Design your own game

[SPARTAN 119]

Mirai Nikki: The Game
The basics of gameplay were covered in my last post, so I won't repeat it, but basically, yeah, a sort of GTA style open world game where the player much hunt down the other diary holders (which may include the canon cast and some other characters that will get diaries in this AU).

Weapons and Vehicles
Like in most sandbox games, there will be a wide variety (over 100) of weapons, both things that appeared in the anime and some other stuff just for the game. Most character will be able to use any weapon (except for Reisuke who can't use heavy weapons such as rocket launchers, squad automatic weapons, chainsaws etc). Some characters will have skills that make certain weapon classes more effective in their hands. Vehicles will be more restricted, for instance, any character can drive a ground vehicle (except Reisuke, again), though underage characters (Yuno, Yuki etc) will gain a level 1 wanted level if seen driving by police. Aircraft such as planes and helicopters will (at least on higher difficulties) will only be flyable by a few characters that know how (none in canon, but in the game, I was thinking Keigo, John, and maybe Minene will be able to). Some vehicles such Humvees, APCs, tanks, attack helicopters, jet fighters etc will have weapons equipped, but these will be rare and heavily guarded. Also, guns and explosives will be somewhat rarer as this is Japan, requiring the player to steal from police or military base, or else buy for illegal arms dealers (Unless they start with one).

Playable Characters and Abilities/Weaknesses:

List of characters, and how the power of their "Future Diary" manifests itself in the game. Also, how difficult they are to play as.

Spoiler for Saving space:

Yukiteru Amano:
Easily Allies with Yuno Gasai
Coward: Close combat skill increases more slowly
Random Diary: Randomly locates weapons, shortcuts, or diary holders nearby.
Overall Difficulty: Moderate


Yuno Gasai:
Easily allies self with Yukiteru Amano
Damage and attack speed bonus with bladed weapons
Yukiteru Diary: Track Yukiteru Amano's movements on the mini-map and see his health bar and other status
Overall Difficulty: Moderate

Takao Hayama:
Attack Bonus with bladed weapons
Starts with Bulletproof Coat
Wanted Criminal: Automatically reach Wanted Level 1 if seen by police
Murder Diary: Detect nearby targets, including both diary owners and bystanders.
Overall Difficulty: Moderate-Hard

Keigo Kurusu:
Accuracy bonus with firearms
Has access to police gun locker
Officer-Involved Shooting: No wanted level if shoots AFTER attacked by a non-police/military (including diary owners)
Can fly helicopters
Investigation Diary: Shows the location of criminals (but does not distinguish diary owners from others)
Overall Difficulty: Easy

Reisuke Houjou:
Skilled at constructing traps
Damage bonus for any trap-type weapon
Lost Child: Will be returned home if seen wandering streets by police (unless blending into crowd)
Small Size: Can enter openings others can't, but cannot use vehicles or heavy weapons.
Hyper Vision Diary: Reveals the location of a diary owner, but only three times a day.
Overall Difficulty: Hard

Tsubaki Kasugano:
Cult Leader: Can "hotswap" between followers, allowing the player to control them
Visually Impaired: Objects further than five meters away will appear blurry when player is controlling her directly.
Clairvoyance Diary: Locates diary owners, other enemies, and weapons near her followers
Overall Difficulty: Moderate-Hard

Marco Ikusaba/Ai Mikami
Lover's Diary: Switch between Marco and Ai, and can locate the other at any time.
Marco: Attack Bonus in unarmed combat or blunt weapons
Ai: Damage and range bonus with throwing weapons
Overall Difficulty: Moderate

Kamado Ueshita:
Blog Diary: Create and reads "Apprentice Diary Owners". Also allows player to swap between Kamado's orphans, all of whom have different ability sets
Poor in direct combat
Overall Difficulty: Hard

Minene Uryuu:
Escape Diary: Shows the most efficient means to escape a pursuers line of sight as an arrow on the screen.
Explosives Expert: Blast radius and damage bonus with explosives
Starts with various explosive devices
Regular Customer: Discount at illegal arms dealers
Can fly helicopters and aircraft
Wanted Terrorist: Being sighted by police automatically leads to level one wanted level.
Overall Difficulty: Moderate

Karyuudo Tsukishima:
Breeder's Diary: Can control his pack of attack dogs and detect enemies near them
Weak in Direct Combat
Overall Difficulty: Moderate-Hard

