Here I go opening up on another Gacha adaptation. That… shouldn’t mean as much as it’s seemed to. Personally, I don’t like the sentiment of dismissing video games as a storytelling medium. Even outside Visual Novels, which are built a little different, games can have and convey powerful, moving stories. Obviously, not all of them actually do, but neither does every single book or movie. Even phone app gacha games, which seem to have a reputation of the lowest of the low, are capable of telling good stories.
But compared to other source material, those stories seem to take to the screen shockingly poorly, rarely rising above mediocre competence. I speculated on what some reasons might be when I tried to pick up the pieces of MWZ , but even aside from anything inherent, there’s the distinct possibility that it’s something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since, with the partial exception of VNs, video game adaptations “aren’t good”, they get less time, effort, and money put into them, resulting in an inferior product.
If that’s the heart of the matter, then perhaps there’s hope for Arknights.
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