Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 23, 2023 16:58:13 GMT -5
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It’s not as though the game even has well defined characters. Other games do. Even Mortal Kombat pulls that off.
Honestly though, I’m not sure what would make for a better movie; one with a well defined lore or one with well defined and interesting characters?
On the lore side, a game like Dark Souls has plenty of space to create your own character since the player character is a blank slate and even the NPCs have plenty of room for fleshing them out. However, with a rich lore you can make a l world with a lived-in feel.
On the character side, sometimes characters don’t translate well between mediums. It might be impossible to adequately capture the essence of a character in the span of a 2 hour movie. Some games have so many interesting characters that would just have to be cut out completely or simply be present as a background character, robbing fans of expected moments with said characters.
For one example, the various Tales games often have interesting characters (I’m currently near what I think is the end of my first playthrough of Tales of Arise, so no spoilers please). The games would make terrible movies, however. They’d possibly work as a series, which is probably why a handful of them were made into anime series.
Another game series that would probably be fine as a movie but would render most of a stellar cast irrelevant if it were is the Valkyria Chronicles series. War movies have a long history of doing well, so an alternate universe WW2 featuring magic rocks and even more magical women probably could work just fine, though you’d have to hand wave some events (let’s do a montage of killing magical German+Soviet stand-ins!) and so, so many side characters would be relegated to background characters. That’d be a sad thing to do for the members of Squad 7 in the first game and a damned tragedy to do for the members of Company E in the 4th game.