Game Idea - Thoughts?

[Xalenda]

We've all seen the games on here - start simple, ratchet up, time + some investment and boom, sexy naked ladies (and/or men) who seemingly bend over backwards just to get a glimpse of your sexy bits. Fairly standard fare, all things considered. But have you considered... playing the game in reverse?!
Seems a silly idea, but could actually tell a pretty interesting story, with pretty weird gameplay. Here's my pitch:

System: RPG Maker (for reasons listed below)

Plot: You (the main character) are known around the world/kingdom/area as either the Good King/Queen or the Bad King/Queen. During one of your boring days, you question whether the choices you made in the path you took to be the right choices, and go backwards through your own memories to significant points and places, trying to find the point where you decided to become like that.

Gameplay: You start out as a completely overpowered nigh-omnipotent, unkillable demi-god able to swat away big monsters with barely a thought, able to seduce/coerce people into having sex with you and seeing naked bodies everywhere. As you continue to go back in your memories, the battles get progressively harder (OHKO --> 2-Hit --> 4 Hit, etc.) and the people start needing more than just your word to do what you say, wearing more clothes, see some actions as wrong, etc.

End-Game: Your first memory is of watching your Family Member of Choice (FMoC) be the opposite choice you were at the beginning (Good/Bad). You have a final "fight" against said FMoC, in the form of a sparring session, too weak/passive to even land a meaningful blow. You are finally defeated, and left with how you want to grow up - the first main 'choice' of your life - but now have to reconcile the fact that you know where this choice ultimately leads, and you get an ending that aligns with that choice:

Start --> End:
Good --> Good: Your child is raised with love and affection like you were, but sees you as too lenient and weak to be a truly good leader for the people, deposing you.

Good --> Bad: Your child is raised with more of a strict household, sees you as a real tyrant, and goes on to usurp your position through an all-out war against you.

Bad --> Good: Your child is raised to be tough and fair, and in your attempt to be a better parent, coddled them too much so they grew arrogant and prideful, but ultimately weak.

Bad --> Bad: Your child isn't raised by you at all, wanting nothing more than to seek their revenge upon you and does to you what you did to your own FMoC.


It's not exactly a 'feel-good' kind of game, I get that, and the premise is... well, not original, but not overdone, either.
What do you think?

 

[Losersriot]

What do we crave and desire the most ?
Do we invent an object of lust for ourselves ?





No one sees the queen, elves and magic EVERY DAY.

 

[fapmaster9000]

I don't see this working out because the systems you have in place discourage the player from playing.

NSFW content:
As you play, you get fewer and fewer scenes or they are more spaced out (since people start needing more than just your word to do what you say) which is one of the main reasons people play these games. Why continue the game when most scenes are at the beginning?

Gameplay wise:
There's no progression. What is the point of grinding when you just get weaker? It would just be an annoying thing you need to do to continue the story.

The story is the only thing that would carry the game but at this point you might as well make it a VN.

 

[nulnil]

I'm not sure why this is a hentai-game specifically, you could almost get the same story without any porn elements. Anyways;

Gameplay: Heavily depends on how skillful or strategic combat is. This could make up for how you would get weaker over time, so the player is never too bored.

Presentation: This game feels a little on the dull side, but you don't seem to mention anything at all. Are there fantastical races, humans only, ect?

 

[desmosome]

It could work as a story but would make a poor game.

 

[Deleted member 229118]

I like the uniqueness but i woudnt play.
I lose to much in real life already.
I play games to escape being a loser.

 

[Space_Cow99]

You know I second this idea, if you switch between the roles of queen and princess vice versa and have it where you choose your roles? I like to see that in game right now. Always MC roles suck and there always guy with big dick I kind wondering how come there is never king/ Princess role where king allowed his wife the queen go on vacation visit some of in-laws and prince or knight is escort and something natural and comical. What is Prince refuses to go and stuck monitor growing up princess and princess aka naughty as hell.

She plans to get pregnant somehow some way and she just has insatiable desire to do so. NO mage or pervert getting in her way. Her father has no idea her plans she even had sleeping draught potion made one time where made entire kingdom fall asleep. It took her means remember to how to make antidote spill out, but Princess in question uses that as means have insatiable sex with her close family, she has sex with knights, but there issue though someone is immune to potion. It depends on whomever decides this. ( I don't recommend mage or king for one)

I have yet see this amazing game in practice. For one in renap'y is possible, Rpmaker it would be unique and other possible game it be ultra cool see it. HTML would require anime to porn graphics to make interesting.

I like to see possible is that princess able to increase child birth rate by potion so she see her baby grow and relocate to birth facility where not even king knows. Other is it could be where upgrade, farm and see children progress, similar to drop-factory.

Drop factory didn't have princess or queen or switching MC possible duo method either. It make more so unique. if story was that birth rate and offspring dropping is so low. King and his small kingdom would need advance to pose as threat to other kingdoms and expand off. either Magic wielding or knight wielding. Killing monsters yes, expanding food sources yes, and growing new food sources. Unlike drop factory it had farming but limited.
I would think might require technology updating in kingdom plus, making new villages, new industries.

