Oh no. It is hot garbage, but I'm actually cool with it. Here was my hot take:

<@Ryllharu> bwahaha
<@Ryllharu> Darwin's Game is pretty fun, when you don't take it serious at all
<@Ryllharu> i.e. MC worries about his phone's ringtone/alarm being heard, when he's been yelling to his friend about how crazy this situation is for a full minute right before at full volume
<@Ryllharu> Shit like that is so inconsistent you can't take it serious, and then it's actually prettty decent
<@Ryllharu> The sound design is really good too.
<@Ryllharu> Granbelm's was too, which is why I checked it out at all.
<@Ryllharu> Nexus is a good company [studio]
<@Ryllharu> It's so overdramatic that it's funny as hell
This was pretty much what I had read we should expect, so I went in prepared to laugh at how stupid the story and characters are.

But I can appreciate the animation, sound design, and score, because Nexus excels at that stuff. Can't blame the bad story and dumbass characters on them.