Games to Anime

Ah, nothing like a 2 day school week. Gives me a little extra time to do the fun things in life...like go to the orthodontist. Still, wasn't too bad and it's 3 days that I'm not in school, so I can't complain. There's not a terrible amount to do...got some Christmas shopping out of the way, so that worked out nicely. Haven't really been playing any new games or reading any new manga. Tales of Symphonia OVA recently had episode 3 released, if anyone knows anything about that.

Taking games and turning them into an anime sounds like a bad idea. I'll agree with that. Anyone who has played through the game will simply go, "that's not how that happened!" and people that haven't played the games don't care enough to watch them. Pokemon for example: Ash gets himself a Pikachu in the first episode. You would think that 10 seasons later when he sends Pikachu in for a fight, it would give the opponent a look and it would explode. That's because the lovely leveling system that practically defines the game doesn't exist in the show. It makes the gamers wonder why they can't command their pokemon to use more than 4 moves and why Magikarp battles aren't more exciting. Luckly, there aren't many examples of these game-to-anime types, so we gamers aren't too terribly plagued by bad show representations.

The Tales of Symphonia and Phantasia OVAs are fun to watch, but you already know what's going to happen, because you played through the game. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't be watching the show, now would ya? If the OVAs were released before the game, it would be a different matter, and probably even effective advertising. As long as it ain't a crappy anime rip-off of Street Fighter (like most anime end up becoming), then it'll be fun playing out what you saw in the show.