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Drakeryn posted...

for instance, Advent Children had a lot less hoop jumping to do. you could say, e.g., "Cloud's characterization is inconsistent with the game" but that's a lot more in line with the differences that scarlet's citing in comic book movies.

On the one hand yes. Heck I'd argue Cloud's personality was closer to the original than Thanos's was.

On the other hand, Advent Children (pretending it was a success for sake of discussion) as a movie I'd argue takes more liberties with FFVII than MCU movies cause the plot arc of it is a completely original creation, to say nothing of how faithful the characters are to the originals. If you made a FFVII movie and had it be successful it's going to need to take liberties with the plot to the point where the plot isn't going to be remotely recognizable. At its core I would say what drives FFVII's plot is Sephiroth's aura and building to the confrontation with him. But like, even ignoring the elements of FFVII's story that are enhanced by the gameplay, there's no way to really properly build that anticipation with the pieces FFVII's plot gives you and still have it work without many more hours of time buffered by random encounters (time sinks with no real purpose, but give the events of the story time to breathe). You'd have to think of a different way to do it, or shift the focus from that entirely.

And while there are more story/character driven games and series that it can be done with slightly less liberties taken, but those aren't the ones with the most to gain by using a video game IP either, y'know? A Metal Gear Solid movie ain't gonna have nearly the drawing power or marketable simplicity of Pokemon or even Sonic really.

That isn't to say it can't be done. Heck if Detective Pikachu actually is really similar to the plot of the game then making say a Super Mario Bros movie based off I dunno Bowser's Inside Story might be the solution. Just finding those weird spinoff games that characterize the mainstream videogame franchises a bit more, but are still written by people who have a great understanding of the world they're writing for.

But it's work, and easy to screw up, so no I don't think seeing a huge boom period for video game movies is a given at any point.

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