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So it's not that I don't know this game (because I really enjoyed it back when I was 10) but it's on the tip of my tongue and unfortunately both Google and AI had failed me so it seems it might have been quite niche. But basically you're playing the role of a young man who is disregarded in his village as a 'pig farmer' and gradually as you travel the world, you become a hero but you are still disregarded in your village. Along your trip you can kill ducks, pigs, little girls but also giant bugs, dinosaurs or dragons.

There was this movie that I saw in the late 90s with a guy who loses his hand in a car accident. I think he was waving at a truck or something. Then he starts having visions of his severed hand acting on its own. That's all I remember as I was a child and my mom sent me to bed. Does anyone recognize this movie? Thank you in advance.

So I remember that in the 2000s a lot of the big block busters had games based on them: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Spider Man, the Incredible Hulk, The Matrix (albeit it followed the story from the sidelines)... hell... even 'The Italian Job' had a game adaptation. Some were really great, some were meh and some were even less so. But if there was a highly awaited movie had a game associated with it.

Now it's true that the approach had changed a bit - from banking on the craze with the upcoming movie - so the developers had to bring their originality to the story, to becoming a marketing ploy to eventually... well... disappearing. But I still don't get it. The 2010s had some great blockbusters and even in the 2020s, when the media is ran by hit-or-miss movies developed by streaming platforms, you could still make some great games based on some of them.

So what are your thoughts on what happened?

I was a huge fan of early installments by LucasArts, King's Quest series, Goblins or Legend of Kirandia. I never got into the episodic release style of Telltales. But I was wondering if there have been any new adventure games in that style... for some reason the genre is not advertized as often as other genre. Thank you in advance.