I've only had small tastes of D&D from it being in other shows, but this show itself has inspired me to get into it fully.

You know I do totally agree that voice actors deserve more recognition though when talking about this show I think we should give an extra special shot out to a certain demographic within the voice actor community that most of the cast here fall into; the english dub anime voice over. Like most of the stars of this series like Laura Bailey, Liam o Brien... hell pretty much everyone but Ashley Johnson or Marisha Ray of the main cast either had their first major roles or still have major role in various english dubs of anime over the year. Which quite frankly even compared to voice over artists in cartoons are over looked here in the U.S Either by people just loyal to the sub or because the names are a lot more niche and usually don't attract as large an audience despite all of their massive talent so quite honestly the fact that so many are here and have created this incredible project is a real testament to how well their ability to craft stories with these characters have gathered an audience and how their skills behind the camera earned enoguh acclaim to start crafting their own narratives one can watch in such a form. And quite honestly for as much flak as we give streaming platforms the fact that they exisit is mostly a good thing because yeah this would not have found an audience the proper way it was meant to be presented if not for a streaming platform. Like even Adult Swim I feel even if it got on Toonami wouldn't be able to allow this to be the sort of series it needs to be the way you can just drop episodes and be able to just go all out with both the comedy and drama in such a way. Hope yeah we get a 6 season arc for this series with Amazon Prime and that the success of this first season means they announce a third before like the second season so there isn't a huge wait between seasons or anything. Oh and as others have pointed out so glad to see you have a full on honest review like this again. Guess it makes sense to do it of something you love but man been missing seeing these for shows and films you loved not really having time for them over the last few years and hope that's something that changes even though I get this being a sort of special occassion thing.

Glad to see you are here man. hugs from Mexico

I'm so happy that you enjoyed this. The research and effort you put into this is outstanding. I'm beyond impressed. And so many clips too. That must have taken you quite some time. Season 2 is going to be nuts, and I'm thrilled to have you with us on the journey.

I have missed these Honest Reviews. They make me feel so good. And a glorious one at that for talking about The Legend of Vox Machina. My girlfriend and I got into Critical Role during the break in 2020, and we binged through campaign 2 up to the then present and kept going to the present day. I can't wait to see what season 2 has in store and I hope we keep getting more to cover everyone and maybe even a series for the Mighty Nein.

i just realized vax's voice actor voiced gaara in naruto from a random snippet you had and i'm deep into season 2 of vox machina now. a truly star studded cast. what a blessing to have these people exist at the same time i do

Im so glad you're still here Erod! After what you went through it says a lot about your resilience and willpower. THANK YOU FOR THIS!

I started playing D&D as a big part of watching Critical Role and Vox Machina. To see them get their own show after yeeeeeears of dong this, it's so gratifying.

I'm towards the end of the arc they're going to adapt next season. I'm not gonna spoil it, but we are in for a treat and we'll get lots of backstory stuff.

So happy you covered this, one of my old favorite media critics tackling one of my new favorite shows!

I LOVE VOX MACHINA!! I'm so hyped for S2 to come out soon!!

Iv missed your vids and loved to see you come back with one of my favorite shows of 2022

Ashley Johnson kicks ass. been loving her voice ever since infinity train where she played tulip and mt. side note ya'll need to watch infinity train. best fucking show cartoonnetwork put out in a decade.

As a fantasy nerd, this show highly appealed to me; even though I haven't become familiar with CR until about 2016...or 2017. That being said, I was amazed by what the cew had achieved; selling out t-shirts in less than an hour, reaching their Kickstarter goal (and THEN SOME) in only 24 hours, all the charities they've helped. I've especially been fond of the crew's collective voice over work in both anime, movies and Western animation. Now, as a lover of D&D; this series also tickled my fancy in all the right ways (as did all the many campaigns created online.) Makes me think back to my high school years in the 2000's when I first became familiar with the game. Now that their highly anticipated Vox Machina series' first season came and went, I can safely say...I was thoroughly entertained. I loved the action, the animation, the story, the voices and most of all, I LOVED Scanlan's songs

#MoreTrinketOnSeason2 Damn right!

Hadn't heard of this before the review and am now queuing up the episodes, so job well done Erod!

