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Would I recommend Squid Game to others? Mm... I'd say it's a solid 7/10. It's for sure overrated, but still good in its own right. I think the average, casual viewer would probably enjoy it without much thought. But I'm not sure who specifically I would recommend it to.

By the end I realized it probably doesn't appeal to people who like Kaiji in the same way that Kaiji does. The lack of mental games and even structured luck based games is a huge thing that is missing from this series that would have made it much better. The luck based games in this are almost all instant lose bullshit RNG, it's not the same as playing out 50 hands of poker and using your skill to deal with the variance. And unlike Gantz, Promised Neverland, and other high stakes desperate survival games, we never see the heroes do anything heroic or triumph in this series.They just constantly get beaten down into the fucking dirt with no hope and no payoff.

I think episode 6 in particular is overrated. It's very predictable: As soon as they asked people to split in pairs I knew they would be facing off against each other, even though somehow no character suspected this. Every pairing ends with the more main character winning and the more supporting character losing. There's not a single upset in the entire series, actually, but it's particularly egregious that not a single dark horse won in all of the marble games. The game itself is very lazy: Here are some marbles, go make up your own games. If I was a VIP I'd be asking for my refund at this point. The idea of this being a way to sort out players makes very little sense and is unsatisfying narratively and within the logic of the universe. It really only makes sense from the perspective of the writers room setting up ways to kill off characters in a way that will tug at the heartstrings of the viewers.

Overall the games suffer from a lack of good game design, but some of them were entertaining to watch.

It's essentially a neatly packaged experience for people who wouldn't have watched this type of thing before, and didn't realize they would enjoy it until they gave it a try. It exploded in popularity for the same reason that HololiveEN did: Vtubers already existed, and vtubers that spoke english already existed. But this was released at the right time, with the right coat of paint, at a time when the lack of mainstream supply and high demand was perfectly in balance

The ending is particularly bad, but the start of the series was good enough that I was still overall happy that I decided to watch it. I did get some entertainment out of the series. I'd watch another season of this as long as it was not a direct sequel and if the directors and writers promised to put more effort into designing actually good games next time.

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