2013-04-03, 04:07 AM
Here are some tidbits on possible 2 player play in games V and VI...
I think each game could have a different kind of "multiplayer" game play. The original trilogy games it seems like would be more difficult to work multiplayer into. You could imagine additional players assuming the roles of the surviving knights in the first game. Maybe there could just be straight up 2 player gameplay in KF2 since it's 2 after all, where you can start the game with another survivor of the shipwreck not far away. A cabin boy or something. In KF3 Mina (is it Lyn?) seems like the obvious pick. Anyway I believe in traditional 2 player games. But in KF1 there are more than one spare knights, so it could be an exception just for the heck of it.
I also like passive 2 player where someone can sit down and just take over the 2nd player character just for fun. You can also asynchronous play where the characters do their own thing on their own time. Anyway it wouldn't be single screen play obviously.
So right, my best concepts for V is player 2 is a teenage blonde (if not Asian) boy who is a half-monster. He looks normal except for webbed digits and he can breath underwater to assist with underwater trials, and to save Player 1 if you drown.
In VI the game play is different. Player 2 is a demon huntress whose task it is to hunt down and capture Player 1. So its kind of competitive play, but shes still a romantic interest (the Player 2 characters usually are)
She'd probably have some help from other demons in her posse that would assist her the same way the animals assist Player 1. I think Player 1 carries the Moonlight sword with him for some reason. His job is to clear out monsters from villages maybe, and its the best tool for the job. Plus its very light. I dunno. I think he is captured though mid game, his falcon flies the Moonlight away, so you can't use it to escape captivity or something. Then maybe you get convinced that the demons are trying to help, and things turn coop, and you race back to the castle too late to stop what happens...
The castle is on Melanat. The Moonlight and Dark Slayer are brought together and somehow that revives Guyra and Seath. But Melanat is surrounded by demons. Milia leads the demons, and is scolded by Guyra for impersonating him (Guyra is dead in KF3: Milia is impersonating him in KF3 and KF1; as Guyra created her to do, but not after his death) and ultimately since Guyra has the upper hand Seath is sealed inside Melanat by the demons and Guyra. The whole island is sealed off from the rest of the world, along with most of the key characters. So that in VII you find the world remade by demons, magic is tightly regulated, and part of the game probably involves breaking the seal and letting magic (Seath) loose to reshape the world...
I think Guyra wants people to forget about dragons (magic) and so he inhabits Solomon like Seath inhabits Jean in KF3. Solomon serves as a foil to VII's Player 1, who will probably be named Damien. Damien has Frostbite and Firebrand, and Solomon has the Moonlight and Dark Slayer, and somehow they face off at some point for dramatic effect. VII is millennia after VI, so that would make Solomon (Guyra) appear to be immortal.
PS: I think Giants would be prominent in V. Since the earth is flooded like a biblical deluge event, the Giants would all awaken from under the earth (otherwise they would drown) and there would be no plants after the millennia long drought, so it would be up to the elves to take their ark like life banks and transplant the plants and animals there to the highlands. Which will prove difficult because its hard to tell plants from monsters, and monsters would be planting themselves like weeds. So the villagers would have to work to weed out the monsters so the plants have a chance...
I think the Giants know about the demons on the other continent. Because they can communicate when they dream somehow while they've been hibernating all of the time since the trilogy. I don't know what would happen if lots of water flooded over a planet, but it seems to me like it would take a while for it to soak into the ground. So maybe there is just some time before the continent reemerges. It could still be largely underwater along the shores in VI, to make the continent appear different from it does in III.
I imagine Dwarves being more like Vikings. They could be master ship builders in a pinch. Since the humans wouldn't be up to the task having no memory of water. There could be some old pirate ships dry docked at Melanat. But you wonder if they'd be seaworthy or not. Maybe the dwarves could build replicas of them. The captain of the boat the players ride on could be a dwarf I reckon.
EDITED: Maybe Guyra revives Guyra and Seath in VI by possessing Solomon then and there. Of course that's just how they'd manage to materialize themselves. Probably they were somehow revived by the swords being recharged (since they are mirrors of one another) and then they just have to be scraped against each other to exorcise the dragons. Maybe you can think of something better. I can't.
