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Rising of the Shield Hero desperately needs a video game like it, but the problem is that its mechanics are too advanced/complex for modern game development, its something I hope to see in the future.
For one thing, everything in that world looked very cool, the sheer level of interactivity with the character's weapons was amazing. (e.g. the fact that the MC could put almost anything into his shield and end up transforming it from a storage unit, to pure utility, to damage, to defense, to buffs, etc.), on top of just more broken mechanics, and the fact that the gameplay and character mechanics can change based on your knowledge, perceptions, personality, emotions and reactions to the world around you, as well as the role you take in the world.
Plus its got a good story and premise and whatnot baked in with the whole "spawn into a (part of the) world that reviles you and forces you to approach the world differently to everyone else". And the anime adaptation makes the "UI" for the world look really satisfying and engaging to handle, plus I like the general design aesthetics of it too.
This is a topic I've been wanting to make on /v/ for a while but I've always ended up forgetting before I ended up making an OP for it, but this is one of those rare works where I'm downright hungering for a game that could fulfill the work's ambitions.
Unfortunately if anyone ever does make a game for it, it'll probably end up being low-effort garbage like the "VNs" that companies churn out for a lot of the popular isekai, even though a franchise like this deserves a high-budget, effort-filled game to do it justice. I think it would be genuinely fantastic if a proper company with the will, talent, vision and money would ever take on a project like this.
People love to say shit like "SAO" but honestly Shield Hero looks more to me like a "game from the future" than anything I've seen in an anime so far. It would be like a sandbox RPG in terms of character freedom to interact with the world and characters, but with a genuine plot and tension built in thanks to the waves, along with worldbuilding and characters that actually matter so you aren't just jerking around the whole time without consequences like some faggot.
Keep in mind I haven't watched or read past season 1 of Shield Hero so far, I'm planning to get around to it but from what I've seen of it, I think it would make for a great game.
The only game closest to this in terms of breadth of interactivity in an RPG setting I can think of is Runescape, but it still wouldn't come close to a lot of the other things about this hypothetical game.