Ideas of watching child progress, after player's character gets executed, seem illogical. If player characters get founded out why not add that child is found out who doesn't escape is more than likely to be sacrificial lamb. Why not have plan to escape and leave a child behind for kingdom to find.

I more of thinking of crafting, technologies, birthing, potions, raising off-springs and making child who be designated lamb. [<- stuff that doesn't exist] besides the duo-control would be one many things must have. switch see what adventures does queen and prince, king and princess, princess and prince, and so forth have...

No battles they are so lame unless monsters who won't willing get harvested that is probably only thing I can think of, other would be spy attacks and thief events, its small time kingdom. Bigger stuff like barbarian or monster parties happen when kingdom grows bigger.

 

[Regretter]

The idea of reverse story telling is something I've seen in a few games already, but it's by no means a cliche, if you want to, go for it, it can be good.

But the reverse progression thing seems weird, for example, you say that people will start wearing more clothes as the game progresses, but usually, I think in most cases at least, it's more rewarding to have progress.

For example, most games start with simple sexual acts, like handjobs and so on, and eventually you reach the good stuff and that is rewarding, now to reverse that you're taking the reward away? kinda? maybe I didn't quite understood your idea.

However, you might be unto something interesting here, give it some more thought it's worth exploring

 

[Xalenda]

Thanks for the feedback - it's good to have pushback and alternative modes of thinking in this time of burgeoning creation~

So, uh... I mostly just write story, and this seemed like a fairly unique premise without doing a "go-back-in-time" cliche. It would be more of an introspection into what led the character (ie. You) to become the way you are, and seeing what - if anything - you'd accomplish picking that other choice.

Far too often in games, when you're given the choice to do A or B, you rarely see the long-term effects or have them explained in any meaningful detail. Oh sure, you put a Genocidal Queen on the throne... but now she's also your fuck-slave? How does that even work - well, now you'd see the ramifications of that choice, in a long-term fashion. Or you chose the busty, brainless bimbo to be your girlfriend... and now she's a vain, self-entitled hag; choose the nerdy, bookish girl, and she becomes too dependent on you for "insert-reason-here".

The other thing - about going backwards in terms of progression - is that lots of players rush through the game to get to the naughty bits; here, you'd start with them, but it would be purposefully bland and uninteresting. No lead up, no sensuality, not even real sexuality - just lay there and let it happen. The ennui of being an all-powerful ruler and always having things go your way would be in full-swing... is the appeal, then, in the progression, or the end-result of that progression?

In any case, maybe this would be better as more of a VN than an RPG game.
Thanks again, and please continue to give thoughts, ideas, notes, or criticisms! Everything helps! ♥

 

[M$hot]

A fairly simple solution would be that you were put in this position of power when you were young (nepotism isn't hard to believe) And somehow you lost that charm, that power, that reputation until you're mostly an old king/queen wondering where the hell it fell apart. That way you still have the searching, and rather than jumping back in time, time just starts moving in reverse, and you slowly become younger, more popular, more respected etc. You'd still mostly have the story, but you've inverted the gameplay meaning people get more nookie as time goes on.

Anyway, just a thought.

No idea if VN or Sandbox would be better for this, but anything that gets it away from RPGM sounds good to me.

 

[Space_Cow99]

as long they keep vore content down, in new games. I made me feel, they don't know vore like I do. Vore is imaginary fetish being or getting eaten, it should get cautioned it occurrence happens in comics, and possible happens lot on woods/farmland by region, woods in particular have diverse wildlife.

End result does not occur like bag of bones and new game occurrences always a game over.

Somehow those vore end-writers never write potential dodge, killing method of monster or key to escape it.
I think vore + tentacle games are good for MMO and where it made live when people died it permanent death of that character that makes sense. they restart new character after 5 days being killed. Some people hold grudges against that games. Don't understand survival of fittest, go against hungry bear and you get vore. If it was live and in video game and you had restart ppl don't understand everyone sees it and players have restart. I don't think anyone wants get gored like that.

Other is tentacle fetish seems to occur in lot good potential games, Its not-avoidable. In future tentacle games should useful in desert storm caliber games, cave raider, and dark depths kind of games. these game where demon is summoned and tentacles surge only is kind of lackluster. They could summoned demon and had something more than tentacle storm.


Go-back in time cliche I seen two I think some exist, and one particular is interesting say least.

https://f95zone.to/threads/the-time-traveller-v0-25-justabro.115845/

https://f95zone.to/threads/twisting-time-v0-3-amai-otoko.112814/

If I recall anymore...I edit and add. Or someone else can think of another.

This particular game is interesting:
https://f95zone.to/threads/reyas-life-v0-04-1-lunna.109767/
F-hero is clueless how she wants to achieve her go becoming biologist but all perverts aside she choose to become bimbo or be young or be pure.