Touhou Open World game idea (Read 852 times)

[0of64]

Hmmmm, while I was at school, I was thinking that maybe the story could be like something abnormal is happening ALL throughout Gensokyo that's having everything erupt into chaos like youkais suddenly running amuck but unlike DDC it's not being caused by the miracle mallet this time. And then Reimu and co. gather these plot maguffins while exploring Gensokyo and its other worlds which all lead to Eientei which takes them to the MOON. and have to fight the lunarians as some sort of final boss or smthing like that

[spongelevator]

like a normal game's story except you play as multiple characters who start at multiple points? as in, start at a location and then gradually find out the perpetrator through encounters with youkai/gods/whoever
usually the integer games just have all protagonists take the same route and encounter the same characters leaving who actually did what canonically vague on purpose (I think a few times canon protagonists have been deduced/casually revealed but eh not in-game)
so having it start from many locations and having non-main characters/ those with less appearances show up that way while also having one single plot could be good idea

if going to the moon is part of the story perhaps we can pull a mario odyssey and make a challenge area/extra bosses in a "dark side" (or darker side for the funny)
like a watatsuki fight because ZUN is not going to make one or perhaps the main extra boss could be a new character based off whatever lunar mythology that I don't know enough about to think of a thing for (though something definitely gotta exist out there like lord tsukuyomi or something)

I was also thinking of extra worlds/locations as involving extra bosses because usually those places have particularly powerful characters within
hell has heck, eiki, and a counsel of powerful oni and who knows what else, land of backdoors has okki, makai has shinki, uhhh I don't think doremy is particularly powerful and outside world is too much unknowns so I guess that is all that's less than I remembered but eh it's enough locations
most of these places have enough you can do to make them into interesting challenge areas with what we know about them despite their lack of relation to the main story

[0of64]

Alternate locations would expand exploration ten fold. The more the merrier.

And also I was thinking you could either start as Riemoo and Marisa and as you progress in the story characters, Sakuya, Cirno, Seanea, Riesen, Aya, and Youmu would join the party to solve help solve the incident if that makes any sense. I like it when things are more streamlined (also would be cool for some fun intereactions between the characters in the group)

[Aeon]

dude i got a crazy idea for this
what if you started in one of the extra worlds as one of the playable characters and then when you make it to gensokyo it becomes the insanezone
playin as reisen II with your day job of existing and you just explore around the moon for a while until you figure out how to get to gensokyo (dangerous place with weird people) and with your military training with using with real guns danmaku and flight is difficult (but as an exchange you get cool real gun hitscan attacks)

[spongelevator]

if she has a rocket launcher that shoots 8 rockets then I am fine with it
youkai may be strong physically but their spirits will shrivel up when they see what's comin for them

[0of64]

Bruh if Riesen number too got a rocket launcher, you best prepare urself

[spongelevator]

lol yes I see your point
with (endless) eight rockets reisen II doesn't even need the lunar veil
she can just rocket jump to earth

in a less japey section I wonder how actual weapons (normal swords, guns, rope, bombs?, pepper spray when rumia gets too close) would do in toho 
youkai are way stronger than humans physically which is why you need specialized youmy swords that target spirit or to just like
not use the sword for offense and instead for defense
yorihime and raiden can both cut bullets in half and prove that sword>projectile for whatever the hell reason
I don't remember where but I think youkai were said to be strong enough to take a bullet and not really care that much
I've gotta start finding sources for all this stuff but ehhh not gonna do that
anyway would this mean guns just suck
and need to be replaced with lunalien technology (the best out of the world!) or charm bullets plus zio
reisen gun just shoots danmaku N/A so maybe they can't or don't want to make just like
normal fast guns
or it could be "no full auto in a building!" to follow the spellcard rules in this one case
I don't really know where I intended to go with this so I will change it to "I wonder how weapons that actually work would function within gameplay"