So, I'm late to this party, but I learned something really funny and depressing about twilight princess today. You can easily kill Ganondorf… With the use of just a fishing rod. Easily distracted by shiny objects attached to fishing poles… Ok, now think here. This is a lord of fucking darkness, and he's distracted and killed by a fishing pole… Oh man, how the title "Lord of darkness" went from a badass conquerer to being killed with fishing poles…

Honestly, you guys must have noticed this as well. Back then, in the days of super nintendo and such, when villains had a title as fucking awesome as "Lord of Darkness", they didn't screw around. Today, anyone can slap that on something, even a cheap knockoff of ganon. We need to get back to the retro days, when you fought a final boss, it was pretty damn final. Evil as hell, burns down orphanages in his spare time, and maybe fits in an execution or two in a normal day, and you'd be absolutely frigging crazy, or skilled as hell to take on a villain like that.

Final boss battles weren't mindless slashing, but required actual skills. Take Touhou games for example. Forget the idea that you're battling a bunch of lolita fairy things, and replace all that with big ass demons and shit, and you have yourself a game that means business, and the bullet shitstorms made some damn sense.

I want to try and take this sort of approach to Project : Rebirth somehow. It's hard enough with the AI of some of the enemies, but how does one make a final boss that a character wielding no form of weapons has to kill? I suppose therein lies my real challenge. A badass of a final boss, and you're a little guy that can only jump needs to kill and/or survive this final boss. Hmmm… I think a challenge of survival would make more sense. I smell plot development going on!

Speaking of Rebirth, I've already got like 5 enemies programmed in, the 1st being ridiculously easy to dodge, whereas the final 4 are… Well, pretty damn mean.

But I should get to the important business. I'm in need of 1 or 2 people that can fulfill a single role (Or two, if they feel the need to be that awesome). The primary one being along the lines of a graphics designer. I won't be modest here - I frigging suck at making good and consistent graphics. I lack the patience to do the art well enough. I'm good at simplistic graphics and animating them well enough, but I personally think I need someone superior to make the game get a good feel.

Second, I'm going to need a music designer. I don't need the god of making music, but I need someone that can make some decent 8-bit music. I want to get a sort of 'classic' feel to Rebirth, since it really goes back to basics (In terms of character control, anyway).

That's all I've got to report right now. I think I'm going to program some more elements in, and get a finalized look at the engine.

Until next time,

~V~