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it's not even just "the game is better" it's that you *can't even understand the good parts of the show* without the game. the game is load-bearing here. but they made it load-bearing AND they removed a ton of the interesting bits that made the themes really emotionally impactful, and every time they want to bring one of them back in, they just kind of quickly glance in the direction of a plot beat from the games and say "and you remember that happened, right? we don't need to do that again?"