meatwad
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I've always felt the Friday the 13th game for the NES is a bit of a diamond in the rough. It has a lot of problems but there are some damn good ideas at the core of its gameplay. Maybe with some more polish it would be a bit more well regarded now. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is... a lot more rough around the edges. Don't get me wrong, I love everything that takes place in NYC but that's only about 1/4 of the movie. Everything that leads up to that brief shining sequence is kind of a slog at times. And the ending is a mess. Oh lordy, the ending is a mess. Still, I love the stuff in NYC. The cynicism, the apathy, the rooftop boxing. Everything. It just needed a real budget so they could spend more than 20 minutes in the setting the movie has in its title.
So, I've had some ideas rattling around the ol' mind grapes and decided to try and see if I can take some of the core ideas of the Friday NES game, the setting of Part VIII and use NESmaker to see if I can put together a game that actually works. Basically, I'm thinking of trying to put together an homage to the original NES game with all new characters inspired by those in the Friday movies and all set in an 80's cynical dystopic take on NYC. I'm talking an undead slasher chasing characters at random throughout the city, dirty cops, violent druggies and gang members, and sewer mutants. 'Cause, you gotta have your sewer mutants, baby. What do you think happens to all the bums living underground when NYC dumps toxic waste through the sewer system at midnight every night? Sewer mutants.
Right now I'm thinking of using the Metroidvania module as the starting point and trying to create a sort of open world survival horror game with some elements of a Souls game. I'm wanting it to be methodical, difficult, few chances to heal, and only a few lives/characters to get you through the entire game. Yeah, that sounds like it could be a mess but I'm gonna try and see if this is something worth chasing down.
So, I've had some ideas rattling around the ol' mind grapes and decided to try and see if I can take some of the core ideas of the Friday NES game, the setting of Part VIII and use NESmaker to see if I can put together a game that actually works. Basically, I'm thinking of trying to put together an homage to the original NES game with all new characters inspired by those in the Friday movies and all set in an 80's cynical dystopic take on NYC. I'm talking an undead slasher chasing characters at random throughout the city, dirty cops, violent druggies and gang members, and sewer mutants. 'Cause, you gotta have your sewer mutants, baby. What do you think happens to all the bums living underground when NYC dumps toxic waste through the sewer system at midnight every night? Sewer mutants.
Right now I'm thinking of using the Metroidvania module as the starting point and trying to create a sort of open world survival horror game with some elements of a Souls game. I'm wanting it to be methodical, difficult, few chances to heal, and only a few lives/characters to get you through the entire game. Yeah, that sounds like it could be a mess but I'm gonna try and see if this is something worth chasing down.