Liar Game

It's nice to find the Japanese originals of what later got scaled up into international sensations such as the Squid Game. I'm amused with how much the Korean movie-makers "borrowed" from the older Japanese content.

Liar Game also got remade into a separate Korean spin-off, which I could only watch for a few minutes before giving up.

This original is excellent. I enjoyed the storyline, the characters, the overall message, and the actual games of course.

The only thing which annoyed me was the visual style. I know they wanted to preserve the manga heritage, but in my humble opinion they really overdid it. The constant whoosh-whoosh, whoa! Bammm! Tadaa-boom! Was enjoyable for one episode, mildly annoying after 5, and unbearable towards the end.

Also, the visual device of showing the participants' shocked or angry or whatever faces with a quick zoom and whoosh every so often got really tiring really soon.

Other than those annoying visuals, and the unexplainable decision to show a full, 2-hour long story recap midway, everything was awesome.