Jaw-Dropping Fight Scenes
This one’s pretty cut and dry – Wakfu has a lot of well-choreographed, visually complex, and viscerally satisfying fight scenes. Action is a big component of the show, and it’s most of what happens in between dialogue and plot progression. Every one of the main characters has a distinct fighting style, and the events of the show are always putting them and other characters up against opponents with their own unique powers, cool designs, and varying motivations. Sometimes they’ll be fighting against a teleporting mechanical wizard with the ability to slow down time, and other times they’ll be fighting off zombie bamboo creatures whose only weakness is a special kind of milk, and the creativity of these encounters never slows down.
The high-concept foes that our heroes go up against are akin to the sorts of opponents you would see in something like My Hero Academia, or Yu Yu Hakusho, and the show constantly keeps you guessing on what new creative baddie is waiting around the corner. Things escalate nicely within the events of the story from smaller, though still interesting battles, until the plot naturally leads to absolutely massive, epic duels with grand villains with truly apocalyptic strength.
What makes the action all the more satisfying is the free-flowing movement, dynamic angles and unpredictability of each fight, and what makes these achievements all the more impressive is that all of it (in the first two seasons anyway) was done using Adobe Flash. Instead of using the low barrier to entry for Flash animation as an excuse to slap something generic and lazy looking together, Ankama used the advantages of Flash to make something flashy and genuinely impressive by utilizing their talents through a simpler, more cost-effective tool set. On the subject of animation…
