| pokoko said: In the case of Shannara, attractive, "young" looking characters make all the sense in the world. Lots of Elven characters and human characters with Elven blood. If I remember right, some Elven blood is required to use the relics of Shannara (and thus be a protagonist). Shannara is very LOTR. Pretty much every early book is about the protagonist and his party undertaking a quest to do something to stop evil while the demon host, which is trying to re-enter the world from another dimension, attempts to stop them. The books are held together by Allanon, a mysterious druid who appears when things are bad, very like Gandalf. The inspiration in the first novel is obvious, though the series does come into its own in later books. People should keep in mind that these were written in a time when popular "fantasy" basically followed a standard formula of good versus evil. A Game of Thrones, which I read about the time it came out, pretty much breathed new life into the genre. There were other books that were gritty but you had to go to science fiction if you wanted unpredictable. The Thomas Covenant novels were about the only thing that was really out of left field and they were never going to be mainstream, not when the main character rapes is a leper who believes the fantasy world he finds himself in is nothing but a delusion. |
If that is how it goes, then sounds great. As long as it has well-thought humor, no much melo-drama, and Twilight romance I think it will be ok. :)
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
