>Ratchet & Clank comic
Another video game comic I really like is the Ratchet & Clank comic. It's by the guy who writes the games, and is a loose tie-in to All 4 One, but you can enjoy the comic without the game and the game without the comic. In the game, Qwark is now president of the galaxy. You can just accept that as a joke, it makes enough sense for the character and the world, but the comic is about how that happened. It's a cool and funny adventure, with the humor and action the series is known for. Each issue's title is taken from a rejected title for All 4 One. Sony was getting increasingly censorious at this time, but they could get away with comic issues being called things like "Multiple Organisms," "4Play," and stuff like that. This really feels like a perfectly natural extension of the series, and I wish more adaptations were like this.
>Uncharted comic, InFamous comic
Around the same time as the Ratchet & Clank comic, Sony also did comics of Uncharted and InFamous. They also fit very well with the games. Uncharted's is mostly standalone, but that's fine. InFamous tries to fill in some blanks between 1 and 2, but as this is a superhero series, really it's just another story with the character, and it feels very natural for the character. I don't like these series as much as Ratchet & Clank, so I don't have as much to say, but they were pretty good.
>Super Mario movie
I mean the 1993 one. At least that one is so bad it's good. Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper are all funny. That new Mario movie, though? That one sucks. Sure, the graphics at least look like Mario, and they had some music from the games and all that, but the plot is fucking stupid. Peach having to be tough means the entire plot has to be stretched in stupid directions that make no sense, making Mario effectively redundant in his own movie. People try to say it's about the bond between brothers, but due to Peach not being allowed to be the damsel in distress, Luigi is, so Mario and Luigi are never together, so their bond falls flat. Sure, Mario gets the final action scene due to sheer luck taking Peach out of the action, but then that just feels like it flies in the face of the movie's own logic, since she's supposed to be so awesome, and is even stated to be better than Mario, effortlessly doing stuff on her first try that takes him a long training montage. I can almost overlook Sonic 2 being about Sonic's interracial human parents going to a sassy fat black woman's wedding, but this is somehow even worse, maybe because here it's clearly that the politics dictated the plot, whereas in Sonic it's that the producers just didn't give a fucking shit about the games and just did random garbage. I'd rather random garbage than an entire plot ruined to appease SJWism.
>Mortal Kombat movie
That first movie from 1995 is awesome. I know people complain about it not having the gore the game is known for, but it's a well made movie, so when I'm watching it, I don't feel like I'm missing that. Sure, it's a little lame that Scorpion and Sub-Zero don't get to show off their usual roles, but the plot is packed as it is, and it does make sense to focus on Liu Kang and the other heroes. Has anyone seen the awful CGI prequel to the movie? Now that is so bad it's good. I remember liking both the live action TV series and the cartoon as a kid, but I'd need to watch them to get a better opinion. And I know there are comics actually by John Tobias. I gotta check those out. I honestly don't think Mortal Kombat Annihilation is one of the worst movies ever, like everyone says. It's pretty standard B-movie quality. Maybe I'd feel differently if I watched it in theaters, but I missed it the week it came out, and by the next week, all my local ones had pulled it. I understand why. I haven't watched the modern Mortal Kombat adaptations on account of modern Mortal Kombat games being shit. I'd like to hear they're good, but I doubt it. I'm surprised WB doesn't just make Mortal Kombat canon to the DC Universe. They cross over a lot in the games, and frankly, the magical ninja demon stuff would all fit in the DCU pretty well.
>Street Fighter
I'm not even that into the games, but Raul Julia gives a great performance in that first movie. The famous "It was Tuesday" line is legitimately awesome. I know they did that other movie like 15 years later starring that girl that played Lana Lang on Smallville, but with no other knowledge than that, I'm gonna assume that movie isn't very good. I hear the anime is good but I'm not even into Street Fighter so I haven't gotten around to watching it.
>Mega Man comics
I know there are many, I hear the Mega Man X manga are basically canon, so I gotta check those out. But I have read the Archie comics and like those. I don't love how much original stuff they try to do as they go on, but I do like their adaptations of the games, and I love the crossovers with Sonic. The first one, especially, where they cut out all the original shit from both comics and make it so it's effectively just the games crossing over, is excellent. I also love the Mega Man X story they do, which is actually a prequel to the first Mega Man X game, taking place before The Day of Sigma. That's an original story that fits well with the game, serves as a good intro to the character (which is what it is), and ties in well with the main Mega Man comic (as the story is about Rock doing stuff in the present and X dealing with repercussions in the future). It's a very good comic overall.
>Digimon
Does this count? Digimon is so multimedia that it's hard to tell if the cartoons count more than the games or the games count more than the cartoons. I guess the toys come first, but virtual pets are sort of video games. Fuck it, I'm counting it. Everyone knows that the first three seasons of the Digimon anime are awesome. And if you don't know, now you know, nigga. Excellent characters, very tight plotting, very interesting world, fascinating lore. What people don't realize is that the game, Digimon World, actually came first. It was released in the west later, causing some confusion. It's actually the same universe as the first two seasons of the anime, but it takes place long before. Digimon World 2 (which has totally different gameplay and feels like a different world at first), Digital Card Battle, several games on the WonderSwan, are also the same universe, and the WonderSwan games in particular are essential to the anime's lore. Also Next Order is a sequel to Digimon World 1. Is Re-Digitize the same universe? I haven't played that one yet. There is also the manga, V-Tamer 01, which starts even before Digimon World and is really the start of important Digimon lore. It runs so long it crosses over with three different universes in four different seasons of anime, and later they brought it back for one chapter to cross over with the anime from 2020. Anyway, really good manga. Definitely underrated, even among fans of the series. Right up there with the first three seasons of the anime.
>>975578
Aw damn, I forgot to mention the Sonic OVA. It's great. I love the animation and the soundtrack. Plot is weird, but that was par for the course for Sonic adaptations. Still is, really.
Earthworm Jim was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. The creator of the character, Doug Tennappel, got the rights to make Earthworm Jim comics, and I know he's made at least one so far. It's great. It also makes SJWs very mad, because the creator isn't one of them, even though he didn't make it political or anything. It's just exactly like the series always was, which is great.