Movie Based Beat 'Em Ups

The beat m up genre is a very interesting genre, you run around beating the crap out of enemy after enemy after enemy. To an extent this genre is seems to be a lazy approach that designers like to take for making a game, by this I mean that beat m up’s seem a little uncreative at times… and repetitive….and boring. Though there are some good beat m up’s out there such as Marvel Ultimate Alliance, X Men Legends, X Men Origins Wolverine, Deadriseing and many more. These are good because the designers actually took time to plan out the characters moves instead of punching the enemy over and over again. Marvel Ultimate Alliance and X Men legends are good because all the characters have different abilities and states, while X Men Origins Wolverine and Deadriseing are good because their bloody and that makes it kinda funny, both elements work. Unlike the games based on Avatar: the last Air bender, with the same repetitive moves, the same repetitive enemies, bad camera so on and so fourth which leads me into my real point. This is a message to all designers everywhere, IF YOUR GOING TO MAKE A GAME BASED ON A MOVIE OR TV SHOW, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR ACUALY MAKING!!!! I thought avatar would have made a good game with interesting game play, using air bending to fly around, using earth bending to move mountains and shift the terrain. This could have made a good game, NOT a lame little beat m up, you’re supposed to play as the Avatar, he should be all powerful! The Harry Potter Games, the first 3 were actually good puzzle solving games, it makes sense, you’re playing as a wizard so you can use spells to solve puzzles in dungeons, my friends told me the fourth game was just a lame plat former/beat m up, then I saw demo footage and they were right, DESIGNERS, BE CREATIVE!!!! Don’t resort to beat m ups unless you truly think that is the best type of game play for the movie or TV show. Let’s take an example the show on cartoon network The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. You can call me crazy and send all the hate mail you want if you think this wouldn’t work. The show is about a boy named Flapjack and his friend Captain K’nuckles, they’re sailing the seas to find a place called Candied Island, they don’t have a ship they have a whale to ride on. What could work for a game is maybe it’s an open world exploring game where you explore all of the different islands, and we could use the idea from Wind Waker where you actually sail to the islands on the whale. I know this is wierd but it could work. That’s all I have to say I just thought I should get that out there. Thank you all for reading and have a good day.