Need opinions for a possible future VN i might develop.

[Crazyboy 12]

This is just an idea for now, but i would like to hear you opinion about it and if you would like to play it.

 

I'm thinking of making a VN with gameplay, the VN will be about a guy who need to go to different worlds to save or destroy them, it will be your choice.

 

For each world you will be able to select 2 routes, 1 evil and 1 good.

Each route will basically be a girl route, for now i have idea for 2 worlds.

1 world will be a typical rpg world, the human against demon kind, if you decide to help human you will have to defeat demon and save the world and you would enter the human princess route.

If you decide to join the demon route you will have to destroy the world and you would enter the demon queen route.

 

Second world would be a shmup world and will be aliens against human.

 

You will have a choice during the prologue to not care about going to any other world and stay in your world, that make you go through the childhood friend route, this route would be pure VN and no gameplay.

A VN can't be a VN without a childhood friend route

 

If i do make that VN, at the minimum i want to have 3 worlds for a total of 7 routes minimum, i actually would like 5 worlds though.

Each route would be average 5 hours long without counting gameplay times.

 

I realize not everyone would like to spend lot of times on gameplay or they wouldn't like some genre of gameplay, so i would make an instant win option.

 

So what do you guys think about that?

 

 

Edit: I forgot to say that i have intention to make each world have their own genre of gameplay, so if i make 3 world it will be 3 different kind of gameplay, if i make 5 it will be 5 kind of gameplay.

Edited June 20, 2015 by Crazyboy

[Pasa 278]

Gameplay and evil route is always nice, I would give it a try.

[Otaku-Sama 10]

Sounds good. I would try it.

... but I think it would be kinda frustrating if I had to be bad or good in order to get a certain girl. I would prefer if you could go for any of the heroines, but the ending changes depending on your alignment... also, adding a neutral alignment also would be good, but that is just my humble opinion.

[Maoh 13]

And, there should be some kind of "wraping up" at the end where every ending you took decides what happens at the end, so there will be actually an end to the story rather than a lot of little stories that have nothing to do with each other.

end.

[Crazyboy 12]

Sounds good. I would try it.

... but I think it would be kinda frustrating if I had to be bad or good in order to get a certain girl. I would prefer if you could go for any of the heroines, but the ending changes depending on your alignment... also, adding a neutral alignment also would be good, but that is just my humble opinion.

 

I'm not sure i understand what you mean with the alignment.

 

And, there should be some kind of "wraping up" at the end where every ending you took decides what happens at the end, so there will be actually an end to the story rather than a lot of little stories that have nothing to do with each other.

end.

 

Isn't that normal though for VN to have little stories that have nothing to do with each other?

 

Usually once you enter a girl route in a VN, most of the times that route have nothing to do with each other.

Like for example in a girl route that girl might have a terrible disease, but when you are on another route that girl stay healthy.

Edited June 20, 2015 by Crazyboy

[Otaku-Sama 10]

I'm not sure i understand what you mean with the alignment.

Sorry, I tend to use that term for that kind of thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

 

Basically, I was talking about that the you could get a different ending if you are good or evil, for each heroine.

For example: You are good, but you decide to go with the demons. That should give you a different ending than going with the demons if you were evil. Like... an ending with a demon queen ruling at her side, destroying humanity (evil ending with the demons) or you could convince her to stop the war and achieve a peaceful era (good ending with the demons), etc etc... and an harem ending if you are neutral? Who knows. All depends of what do you want to do and how far do you want to branch the game.

I can't give you more concrete examples without more info, but that is more or less what I meant. I hope you find it useful.

Edited June 20, 2015 by Otaku-Sama

[Maoh 13]

Isn't that normal though for VN to have little stories that have nothing to do with each other?

 

Usually once you enter a girl route in a VN, most of the times that route have nothing to do with each other.

Like for example in a girl route that girl might have a terrible disease, but when you are on another route that girl stay healthy.

 

Yeah i know, but you made it sound like once you finish some world you'll have to start from zero on the next one, so there won't be a solid story with a start and a ending but a lot of little stories that don't share neither a starting point or anything of the sort.

Since there's a big main story (the reason why the guy is moving between worlds) you should actually elaborate it sooner or later.

[Crazyboy 12]

Sorry, I tend to use that term for that kind of thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

 

Basically, I was talking about that the you could get a different ending if you are good or evil, for each heroine.

For example: You are good, but you decide to go with the demons. That should give you a different ending than going with the demons if you were evil. Like... an ending with a demon queen ruling at her side, destroying humanity (evil ending with the demons) or you could convince her to stop the war and achieve a peaceful era (good ending with the demons), etc etc... and an harem ending if you are neutral? Who knows. All depends of what do you want to do and how far do you want to branch the game.

I can't give you more concrete examples without more info, but that is more or less what I meant. I hope you find it useful.

 

No, it will either be good of evil.

Sorry, but i don't want the All ending happily kind of crap.

 

Yeah i know, but you made it sound like once you finish some world you'll have to start from zero on the next one, so there won't be a solid story with a start and a ending but a lot of little stories that don't share neither a starting point or anything of the sort.

Since there's a big main story (the reason why the guy is moving between worlds) you should actually elaborate it sooner or later.

 

The guy won't be moving between each world.

Basically going to one world is like entering a route and that route branch into 2 routes.

Once you finish 1 route you reset and restart like in an usual VN and then go for a different route.

Why the guy need to go to a different world would be explained during the prologue.

In the prologue, you would learn about the guy and why he need to go to a different a world, you will also learn about each world and his childhood friend.

 

After that once you enter a world you will have a common route to help you learn more about both girls of that world and choose which side you want to help.

 

It won't be just choose a world and choose which side you want to help.