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You need to watch the best video game adaptation ever on Netflix ASAP

“Power doesn’t come to those who were born strongest. It comes to those who would do anything to achieve it.”

by Robin Bea

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A good adaptation is a tightrope walk, balanced between relying too much on fans’ love of the source material and veering so far off it’s unrecognizable.

Video game adaptations, in particular, have historically had a hard time with this.

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