The Next Amazon Hit: ‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Episodes 1-3 Review

Being one of the biggest channels on Twitch, if not the biggest according to the Twitch leak, you may have heard of Critical Role. It’s a group a voice actors playing Dungeons and Dragons that has become immensely popular. With a successful Kickstarter campaign and partnering with Amazon Prime, they’ve turned their live action D&D campaign into an animated show. But does this translate into a worthwhile show? Do you need to be familiar with Critical Role to enjoy it? All these answers and more will be answered in our review of episodes 1-3 of The Legend of Vox Machina. Welcome to Tal’Dorei For those not in the know, The Legend of Vox Machina is based on a game of Dungeons and Dragon. A few voice actors and friends got together, started their own campaign, and streamed it. They would call themselves Critical Role, and it became insanely popular. Years later, we get the animated show of their first campaign. From Titmouse, the studio behind such shows as Metalocalypse, Superjail!, and Big Mouth, it’s definitely going into the “Not for Kids” category along with the likes of Invincible and The Boys. And if you’ve followed Critical Role before, you know that’s the perfect way to bring this story to streaming – as a high fantasy adventure with all the blood and nudity of 2010’s Adult Swim. So the question is, does one need to be familiar with Critical Role or Dungeons and Dragons to enjoy the show? I’m happy to say not at all.

The story begins with a group of “heroes” being …