I saw the new Uncharted film trailer today and, quite frankly, I am unsettled. Not because Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg do not fit their characters whatsoever or because it looks like a terrible movie all around. In fact, I never much cared for the original games to begin with. I am unsettled because of this strange, symbiotic relationship between two mediums that is now apparent to me. Uncharted was created to riff on the Indiana Jones film franchise and really popularized heavy film elements in video games. Prolonged cutscenes, a real care for the cinematography, and top-notch performances to name a few. They also have very "movie-like" writing with quippy characters, fun action set-pieces, and countless tropes. Naughty Dog essentially set the stage for modern-day "cinematic" games and owe a lot to preexisting films and media that gave them the inspiration to meld those various elements with standard gameplay. They made their name through imitati