I think it can work very well as a video game if it's done correctly. It needs to be about movement. If it's made kind of like Spider-Man was it might have a chance. If it has that type of movement and weight to it I could see it working. It'd be super easy to screw it up though.
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.
Even better if they throw in savant mechanics. Make the user dependent on the metal for boosted effects but debugged if not getting enough of it.
Here is the primary source:
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/state-of-the-sanderson-2025#video-games
I've been a big Sanderson fan for a long time. I'll be super happy if the Cosmere is adapted to any other format, but if it's not a good adaptation, forget it.
And Vice is reporting on "a game could enter development, we're talking to studios about it."
They're farming clicks.
Mechanically, it would make a great hack and slash like Devil May Cry.
It could also be fun if done well like The Witcher.
Sadly, for every success like The Witcher, there are 20 Wheel of Time games.
Could be fun. I just desperately want an animated adaptation of the Stormlight Archives. Mistborn would be a killer three season animated show too.
All of the Cosmere adaptations should be animated. There's nothing more jarring than seeing actors age 10 years between 10 episode seasons.
Idk I feel like filming all three seasons of mistborn in one stretch could work. That said, it really lends itself to arcane/spiderverse style animation
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.
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
Please don't suck
Not sure if I want this. Like others are saying, you have to have great freedom of movement, and it can't be sloppy. Think about the allomancer rail systems Kelsier and the others used. Metal spires that go from city to city that they can hop along. You would have to be able to do this effortlessly for it to work. Our girl (I forget her name, sorry) had to learn how to do all that, but that would be the worst part of the game. The game needs to assume you know what you're doing and err on the side of caution. Basically seamless hand holding.
I'd much rather it be a series (on HBO or the like). The actual metal jumping and whatnot is not the most interesting thing about this world.
It seems like we just need to look at games that have fantastical and parkour based movement — Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed series, Cyberpunk, Hogwarts Legacy, the recent Jedi games with that guy from Shameless — to see how this could work. And others. But for a lot of those games, the movement becomes one of the most important things. You focus on how cool it is to get around. Oh and all those games have a sense or scan feature, so you get all that, and it's not really what you want to play.
Better to watch it as a series IMO.
A few years ago I'd have wanted a series too. Now? You get to choose HBO, Netflix, or Amazon. All three have a better chance at fucking up an IP than doing right by them at this point.
I think small(er) studio gaming is at a really good place where they can punch above their weight right now.
Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I think there's a better chance of us getting a pleasant surprise from a video game than a TV show now.
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.
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.
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!
As I recall Brandon Sanderson plays a lot of games, especially tabletop ones, so this would make a lot of sense.
His writing group all but started as a DnD campaign.
Never heard of it before though I'm interested in adaptations of books but that's more in hopes of ones I like getting something
Just FYI, the series devolves into Mormon propaganda in the first trilogy. I wasn't sure why the third book felt so off until I saw that Sanderson went to Brigham Young University. I also talked to an ex-Mormon friend of mine, and he apparently noped out halfway through the first book when he saw the signs
I just finished the first era of mistborn. I know nothing about Mormons, how does Mormon propoganda fit into those books?
I didn't notice anything in the first book, my ex-Mormon friend did; and I think it was more to do with the writing style.
In the third book, it got more pronounced. I only know broad strokes about Mormonism so it's hard to put a finger on more than a couple of details. That being said, the two spirits merging together to destroy/remake the world plays into some Mormon beliefs and plays into their focus on being doomsday preppers. Plus, the whole pivot to the main character handing the book to Sazed at the end to spread its teachings was a huge nod to John Smith allegedly finding the Book of Mormon and starting the church.
Those things are what caused me to do a bit of digging on Sanderson and finding out he went to Brigham Young University (and I just found out he teaches there too). Brigham Young is well known for being a Mormon University, since it's named after the religion's 2nd leader (and iirc he was also the guy that pushed the church to go poligamist)
I bet I wouldn't have even noticed on my own, I liked battlefield earth till I saw videos pointing out the problems
Which, mistborn? How's that?
I know it because its the reason jordans wife chose him to complete the wheel of time series. Never read it myself but it would be on the list if I start reading a lot again which I thought was unlikely two decades ago but with enshitification I am moving to less and less tech.
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.
ill never forgive his homophobic bigotry and defense of the LDS church. i realize he tried to reform, but i believe he did it for sales. Dude is toxic, regardless of his capitalist reforms
Bro lost me on the first "secret project" book deal. A crowd funded campaign to release like 4 books that "will never be on audible or kindle" as this big stance against the audible/kindle monopoly.
He pulled in $43 million.
What did he do? Put the books up on audible and kindle less than 6 months later with a half assed social media post about how he "won" better conditions for VAs and bigger cuts for authors.
What a crock of shit. Here comes the fattest grifter of the LDS church, again, to fuck up yet another media format with his horseshit.
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