You play an elite super-soldier, trained by a dystopian government that you spend the entire game betraying and fighting against. Technically, it's an action game, but it's a smart action game. You have to decide which weapons you will bring with you on each mission (of those you can afford). You can either sneak through missions or blast your way through them. And because what you bring with you is limited, you have to figure out how to conserve your ammo or find some more during the mission.
And the story is just cool. The government you served betrayed you, but the resistance you join in the beginning doesn't like you much either. So you have to prove yourself to them by undertaking increasingly dangerous missions. And then, of course, there's secret dystopian weapons projects, double agents, betrayal, and even a full-on dark night of the soul before you have to decide to get off your butt and save the world.
2. A successor to Chrono Trigger. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a fan of JRPGs (technically, I'm a fan of all RPGs, but JRPGs comprised most of my childhood, so...). And Chrono Trigger was probably the best. It had everything I loved about Final Fantasy (I), Crystalis, and Secret of Mana plus: time travel.And not just time travel -- where you go to different eras the same way you take your airship to different islands -- but time travel that mattered. Plant a seed in the past, collect magic fruit in the future. Tell your robot companion to spend the next four hundred years restoring a forest, then travel forward to see the results. All the while trying to stop a giant alien parasite that crashed to Earth millions of years ago, awoke in 1999, and created a post-apocalyptic world for the remainder of time.
Or not. Cuz, you know, you can change things.
3. The reanimation of Tony Jay. Or, you know, at least his voice.
Obviously I'm not thinking about this very hard, because this is all nostalgia, but what would you Kickstart?
Ah Tony Jay. I wasn't aware of him until you mentioned it, but looking at your old post I recognize a lot of his work.
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ReplyDeleteI only played Chrono Cross...
ReplyDeleteI backed The Iron Fey manga. I'm a huge fan of Julie Kagawa and anime. It's a beautiful combo
I'd like two seasons' worth of Battlestar Galactica, to correct what SyFy did in closing it down too early.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Crusader sounds great, and I see it won Game of the Year, but my first reaction is wondering about how well he's going to do sneaking around in that flaming red outfit. Is that ever explained?
I'd throw serious money at Firefly. Someone needs to kidnap Joss Whedon and hypnotize him to forget all his other projects.
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