# Les Miserables: The fighting game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/les-miserables-the-fighting-game/318710>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 26, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/les-miserables-the-fighting-game/318710 "2005-08-26T09:26:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/les-miserables-the-fighting-game/318710/1 "2005-08-26T09:26:09Z")

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I ran across this and…Well, I can’t help but think somebody missed the point even more then the fight club video game, but other then that…

[http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=5176](http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=5176)

I like the book, I like the muscal, I’ve probably seem a good amount of the movies. I haven’t played this. I’m almost afraid to. The pictures and page seems like it’s enough.

And I just don’t know what to say, other then I think it can rightfully be nominated for “Most bizarre adaptation of a book”

And it’s rather hard for me to imagine Cosette going around beating the crap out of people.

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/les-miserables-the-fighting-game/318710/2 "2005-08-26T12:32:26Z")

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> [@HPL](#):
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> And I just don’t know what to say, other then I think it can rightfully be nominated for “Most bizarre adaptation of a book”

I before I saw that, I figured [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=312832) was the weirdest one. However, it doesn’t come close to your entry.  
Btw, I have mentioned that site before, but without linking. I wonder if the link will be removed. P.S. Please do not reply, or quote this.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/les-miserables-the-fighting-game/318710/3 "2005-08-26T19:30:08Z")

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My first thought was that it was most likely Japanese.

Maybe it’s the cross-cultural thing. Things have a tendency to get really warped when trying to import some superficial element from another culture, whereas with stuff from one’s own culture, a sense of what’s acceptable & what’s “wrong” tends to kick in, if not with the designer, then with the developer or distributor, or at least the customer.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/les-miserables-the-fighting-game/318710/4 "2005-08-26T22:34:29Z")

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> [@HPL](#):
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> And it’s rather hard for me to imagine Cosette going around beating the crap out of people.

Yeah, but I can totally see Eponine doing it…