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Review | Amazon Prime K-drama review: Death’s Game Part 2 – violent and fast-paced webtoon adaptation is a fun ride; just don’t think too much about the story

  • When Choi Yee-jae committed suicide, Death sent him back to Earth to live out the lives of 12 people about to die; if he saved one he could live out their life
  • His nightmarish journey reaches its conclusion at the end of Death’s Game Part Two, and it has been a wild ride. Don’t dwell on the story and you’ll enjoy this

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Seo In-guk in a still from “Death’s Game”, in which his character, Choi Yae-jee, having taken his own life, is ordered back to Earth by Death, where he must live the last moments of 12 people about to die. Save one and he can live out their life.

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3/5 stars

Lead cast: Seo In-guk, Park So-dam

Choi Yee-jae’s nightmarish journey through the final moments on Earth of 12 other poor souls comes to a breathless end in Part Two of the webtoon adaptation Death’s Game.

The concept remains the same. After throwing himself off a roof, struggling jobseeker Yee-jae (Seo In-guk) is confronted by the icy glare of Death (Park So-dam). Taking a dim view of his having taken his own life, Death forces Yee-jae to play a terrible game – be reincarnated as 12 other people back on Earth who are about to die.

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