Having watched and been profoundly unsettled by Squid Game, I felt some surprise upon seeing the reveal of Squid Game: Unleashed earlier this month. The new video game adaptation from Boss Fight at Netflix Games repurposes the show’s brutal games into madcap multiplayer experiences. There’s still gore, but it’s cartoonish. And dissimilar to the characters of Squid Game, death is not the end for any of these participants. You can keep on trying over and over until you perfect these not-so-deadly virtual versions of the originally-quite-deadly games.
From Squid Game: Unleashed to the upcoming Call of Duty crossover with Squid Game, and even the real-life recreation of the concept seen in YouTuber Mr. Beast’s Squid Game, every single attempt at gamifying Squid Game arguably misses the point of the show. But this isn’t the first time that something like this has happened. Remember the similar brutality and social commentary of the
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