Video Game

Curubethion · 12-10-2005, 03:17 PM

Okay, what do you think about the video game that they released? When I saw the advertisement, my first thought was, "No. They can't do this!!"
Is is sacreligious to the series, especially considering the allegory?

sun-star · 12-10-2005, 04:06 PM

My first reaction was horror too

On further consideration, however, I don't think it's too bad, as long as it preserves the distinction between good and evil characters. Everyone who reads the books identifies themselves with the children to some extent, and playing them in a video game is similar. I don't think we should encourage people to imagine themselves as the Witch, though. My experience of these kind of games is that they focus on the battles and gory deaths, which is not in the spirit of the Narnia books... but this game may not be like that.

Curubethion · 12-10-2005, 04:20 PM

I think CS Lewis refused to let Disney make an animated LWW because he felt that anything "approaching the comic" would be "blasphemous". So...does the video game cross the line?
I like your post...

Elanor · 12-10-2005, 09:17 PM

Hm, I'm not sure. I'd have to see more about it to decide.

rohirrim TR · 12-10-2005, 09:51 PM

If you can play as a centaur, i'm all for it.

i tried to download a demo, the other day and it didn't work, maybe i can get it tonight. if i can get a demo i'll post a link.

sun-star · 12-12-2005, 06:28 PM

The video game may be OK, but I don't really like the adverts I keep seeing for LWW being linked to MacDonalds and mobile phones... Why should they be allowed to use Narnia to sell their rubbish?

12-10-2005, 03:17 PM	#1
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Video Game Okay, what do you think about the video game that they released? When I saw the advertisement, my first thought was, "No. They can't do this!!" Is is sacreligious to the series, especially considering the allegory? __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-10-2005, 04:20 PM	#3
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I think CS Lewis refused to let Disney make an animated LWW because he felt that anything "approaching the comic" would be "blasphemous". So...does the video game cross the line? I like your post... __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-10-2005, 09:17 PM	#4
Elanor Hobbit in the Music Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Westmarch Posts: 1,111	Hm, I'm not sure. I'd have to see more about it to decide. __________________ Middle Earth Crossword Puzzle on the Tolkien Site of DOOM Segovia Mazes

12-12-2005, 06:28 PM	#6
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	The video game may be OK, but I don't really like the adverts I keep seeing for LWW being linked to MacDonalds and mobile phones... Why should they be allowed to use Narnia to sell their rubbish? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

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12-10-2005, 04:06 PM	#2
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	My first reaction was horror too On further consideration, however, I don't think it's too bad, as long as it preserves the distinction between good and evil characters. Everyone who reads the books identifies themselves with the children to some extent, and playing them in a video game is similar. I don't think we should encourage people to imagine themselves as the Witch, though. My experience of these kind of games is that they focus on the battles and gory deaths, which is not in the spirit of the Narnia books... but this game may not be like that.