9) Final Fantasy
By now, the Final Fantasy games are the gaming equivalent of soap operas and musicals, with enough lavish fashion and garish excess that even Hedonismbot would consider it overkill. If you think that’s not true, just go ahead and look back at the XIII trilogy. Yeah, exactly; it’s like someone at Square Enix let Baz Luhrmann be a designer for a week and no one had the guts to tell him “no” because they really liked Moulin Rouge.
In fact, that same excess and overkill is exactly what would make Final Fantasy a shoe-in for the stage. Maybe not quite as much as, say, Great Gatsby, but perhaps something more in line with Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, or The Get Down. A love story, references to mythological deities and impeccable fashion, but all with an FF twist. And also be sure to include the goofy stuff in there at some point, like the selfies and the Chocobos. All the selfies.
