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Don't worry, I've played this game five, maybe six times, once very recently, any observations like that I'll keep to the episode in question. Luckily this story is way more straightforward so the source material doesn't offer me and any other geek too much runway to get in the weeds.
Before I do: after one episode, it's clearly a very well made TV show but unlike a book this is basically recasting two, quite honestly, Oscar-worthy performances from a motion capture performance just 9 years ago. It's like a reverse uncanny valley. The Walking Dead was also so goddamn popular for so long I wonder if zombie fatigue will weigh on this and/or how much.
As a huge, huge fan of both Part I and II I really like what I'm seeing so far and now that they've gotten the hard part out of the way (the pacing of this part of the game was always a bit stilted compared to the rest to make room for teaching the gameplay) I can't wait to see how the rest of it pans out.
THAT BEING SAID.
There aren't many significant deviations that aren't all that relevant, so I just want to point out that it's pretty clear Mazin played the game and the guy who made it is his right hand because it's pretty uncanny how similar some of the line delivery is. It often made me question whether the cast actually didn't watch longplays of the game prior to filming. Hell, about half of this episode had the exact same cinematography! That said, they did insert a little more, uh, "levity" that the game doesn't have (the kinda jokey interaction during the virus test outside the QZ) but I get it's TV and without the catharsis of the controller in your hand they gotta give the audience a break somehow.
One big change that seems a little weird: in the game, the final stage of the virus is just like the actual virus, in that the infected get rooted to a surface and spores burst out of their respiratory system into the air - hence the elaborate, Annihilation like mushroom formation around their corpse. I get that Pedro Pascal maybe didn't want to be in yet another show where he's wearing a mask at least half the time but the sight of a fungus-man tattooed to a wall doesn't have the same implication without that spore aspect so I found it weird for them to linger on one.
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