John Balks:
Watcher Diary: Locate other Future Diary owners
Authority: Police will assist him unless he kills one of their number or a civilian, Police will ignore crimes less than murder.
Has access to firearms in his base of operations
Can fly helicopters and aircraft
Overall Difficulty: Easy

Yomutsu Hirasaka:
Justice Diary: Shows locations where crimes were committed
Highest Agility and fastest running speed, able to free run
Blast radius bonus with explosives (smaller than Minene's)
Blind: In game, an object will not appear on screen unless A: its is a fixed object like a building (Yomutsu will be assumed to know his way around town) B: the character makes physical contact with it. or C: It makes a sound.
Overall Difficulty: Hard

More details on this and other games to be added later.

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by EroBotan

Will be nice to see this game become reality! I actually has similar idea but mine is more simple since it only focused on the player's kingdom. The date-able characters are the kingdom's citizens (the generals, ministers, inn waitress, princess, etc) instead of princessess from another kingdom. There is no love affairs management either ^^;

Wouldn't that just make it another fantasy VN game?

Anyway, how's the development on your Yuri game?

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

So here's my idea for a game.

It's a RTT like Total War meets Hack and slash action like Dynasty Warriors with political intrigue of Crusader Kings. With some Dating sim added in.

You select a character who is task to end a brutal war that has plagued an Empire after it's Emperor died. You character most build armies to help him in his quest, towns and buildings to finance and feed your army, gain combat skills and form alliances with other factions.

A unique feature of this game will be it's relationship system. The player can marry and have more than one wife from many of the different factions which has advantages as each girl posses unique skills the player might need in his quest. (eg. one girl might be a skilled warrior who can join you in battle, another has her country's special troops join your army, or a girl's country can produce twice as much food than the others etc)

However getting their hand in marriage isn't simple as you have to prove it in many ways like helping a country defeat a troll menace to getting an important quest item.

Even after your MC has married, you still have to keep good relations with your wives as they might be unhappy if you did certain things they might not approve. (eg. Not helping your wife's country, not spending time with her, marrying a princess from another faction which one of your wives has a grudge against. etc)


So what do you think?

Maybe adding King Arthur's CYOA style for the quests and such would help as well.

Hmmm.. If you want to make it like a CK2 and TW together. The main appeal of those games are not only the gameplay, but also because they are both sandbox games where you can do whatever you want. Like I'm playing EU4 and France expands all the way to Russia, that was fun to watch but frustrating to fight against. CK2 had a really strange political intrigue to it. Don't know, just feels like with your additions it would feel more forced and take away from the initial appeal of them. Still does sound interesting though if it was an RPG.

I like what you're combining though. I personally would've chosen Europa Universalis 4's map gameplay, combined with Medieval 2 Total War's battle gameplay, and synergize that with Mount & Blade: Warband's character control. With a bit of tweaking to the actual M&B fighting to graphically feel more realistic. Dynasty Warrior general fighting would feel epic though. As you expand through the histories, you would eventually have Napoleon: Total War's battle system.

[EroBotan]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Wouldn't that just make it another fantasy VN game?

Anyway, how's the development on your Yuri game?

It's not a VN, it's side scrolling game ^^

the yuri game is still in progress slowly since i need to do commission works first ^^

[demino_hellsin]

A design of a Persona game that I thought of.

Generally it still follows the systems used in persona 3 and 4 and pursues a world which is similar as it involves shadows. The story might seem similar to 4 but that's because I haven't finished it and might be projecting much of my own speculation on the story.

Spoiler for Story:

The story starts when you moves to tokyo from the countryside. you've just graduated highschool but rather than be jubilant, you're quite blank about it. Signifying this is the blank future plans and occupation survey form from your highschool. You moving in to the city so as to work out what it is you really want.

You fall asleep inside the train and dream that you were a butterfly. And in that dream, you see yourself but wake-up violently as marks appear on your skin and suddenly you burst into many butterflies.

You find yourself in the poorer part of Tokyo, renting a rundown apartment and begin to interact with the locals. You settle in for a week, but realize that there's something wrong on the second. One of them seems to have disappeared. You ask around but no one remembers them. You decide to investigate as they were one of the first to welcome you. A few days later and you realize that the person has disappeared completely from people's memory. Even pictures taken with others stir no memories in anyone except yourself.

