Post by dxmax on Oct 14, 2024 19:06:09 GMT
Recently I was thinking about the game I played as a young child, Back to the Future II on my Amstrad CPC and how it only vaguely resembles the plot of the movie and how some games based on tv shows or movies, sometimes to make them more playable, are either only somewhat based on the actual shows plot or take huge liberties with it. I thought, what if a movie or TV show's plot, did play out exactly like a game that was released which was based on it? What would it be like? Here is the game in question:
Instead of the BTTF 2 movie playing out as it did, it plays out like this game, so the plot goes like this: The movie starts with Doc telling Marty he has to go back with him to the future. He and Jennifer get into the DeLorean and they take off and travel to the future. After the intro credits roll, it begins with Marty on a Hoverboard, with no mention how he got it. He is travelling along roads in Hill Valley on it and trying to avoid hitting objects, avoid getting hit by the same car driving around the roads or beat up by old Biff Tannen and Griff Tannen and his gang who come up to him on hoverboards. He has to punch them out of the way.
Marty also occasionally sees something he picks up on the road floating by that (somehow) gives him the energy needed to continue. His objective is to get to the courthouse in a certain time limit, without getting stuck, hovering above the water near the courthouse. Why? That plot point wasn't mentioned, so your guess is a good as mine.
After this long drawn out scene, Marty finds the Doc who tells him that Jennifer is being taken home. Which home? He doesn't say, but it does shock Marty who exclaims "GREAT SCOTT" All they know is they have to get her back. The scene cuts to a top down view of the house rooms, where Jennifer was taken to. He we watch Jennifer from a top down perspective, trying to escape the house while avoiding the family members inside. She eventually escapes out the front door and Marty and the Doc go back to 1985, but it isn't the 1985 they remember, it's for some reason, an alternative 1985.
We see Marty, at night, walking along the sidewalk with houses in the area he lives while some ominous music plays. As he walks along, he beats up passers by who try to beat him up or shoot him. Along the way, objects come rolling or bouncing his direction trying to hit him. What kind of alternate 1985 is this!?! Marty low kicks and punches a bunch of people who are trying to beat him up while once again picking up a few items laying around. The scene ends in a boss fight outside the school. He eventually meets the Doc again who tells Marty that it is up to him to sort this mess out. OK but how?
Before we find out more, we then see Marty up on stage at the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance in 1955 that was in the first movie. Instead of the scene looking normal, its a bunch of out of order puzzle squares that Marty must rearrange correctly in order to proceed. How and why? No one knows and apparently, just like the rest of the plot, we don't need to know how or why. After Marty completes the puzzle and we can see the scene play out as it should, only then does the Doc tell Marty they have to go back to 1955 to stop Biff giving his younger self, a sports almanac? What sports almanac? How was old Biff from the future going to give the almanac to his younger self? It seems that whole puzzle scene was just weird foreshadowing.
Next we cut to a 1955 version of the first scene with Marty travelling down the same road as he did in the future, beating up young Biff and his gang, again on his Hoverboard with the same one car travelling around he has to avoid. Eventually Marty makes it into a tunnel and travels along it to one end of it where bunting is hanging down. Marty grabs the bunting and its taken up in the air. We don't know why Marty grabs it or why he disappears up in the air. All we know is that this will be concluded in Back to the Future III.
Back to the Future II goes from a very good movie to, plot holes galore, what on Earth did I just watch!?!
Are there any other TV shows or movies you think would be very different if the plot was more like the games that came out which were based on them?
Instead of the BTTF 2 movie playing out as it did, it plays out like this game, so the plot goes like this: The movie starts with Doc telling Marty he has to go back with him to the future. He and Jennifer get into the DeLorean and they take off and travel to the future. After the intro credits roll, it begins with Marty on a Hoverboard, with no mention how he got it. He is travelling along roads in Hill Valley on it and trying to avoid hitting objects, avoid getting hit by the same car driving around the roads or beat up by old Biff Tannen and Griff Tannen and his gang who come up to him on hoverboards. He has to punch them out of the way.
Marty also occasionally sees something he picks up on the road floating by that (somehow) gives him the energy needed to continue. His objective is to get to the courthouse in a certain time limit, without getting stuck, hovering above the water near the courthouse. Why? That plot point wasn't mentioned, so your guess is a good as mine.
After this long drawn out scene, Marty finds the Doc who tells him that Jennifer is being taken home. Which home? He doesn't say, but it does shock Marty who exclaims "GREAT SCOTT" All they know is they have to get her back. The scene cuts to a top down view of the house rooms, where Jennifer was taken to. He we watch Jennifer from a top down perspective, trying to escape the house while avoiding the family members inside. She eventually escapes out the front door and Marty and the Doc go back to 1985, but it isn't the 1985 they remember, it's for some reason, an alternative 1985.
We see Marty, at night, walking along the sidewalk with houses in the area he lives while some ominous music plays. As he walks along, he beats up passers by who try to beat him up or shoot him. Along the way, objects come rolling or bouncing his direction trying to hit him. What kind of alternate 1985 is this!?! Marty low kicks and punches a bunch of people who are trying to beat him up while once again picking up a few items laying around. The scene ends in a boss fight outside the school. He eventually meets the Doc again who tells Marty that it is up to him to sort this mess out. OK but how?
Before we find out more, we then see Marty up on stage at the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance in 1955 that was in the first movie. Instead of the scene looking normal, its a bunch of out of order puzzle squares that Marty must rearrange correctly in order to proceed. How and why? No one knows and apparently, just like the rest of the plot, we don't need to know how or why. After Marty completes the puzzle and we can see the scene play out as it should, only then does the Doc tell Marty they have to go back to 1955 to stop Biff giving his younger self, a sports almanac? What sports almanac? How was old Biff from the future going to give the almanac to his younger self? It seems that whole puzzle scene was just weird foreshadowing.
Next we cut to a 1955 version of the first scene with Marty travelling down the same road as he did in the future, beating up young Biff and his gang, again on his Hoverboard with the same one car travelling around he has to avoid. Eventually Marty makes it into a tunnel and travels along it to one end of it where bunting is hanging down. Marty grabs the bunting and its taken up in the air. We don't know why Marty grabs it or why he disappears up in the air. All we know is that this will be concluded in Back to the Future III.
Back to the Future II goes from a very good movie to, plot holes galore, what on Earth did I just watch!?!
Are there any other TV shows or movies you think would be very different if the plot was more like the games that came out which were based on them?
