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regallibellbright · 2 years ago

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[ID: A twitter post by Lebbertoxd @InsaneLetterbox reading: “You have an Avatar-sized budget to adapt ONE (capitalized) video game into a movie. What game are you adapting?” End ID]

yoinking this from twitter cause i want to hear yalls opinions!

#video games #okay so I’m going to automatically exclude ones that had reasonably faithful movie adaptations of some form #(Pokemon movies may be primarily Pokeani but it is still ultimately Pokemon; Ace Attorney;#Animal Crossing had an actually quite well-received animated film in the Wild World era)#(I’m going to be optimistic and say Sonic Adventure 2 is off-limits - though not necessarily any earlier Sonics)#(and I feel like at least ONE Mortal Kombat and/or Street Fighter movie was an ACCURATE adaptation of game lore if not a GOOD one)#All of those are out!#(also Pokemon has had faithful animated series adaptations in Origins which incidentally that’s another swathe I’d rule out)#I also wouldn’t want to adapt anything where I feel the INTERACTIVITY of games as a medium is a key point #for example: A Bioshock movie will never have the same impact for the Would You Kindly scene #because it’s about the player abruptly realizing no the game WAS calling all the shots for what you do #and because most of the cutscenes of the game you still have freedom of movement #with exceptions being your first splices your first Little Sister… and THAT. it hammers things home. can’t get that in a movie!#so like I’m excluding Undertale/Deltarune because you’d have to account for and change how the narrative works to get the same impact #and like that’d be an interesting challenge! but I leave that up to Toby Fox I am not up for it #Kingdom Hearts would require me to work with Disney. and to get into the really good stuff it’d have to be multiple movies so no #I love it but no. Not happening. So I think what I’d do would EITHER be:#Rune Factory 4 while completely ignoring the romance covering through arc two #if we go with either Lest or Frey we do what the game SHOULD have done and establish they’re bisexual #(the other option is nonbinary farmer using design choices from both obviously.)#or option two: Golden Sun/TLA which is permissible because they were meant as one game but it wouldn’t all fit on one GBA cartridge #we would probably be preserving the duology setup sure but ANYWAY. Stunning fantasy vistas! gorgeous effects!#Killer soundtrack! (I am spending SO MUCH MONEY that soundtrack is SO HARD TO PLAY ON REAL INSTRUMENTS)#and obviously our focus is on expanding the main characters’ characterization which was kind of thin as a whole.#but yeah actuslly the more I think about it the more I lean Golden Sun. Rune Factory would be best served in series format #whereas Golden Sun as an epic obscenely high-budget fantasy movie (or well. two of them.) makes a lot of sense #and I do mean OBSCENE we are talking LOTR prep time for the wigs and costumes we’re talking ELABORATE VERY EXPENSIVE SETS where possible #so the actors aren’t just green screening through it and also my inner child would be happy to walk around Vale #we are in short using EVERY CENT of that Avatar level budget. and maybe this convinces TPTB to finally resolve that damn cliffhanger #and FINALLY allow us to kick Alex’s ass PLEASE Nintendo please Camelot he deserves it SO MUCH

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