2009-12-09, 09:52 PM
Alright, so I got enlightened greatly today by TheSpaceBetween into the true canon history of kings field and the many characters that inhabit the game's universe.
I had up until now, used the knowledge that was readily available in the U.S. releases of the game, by documenting the truth glass history of every objects/npc/enemy and place in the games we had here. I used that knowledge to the best of my imaginative ability, combined with some stories that were available in several references in the US released strategy guides, martin's kings-field.neocities.org, and some fan made stories to piece together what I thought a solid chunk of lore to add to the series through my game.
It turns out that where ascii's translation wasnt left blank (a ton of it was left blank), it was also misleading.
This puts me in a bind. I love King's Field, i have spent over a year to make dark destiny adhere to the lore and history of the game so it would provide insight into things not explained in the king's field universe on the US shores. The game itself tells a very detailed story of many of the key characters in the series...and after my talk today I find that my background information needs major redrafting to be correct with canon information. pretty much to the point that my game's timeline is broken completely and makes no sense to anyone that reads the original information.
With that said, he thinks he could get me a copy of all the information he has by january...and i could attempt to salvage the game and attempt to make the story make sense, at least mostly.
So my question is this...seeing that my game is more or less done and ready to be played, should i delay it another month and try to make it correct, or make minor adjustments in an attempt to adhere to what we already know from the US KFs and assume that no one will be any the wiser?
I really need good input on what to do here...I am pretty bummed out right now.
I had up until now, used the knowledge that was readily available in the U.S. releases of the game, by documenting the truth glass history of every objects/npc/enemy and place in the games we had here. I used that knowledge to the best of my imaginative ability, combined with some stories that were available in several references in the US released strategy guides, martin's kings-field.neocities.org, and some fan made stories to piece together what I thought a solid chunk of lore to add to the series through my game.
It turns out that where ascii's translation wasnt left blank (a ton of it was left blank), it was also misleading.
This puts me in a bind. I love King's Field, i have spent over a year to make dark destiny adhere to the lore and history of the game so it would provide insight into things not explained in the king's field universe on the US shores. The game itself tells a very detailed story of many of the key characters in the series...and after my talk today I find that my background information needs major redrafting to be correct with canon information. pretty much to the point that my game's timeline is broken completely and makes no sense to anyone that reads the original information.
With that said, he thinks he could get me a copy of all the information he has by january...and i could attempt to salvage the game and attempt to make the story make sense, at least mostly.
So my question is this...seeing that my game is more or less done and ready to be played, should i delay it another month and try to make it correct, or make minor adjustments in an attempt to adhere to what we already know from the US KFs and assume that no one will be any the wiser?
I really need good input on what to do here...I am pretty bummed out right now.
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