| Description | In the style of the any number of flash games about continually running across platforms to escape a a tidal wave or whatever, I think AVWW should have a mission like this. It would give the player a nice incentive to use storm dash as more than just a time-saver. I would suggest that a mission like this be comprised of the following key points:
1- MOSTLY flat
2- Challenge comes from jumps onto small platforms in a sea of lava
3- Very few enemies besides static environmental hazards (arbitrary spikes?)
4- Encouraged to go FAST!
For 1, it doesn't have to be entirely flat, it could even have multiple "levels" i.e. a high road and a low road. Climbing a hill would be too slow and not in the spirit of things.
For 2, lava is optional, it could just be acid water to slow you down, make you have to climb up some platforms to get back out.
In regards to 3, I think that enemies could detract from the feel of the mission. It's about platforming, not run and gunning. A few espers wouldn't be so bad, but a bunch of skelebots clogging up valuable platform real-estate would be bad.
On the last point, this is pretty wide open. Maybe the player is running from a lava tidal wave for some reason, maybe it's a swarm of angry bees! Perhaps it's a humungous version of the Urban Crawler (a la giant skelebot) that the player has no hope of defeating. It wouldn't HAVE to be so explicitly done, as long as there was some reason that they player couldn't take forever, such as health slowly ticking down, or what-have-you. |
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