Best review of this series I've seen. Excellent job. I've been a fan of CR for about two years now and began with Campaign 2. I've watched a few episodes of C1, but not many, but I too, am a huge fan of the members of CR. The amount of quality content they have created, and made available for free, is mind blowing. Just in sheer hours of story telling, they've far surpassed even Star Trek or Dr. Who. The story of this group of story tellers is fascinating all by itself. And it's been interesting to see how each of their three campaigns has been different, exploring different aspects of story telling. Thanks again for a well-crafted review.

10:07 Grey Griffin went back to be being called Grey Delisle.

Great summary of history and key aspects and players of this series. Wish you had a version without so many spoilers so I could use it to introduce people to the series.

Eric, thank you for all your contribution

Ah, you're still around. lol Been a while since I was following your videos. Glad you liked the show, I think it's definitely a fun one. When my biggest gripe is the 3D creature effects, that's pretty solid.

I have not watch this show because I do not have Amazon Prime..... but after your video....... I'm getting Amazon Prime.

I never knew Vox Machina was Latin, just thought they had a bed and vax so why not Vox. Glad to hear you enjoyed the show, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Invincible show, since the comics are my favourite superhero series

I think you might be wrong with the exact reason they started playing D&D.They didn’t do it due to it being Liam’s birthday,they actually did it because they challenged themselves to do something new every episode and that episode’s challenge was to play a tabletop game (also according to Liam,Matt kept inviting him to play D&D). There’s a video on KZfaq that featured snippets of the All Work,No Play podcast (Sam and Liam’s podcast) episodes 2 and 3.In 2 they stated that they were gonna have a game of DND with Matt Mercer,Travis Willingham who’d most likely bring his wife Laura Bailey along,Talesin Jaffe who was (according to the two)a DND specialist and also a close friend of Matts with Orion Acaba (Neither Marisha nor Ashley was mentioned,but I’m sure in the sound clip I heard them). Liam did mention he actually play D&D 15 years prior,but a bastardised version of it.fun fact:this episode featured the creation of Scanlan and as mentioned in the video Sam wanted him to be the worst character (though I think he did bard because Liam said they were the worst I can’t exactly remember the podcast). In the podcast after,they said they loved it and wanted to try it again,they showed a sound clip of the game in action and in this clip you could hear the whole group shouting and having fun,they also praised Laura to no end.

This I'm not missing!

I can't wait for campaign three in animation

Glad the sonic redesign happened but not worth bullying people into it but I read that the filmmakers didn’t want the design

Still waitng for the Series Finale of your grand honer.

Can't wait for your thoughts as I'm not a big fan of adult animation that uses lots of swears, sex jokes and lots of blood and guts featured to show how grown up we are for doing that but I do like it with its done right as what they were going for here works for what they're doing for this show. Not my thing 100 percent but I see why people like it.

I'm pretty sure no one bullied anyone into redesigning Sonic we all just complained how ugly he looked and that it was unnecessary.

I love the intro to this one.

Just finished this show and I can honestly say I absolutely love it and agree with everything you just said mate. ;)

Hope everything is going all right with you guys.

I'm glad you have a positive view on this show despite the vitriol surrounding it on Twitter. I personally hope it lasts long enough to cover campaign 2 as that's my favorite era of Critical Role.

It was realy cool hearing about the history of the players

Great review

Question If you could choose your own type of actors as the voice cast for the Chroma Conclave (the group of dragons seen at the finale,) who would it be and why? Personally, I would pick the following figures...in spite of the fact that I've yet to reach this particular point in the campaign. Raishan - Lena Heady, something about her description on the CR wiki page just makes me think "hey, this dragon should be voiced by the woman behind one of the most devious woman in fantasy media to date." Much like Raishan, Lena's Cersei Lannister was often seen as a docile and and delicate figure; unaware of the truly conniving soul she held within her. Who better to play such a characer like Raishan, am I right? Thordak - Mark Hamill; maybe it's the fact that this is a fire dragon, maybe it's because he was known for being a tyrant (according to the Wiki.) But to me, such traits just bring to mind Mark Hamill and his portrayal of Fire Lord Ozai. Can you just imagine hearing HIS voice coming out of a dragon's mouth...he'd probably make David Tennant's Brimscythe seem pretty wimpy by comparison. If not THIS character; then, he could probably be a good candidate for Vecna (the Whispered One.) Umbrasyl - Keith David or Keston; Nothing much is known about this dragon (personality-wise) but I can't help but think that the deliciously creepy vocals of either of these men would fit perfectly for one of the Conclave (if not this one.) Vorugal - Steve Blum; c'mon...we've all heard Steve's slithery and sly tones before in animation. How could you NOT want to hear it from the mouth of an ice dragon

I am sorry I missed the first season when it came out but then again, I am glad cause I can watch season 1 and 2 together. The show is awesome!

