The expansion of a movie franchise with TV shows, books or video games is an awkward venture. There is a temptation to answer any question to which the original material does not fit, to fill all gaps and make nostalgia overcome the new story. Excellent spin-off manages to feel like an essential part of the franchise independently, and when it touches other parts of the series, it makes the answers or crossover feels inevitable. "Andor" fired the code of this, re -exploit the elements of the original films and adding layers of shade to them by discovering a forgotten and deleted rebellion history While also telling the best story of "Starwells War" in 40 years.

Similarly, there is another Lucasfilm property that has just got a decade -long mystery in a way that improves original material, without overshadowing the new story. It is the game in 2024 "Indiana Onesons and the Great Circle" (recently released on PlayStation 5) by MachineGames and released by Bethesda Softworks.

The story takes place in 1937, a year between the events of the original "Indiana Ons: Thieves of the lost casket" and "Indiana Onesons and the Last Crusade". This means that Indiana has already witnessed unnecessary supernatural events and has hatred of the Nazis. The plot includes Indiana (expressed by Troy Baker) traveling around the world, in the fight against various fascist groups, as they are trying to use the power of ancient places that form a perfect circle when together on a map - while revealing the mysteries of an ancient order believed in literal giants.

Although a brand new and original story (it still has all the main parts of Indiana Onesons's great adventure, As a shooting of a sword), "The Great Circle" answers a big question from "Indiana Ons: Thieves of the lost casket", which was 44 years - what happened between Indiana Onesons and Marion Ravenwood? No, Not in that scene.

This is the biggest achievement of the game, which manages to be an appropriate and direct sequel to "Indiana Ons: Thieves of the lost casket" which is actually based on the emotional and stories of the first film, while still telling a whole new adventure that is independent. The game rises after Onesons left Marion (expressed by Karen Allen through archives), something he haunted. Indeed, the game literally starts with Indiana dreaming Indiana Ons' introductory scene: Thieves of the lost casket " With the golden idol before Marion's voice began to drown every other sound, screaming in Indiana because she betrayed and left it.

This brings the whole game, because virtually every Indiana character meets or asks about what happened to Marion or faces an archaeologist for his unhealthy obsession with adventure and fear of dedication. There is even a dream sequence where Indy has an imaginary confrontation with Marion in Hallucination that calls on him to lose everything he was glad in the name of running around with new flower and combat Nazis around the world.

"Indiana Onesons and the Great Circle" is not just a bunch of knots and referrals to the first film, of course. However, it is important to note as the nodes and the references they give to Indy Lac throughout the game that is attractive independently, but also adds to the experience of watching films. The game is very confirmed by how important Marion is for Indiana, beyond it to be a Love -bodian interest in the most popular film in the franchise that was constantly returning from nostalgia reasons, but gives a good reason why they are not together. Even the villain of the game teases Indiana for it.

What makes the game great is not only associated with "Indiana Ons: Thieves of the lost casket", but that she feels like Indiana Onesons's quintessential adventure while doing things that the franchise has never done before. Troy Baker is simply incredible in channeling the Starwar to Indy Harrison Ford and Perfect argument against de-aging of CGI. He manages to capture the charisma of Ford and command presence, while still adding his own image, as long as the game graphics perfectly animate the mannerisms of the actor and icon.

The story is attractive, full of mystery and intrigue, while offering a great adventure associated with world mythology. Of course, it goes back to the Judeo-Christian Oreubov, but still includes culture, history and mythology of many cultures like Egypt, Mesopotamia, and even Siam (present-day Thailand), with no one of the films.

And, most importantly, the game is engaged in fascism in a way that none of the films can. During the "big circle" you also come across the Nazis, the Italian black shirts, and even the soldiers of Imperial Japan. The game is not only treated as cannons and fodder and stabbed, but is extremely striking and stupid children attracted to images and propaganda, with the story dedicating a fair and background dialogue to explore the dangers and attractiveness of fascism - and then ridicule hell. The game even engages with people in the academy who continue to work with or for the Nazis in order to pursue personal research projects while believing they are above politics.

"Indiana Onesons and the Great Circle" makes the impossible and delivers an adventure that feels essential to the character as the original film, while it is a completely fresh and new story that is still associated with what is in front of him.