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Cute....but not as good as I expected ?
I was excited about this show. The premise of two parallel plot lines, one in a simulation game and one in the real world, was really compelling but unfortunately that wasn't actually in the show.
The simulation game plays little to no role in the plot lines, it is just a device to make our leads meet. There is no actual plot line that takes place in this fake world.
The same "simulation world" is pretty much no existing. When the players enter the game they basically have to complete random missions which are basically the same everytime. I don't know how to explain but it is barely a mystery room. There are no complicated puzzles or intrigues to solve, it is just "go here,full stop".
Maybe I'm too critic about this part, but is obviously put there just to give the mail leads some screen time.
Moving on the actual plot is about a girl who wants to turn her life around and come back to her passion, architecture which she had to abandon due to familiar circumstances.
The main male lead is on a quest to clean his father name which was falsely accused of a crime 20 years prior.
The main story is interesting in and of itself but the execution is not the best. There are times when so many things are supposed to be happening plotwise but nothing is happening on the screen.
The middle part is especially boring.
The leads meet, they end up working together, they flirt and then we get super cute but undescribably boring couple moments.
Talking about this aspect of the drama it is really cute and heartwarming but not interesting. After the couple gets together we see a whole bunch of couple moment like having breakfast, smiling like idiots, bickering... I skipped a lot.
I love romance but I prefer slow burn drama because once the characters get together you get filler moments like these that drag out for too long.
Near the 3\4 marks conflict arises and the show gets back on track, but everything happens so fast you cannot really feel the struggle, the pathos. It feels rushes especially because the main conflict is somehow present in the first half but it becomes an afterthought.
The male lead is investigating his father false accusations from the very beginning but we get nothing until the very last quarter when he becomes "the punisher" all of a sudden...
Beside the main love story there isn't much else,
The other characters are there but are ignored.
The FL has a ton of colleagues which we know nothing about. Her best friend is there along the whole drama but her plot line was so boring and uninteresting I couldn't care less.
The best part of the drama is the soundtrack. Really cute and feels good.
It sound like I'm hating on this show but I'm not I promise. I just feel my expectations were disappointed.
This drama is fine if you enjoy cute couple and romantic scenes.
On this note I feel like the male lead had more chemistry with his female counterpart then viceversa.
They were cute together but I didn't feel the sparks.
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