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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Do you need to know anything about League of Legends for Arcane?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

No. It's beautiful all on its own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Not at all, LoL's lore gets retconned so often that Arcane is basically it's own thing but with borrowed ideas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm other opinions:

  • Did not know anything about League
  • Enjoyed Arcane

The game and the show aren't really related at all. AFAIK, if you've played the game, you just get to be like "Oh hey that's one of the characters you can choose" once in awhile... But there's no overlapping plot or anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It has overlapping plot in the same way Overwatch does. Technically the characters all have backgrounds, and that's what Arcane shows some of. The game may use that to give character to the heroes, but the game itself doesn't really add anything to it. The game is probably improved by the existence of the show (I assume, I never cared for it I'm general), but the show really doesn't depend on the game.

(Technically I think there are multiple games in this universe now. I can't tell you much more, but I think there's an action game with some pirate character at least. That may have more story, but it doesn't matter for Arcane.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nope. It's great.

If you like muscly aggressive women it's AMAZING.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I've never played the game, it was a couple episodes in that I noticed that it was based on an exiting IP rather than being completely new.