Top-down RPGs might be few and far between in the modern day, but there are a ton of these titles from back in the day that still manage to attract audiences in 2022. In recent years, there has also been somewhat of a resurgence of the genre; new titles use the original mechanic and elevate it with a modern twist. What are the best top-down RPGs? We narrowed our choices down to 13, but if you think another title deserves a spot, send us a message!
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25.08.2023 - 17:23 / destructoid.com / Henry Cavill / Andrzej Sapkowski / Best
Hollywood has oftentimes tried to capture the magic of video games on film, and the most fun audiences have ever gotten out of it was seeing it fail stupendously pretty much every time. Still, you cannot say the same about game-to-tv-show adaptations, as those have already provided us with actual top-tier entertainment. Let’s take a look at the best of the bunch.
Okay, It’s very important to establish that Netflix’s The Witcher is an adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, and not of the games — Just kidding. It’s pretty obvious that Henry Cavill is emulating video game Geralt because this series only exists due to the success of the games. Yes, I know damn well that the only people watching this are the millions of Witcher 3 fans out there.
It’s also important to mention that the entire show (so far) is very uneven, hence landing at number six in this ranking. Still, the show does many things right — the fight choreography is awesome, and so is the costume and set design. Production-wise, this feels closer to the original Lord Of The Rings trilogy than to The Hobbit trilogy. Sadly that’s not a given these days when they usually just use CGI for everything. It’s great to see a video game adaptation putting so much work in.
Also, it’s clear that the heart is there. Cavill is awesome, the same goes for Ciri, Yennefer, and Jaskier, obviously. The only real problem here is the story’s awkward progression, but you can always come back to the first season to enjoy some fun and uncompromising episodic monster-of-the-week action.
Oh, and that song about throwing money at Witchers is an instant classic.
Please don’t get angry for seeing The Last Of Us merely at number five in a ranking about the best things of a specific kind ever made.
It’s definitely good, competent, and very ugly or beautiful whenever it wants to be. Just like the game, it picked the perfect couple of actors to give life to the characters that could carry the massive weight of both the game’s drama and the hopes that more video games could get prestige TV treatment in the future.
But is it really that big of an achievement? It feels like a very safe adaptation of a game that already played like a movie in the first place. HBO’s The Last Of Us is good, but you know what else is good? Watching a video compilation of the cutscenes from the first game on YouTube. I wish we could see a future season starring a new group of main characters on a completely different adventure. Perhaps you can get Henry Cavill to star in it. I heard he likes games.
Sonic Boom, the game, is one of the worst games ever made. Its TV show, also called Sonic Boom, would deserve praise even if it were just a smidge above an unwatchable mess filled with inexplicable
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