Why Video Games Movies Never Work
This Does Not Work Now, why does this not work? It's kind've complicated, but I want to tackle this challenge. So, lets break it down. Interactivity The very thing that makes video games it's own medium is the interactivity. It's so much easier to be immersed when you're controlling the actions of the main protagonist for 90% of the game or controlling the flow of the story. When you strip that down you're left with this bare sub product that doesn't feel right because the story and characters weren't created with television or movies in mind. However, there still have been successful adaptations into the film medium with things like The Witcher and Castlevania (Netflix), so what do those get right? First, looking at The Witcher it was originally a series of Polish novels, and the television show chose to be based off the books as opposed to the games, but still carries the same name. It takes the stories from the novels and gives us the chara