Games that Deserve TV Series Adaptations

Mature stories and complex worlds deserve their own series. Game-related books have always accompanied brands like World of Warcraft, or Mass Effect, so why not switch to TV series now?

Fran Bow

Adaptation: adult animated series.

An eerily unreal and frighteningly true point'n'click adventure. I wouldn't recommend it to more sensitive people – despite the grotesquely fairy-tale convention, the issues raised in Fran Bow are disturbingly real. A bit in the style of American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns. By the way, there is gore, and it's pretty heavy.

So, if someone decided to make a show out of this, we would get a kind of A Series of Unfortunate Events, but in the version not as quite family-friendly (is it just me, or was Jim Carrey's rendition a lot better than Neil Patrick Harris' lousy depiction?). It is recommended to dose the emotions and take it in bit-by-bit. The heroine has a very relatable quality to herself.

By the way, Killmonday have released another game, in September last year, called Little Misfortune. If you like Fran Bow, you should like her, too.

Red Strings Club

Adaptation: a serious, artsy, animated series.

Good SF is not bad when done correctly. Red Strings Club is a cozy, yet fascinating story that stands out with excellent dialogues and has pretty much everything – a mysterious informant, an international conspiracy, cybernetic implants, a large corporation that rules the world and, above all, great soundtrack.

A few episodes taking the characters into a more realistic visual design would be something I'd fall for without second thoughts (this won't ever happen, of course – Red Strings Club is too niche). Especially if the same person would be responsible for the soundtrack. If it wasn't for the music, my rating of Red String would have dropped two points down. The songs like "Marketing Director" or "Empathy Algorithms" are truly outstanding.

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Fran Bow

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