The Bear swept The Primetime Emmy Awards last night, picking up🅘 trophies in every single category it was nominated in. FX’s masterful comedy drama deserves all the praise thrown its way for how it combines the hardship of grief and perseverance with the tenderness of love, friendship, and hope that keeps us going as human beings. It’s one of the best shows I’ve seen in recent memory, and not only because I don’t watch a lot of television.
It also reminds me of Telltale’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Walking Dead, except the zombies are replaced by the dead brother who left our main character a failing sandwich shop. Prior to a sudden studio closure and its recent revival, there was a time when Telltale was adapting every single big property under the sun. Game of Thrones, Batman, and Guardians of the Galaxy were just some of the names being turned into episodic adventure games. Some were great, others were okay, while all of them slowly gave way to a repetitive gameplay formula and excess work that would become Telltale’s undoing. In my head, I still think about how specific properties might look in the studio's mold, and what it would be like to have let Telltale have a stab at everything from Doctor Who to Storage Wars. The possibilities are endless.
Even with all of those suggestions though, The Bear would still hit different when thrust into such a formula. It has a small yet focused cast of characters, each with beautifully rendered arcs where major decisions influence how they grow and change over an entire season. Or, in the case of Telltale, a selection of episodes. Each one could be a character study or huge event where the cast g⛦row closer as▨ people, fester conflicts, and deal with issues that exist across each and every one of them.
Ebon Moss-Bꦅachrach’s Richie could find himself in the confines of a fine establishment as he learns the inherent value of customer service, or Ayo Edibiri’s Sydney could go on a city-wide search of culinary inspiration as she makes massive choices about the future of her career and what it means to be a chef. I’d like Jeremy Allen White’s Carmen Berzatto to find some semblance of happiness in his life too, even if it takes fꦉighting through a cloud of grief that right now feels impenetrable.
The everyday hustle and bustle of a kitchen is perfect ammunition for Telltale’s simple yet engaging gameplay systems. Prepping for service could be interspersed with tense bouts of conversation or having to juggle multiple dilemmas at any given time, knowing that no matter what you♐ do to stop it, everything is going to fall apart. Having to figure out why a bullet burst through the shop window out of nowhere, almost killing your staff and setting the place fully on edge, would be fire chef.
Any of these scenarios could take up a solid act in a single episode, not to mention other excursions to different countries or restaurants, or having to balance the running of the establishment with the inevitable task of setting up a new one. I’d love to see flashbacks too, providing an insight into what brought our characters to become who they are, while also🃏 preparing for change. It would break and warm my heart in equal measure, and in its writing you’d find characters to love, loathe, and desperately hope will change in response to your choices. Perhaps they won’t, only further cementing the shཧow’s excellent themes.
I’m probably just coping with a lack of new material by turning The Bear into the video game of 💞my dreams, but it will have to do until the third season comes around. Aside from a potentially hilarious i൲maginary Overcooked DLC, Telltale’s The Bear has infiltrated my mind as an all-time great adaptation.
