Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Goodbye Volcano High Controversy

As part of the event where the upcoming Playstation 5 games were revealed, this one's a controversial one as its writer had written the extremely disturbing Harry Potter and Pokemon materials involving underaged characters from two franchises. That was her past work but it's not the first time I discovered a controversy like that. A few previous ones included the M1 Fringe Festival 2017 which was like an adult festival and it was called out for disguising something disturbing as art as well as the cancelled Steam game, R*** Day, that was supposed to be published by Arcane City Game Studios. For that Steam game that was cancelled, it was kind of victorious for those who came up with the petition as if the Nu***u console is the only platform left for it as someone from that publishing studio stated that he liked something disturbing I can't mention here from his interview.
The writer, Kate Gray, was recently called out for her past work and her recent involvement in the development of Goodbye Volcano High for Playstation 4, Playstation 5 and PC like it's a cancel culture for people. You can give her a second chance but it's too bad that she blew it with the weirder character concept used in the game she works on. A family-friendly content she works on should be finer enough, damn it! That way, she's keeping a low profile but I suppose this is not quite the point for me.
When the trailer video was posted, it had tons of dislikes probably due to the character concept more than the writer herself. Even the name of the fictional high school/academy seems stupid for me although I can let the same name of the fictional high school from the movie, Volcano High, off since that live-action movie is about the martial arts stuff AND it has human characters.

Redo ideas

The story will be redone from scratch and in summary, it's about you battling your way through the weird fictional school in an unknown world you were dragged in and then dealing with the culprit if  you want to return home. The gameplay idea is up to you like it's an open-source idea I can come up with for you, be it an action game, puzzle game, fighting game or even a sports day game like River City Super Sports. In my case, it's going to be a puzzle game kind of an idea since it focuses on the native human characters' perspective with the opponent side being the game's characters' side. It may seem tough but the Spriters Resource website is the only place to take the assets of this game from for the opponent side although I have concerns about being called out for redoing shit like it's a fabrication.
Currently, I'm redoing the game trailer via the MMD animation consisting of mostly the models and accessories taken from various websites as well as to put in alternate music if I want to but story-wise, this is taking place in a reconstructed post-battle digital world where characters can do whatever good things they want like it's a virtual park to begin with. Unbeknownst to the culprit, the reconstruction of the fictional virtual world kicks in after you and other victims return home with the administrators formatting and reconstructing the virtual world after one of the victims calls them for the investigation.
Consider this all a prototype story and idea as the actual developers, Ko_OP, are still developing Goodbye Volcano High that will be released next year. It will also be released on other consoles after the timed exclusivity of Playstation 4 and 5 releases.