Main cast: Aleks Le (Yi Xing, Nelson Lee (Tiangong), Victor Chao (The Mad Beggar), Joy Osmanski (Yi Xing’s Mother), and Lee Shorten (Yi Xing’s Father)
Directors: Csaba Vicze and Dave Wilson

Honor of Kings is a multiplayer online battle arena or MOBA game, but I wouldn’t know it from Honor of Kings: The Way of All Things. 

The game does have a story of sorts, revolving around a futuristic version of the Chinese pantheon with various fanciful adaptations of historical figures as well as guest characters from other video game franchises until in the end, everyone just ignores the story altogether and just start fighting one another. 

Perhaps that will explain why this episode has an aesthetic that is more Final Fantasy, and a plot that is more about AI-driven philosophy about free will and predetermination delivered in a “western people trying very hard to sound like Chinese” way that makes my eye roll.

So yes, pretty to look at, this episode, but the whole thing feels like an unused script for some raspberry-blowing show that is rightfully never picked up, reskinned in a barely half-arsed way to be passed off as an Honor of Kings thing. 

At least try to emulate the aesthetics of the actual game it is supposedly based on, for heaven’s sake!

On the bright side, at least they didn’t make the lead character a black samurai.