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Other fantasy series? Well, it isn't perfect, but it is still on youtube, so it's at least available: six roughly half-hour episodes.
"Archer's Goon". The actor who plays the goon tries hard, as do the child actors, but they didn't have the budget for the special effects. At least the story is good. It's based on the YA novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
"Archer's Goon". The actor who plays the goon tries hard, as do the child actors, but they didn't have the budget for the special effects. At least the story is good. It's based on the YA novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
You probably wouldn't like Berserk, then. If Game of Thrones is at 10 of the dark fantasy dial, Berserk turns it up to 11. It says a lot about the series when an undead knight in skeletal armour is actually one of the good guys. That being said, for all the fact that it is VERY horrifically violent, with horrific dismemberments and deaths and even rapes happening within the series on a disturbingly regular basis, there is still an excellent story beneath it.
Hell, the main character Guts is basically a much darker and more brutally pragmatic Vimes as a mercenary, when I think about it. You know at the end of Thud! how Vimes goes berserk, attacking dwarves while reading out segments of Where's My Cow? I used to think the most suitable piece of music for that was Betrayal from Silent Hill 2, which is still an excellent piece of music. But...well, watch this scene from the most recent adaptation of Berserk, listen to the music, and tell me if Ash Crow doesn't suit Vimes going berserk just as much as it suits Guts...
Hell, the main character Guts is basically a much darker and more brutally pragmatic Vimes as a mercenary, when I think about it. You know at the end of Thud! how Vimes goes berserk, attacking dwarves while reading out segments of Where's My Cow? I used to think the most suitable piece of music for that was Betrayal from Silent Hill 2, which is still an excellent piece of music. But...well, watch this scene from the most recent adaptation of Berserk, listen to the music, and tell me if Ash Crow doesn't suit Vimes going berserk just as much as it suits Guts...
Pip, I tried playing the second "Witcher" game, but wasn't a fan. 
I understand they were recreating the "feel" of a medieval world (e.g. muddy villages, muddy army camps etc.), and I appreciate that. But the entire game passed by without a trace of humour, so ... meh.
I understand they were recreating the "feel" of a medieval world (e.g. muddy villages, muddy army camps etc.), and I appreciate that. But the entire game passed by without a trace of humour, so ... meh.
The books were first (originally in Polish, but they have been translated to English), and the video games were based on the books - although set in the same world after the events of the books (I think). The games were popular enough that a TV show was developed, but Season 1 is based on the contents of the first book (which is a set of vaguely connected short stories - which does seem to be like the TV show).
Note that my knowledge of this is simply by reading articles. I've not read the books nor played the games, just seen the Netflix TV show.
Note that my knowledge of this is simply by reading articles. I've not read the books nor played the games, just seen the Netflix TV show.