Most of his books are written like he’s pretty desperate for someone to make a video game adaptation. The metal (“fuel”) and “classes” in Mistborn, the way weapons work in the Cytoverse, etc., etc., it all seems specifically designed for a game adaptation.

Hopefully Mistborn goes to a studio that knows what they’re doing and the gameplay is actually fun!

God forbid teenage girls have someone they can look up to in Fantasy in SciFi! Oh, the horror!

Now that you mention it, a Mistborn’s Pushing and Pulling could move around a lot like Spider-Man. Pewter and tin for Spider-strength and Spider-Sense. Soothing and Rioting can work as dialog options or like Repels in the overworld.

With a proper stat tree I think it could work.

Fair.

Maybe it would be better to have a Mistborn game that takes place in the Mistborn universe than a retelling of Vin’s story, or Kelsier’s. Maybe another attempted coup on the Lord Ruler, or something set after the events of the first book but before the end of the third one. Trying to avoid spoilers but if you’ve read them, you know the events I’m speaking of. Sanderson kind of boxed in when a game could reasonably take place. No one seriously attempted to take on the Lord Ruler before Kelsier (the first time, when he was thrown in the mines) and after the third book… why, you might as well just go the Wax & Wayne era (which might be better, have kind of a Dishonoured kind of setting). Maybe an original story in the W&W era.

Somewhere between Spiderman and Arkham Asylum style games would really work really well.

The setting of the first book was very cloak and dagger with lots of similarly and overly powered opponents.

Book 2 and 3 got turned on thier head and you’d probably want to slowly adapt towards Prototype or inFamous as the setting loses its cloak and dagger story elements.

Then it’s a good thing you don’t have to play it if the game ever comes out, huh? And believe it or not but you also don’t need to be an asshole about other people enjoying something. There are a lot of objective downsides to AI, but an IP you don’t like is just something for you to ignore. The horror.

This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.

I don’t remember the appearance of either Vin or Spensa being in any way an important or even relevant piece of the stories.

The entirety of the focus was on what the girls were doing, not how they looked.

A book series so poorly written, you’ll never believe the author did so on purpose.

As I recall Brandon Sanderson plays a lot of games, especially tabletop ones, so this would make a lot of sense.

This is an odd card to play because she also murders a lot of people and mentally dominates an entire race.

I think, compared to these absolute crimes against humanity, that her journey to self-actualization seems an odd nit to pick.

Era 2 would be fun. You could have guns and/or the player be a misting/ferring/twinborn and then maybe have a quest happen where you become full mistborn.

Or you could do Era 1 but have the game set like 1000 years before Kelsier. Just say the events were suppressed by Rashek and the canton of Inquisition.

His writing group all but started as a DnD campaign.

She’s basically traumatized up until ::: spoiler Spoiler she sacrifices herself to kill the last living god in their world. :::

I don’t think she ever really does value her appearance like you assume. At most she realizes there’s more to life than survival, whether it’s because of her beau or not. He’s just one aspect she finds in life to make it worth living.

Huh? How you figure?

Thought Robert Jordan chose Sanderson and that Sanderson spent time with Jordan discussing how he wanted it to end the series as well as explaining all the extensive notes he prepared for Sanderson.

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I feel like this is not the popular consensus…

Times Top 100 Fantasy Books

NPR top 100 fantasy

Highly rated on Goodreads

Like… maybe some people aren’t a huge fan, but saying poorly written seems harsh. Maybe you just don’t like fantasy?

Some people just hate anything that’s popular. Most of them grow up at some point.

That’s a pretty classic game series progression though.

Looking at you, Assassin’s Creed and whatever it is you’re doing now with stat checks for shoving a knife in a dude’s neck