Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160428221352/@comment-25936766-20170118040309

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

1-Technically the cartoon is canon, as it is based on the events of Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: Adventures of Link, which are way down the bottom of the left side.

2- That was the point. I don't want characters that are similar or going to get along immediately. I want tension and clashing personalities and fighting styles that take time and effort to reconcile.

3- ...And I want games that have branched out to other media; movies, books, cartoons, manga, etc. Even if it's just one branch that wasn't very successful (like Prince of Persia and it's one movie). 1-.....That's a rather questionable "technically". The cartoon includes elements of both LoZ and Adventure of Link, but it's more of it's own thing instead of truly following those games like, say, Sonic X eventually did with the Sonic Adventure games.

Besides, there's things like Link actually speaking (and being quite whiny) that make it even less canon.

2-And you can still get that with characters that have at least some similarity, making them feel less "forced and thrown in without a care". After all, personalities are different, skillsets are different, styles are different, etc.

3-Let's see....Assassins Creed has 1 or 2 movies, I think an upcoming manga, some books and comics. Mass Effect and Dragon Age both have had multiple books, comics, and at least 1 movie.

Mortal Kombat got the movies, some TV shows, comics. Dead Space has comics, some animated movies, I think a book or two. Danganronpa has a bunch of light novels and manga adaptations, plus the animes.

Final Fantasy....I think it had a bunch of things. Pokemon....well, you know. Shin Megami Tensei, had some mangas (both spinoff and adaptation) and I think 1 movie, leaving aside Persona which got exponentially more stuff. Blazblue has (not-localized) light novels, mangas and an anime adaptation (that was awful).

.....Basically, there are many, many, many, many, many options if you don't specify.