The Dawn of the Witch

Watching this sequel to Grimoire of Zero, I can't help feeling like when I read what the stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” was about. The original series was a fun fantasy that had some interesting and original aspects, but this sequel is all kinds of wrong. The main character is a completely generic-looking kid with no emotions, whose past makes about as much sense to me as the origin of a certain Delphi in the Harry Potter stage play I mentioned earlier. Plus, there's a lack of tension all the way through. Building up the atmosphere by trying to scare the guys around the main character using already familiar characters simply doesn't work. The final confrontation with the main threat is a reach and it ends in a silly way. What also doesn’t work for me is how quickly and easily everyone can change. Even though Tyrant is probably the best new character in the entire series, his storyline still feels weird. What creeps me out a little is that SPOILER the main character French kisses his own auntie END OF SPOILER. The romantic subplots are quite peculiar in general. Tyrant is the one who has the most normal and acceptable romantic storyline. When the series isn't dealing with trials whose outcomes you know in advance, it's just depicting boring village life and trying to develop the characters, which doesn't really work when the protagonist is empty-headed... Okay, let's focus on the positives for a change. The series isn't afraid to show blood, there's plenty of it, as well as severed limbs. It doesn't have the desired effect in the end, because everything is fixed by magic, but at least it's something. It's also nice to see the old familiar characters from Grimoire of Zero, though I'd rather get a direct sequel and see the whole protracted war and how they got to where they are now. Still, the scenes with the familiar characters are much better than those with the new ones, which just goes to show how little I cared about their story. For me, this is just a pointless and disappointing sequel to something I enjoyed, which makes me all the more annoyed by it... 3/10 (01.07.2022)