Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The CM Project

i.e. The new Crazed Machinations video game. I'm going back to traditional SRPG style game play on this one, but don't expect it to be exactly like Super Robot Wars...

Similarities to SRW: The theme, really(giant robots); separate pilot and unit stats; seishin(hot blood!!); multiple weapons; concept of upgrades

Differences from SRW: The stat system(low stats for a robot game); the battle flow - each unit is assigned a turn in a larger order, so it's not "move all your units and end your turn", it's "move this unit and let the next have its turn". However, it's not exactly the same as the aforementioned game; AP doesn't exist, instead, if you destroy an enemy unit on your turn, you get inserted halfway through the turn order instead of back at the end. That little idea came from the G Generation games.

Here is the story concept as of right now. Levels marked (addition) were subplots not originally present in the roleplay.

Stage 1: Avis' fight against a group of Thorn Beetles, after which he descends to Neo Tokyo
Stage 2: Seda's fight through an "unusually large" group of Zweist in order to meet up with the Daevas (addition)
Stage 3: Hayama and Natsumi's introduction; the Battle of Neo Tokyo
Stage 4: On the boat, Hayama and Natsumi investigating weird energy source (won't spoil it here ;)) (addition)
Stage 5: Ken arriving at the Schutz boat; there is a battle (addition)
Stage 6: The Battle of Manhattan's events
Stage 7: Sakura going renegade
Stage 8: The battle near the Great Wall of China
Stage 9: The battle where the Manly comes in (these two were separated)
Stage 10: The second - hueg - battle that the Daevas has; the Grim was there
Stage 11: Hayama's emo fite
Stage 12: Battling the Creator around the Manly
Stage 13: First part of the Battle of Blue Sky 3 - Preliminary up to Shard's appearance
Stage 14: Second part of the Battle of Blue Sky 3 - Shard's appearance to Zweist overrunning

For Part 2, there will be a few interlude chapters, after which you can choose the Schutz side or the Siberia side. After finishing one of the routes, you move onto the one or two chapter long subplot involving Syrus. Finally, you play the Vanguard's story. Eventually, they all meet up, and then the final battle vs Shard occurs.

Part 3 will be the final attack, but we haven't done that in the RP yet. XD

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