Having read the Eragon book and watched the movie, I can say that I agree with the critic’s frustration of failure to enhance and expand a rich storytelling opportunity. Inheritance, the final book in the Inheritance Cycle, was published in 2011, ending the franchise’s momentum to date. With the failure of the movie, video game and related online games, the Eragon franchise passed on opportunities for action figures, book spin-offs, and additional movies. The combat is repetitive, the presentation is dull and lifeless, and the entire game suffers from an apparent lack of effort.” It feels like an unfinished game that was rushed through to release in time for the movie to appear in theaters. “Both as an action adventure game, and a licensed work, Eragon comes across as substandard in just about every way imaginable. The game provided a platform to expand the world of Alagaesia and introduce players to come inside the game and live their own Eragon story. In the same way, a game was developed soon after the Eragon book gained success. The movie’s failure can be attributed to a host of reasons, including rushed production and subpar story development, but most critics agree that Eragon missed the opportunity to create a new world inspired by the characters and setting held in the books it didn’t live up to the promise of expansion that the original book offered.
While the Eragon book received critical praise and was awarded the 2006 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award, a Nene Award, and the Young Readers Choice Award, the Eragon movie was panned as being a poor copy of bigger, more successful transmedia franchises. with its success, an Eragon feature film and video game were developed in 2006. Eragon was published in 2003, and has been compared to The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars in style and imagination. The “hero’s journey” archetype is played out with danger, magic, and suspense building at every turn. Shaphira the dragon hatches from the mysterious egg and Eragon becomes her rider.
The story is set in a fictional world called Alagaesia, where a young boy named Eragon discovers a dragon egg. Eragon is the first book of the Inheritance Cycle a four-book collecion written by Christopher Paolini, a 15 year old author from Montana.
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