From The Creators Of It’s Always Sunny Comes Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet A Brazenly Comedic Look Into The World Of Game Development

Apple TV+ has a real gem of a series on their hands with this series.

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Created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz, Mythic Quest follows the day to day efforts of a mainstream game development company as it attempts to successfully launch and maintain Raven’s Banquet, a new world of gameplay in Mythic Quest. While fictional, the series does a fantastic job in showcasing the struggles of the game development industry so that we, the audience, can gain a better understanding of how the magic happens, for better or for worse, and have some laughs along the way.

A team-building session, or how to properly bury a dead body 101?

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The show stars Rob McElhenney as Ian Grimm, Mythic Quest’s somewhat self-absorbed founder/creative director who comes up with the ideas for the game but needs a team to bring them to life because he can’t really be bothered with the tech side of things. Or with budgets. Or with answering phones but moving along.

The burden of making Ian’s vision come true falls on several key programmers, most notably Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao) who has been with Mythic Quest from day 1. Without Poppy, there would be no Mythic Quest ( MQ for short) and yet every day is an ongoing battle for her and her contributions to be taken seriously by upper management, including Ian, all of which are men. Poppy’s team of programmers are also nearly all male except for one, named Michelle, who’s tense and snarky interactions with Poppy help to show how competitive women are against each in the game development industry simply because the work-place culture rewards it. All in all, aside from two programmers, a psychotic intern, a basement-dwelling consumer complaints manager, and two game testers (played by Imani Hakim and Ashley Burch) the number of women working at MQ, much less in the industry as a whole, is abysmal at best.

We’ll go with team building. Photo courtesy of The Wrap.

MQ also has a few stereotypical employees that make everyone happy there’s an onsight HR rep. You have everything from an aging writer who loves to relive the glory days of his youth by sharing mildly sensual stories about all the women he has slept with, a monetization expert who makes sure the company is making cash money off of anything and everything it can from players no matter how tacky the idea is, an angst-ridden middle-aged, divorced operations manager who struggles with making business decisions and what people think of him and a slew of annoying teenage gaming influencers with way too much online sway and money in the bank for their age. It’s a cavalcade of strange humans, to say the least.

As for a review, this series is fantastic. It’s written extremely well with each episode seamlessly blending into the next, its informational without dulling the entertainment aspect, the cast is brilliant with a solid flow and great interactions, plus the humor is dark but on point. It starts off a bit slow but kicks into high gear around episode 4 and from there on it hits its stride, even incorporating some fun throwback songs into later episodes (Shipping Up To Boston by the Dropkick Murphys and Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison) so there’s a little something for everyone. The episodes are short, with the longest of the 9 shows clocking in at under 40 minutes so it’s easy to binge-watch but even if they were hour-long shows, it’d still certainly be worth your time. Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet premieres February 7th on Apple TV+

Official Ubisoft trailer can be seen right here 

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