All these game adaptations could learn something from the Pokémon anime

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I vaguely remember watching the Pokémon anime when I was a kid, albeit briefly. I think my brother may have cried while watching one of the movies at the theater, but since we hadn’t played any of the games at all when the franchise was at its peak in the mid-2000s, we somehow skirted around the whole ordeal.

After deciding to give the games a try as an adult, I finally understand the hype, especially when it comes to the earlier entries in the series. I keep imagining myself playing it on my Game Boy as a nine-year-old, and not to sound dramatic, but I can actually feel it healing my inner child in real-time. The games deliver on the quintessential adventure experience in game form — you really feel attached to all your Pokémon, and going through the game feels exactly like the fantastical journey it promises you. I’ll be writing more about my experiences playing Pokémon for the first time as an adult, but for now, I need to talk about how good the anime is.

As I’m sure most of us have noticed by now, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of video games being adapted to film and TV right now. My theory is that after the superhero burnout we’re all experiencing, video games are going to be Hollywood’s newest fixation for a while, but I digress. While comic book properties have gotten some really amazing adaptations over the years that are not only entertaining in their own right, but have also added to the property’s mythos in a substantial way, video games haven’t quite had the same luck.

Game adaptations are usually doomed from the start to be really, really bad, because there’s just something about throwing games up on the silver screen that film executives can’t seem to get right, usually because they don’t seem to