There are nearly countless commentators who say that book
versions are better than movie versions and movie versions are better than the
game versions. There is, it seems, a hierarchy of media supremacy that ranks
the oldest media as the "best". It has to do with faithfulness to the
source material, it seems. "The book is better". It's a common mantra
of criticism that along with "the book has more details", "the
book has better character development", and " the movie is not
faithful to the book" seem to form a mantra of adaptation commentary.
Instead of repeating it, let me instead posit that the value of adaptations
should not be measured on how accurately it follows the original, but on how
well it uses the native elements unique to its given form of media.
