I am curious about how they are going to make dying to the final boss fifty times dramatically interesting
I see the vision
this summer, zionist Jack Black is in another hollywood movie
This summer… Jack Black is…
John Darksouls
You’ll need to read the back of the ticket and the inside of the promotional popcorn bucket to get the full story for this one
Probably will be hot garbage but I really hope it’s not a Videogame Movie™️. Like don’t show me Timmothy Chevrolet going “wuh oh guys! I’m out of flasks!” I would also love if the movie had nothing to do with Miquella or the shattering but instead of being a potentially interesting spin off or side story it will almost certainly be a clumsy retelling of the most important historical bits in the game. Or… oh god it could be a story of the player playing the game
Or… oh god it could be a story of the player playing the game
actually would be excited to see this film ONLY if they copy-pasted the plot from Minecraft movie. and if they cast Jack Black n mamoa attempting co-op i’d buy the directors cut dvd or whatever lol
To each their own, but I’m always amazed when people like these big star, big IP, big budget meta movies. It’s an immediate turn off for me when a movie is drenched with the feeling of some executive going “KIDS LIKE THIS, RIGHT? AND THIS TOO, RIGHT??? SMASH THEM TOGETHER AND MAKE IT IMAX!”
well im mostly tongue-in-cheek saying “ill never watch this in a million years” lol.
buuuuut if in an alternate universe it was written as a silly, fun movie (like the recent D&D perhaps) or one that took time to make fun of its grimdark nature and ribbed the souls’ fanbase that takes itself far, far too seriously? i would pay good money to watch it.
Every follow up post release related to this game gets progressively worse and worse.
just go read berserk instead
Some people don’t care to see SA and loli bait on every other page.
That’s completely fair. I just want to point out that SA is often treated as a life destroying event in the story. Both Guts and Casca suffer heavily because of that, and when they enter Casca’s mind it is shown through representations as the mind destroying thing that it is. Still, the amount of SA depicted in the story is completely unnecessary.
The loli bait thing I legit don’t remember, and that was not my impression reading the story. I can comment on Schierke which is a kid and as far as I remember is never, ever, sexualized. At most she develops some kind of crush on Guts that she thinks about sometimes, but that’s it.
My criticism of Casca’s sexual assault is it was still very male gaze-y. I love Berserk and it has amazing artwork, but I didn’t like how stylized the sexual violence towards Casca was.
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I do think Miura had long-term plans for her character, though. The brain wipe was only going to be a small portion of the story, but he died prematurely just as Casca got her mind back. Right before he died, Miura said the series would end around volume 100. Volume 42 was released posthumously. Casca lost her mind in Volume 14, so it would have been less than 28 volumes where she was mentally incapacitated out of 100.
We’ll never get to see the story of Guts and Casca deciding how they want to deal with Griffith or if Griffith will go after them.
Oh I agree 100%. There was always something that felt off on how it was done, but I could never figure out what it was, I think you’re spot on. I can’t say if that was Miura’s intention, but given how he treats the whole thing later in the story, I can give him the benefit of the doubt.
I haven’t read the most recent chapter or chapters, but from my understanding, even if the story is now being done by someone else, at least it is Miura’s best friend, the only person he confided the story to. If you haven’t yet, I recommend to read the short oneshot Kentaro Miura Memorial Manga, where Kouji Mori talks about his life and friendship with Miura, it’s absolutely beautiful and gave me confidence he will do his best to honor his wishes and story.
If I remember correctly in the arc with the fairy apostle she is drawn completely naked
I love the golden age arc, but even I was glad they cut the whole wy*ad thing from the 1997 anime. Good god can you ruin the story elements with fetishes displayed clear as day.
For a long time now, the phrase “live action adaptation” for any video game has felt gross and exploitative to me. It’s like announcing that there’s a porn parody of your game.
waiter waiter milk this “intellectual property” for even more profit please
Ok? Seems like a struggle to adapt. Also who’s ready to see some goofy as hell dodge rolls when they have an actor do it.
