What started as a tense, clever story in Season 1, has become a pointless clown show.

First, they replaced the female lead Nao-chan with a new actress. What was the point of that? The new person named Yuu plays the exact same role as Nao, but we have zero emotional investment in her.

Second, literally everyone is a clown dressed in colorful clown's garb. Everyone jumps around and laughs goofily at the first hint of "happy news" and yells and cries just as goofily at the first hint of "bad news." Cringy beyond my endurance. Everyone behaves like a complete idiot.

People even perform clown fights and clown chases. Are we watching a circus? With a purple-clad magician?

What's the point of all this?

And the 5-year old child who "controls" the games?

I watched this in bewilderment, wondering what happened to the formerly talented writers, directors, and cast who created the wonderful seasons 1 and 2.

I literally couldn't force myself to care about anyone or anything in this movie.