Transformers Cyberverse has to be one of the worst experiences I've ever had while watching a transformers cartoon. It has some rather cool ideas and concepts that are unfortunately wasted by the hideous 11 minute runtime per episode or the focus on terrible comedy that even a 4 year old would cringe at. Ok let me take a look at the positives 1st. I like the fact that they take a lot of things from a majority of transformers source material like characters worlds etc & and the concepts it introduces are pretty interesting and I hope to see them done right. unfortunately that is all the good things I have to say for this show because this is a real disappointment of a series. The Animation is a mixed bag. if your show is gonna look this basic then why not focus to a more budget friendly 2d style of animation, the character designs look good on that style but in 3d animation it looks wonky and doesn't feel right. The same applies to the action, oh boy the action in this show is awful. something about the action sequences don't feel right. they feel empty like if you watch Transformers Prime or Animated the action feels tense you wonder what is gonna happen or how are the characters getting out of this one. Well you feel none of that in this show and it's especially noticeable on the more action centric episodes. it is short little brawls and clashes with sub par choreography and terrible jokes to ruin the tone of the sequence. The characters are bland. the main characters like Bumblebee and Optimus don't really develop and just stay the same nothing happens to them that makes them question what they are doing or if it's right to do what they are doing. The rest are just there in the background to advertise there terrible toys. many complained that the Bay films have the robot characters as background characters well Cyberverse is just that. It is cool seeing the likes of Skybyte and Rack&Ruin but they don't do anything aside from showing one second of them punching someone into the air or doing a terrible joke. And Lockdown, oh boy lockdown. this has to be the worst character in the last 5 or 10 years. He went from a Badass bounty hunter to a vehicon an idiot only there to serve as fodder. such disrespect to an amazing character that even the Bay films got right. How is that possible?!?!?! it could have been cool if this was lockdown in his younger days and maybe one day he's tired of the decepticon bs and goes at it solo but no he's purpose is just to laugh at how much of an idiot the writers made him to be. And finally the elephant in the room that runtime!!! I know that modern cartoons go for 11 minutes per episode but usually that is excusable because they don't have a main story to follow, but Cyberverse does and it suffers for it. the episodes feel extremely rushed and just end without any real conclusion. It doesn't help that this show has a lot of filler in some of it's episodes and that takes up most of its runtime making the important part of it really thin. Overall Transformers Cyberverse Shows how bad a Modern Transformers Cartoon can be with mediocre animation, bland to terrible and useless characters, comedy that falls flat on it's face, and good concepts that are executed poorly. Some may say that I'm not the target audience for this while part of that may be true, but do not forget that Animated was also aimed for kids and that show had high stakes, good animation, well executed concepts and three dimensional characters that change as the series goes on. which is why I give Cyberverse a 2/10
Review of Transformers: Cyberverse
