#ring game

As the names suggest, Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen and its sequel Ring II: Twilight of the Gods are based on the Richard Wagner operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen, which draws from some characters of Germanic/Norse legend.

Just, you know, sci-fi.

Putting aside that there may be (probably are) issues with considering the mythological figures and their Wagnerian counterparts the same, the genre shift by itself isn't necessarily so much of a departure that I'm not willing to extend that same consideration to these characters.

Combined with what I've read of some of the changes, though, that becomes a little harder for me to sign off on. Like apparently Brünnhilde/Brunhild is Siegmund/Siegfried's half-sister in the game, which from my (extremely limited) understanding of the operas is almost certainly not the case.

So push comes to shove, I'm counting the game characters as separate characters. But if you're willing to be more lenient, well,