![]() For starters, BioWare’s Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood on Nintendo DS was basically the same situation as Square’s Super Mario RPG on SNES. There’s no need to dwell on every example that exists of an IP heading into weird video game genres, but it’s worth citing a few. It’s a delightful case of cross-pollination, and it’s a healthy trend for the video games industry. And since Super Mario RPG happens to be spectacular, that positive experience incentivized players to seek out more games in the genre, like Final Fantasy. Many people ended up playing Super Mario RPG just because it was a Mario franchise game, having had little or no experience with the RPG genre previously. Nonetheless, Mario had always been Nintendo’s icon of twitch-movement action games, but in the hands of Square, an outsider, he suddenly became the hero of an epic role-playing adventure. Mario has obviously always been a video game character, so you can’t exactly call any game involving him a “licensed” IP. One big example, albeit an example that somewhat cheats, is Super Mario RPG. Indeed, there are lots of terrible licensed video games regardless of what genre they are.īut sometimes these games stick the landing, and beautiful things happen when they’re in a genre nobody expected. Star Wars: Jedi Arena for Atari 2600 lingers in my memory for being a game where, instead of clashing lightsabers with your opponent, you just deflect laser blasts from a training probe lifted from A New Hope. Various IPs have been taking weird left turns with video game adaptations for almost as long as video game consoles have existed. It is the latest in a long line of licensed games that nobody asked for but that ended up being an excellent way to expose people to new experiences. Most recently, I am thankful for Dragon Ball: The Breakers, potentially the most bizarre and unexpected game release of 2022. The holiday season is when people pause to reflect on the things they are thankful for, and the thing I am thankful for this year is extensions of IP into weird video game genres.
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