This is an ANIME, to compare it to a video game is unjustified even if they're the same story line - that'd be like saying that Milla Jovovich wasn't a good video game character (she obviously isn't one). Most of the bad reviews I've seen are from people doing just that. Then people that don't even watch past the first few episodes that are complaining about character development...umm, with so many characters, it's gonna take a while to develop that for every one - and this anime does a great job of adding in just a little character development to about 10 different characters per episode after the first 2 episodes, and that's tough to manage. Then I've even seen complaints about the animation itself, that's just flat out BS, it's just as good animation as any other anime out there if not better. Biased people just shouldn't be able to leave reviews, it winds up ending good things for the people that can look at things from a fresh perspective.