This series made me cry with laughter! I did not expect this choice for the adaptation of this excellent video game, it is very daring but the funniest I have ever seen

News culture This series made me cry with laughter! I did not expect this choice for the adaptation of this excellent video game, it is very daring but the funniest I have ever seen

Now the film and entertainment industry is much more developed and able to appreciate the major video game licenses by creating adaptations worthy of the name. Yes, we are far from a film like this Super Mario Bros.released in 1993. For a while, video game adaptations were very standardized and sometimes lacking bite or originality, requiring them to innovate, try things out and make daring decisions in order to stand out on the one hand, but also to give a certain creative impetus to such a project. After collaborating with the Netflix platform, French animation studio Bobbypills is joining forces with another big name in the streaming space, in this case ADN (Animation Digital Network).

Matching the six-part series Captain Laserhawkwhich featured alter egos of Ubisoft characters, Bobbypills takes on a license as symbolic as the French publisher: Dead Cells. Known for its very unusual side – which is even anchored in the DNA of the studio, which describes itself as “ full of depressed, beautiful, disturbed people making cartoons for depressed, beautiful, disturbed people

» -, especially with the two seasons of Peepoodo and the Super Fuck FriendsWhile they’re as hilarious as they are “preventive/educational,” the studio recently did it again with Dead Cells Immortalis. Completely free on the ADN platform, under the cover of an account, I devoured the 10 episodes and I tell you about it because we never imagined seeing such an adaptation of Dead cellsI found it very (very) funny and entertaining ! Let’s begin.

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Dead Cells Immortalis, an adaptation that breaks the codes of video games

At once Rogue Lite and Metroidvania, Dead cells brought a breath of fresh air to the French video game landscape in August 2018, the date of the release of version 1.0 after several early access phases. Action, adventure, platform phases, a nebulous narrative at the end Dark Soulsexciting gameplay that challenged everyone… It did not last long Dead cells become a referencesigned by the Bordeaux studio Motion Twin and supervised by their neighbors Evil Empire (who recently unveiled). Prince of Persia: The Villain). Therefore, it does not seem inappropriate, although not obvious, to create an audiovisual project around this license. While many studios would have racked their brains to make this adaptation the best it could be, Bobbypills has done the exact opposite… and it’s a delight ! At first glance, I must say that I was a little surprised by the artistic direction. It is true that we are not particularly used to this type of drawing, even if we are used to consuming a whole range of different and varied programs.

From this point of view, Bobbypills puts his stamp on the series Dead cells immortaland this is just the first step in this desire to take the game’s codes and rework them. There is actually this character who is able to come back to life, only here he doesn’t come back to life in prison, but is turned into a blob while using another corpse to look better. In addition, the series contains some nods to this rogue-lite side, which makes us start from scratch (” 30 meters less than right now », « Back to top We even find essential elements of the Motion Twin title, such as the famous Dead Cells, the iconic musical theme of the game when the credits roll, or even the progression of the quest of Tête de Flamme and Laure Esposito, which gives the feeling of going “From one biome to another.” To stay faithful to the basic material, the series is structured a bit like a video game, where you have to progress by eliminating bosses one by one (a sort of sub-quests) to weaken the ultimate threat, the Demon King. In the ten approximately eight-minute episodes Dead cells immortal

is a nice introduction to the license, its universe and its lore, but above all it is entertainment that manages to make us laugh openly and without any pressure!

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Show humor … instead of skills

The good idea of ​​this series Dead cells immortal is, in my opinion, that he did not focus his story on the simple journey of the chosen one, but it has succeeded in establishing a group dynamic that does not exist in video games. Because she wants to overthrow the king to put an end to the scourge that has plagued the world for more than 250 years, Laure Esposito is thrown into the dungeon. If she thinks that this incident will slow down her search for the chosen one, the man with the flame head, the opposite is the case, because he ends up in prison right next to her, the beginning of a turbulent relationship between the two characters. As we said, the aesthetics of the series may displease, but the idea is not a visual slap in the face It is the unusual side of animation and dubbing (Special mention goes to the work of Gérémy Crédeville and Alizé Laffitau for the characters of Laure and Tête de Flamme) that make the series so special.

Well, I’d rather warn you, you have to be receptive to humor below the belt, even if Dead cells immortal

It’s not just about that, quite the opposite. There are moments when I honestly laughed at certain scenes or certain dialogues, and there are some that are so funny that sometimes you laugh with tears in the corners of your eyes. Actually, Dead cells immortal Hits on all topics (religion, politics, economics, society and even sports manga/anime!) and the world of video games are ultimately just a pretext for jokes that often have a current reference to our company. In short, the dialogues hit the mark, and above all because the duo shown works very (very) well like a buddy movie! At the beginning, Tête de Flamme and Laura Esposito are opposites in almost everything, but the plot, although very short (the equivalent of a 1:20 hour film), manages to bring them together to the point where they almost become an old couple. I found this to be a strength of the series because it also allows us to develop a bond with certain characters that we only see for a few minutes. – Paulo is indeed the hero he believes himself to be – and juggles between funny and somewhat more serious moments, for example to create tension and twists or to deal with the psychology of the characters.

Anyway, if you are ever looking for a little entertainment and like video games, Dead cells immortal is a little pearl whose valves, often excellent, will not leave you indifferent. For my part, I watched each episode and would have continued if I hadn’t reached the credits so quickly! This is perhaps one of the criticisms we could make of the series, even if it still has many qualities that I strongly invite you to discover. Remember that this is available for free on the ADN platform (there are even episodes 1, 2 and 3 on the ADN YouTube channel). All you have to do is create an account and it could surprise you with the opposite view of a whole series of situations. The series, for example, even takes it upon itself to deconstruct the image we have of the bosses in a video game by making the duo do everything possible to overcome them, including a sort of hilarious couples therapy. For my part, it really made me want to dive back in Dead cells and I may not be the only one. Also, you can use it if you feel like it Your Netflix subscription to play it for free on smartphone and tablet, as it is included in the games section, and that is the icing on the cake.

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