If it’s just a remake of Civil War, but everyone is dipped in gold leaf, half the soldiers are Really Very Big, the white house is like the Mines of Moria after a jetwash, the president is the size of an oil tanker, and the photographers are actually making magic paintings, it’ll be a masterpiece.
Edit: and to step closer to the lathe, the story is told by the descriptions on each Elden Ring themed snack you can get from the concessions. Radahn Rum Punch, Malenia Mint (and blue cheese) popcorn, blah blah blah.
featuring chris pratt as the dire shit-slurper
oh shit i already blocked fakenews
Hey nothing ever happens gang wy@???
Does the game even have like…a story? Or is a fromsoft game and the story is told in item descriptions or whatever?
Without touching any item descriptions and only worrying about the main story in the base game, you get:
- The intro cutscene which explains the overview of the setting and how it got to be like it currently is
- Dialogue with characters like Miriel and Gideon, who are very knowledgeable about the world
- Melina, who helps you level up when you rest, tells you a relevant story when you reach many different locations
- Quite a lot of dialogue from Margit, one of the main bosses who you fight several times and who gets a couple of cutscenes, tells you about what’s going on
- Basically every NPC in the Roundtable Hold has some kind of significant involvement with either a possible ending or a major faction and can tell you about it if you progress through their story
- The finger reader crones give you prophecies
- Ranni, Blaidd, and Iji will all tell you a lot of stuff that turns out to be highly relevant to the main story if you help them
- Jerren tells you about Radahn and Malenia, two of the main players in how the setting got to be like it currently is and also significant factors in why it is still that way, before you fight Radahn
Like, it’s still a story told with very little direct storytelling compared to its peers, and there is still a lot of info in item descriptions. You don’t need the item descriptions though, you just need to be ready to piece things together from what disparate people with strong personal biases tell you and what you see
Sounds like it would make fir a bad movie
I didn’t actually say what the story was, only the characters you get story from as opposed to getting it from item descriptions. I don’t think that “characters reveal plot through dialogue” is really a mark of a poor premise for a film
The base game has a narrative but it’s extremely weak, and most of the important things happened a long time in the past, as with other Souls games. Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.
Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.
Even then I’d say it’s still a pretty weak plot, and the delivery is awkwardly struggling against their usual style. Which is still an improvement Elden Ring desperately needed, and understandable when I have no doubt the direct writing style has suffered some atrophy.
Huh, saying that has actually made me a bit more optimistic for this adaptation, since they do show a consistent desire to improve and experiment. Not for the adaptation itself, but it might be a good learning experience if there’s a lot of back-and-forth with A24?
If the director has a great sense of humor and a horror background, just make Hornsent the protagonist. Also Jar People please.
Most slop isn’t made for my taste, so I’m honestly looking forward to it.
Yeah it does. There are NPCs that do tell you about the world and your place in it but it’s still pretty weird.
Ngl that would be fun metacinema
It’s basically dark souls but written by GRRM
So it’s got like 20% good ideas, 20% shitty ones, 10% food descriptions, and the remaining 50 is just openly ripping off Lovecraft and calling it homage?
Basically. Although its closer to the more esoteric “deep lore” of ASOAIF. Like the whole bloodstone emperor and stuff. And the weird genetics.
TBH all that stuff falls into the lazy Lovecraft ripping off for me. The oily stone from prehistory, slumbering/dead gods in the bottom of the ocean, hybrid fish people, apotheosis through madness, etc. If they were ever going to actually factor into the story it would be different (Euron’s story presumably goes into it a bit if the books were ever finished) but most of it was just clearly filling in blank spaces on a map so they could publish more ‘world of ice and fire’ books
True. The focus on red hair with the sansa/lothston/whent/first men connection and the whole psychedelic horror that will be the euron-bloodraven-bran storylines are still vital to the main story though.
Well you answered your own question. It has a story, told in item descriptions
