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Unfortunately i never got to play it back then, but playing it now, i just can't do it.

Theres definitely some skill issues for me but almost every race i play is really buggy. The boosts never register even when i go directly through them, and since they dont register im always getting slowed down (which i think is a dumb mechanic to punish you for not hitting the boost), the side dashes feel unreliable, sometimes using it wont even do anything or just cause me to lose all momentum. People knock me out if the boosts despite not touching me, or sometimes straight up hit me and clip me out the map/send my sparrow flying and I've just gotten to the point i cant do SRL anymore. Its fun dont get me wrong but it just feels really buggy and unbalanced for a racing game

After just rewatching the Death Note movie, ive decided to make a comparison of the anime and the movie's stories, and why i believe that the movies story is actually really good despite being a pretty bad movie.

🚧SPOILERS AHEAD🚧(just in case)

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Just to simplify things I'll be using 📖 for the anime characters and 🎬 for the movie characters when comparing individual events

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Alas, no more yapping.. enjoy my breakdown.

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The start of both stories is relatively the same but theres a few differences

📖 Light sees the Death Note outside the window and checks it out after school. Bringing it home before contemplating and finally testing it.

🎬 Light finds the Death Note but is beaten and sent to detention, where he decides to check out the Death Note when hes alone.

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One difference I didn't like is that 📖Light immediately knew not to kill a classmate and draw attention to himself, where 🎬Light's first action was to kill his classmate. But overall that shows that these two are completely different characters, one smart and one reckless.

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📖Light comes home to a full family, and a father whos Chief of the police (i think, dont crucify me if im wrong)

🎬Light comes home to just his father, whos a cop but apparently one whos not that good of one.

This change is also very important because it shows again these are two completely different lives, it's not supposed to be a 1 to 1 adaptation, but a similar story played out through different events.

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After a brief argument with his father about his mothers killer he heads upstairs and kills the man who killed his mother, which honestly i cant blame him for, 📖 Light would've obviously never made that move because that would give away the fact he was involved to his father.

They have a brief talk about it the day after and all is well It's a happy father and son.

🎬Light is then out in the public reading the rules of the Death Note when Mia comes up to him and talks about the classmate who who died, before seeing the Death Note and asking about it, where 🎬Light folds under zero pressure and tells her about it, and straight up shows her how it works by killing a guy on the news.

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This whole scene is dumb honestly, but as its own story it works well enough,

Obviously 📖 Light would never be this careless with the Death Note but again, two different types of people.

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Immediately after, they both head home and make out. With Mia becoming Lights ally they both assume the title Kira

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Together they both do what Kira does best and start punishing evil.. i think?

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Eventually we meet 🎬L who unlike 📖L is of a darker complexion, thats fine and all, my biggest issue is why is 🎬L on the active crime scene? I guess his identity is still hidden but once again it's its own story.

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Here we learn that 🎬L had actually been investigating Kira for a decent while, all without Light's knowledge. Until he finally decides to make a move and show himself publicly.

📖L actually did this very same thing but he did it differently, he used a stand in and provided his name. Whereas 🎬L was masked, both of them were testing the same theory. Kira needs a name and a face to kill someone.

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Through his father 🎬 Light learns that L has an assistant named Watari and later on we see an investigator following Light, 📖Light also had someone investigating him, that being Ray Penber, but due to the fast pace of the movie these plot points happen way sooner than the anime.

🎬Light and Mia realize they need to kill this guy who was following Light, but they cant just kill him, they need to kill all of them, to not draw suspicion on Light

📖Light handles this by learning his stalkers name, and using him to write the names of his colleagues in a death note page, killing all 12 in one fell swoop.

🎬Light unfortunately cant do anything about the investigators and after Mia leaves Ryuk takes the duty and wipes out all of them in one unpleasant fall

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Very odd having 🎬Ryuk kill them as 📖Ryuk wouldn't have but as i always say, different characters blah blah

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🎬L makes another move and this one i actually feel like 📖L would've done.

🎬L has Light's father show publicly, knowing that Light is Kira he knows he won't kill his own father. In one single event L is 100% certain Light is Kira and decides to meet him face to face

📖L also meets Light face to face but through a longer period of getting close to him at school and getting closer to him as a way to figure out if Light truly is Kira, whereas 🎬L is already fully certain

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This is also probably the last time the story is similar to the anime's as it really takes a turn

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The two argue for a bit where 🎬Light basically admits he's Kira with the defensive he gets.

Later Light and Mia figure out they can get to L through Watari and Light use the Death Note to make Watari tell Light L's name, but not knowing it he then has to go find it.

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Logically speaking none of that should've worked.. i guess 🎬Watari's full legal name is just Watari.. but regardless Watari now has 2 days to find L's name until he dies.

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With Watari missing L immediately gets a search warrant and rips Lights house to shreds and then puts surveillance on Light. At the dance it's revealed that Mia has the Death Note and she makes a brilliant plan to divert attention from Light so he can get L's name from Watari but notices the page with Watari's name is missing, he tells Watari to run but ultimately the clock strikes and Watari is out of time, getting shot on the spot with Light failing at getting L's name.

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It's then revealed that Mia used a member of the Kira Task Force to kill off the rest of the members in a very Ray Penber type of way before revealing she wrote that Light would die at midnight. Holding his life hostage she asks for the book, if she gets it she'll burn the page voiding Lights death.

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We see L lose his mind finding out the Kira Task Force is dead and the police find out Light has escaped, they hunt for him and L ends up finding him, chasing him through buildings he finally catches him at gunpoint, where a random guy comes out and as L tells him Light is Kira the guy knocks out L and says "For Kira" as Light escapes to the Ferris wheel, where he told Mia to meet him.

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They meet and Light tries to convince her not to take the Death Note before she inevitably steals it, claiming ownership therefore allowing Ryuk to write Lights name in his Death Note. The ferris wheel collapses as mia falls to her death and Light falls into the ocean, with the page containing Light'$ name fell into burn barrel, voiding his death. Later after Light wakes up from the incident it is revealed that the entire ferris wheel scene was exactly as Light had written before escaping the school. This is the only time hes as smart as Light Yagami was.

Light survives and the death note is back in his possession. Until L finds the missing sheet and after remembering what Light said earlier and knowing he needs a name and face, L presumably writes Lights name while looking at a photo of his face. Thus presumably killing him.

And honestly i couldn't think of a better ending than that.

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Overall no matter how bad people say this movie is. That story was amazing, it definitely needed work and had plenty of loose ends and plot holes. But i fully believe that if this story was given more effort than just a movie, it would've been just as good as the anime's story. Easily a solid 9/10 overall.