Ah, if only. British illustrator Andrew Scaife has posted a selection of images showing scenes from Joss Whedon’s cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer re-imagined as part of a classic Lucasarts adventure game.
As a full-on nerd, this fills me with a sense of nostalgia for both the show and the glory years of Lucasarts. Now all we need is Telltale to add Buffy to the gazillion different licenses they’re currently working on. We can dream.
You can’t tell me that the Gentlemen in particular wouldn’t make some great video game villains.
”This was a lot of fun to do,” writes Scaife on his website. ”Particularly in thinking about which scenes to draw and also realising just how suitable the Buffy stories are to this type of game. There are so many objects and puzzles to solve. It made me think it would be a good writing exercise to take your story and see if it would fit into this type of game. If it can’t then I suspect it’s probably lacking a little narrative propulsion.”
