So after really long hiatus and burnout, I’ve finally come up with a hack concept I’m sticking with. Hopefully, this project will turn out better than FE Binding Blade +, a reskin/rebalenceing hack I released on Serenes Forest a while back. I’ve codenamed the project Utopia due to the hack originally being a full custom hack containing fully original characters and a full custom world.
Anyways enough exposition, here’s some copy/paste from my post on Serenes to show what gameplay concepts I’ve come up with. (Don’t ask for major plot details beyond what’s in the next paragraphs yet, the project only became a FE8 sequel today)
Anyhow, onto the concept, in order to reseal the Demon King after he possesses a(undecided) major Magvelen leader, Ephraim and Eirika need to find ALL of the pieces of the 4 shattered Sacred Stones that are scattered across Magvel.
In order to do so, the twins must explore the contienet in a hub world area that has gates to various stages(chapters in FE terms) which lead to the shards, which in turn are obtained thru filling various criteria in these chapters.
basically, there are four shard types
Crystal shard: complete the chapter as normal. Obviously the easiest to get
Clear Gym shard: open all treasure chests in a level. Clearly ripping off CB break the crates goal
Red Gym shard: unlock and clear the chapters Gaiden. Not all stages have one of these shards
Relic shard: a literal LTC goal, beat the clock to get the shard. once again, ripping off CB blatantly here
In each hub, 5 stages are unlocked from the get-go and can be replayed at will, either to complete Shard quests, or grind some enemies(It’s a Sacred Stones sequel, what did you expect, no grinding). Various secrets can also be found in these hubs such as the final weapons. Some of which can be found from the first hub if you know where to look.
So there, I’m not the best FE hacker, and this concept is what I came up with after brainstorming for a while. An FE8 sequel isn’t exactly an original concept, but it can work with this concept and if nothing else; 8 sequel will remain it’s goal for now.
Sorry, Project Utopia you’re no longer full custom
So could this concept phesibly work, or am I wasteing my time.