How would you make a Neon Genesis Evangelion game work?

How would you make a Neon Genesis Evangelion game work?

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Either a boss rush, or some weird jrpg with a battle system revolved around keeping your character's psyche in check outside of battle scenarios so that they preform well in battles.

wasnt the N64 evangelion game really good?

>some weird jrpg with a battle system revolved around keeping your character's psyche in check outside of battle scenarios so that they preform well in battles.

this sounds like a nice premise, nice job idea man ,ill steal it and make lots of money with it.

>,ill steal it and make lots of money with it.
already doing it, just keep that in mind 4 years from now

something something platinum

They would work if you're making a game based on the rebiulds, but for vanilla Evangelion I'd just get some random smaller and possibly independent studio to work on it

Chapter-based with each chapter being one of the angels from the anime in the form of a boss. Shinji, Rei, Asuka, and all of their machines would be playable.

While on foot as one of the kids it would be running around school and NERV doing various things that contribute to the effort to fight the angels and while in a mech it would be your basic third-person "lumbering brawler" focused more on blocking and evading the angels' devastating attacks and conserving your AT field charge.

Rhythm game where you must sync with Asuka.

Replace JRPG battle system with a Mech Simulation and you've got yourself a good Eva game.

Scrap everything, use money to develop a non-weeb game.

1-Giant mechas
2-Lore about Seele controlling the world
3-Misato fucking Shinji

I felt like the jrpg angle worked a bit better than standard mecha combat because if there was to be some psychological stat in the game as a key mechanic then a stat based gameplay system which is heavily emphasized in jrpgs would work a bit better for that.
Although there could always be hybrid solutions.
Another interesting angle could be a mix of realtime combat with strategic elements like in Valkyria Chronicles.
You could play as Misato and plan each Eva operation then once in the field you can swtich between units.

XCOM without the turn-based trash.

>Entirety of the game has the most boring and uninteresting Combat ever
>Final level is End of Evangelion with a section where you play a rhythm game to the tune of Komm Susser Tod.
>You have to sync up button presses with the music AND the hundreds of images appearing on screen in rapid succession.

>XCOM without the turn-based trash.
It's been years since I touched XCOM, but isn't it just a cover shooter when you take away the tactical aspect?

How do you make a simulation of mechs whose capabilities, size, and adherence to the laws of physics vary wildly according to the needs of the plot?

That could actually be a fucking cool mechanic. Implement it sort of like games that do dynamic difficulty scaling.

Yeah, but imagine responding to angel alerts and being shuttled to the streets of Tokyo-3 in an EVA to fuck them up with what resources you have. Could interlace some visual novel/adventure shit or something in between, I don't know.

VR Mech simulator with pain simulators attached to your body. If your Eva takes damage, you do too. You die in the game you die in real life

Problem is that the angels fights are very linear, there's one way to kill them.
So either you do a VN with the series, or you create a new content with new angels.
Problem will be that it's almost impossible to integrate something new in the lore without shitting up.

>the angels fights are very linear, there's one way to kill them

It kind of makes me think of Shadow of the Colossus, where every fight in the game is sort of like its own unique boss fight that requires different tactics.

Also, I'm pretty sure there are already dozens of Eva spin-offs that establish crazy alternate continuities, so canon isn't really something to worry about.

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By turning it into a Smash Bros clone.

Make every angel into a cute girl and Shinji has to fuck them using tetris-like mechanics after seducing them with gifs.

>Problem is that the angels fights are very linear, there's one way to kill them.
This isn't a hinderence though, it can be integrated as a mechanic.
Maybe have the gameplay seperated into 2 parts, observation and Attack.

The observation portion is what occurs when the angel first appears.
The player is given a limited time to analyze and asses the situation at NERV HQ.
The observation portion also gives full access to all of the Eva's weaponry would be allowed and after formulating a strategic plan you can sen your units out into battle.

During the Attack phase gameplay would then shift to something akin to armored core and the player would attempt to execute their own plan to destroy the angels.

You could even have a multiplayer aspect where players can create their own angels through a spore-like angel creation system, and then have them attack other players' NERV HQ.

The angels in Eva were basically like puzzles, and so this theoretical game would handle them in a similar manner.

>Problem will be that it's almost impossible to integrate something new in the lore without shitting up.
Just make it an alternate universe. Problem solved.
It would also make for a fresh storyline.

I don't recall dozens of them, but like two or three, and they didn't dig deep in the lore.
I guess the best is to create an alternate timeline, where Shinji is in the school, then discovering Evas by sneaking into his dad's work.
Then like you said, some fights with giant mechas where you've to find a solution to kill the angels (still not easy to find out how).

Interesting, but the analysis would be kinda annoying if done by the player. It could be more interesting if the fight and the analysis are completely linked, with advice from Ritsuko, Misato, or Gendo. Then the player can pick one Eva select a strategy, then fight accordingly to that strategy (being good it'll be easy, being bad it'll be hard)

What is the appeal of Evangelion? All I see is a boy who is distracted by his struggle with puberty during all these mecha assignments.

>What is the appeal of Evangelion?
Probably just because a lot of other people are interested in it.
When you see a crowd forming you feel like checking out what they're looking at.
That's not to say that it's without merit though, it's definitely an interesting work in my opinon, and it did innovate the mecha genre in some ways.

Muh Kant. Muh Heidegger.

It starts as a melodramatic parody of the popular mecha anime of the time, and gradually shifts into bizarre psychological horror, subverting a lot of what you expect about typical character development and plot structure. It's just a cool show. You don't have to like it.

People with social anxiety and mental illness can really relate to it

Because the robots are the best ever drawn, they really feel like highly evolved robots.
(can be extended to all the technology)

it's the dark souls of anime

>Because the robots are the best ever drawn
I love the Evas, they're among some of my favorite designs, but lets not say things we can't take back

Post the WebM

>Because the robots are the best ever drawn

Do I hear someone talkin' shit?

>Evas
>Robots

What the hell are you smoking?