Mentioning Guardians of the Galaxy: James Gunn, writer and director of Guardians of the Galaxy is a huge D&D nerd and actively played the game in a campaign with Joe Manganiello, Paul Wight (a.k.a The big Show) and others. I don't know if they still play given Gunn's probably ABSURD schedule now, but this was during his time as Guardians of the Galaxy director. Any D&D player will tell you that they watched Guardians of the Galaxy and said "Ayup, that's a D&D group."

8:16 Actually Mary Elizabeth was asked to come & play at the very first game. Alas she could not. However later on she joined the game in several episodes as the Tiefling Zara. She even came flying in on a Wyvern along with her boyfrind Kashaw(Antother character played by Will Friedle. Known from Batman beyond & Kimpossible & many other things) in the final great battle. She was the abosolute best voice director that they could get, given that she knew all of the characters both in the real world & in Exandria. Whilst she had also personally travelled & fought in that world.

Erod, if you're reading give The Dragon Prince on Netflix a watch. It is on par with ATLA.

I will finish this video when I watch the show, sadly it may take a while for me because I still need an Amazon prime account.

For a recommendation for more honest reviews, if you choose to accept them, I would like to recommend Toy Story 4, Soul, and Turning Red.

I just checked your list of Top 10 Marvel Characters You Want in the MCU: SEVEN of them have been included with the new announcement that a Nova project is in the works. Technically, Cloak and Dagger is not an "official" MCU show, but I'll still count it in the Marvel Multiverse. All that's left are: Firestar, Squirrel Girl, and Bob, Agent of Hydra.

Alternate universe legend: _And then one day Veronica Santangelo met Lieutenant Gorobets and Chris Haversam on the road and asked, "Hey, where ya headed? To slay a dragon, huh? Neat, can I watch?"_

I have never watched the actual RPG show, mostly because it has way too many episodes by this point but I still had a blast watching the animated adaptation. It is so so well done and a great watch. As somebody who also plays DnD I know that feeling of a bunch of chaotic misfits bumbling and murdering their way across the land with the occasional moments of tactical genius.

I'm so glad you're a fan of this show!

This looks like a cross between Avatar: The Last Airbender, Disenchantment, and Invincible. Also, how's it going ?

Brilliant review:)

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that, in spite of his actions, Orion's existence and his character Tiberius need to be mentioned. It is sad how thongs ended up but if you're being honest it should be included, even as a footnote. The details are out on the Internet if people want to look them up.

Going by the original campaign, we should get some Keyleth next. Then a good charge of Grog and his story. Then we'll get to Vex and Vax. If they introduce a certain other NPC we should get some Scanlan story/development also. Not sure how they'll pull that off yet though as that character was originally introduced between the end of the Briarwood arc and the incoming dragons.

@BlockbusterBuster My favorite character character wise is Percy and keilith comedy wise a tie between grog and scanlan, mainly scanlan, though I would **LOVE** to see a character that’s like a Witcher with a gun and helps vox Machina and that person is secretly the son of the briarwoods but chooses to protect people(basically a son doesn’t choose his family) would care about his mother but never forgives her and hates his father, it would be great to see Delilah try to get her son to join her and eventually he kills her but like with peacemaker killing his dad, he still mourns her as for sylas he kills mercilessly (plus he would have a pet giant dire wolf)

Giving a 0 raiting is a mark of respect

Love the review. What’s the song used at the end? Sounds epic.

Legend of vox macina was really great and tons of fun.

Fun fact to the theory of orthax not being real. Taliesin, Percys player did not know for for the longest time whatever he was real or if it was all in his head, he played it so it could be both and let Matt suprise him with the decission which one holds true!

Sounds like you need to get your Epic Voice Over Person under control, ERod. Lol

Curiousy, at the topic of voice acting, I know you from an audiobook. I was aware that the cast was made up from people basicly playing themselfs but I never looked anyone up and stumbled upon this video on accident for my love of this show.

I hope you do an honest review for the Sonic movie given that the sequel is coming out.

S 2 and 3 will be Chroma Conclave. So maybe 5-6 seasons for the whole Campaign

Grog remind me of knuckles

i like the shows

Nice!