You question your grip on reality and realize your have your own problems to deal with. You decide to put back the things you had taken as evidence from that person's house so you can move on. That night, you go to that person's house, but realize you aren't alone. Someone, or something has their eyes on you.

The clock strikes midnight and the house begins to fall apart, it falls apart then reforms. At least the interior does. You don't understand what's going on and the picture is still in your hands. The changes stop and you realize that the space around you is nothing like it was before. It feels like you were transported to an alien world.

That feeling of not being alone shows itself to be true. Creatures of goop with masks begin to form and attack you. They envelop you and you scream out loud, a long and piercing note. And then you realize it's morning. You're lying on the floor of the missing person's house and voices chime in your mind.

I am thou, and thou art I. You have faced yourself and realized a path you may take.

You don't understand, but you feel as if you'd gone through an intense ordeal. The picture in your hand has a friend that you've just met but lost immediately. You don't understand, that's why you resolve once more to solve this case.

Spoiler for Combat system:

Likely to be updated
It still features the same turn based combat that persona 3 and 4 have. Commands:

-Attack
-Guard
-Persona
-Skill
-Item
-Talk

will exist in game. Though it's labelled as talk, it's not to the enemy but instead amongst your allies. No direct commands can be given, only general patterns. However there is a special command known as a favor. By using this command, you can directly call for one action on one turn from that ally. Special joint abilities can be activated this way. The problem with using favors is that it will deduct 1 free time from your daily life outside of battle when they decide to call in that favor.

Spoiler for personas:

Personas are unique in respect to the other series that each character has a fixed set of personas. It's also separate from personas 3 and 4 by allowing other allies to hold more than 1 persona. However each character is locked to their own arcana and only have 1 persona for each arcana. These personas can be raised to increase their longevity and use throughout the game.

Spoiler for Social links:

Another odd aspect of the game is the social links. You don't hold all the arcana but instead just more than everyone else. For other arcanas, since other characters hold their persona and not you, you have to engage in events that will allow your allies to progress in that social link. Increasing social links can unlock more abilities for each persona, move status caps and eventually lead them to a liberation into a higher form.

Spoiler for Persona Raising:

Persona raising is done with more than just fighting shadows and gaining experience or leveling social links. The recall system of persona 4 makes a return. By reminiscing with social links that have already been mastered, the persona of that arcana can have its skills rearranged once more by recalling one skill for another.

Ofcourse, the velvet room also makes a return, but surprisingly it won't be Igor who is in the room. Instead, it will be Elizabeth. She offers you 2 services. The first of which is the storage of excess personas. You can only hold up to 3 at a time. The second is to add additional stats to your persona in exchange of the minor arcana card system.

Spoiler for Daily life:

Daily life will be completely blank at the start. You have to look for jobs that will give you income to survive the month's rent. Prep school for the entrance exams and whatnot.

You'll meet many characters, most of which are for the sake of social links. But in addition to social links, you may just make allies out of them as well. Hidden throughout the people are other persona users. You have reach a certain level of friendship with them before they admit it and help you on your investigation.

Daily life parameters such as Knowledge, courage, and charisma will still be present and can be improved with the various day to day activities you do.

Your apartment will become the central hub for what you can do. You can move into bigger/better apartments will eventually lead to a greater variety of activities and their effects on your parameters. Ofcourse that also means greater rent.

Spoiler for Dungeons:

In this Persona, the dungeons are the people themselves. When people disappear, they first have marks appear on their skin, like those of a map with routes scribbled all over them. Then their core disappears and they fall apart. This is the universe of the multiple personas that compose them, fragments from the sea of unconscious. Losing the core persona that holds them all together scatters them about and the unrestrained emotions eventually turn into shadows.

The dungeons are actually the shadows of the disappeared person before they completely disperse. These people can still be restored if the core persona has yet to be completely severed from these other emotions.

Exploring the dungeons is usually done by the protagonist alone. Unlike traditional RPGs, the allies in the game are quite fickle. Other persona users will ally with you depending on the story and their interest in the case of the specific disappeared person. Others will join you when you recruit them after raising their social links but only depending on their availability on that day (Contemplating a favor system to circumvent this).

[MrTerrorist]

^Intriguing. I wonder how Persona 5 will look?