2013-03-28, 10:19 PM
Frostbite & Firebrand kind of remind me of Vampire Hunter D's sword. But not quite.
I have a feeling that it would be interesting if the third trilogy (long ways away I know, unless they are worked on in parallel at some point) protagonist, first game, a half-demon, somehow begins the game with both of these in his possession. I think this would be then KF's Alucard moment, so you'd have these two magical swords from the get go, but due to the weakened influence of magic in the world they might not be so powerful, but could grow in power as the player learns to wield magic against the rules of the world.
First of all. Being a half-demon would be interesting, in that you can do super human moves. Have a much more impressive jump just for instance. A normal jump, much less wearing armoring, is not all that impressive.
And having two swords would make the character stand out, as being more like Edge in Final Fantasy IV. Kind of like an ambidextrous ninja,. And since the swords are single sided blades, it would be an interesting opportunity to introduce non-violent gameplay, so that somehow the player could use the backsides of the swords to knock targets out without killing them. Like you see in a lot of stealth games nowadays. Plus the PC could have vampire like abilities to put people to sleep by attacking at very close range from behind or something (I am not sure how you'd work these into the controls without extra buttons to the side, but maybe if the character never used shields, these special abilities could just use the shield controls)
Many of your opponents would be robots (other weapons available would be sci-fi things for the most part too) so even being such a formidable character, you'd still have a very difficult time at times. Other times it might be fun to just role play an unmatched character.
I have a feeling that it would be interesting if the third trilogy (long ways away I know, unless they are worked on in parallel at some point) protagonist, first game, a half-demon, somehow begins the game with both of these in his possession. I think this would be then KF's Alucard moment, so you'd have these two magical swords from the get go, but due to the weakened influence of magic in the world they might not be so powerful, but could grow in power as the player learns to wield magic against the rules of the world.
First of all. Being a half-demon would be interesting, in that you can do super human moves. Have a much more impressive jump just for instance. A normal jump, much less wearing armoring, is not all that impressive.
And having two swords would make the character stand out, as being more like Edge in Final Fantasy IV. Kind of like an ambidextrous ninja,. And since the swords are single sided blades, it would be an interesting opportunity to introduce non-violent gameplay, so that somehow the player could use the backsides of the swords to knock targets out without killing them. Like you see in a lot of stealth games nowadays. Plus the PC could have vampire like abilities to put people to sleep by attacking at very close range from behind or something (I am not sure how you'd work these into the controls without extra buttons to the side, but maybe if the character never used shields, these special abilities could just use the shield controls)
Many of your opponents would be robots (other weapons available would be sci-fi things for the most part too) so even being such a formidable character, you'd still have a very difficult time at times. Other times it might be fun to just role play an unmatched character.