Season 2 release announced for January 2023

He should totally review Jem and the Holograms someday! Its such a bad and terrible movie that he would regret saying alot of bad things about the live action Josie and the Pussycats movie!

Okay, ERod, dude, you did see what Sonic originally looked like, right? That original design was fucking nightmare fuel.

2:49 so the former voices of Shirou and Archer are best friends,huh...

I never heard of this

Yeah you really need to watch Invincible while you are at it.

Percy reminds me of linkara

can we all agree that Pike is best girl?

Vox remind me of silver from sonic

3:30 I would love to see them poke fun at the original name(say someone asked them why they chose the name Vox machina and they would say it was better than their other choice and bring up the abbreviations and the person puts two and two together and admit it was a fair point)

Percy remind of squidward and punshier

Scanlan remind of eddy

"Voice actors deserve more" proceeds to ignore Orion's existence.

While I agree about the Snyder cult, I wouldn’t say that it as fans who bullied the studio into changing sonic the hedgehogs design, that was general audiences seeing the trailer screaming in horror at how hideous it was and then the studio panicked because normie dollars have a higher quantity than fan dollars.

I just watched the whole episodes of this show and it’s so amazing, the only attraction to me is Dragon

Gilmore remind me of vector from sonic

Sylas is a himbo

Not 1080p tbh

Vex remind me of ashi

Ashley got left with the low-key most effective class (and bane of devious GMs everywhere) in the game 😎

Pick remind me of Amy rose and ms marvel

Silas remind me of orochimaru

This is a great review, but your chapter transitions sound like you're talking into a solo cup

See, this is how you make a scripted storyline based on D&D campaign. Take notes, Vin Diesel!

Keyleth remind me of sandy cheeks

Oddly enough the thing that annoyed me the most when watching Vox Machina was the narrator since it felt unnecessary to have the narrator describe everything. I can understand that the narrator is taking the place the dm but with a TV show the narrator doesn't need to describe everything since well you can see it

Great video but I’m not sure why you act like Orion Acaba doesn’t exist. He’s no longer associated with the show but he was an original cast member. He’s their Pete Best.

I actually prefer your honest reviews over the "buster"-episodes. I just like hearing your opinion. :)

Hardcore critter here that has seen everything Critical Role has produced. The 2nd season arc is The Chroma Conclave. The arc covered most of the series. For example The Whiteston arc was 10-12 episodes. The chroma Conclave arc was around 70-80 episodes and each episode is somewhere between 3-6 hours. At New York Comicon they announced that Amazon had already picked up the show for Season 3. So they said during the Comic Con that season 2-3 will at least be the chroma conclave. However I believe they will get a season 4 so that they can at least finish that story up. Then they could go into the Whispered One Arc and that can be 2 seasons. Then we can begin to talk about the Campaign 2 of critical role which we all lovingly call The Mighty Nein. FYI I played D&D for a few years in the early 90's but didn't pick it up again until 2013. My wife asked to play it. Can you believe that and she has been playing in campaign with me every week since. If you are interest in Critical Role do not listen to Campaign 1 if you don't want to ruin the Anime (Yes I call The Legend of Vox Machin an Anime). Start with Campaign 2 since it might take 5 or more years for that to come to TV.

2022 and the archaic idea of "curse words" is still around. I had hoped the internet would of squashed that foolishness. Instead it has grown adults typing in grawlix like fucking 50s cartoon characters or something.

This guy needs to do more research before he makes videos. Probably help his analytics. Yeah percys' demon is totally real. He has a warlock pact with it and it chases them half the campaign. Do better duffus.

Ｐ𝐫Ｏ𝕞Ｏ𝓢ｍ 😃

Spoilers Soo I never had a issue with keyleth and enjoyed her as character but I hate and despise they gas light you to love her by taking away vex death at the end to make you have emotions for keyleth instead like she already had a great ark why do this

No mention of the fallen original character Tiberius (and its player Orion Acaba) from the home game and first arc just before the Brierwood arc? Sad world we live in when people intentionally omit details...

Hot take: The show sucks, and I'm a lifelong critter....

Trinket, the most useless thing a campaign ever saw... Matt had to invent a pokemon ball so Trinket would stop making the campaign harder for the group. Even the player were asking to keep trinket at home and leave without him... Vex that rogue that even at level 17 keep asking how sneak attack works... Scanlan... how to make one of the most powerfull class in 5e as weak of the beastmaster pet...