I think each game could have a different kind of "multiplayer" game play. The original trilogy games it seems like would be more difficult to work multiplayer into. You could imagine additional players assuming the roles of the surviving knights in the first game. Maybe there could just be straight up 2 player gameplay in KF2 since it's 2 after all, where you can start the game with another survivor of the shipwreck not far away. A cabin boy or something. In KF3 Mina (is it Lyn?) seems like the obvious pick. Anyway I believe in traditional 2 player games. But in KF1 there are more than one spare knights, so it could be an exception just for the heck of it.
I also like passive 2 player where someone can sit down and just take over the 2nd player character just for fun. You can also asynchronous play where the characters do their own thing on their own time. Anyway it wouldn't be single screen play obviously.
So right, my best concepts for V is player 2 is a teenage blonde (if not Asian) boy who is a half-monster. He looks normal except for webbed digits and he can breath underwater to assist with underwater trials, and to save Player 1 if you drown.
In VI the game play is different. Player 2 is a demon huntress whose task it is to hunt down and capture Player 1. So its kind of competitive play, but shes still a romantic interest (the Player 2 characters usually are)
She'd probably have some help from other demons in her posse that would assist her the same way the animals assist Player 1. I think Player 1 carries the Moonlight sword with him for some reason. His job is to clear out monsters from villages maybe, and its the best tool for the job. Plus its very light. I dunno. I think he is captured though mid game, his falcon flies the Moonlight away, so you can't use it to escape captivity or something. Then maybe you get convinced that the demons are trying to help, and things turn coop, and you race back to the castle too late to stop what happens...
The castle is on Melanat. The Moonlight and Dark Slayer are brought together and somehow that revives Guyra and Seath. But Melanat is surrounded by demons. Milia leads the demons, and is scolded by Guyra for impersonating him (Guyra is dead in KF3: Milia is impersonating him in KF3 and KF1; as Guyra created her to do, but not after his death) and ultimately since Guyra has the upper hand Seath is sealed inside Melanat by the demons and Guyra. The whole island is sealed off from the rest of the world, along with most of the key characters. So that in VII you find the world remade by demons, magic is tightly regulated, and part of the game probably involves breaking the seal and letting magic (Seath) loose to reshape the world...
I think Guyra wants people to forget about dragons (magic) and so he inhabits Solomon like Seath inhabits Jean in KF3. Solomon serves as a foil to VII's Player 1, who will probably be named Damien. Damien has Frostbite and Firebrand, and Solomon has the Moonlight and Dark Slayer, and somehow they face off at some point for dramatic effect. VII is millennia after VI, so that would make Solomon (Guyra) appear to be immortal.
PS: I think Giants would be prominent in V. Since the earth is flooded like a biblical deluge event, the Giants would all awaken from under the earth (otherwise they would drown) and there would be no plants after the millennia long drought, so it would be up to the elves to take their ark like life banks and transplant the plants and animals there to the highlands. Which will prove difficult because its hard to tell plants from monsters, and monsters would be planting themselves like weeds. So the villagers would have to work to weed out the monsters so the plants have a chance...
I think the Giants know about the demons on the other continent. Because they can communicate when they dream somehow while they've been hibernating all of the time since the trilogy. I don't know what would happen if lots of water flooded over a planet, but it seems to me like it would take a while for it to soak into the ground. So maybe there is just some time before the continent reemerges. It could still be largely underwater along the shores in VI, to make the continent appear different from it does in III.
I imagine Dwarves being more like Vikings. They could be master ship builders in a pinch. Since the humans wouldn't be up to the task having no memory of water. There could be some old pirate ships dry docked at Melanat. But you wonder if they'd be seaworthy or not. Maybe the dwarves could build replicas of them. The captain of the boat the players ride on could be a dwarf I reckon.
EDITED: Maybe Guyra revives Guyra and Seath in VI by possessing Solomon then and there. Of course that's just how they'd manage to materialize themselves. Probably they were somehow revived by the swords being recharged (since they are mirrors of one another) and then they just have to be scraped against each other to exorcise the dragons. Maybe you can think of something better. I can't.