I generally don't go into threads of people hating on something I love or ones loving something I hate. Both seem an unproductive and unenjoyable use of my time.

Quote Originally Posted by OhNooo View Post
For story I actually put HW slightly over Shb so my story list would be HW > SHB > EW > SB > ARR
This is my ranking too. I think HW was the right balance, not too cheesy or gritty. The villain was understandable, but not so sympathetic and likeable you wanted to be BFFs. The protagonists suffered losses. We were spared most of the Saturday morning cartoon "power of friendship" nonsense, which unfortunately made a reappearance at the end of the two major boss fights in ShB despite it having an overall grimmer theme.

The Ala Mhigan half of SB sinks it and the Doma half alone isn't enough to put it above EW.

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I still prefer the art and tone of the original Arslan but the remake did go a bit further than the original on the story
The art style of the Arslan remake is the main reason I haven't made more of an effort to watch it. Most of the character designs were a massive downgrade. I only watched some of Lodoss a long time ago and never finished it.