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Zack Snyder and Netflix’s Rebel Moon-verse looks doomed to repeat the mistakes of Final Fantasy 15There was a game announcement in here somewhere, but you’ll need to watch two films first to find it
There was a game announcement in here somewhere, but you’ll need to watch two films first to find it
Image credit:Netflix
Image credit:Netflix
Rebel Moon Interview with Zack Snyder | gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 #ONLWatch on YouTube
Rebel Moon Interview with Zack Snyder | gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 #ONL
Using films to tell a game’s backstory, or tacking a game onto the end of a film (it’s hard to know which way round this project was conceived, if I’m honest) always puts the fear in me a bit. If you’re one of the few people who’s managed to successfully scrub from your brain Square Enix’s ill-fated attempt to turn Final Fantasy 15 into a multimedia-verse endeavour (wot with its prequel film, its prequel anime series, its dedicated mini-game app, and its other prequel pixel art game…), congratulations. You’re a stronger human than I.
But though I love Final Fantasy 15 with a deep and, some might say, unwarranted passion, even I’m willing to admit that its story, split as it is across half a dozen different individual projects, is an absolute trashfire. It was clear proof that no one should attempt this ever again, and yet here we are, with Zack Snyder on stage at Opening Night Live, telling us his Rebel Moon video game is set after the events of not one, but two Netflix films, in which Anthony Hopkins plays a friggin robot.
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The films themselves look like the algorithmic lovechild of Star Wars (see the lightsabers), Dune (see the nose tubes and the desert worlds), Foundation (see the big space battles) and Game Of Thrones (see the dragons and griffins), with some definitely not very subtle space Nazis thrown in for good measure. Classic Netflix fare, then, it would seem. Here’s hoping the game is a little more interesting.
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