{"id":2011,"date":"2026-10-16T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:00:19","slug":"prime-videos-16-episode-sci-fi-masterpiece-deserves-kudos-for-making-video-game-adaptations-look-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video&#8217;s 16-Episode Sci-Fi Masterpiece Deserves Kudos For Making Video Game Adaptations Look Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, shows like <em>Arcane<\/em> and <em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em> have <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/fallout-better-video-game-show-than-the-last-of-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">broken the video game adaptation curse<\/a>. Going back to Bob Hoskins\u2019 <em>Mario<\/em> movie and Dwayne Johnson\u2019s FPS-styled <em>Doom<\/em> movie and Angelina Jolie\u2019s <em>Tomb Raider<\/em> movies, video game adaptations have been notoriously terrible for about as long as they\u2019ve been getting made. The immersive, firsthand experience of a video game is tough to translate into the more hands-off, third-person experience of a movie or TV show.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, shows like Arcane and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners have broken the video game adaptation curse. Going back to Bob Hoskins\u2019 Mario movie and Dwayne Johnson\u2019s FPS-styled Doom movie and Angelina Jolie\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}