Living in the golden age of video game adaptations. Instead of cheap cash abductions with terrible visual, video games get blockbuster adaptations on both the big and small screen. Not only that, but we have seen many recent video games and TV films earn huge praise from both critics and audiences, even earn prizes.

Indeed, we are far removed from the so -called. curse of video games and Adaptations are so strongly going to put their study out of work. Video games are quickly becoming the new comics, the source of many high -profile projects with noticeable talent attached both behind and in front of the camera, making it easier than ever to get excited about a new adaptation, as the bathing average has increased.

And yet, despite projects like "Last of Us" and "Fallout" that earn excellent reviews (including us right here), no adaptation for live video games with action has achieved the perfect result of rotten tomatoes. Instead, the only three earnings projects are all animated - "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners", "Arcane" and "Pokémon Concierge" ("Castlevania", despite having several seasons of 100 %, has a total score of 94 %).

We had previously rejoiced at all three of these shows, and they deserve their status as the best video game adaptations of all time. But what makes these shows so good, and why is it that the only adaptations to have a perfect 100% result are all animated? Let's dig.

At first glance, there seems to be nothing that connects "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners", "Arcane" and "Pokémon Concierge". But all three of these shows have something in common: none of them really follow the story of their original material. "Pokémon Concierge" is neither like anime nor any of the video games. Instead, this animated series with stop-moving is a great piece of world building. That is Side story that shows the title criteria as more than just pets By presenting them as intelligent creatures that play an essential role in civilization. It is clear and unequivocally "Pokémon", but it is also not like nothing we have ever seen in the franchise.

Meanwhile, unlike "the last of us", which I often felt like looking a step forward game"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" tells a completely original story set before the events of the game, a small story that doesn't really affect what you see in the game, but still makes its world feel bigger. The story of a street child to engage in a criminal range of mercenaries to fulfill the end ends, manages to capture the tone, violence, and most importantly, the topics they have barely cited in the games, as long as some amazing visual.

As for the Arcane, it's a group show that has many recognizable signs directly from its original material. But like the other two, it is also a repetition of the world "League of Legends" that drastically changes what we know about these characters and the world. The essence of it is still there, but the show is free to tell its unique and exciting story, while surprising the long -term fans with new features, dynamics, and even different fate of character.

These are radical reinterpretations of the video games they are based. Of course, they take place in the same world as games and may have some very recognizable characters, but otherwise they are more like side stories that could happen before or to the stories that games fans know, rather than just a remake. from the central story of the game.

In addition to reviewing their source materials, what makes "Arcane", "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" and "Pokémon Concierge" exciting and unique that they all look radically different from each other, as well as other TV shows. Even if the "last of us", "Fallout" and the films "Sonic the hedgehog" look different, everyone feels quite cut from the same cloth in visual language and style. Animation does not have that problem.

In the past decade or the like, we have seen that adult animation have really exploded more than ever before, both in form and content. Netflix is ​​a great player in this change, producing or distributing recognized anime shows such as "DevilMan Crybaby", collaborating with animation of electricity to anime-inspired animated animated emissions, starting with "Castlevania", and also producing writers between writers In writers in a western and Japanese study, like "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

These are shows that are allowed to experiment with shape, style and substance. "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" takes the best of the kinetic visual language of Trigger and Knack studio for vibrant colors and fast action to deliver a hyper-violent story of the Loveubeum and class struggle that Lives to the topics and comment of the cyberpunk genre. With "Arcane", Studio Fortiche must show its combination of 2D and 3D animation that exploded in recent years thanks to "in Spider-Stich", delivering a visually stunning and hyper-styled show that feels more fantastic but also grounded. As for "Pokémon Concierge", it has shown that the franchise is really progressing in stop-moving, opening the doors to the desired British institution, Aardman, to work with the upcoming project.

It is a good time to be the fanboy of video games and animation adaptations.