by Thoul » Thu Sep 2, '10, 7:25 am
I'd prefer animation. Live action can be great if done well, but I'd be afraid that the characters would be changed too much in an effort to inject realistic aspects to the series.
I think PSI is the only game really short enough to make into a single movie. It could be a good adventure flick, focusing on Alis' quest. A few things like the governor, Hapsby, and Luveno would be mostly cut out of it. Or perhaps just reworked to tie them more closely into Myau, Odin, and Lutz's appearances. I could see Dr. Mad, Medusa, and Lassic all being great as the villains.
The later games would have to be a series to do justice to all their major characters. PSII could be reduced to two, maybe three movies, with some tweaking. We don't need to see all four dams or Dezo dungeons in a movie, for instance. If it was just one movie, Rolf and Nei would probably be the only people with any character development. I'd rather have them fleshed out a little more. The first movie could end with the Palma scene, for a nice cliffhanger.
PSIII... ugh, yeah, that's better off as a soap opera, really. Sadly it would probably focus only on the Rhys-Ayn-Sean path. Unless they make more than one series/season, there would have to be some convoluted alternate dimension stuff to get all the characters to appear.
PSIV has way too much going on for one movie. Maybe if there was only one Dark Force, that could possibly work. I think it would be better as a series, though. Each episode could focus on one part of the adventure and cover all the major fights with great action scenes.