The depiction of the Astartes in battle as stone cold, brutal, unstoppable killing machines in comparison to us tiny fragile humans, and then, how those trans humans get fucked up by a chaos daemon (although it is credited as a sorcerer?). That truly showed our (human) place in the "food-chain".
I dont expect less from a soldier that was trained since childhood to practically become a demigod
It was the best of the episodes for that series
I really enjoyed your reaction to this masterpiece. I'd love to see your take on Astartes, Helsreach, and anything Warhammer 40k. Subscribed.
I just want to make one thing clear that I saw many people who play SM2 ore watch Secret level Warhammer think, which anoys me as a 12 year long fan of w40k, they think Titus is the mc of 40k Titus is a nothing. I dont mean this in any negative way. In reality he is nothing his existence and death would not impacted the setting a single bit. No inside the Imperium would mourne his death except his battle-brothers. He is a very cool character although pretty one-dimensional.
Quite impossible to transport the sheer vastness of the 40k lore in a computer game. I for myself started reading 40k books, just two years ago, my collection is now around 190 books, and I started with the really old ones which are no longer canon I think. But dude, after Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn, some Ultra Marine stories and Space Marine chapter books, I started some weeks ago with the Horus Heresy. I cannot describe the chills I had reading the first three books!
Great review! Very nice to see comments in depth.
Apparently, the creators reached out to Microsoft to do a halo and doom crossover episode, but they said no😑
Legendary
So when will we see some black hearts
Amazon hasn't been all bad, we got Fallout and The Boys which are good.