Highly Polished Bullet Heaven Where You Can Turn Into A CAR?! - Champion Shift: Prologue

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[@Always.Smarter]

transforming into a modern sports car is just an immersion breaking way of sprinting

[@TsunamiWombat]

The car transformation is PROBABLY something Journey to the West related in reference. Son Goku, who your starting character is clearly designed after, had a cloud he could fly around on. Each of the heavenly defenders could shapeshift to some degree. One character, Bai Long Ma, spent the entire novel transformed into a horse. And the whole pursuit of the narrative, which are buddhist scriptures, are referred to as a 'vehicle' meant to help people traverse the difficult process towards enlightenment. TL;DR, it's all very chinese.

[@analogicparadox]

Quick, Morty, you've got to turn into a car! A long time ago, I implanted you with a subdermal chip that could call upon dormant nanobots in your bloodstream to restructure your anatomy and turn you into a car! Concentrate, Morty! Concentrate and turn into a car, Morty!

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

honestly, this feels like a very good blend between bullet heavens, and the old top-down GTAs and I'm all for it

[@Haileyvoir]

50:30 The going into cyberspace and fighting mooks sounds like Code Lyoko, but they never transformed into cars or anything.

[@jayes5066]

is the car driftabble. kinda feel the urge to drift watching this

[@jimyvanloock3510]

Bullet heaven game developers should actually take inspiration from, not just the feedback, but the ideas their players have. Just listening to Wander think up different things for in the game makes it even more interesting of a potential game to play.

[@smievil]

car part reminds me that there where some pretty fun announcement about streets of rogue 2 and how you were gonna be able to have vehicles and things you cant do in other games, in the past

[@Tiramizur]

The fact that time doesn't stop while leveling up is a no-no for me. The player must be comfortable choosing their own gameplay strategy, and this game doesn't even give the player more time to read the effects of the new skill options it offers.

[@wanderbots]

They probably have it this way to account for multiplayer, since pausing would be a huge interruption.

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

@@wanderbots It could be nice if they could make it an option, even if only available for single player. That or adapt it into multiplayer, where one player trying to level pauses the game for both and gives the options to each player to spend their saved levels

[@blinkdejavu5273]

​@@wanderbotswhen you play single player, everything slows down to almost not moving. If you play multiplayer, it does this.

[@Hyper_Fox06]

Cool game, gonna keep an eye on it. Love how Ymirs Giant still works in car mode

[@snegglepuss6669]

Collecting all the exp is a tricky question, because Bullet Heavens are essentially about two things: Movement, and Build Strategy. If you add an option to suck in all the exp, then you're taking away a push-pull factor that creates interesting decisions, especially in a game like this or Death Must Die where you're racking up bonuses as you move around. And if you add in some kind of cost to get all the exp, players will just pay it, so it's a boring choice. i suppose the answer is to have mutliple ways to do it so you're always making choices

[@EpsilonRosePersonal]

Could the show have been Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad? It's not exactly what you're describing, but it did have teens going into cyberspace and while most of them didn't turn into cars, one of them turned into a sort of double drill tank and the other a kind-of truck thing.

[@RenegadeCactus]

The Show you mentioned reminds me of VR Troopers. Pretty sure that´s not it, because they don´t turn into cars, but they had cars instead of Megazords

[@teifan6674]

I think I know what the show you are referring to is: I think you are confusing two shows, one is where there were heroes going around in a computer world, which I don't remember the name of; and the other is the first Zoids show, where it is a tournament with cars and stuff. If I remember correctly both had a very similar animation style (that very early 3d animation series style)

[@user-eu5jc6qj4r]

Damn, I already thought about combining racing game and Bullet Hell/Survivor games. nice that there is an approach to that.

[@Elaxingen]

Wander, an idea for next time (or for next similar game), if you have a weapon that spin clockwise around the character, try running counter clockwise around the enemies (and vice versa) for extra damage output, it gives the projectile least instead of most distance to travel :)

[@shannenmr]

If your not going for a precision style game the hitboxes of enemies spells should be smaller then the effects and for the most part shouldn't move after the effect starts playing, also CC to Players that remove their agency either shouldn't be a thing or should be really obviously telegraphed slow moves and probably limited to elites / bosses where there wont be more then 1 or 2 on the screen at once.

[@shannenmr]

In regards to the spell effect vs hitbox size thing you could even have a feature where it pops up text like "close call" and maybe have some type of screen effect or something which makes it feel "cool" OR just treat it like you dodged / blocked or similar if you have that mechanic in the game.

[@TheTheian]

I think the shows you were mixing up are vanpires and superhuman samurai cyber squad

[@angeltrebor88]

Oh god yes , please someone make a nice gruesome looking Doom guy bullet heaven , with epic music and monster guts and loads of guns !!!

[@987grgg]

Closet game to this that I can think of is BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre. Worth a play especially with the sale until the 28th.

[@TheTheian]

The television show where the kid got fused with the the car was called Turbo Teen

[@phillipmitchell2254]

Turbo Teen

[@ObsoletePerson]

The map design, the car, the objectives... This is going to revolutionise the bullet heaven genre.

[@Rixtah]

"revolutionise" is a lil bit to far i guess - it gives new ideas maybe. It's like the Battle Royale-era - everything is the same, but sometimes there are new ideas to play around with, but the gameplay stays the same. But I'm interested what new ideas we will see in the future for the bullet heaven/bullet hell genre.

[@monmaker]

You're combining van-pires and vr troopers

[@wanderbots]

I think it was actually Van-Pires & Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. Thanks for reminding me of the former, as I've never seen or heard of it since the 90's.

[@monmaker]

@@wanderbots never heard of that second one. When I think power ranger likes from the 90s, I think of beetleborgs and vr troopers. Lol. Might look into that one, if my ADHD lets me remember 😅 Damnit, now I have to go look at the opening for beetleborgs, something I do every time I remember its existence. Lol

[@Kvikling]

Anyone else played GTA 2 in a computer club after school?

[@justinsugalski6161]

Turbo Teen was wild.

[@shutupandpick740]

Third!