Anonymous Citizen · 22d
Questions about the combat in the VN:
1. What piece of media (Movie, video game etc.) would you use to describe the close combat in the VN? When I was reading Build 5 my anime obsessed brain imagined them Naruto-running at the Butcher trying to cut it up XD. Accurate? Or is it more like Monster Hunter combat?
2. The aerial combat is easier to picture, prob smth like Star Wars or even Ender's Game, of which I thought has a suspiciously similar plotline to what's going on in the VN-_-. Inspired?
It was actually a few of Studio Ghibli that gave me that specific scene some inspiration. In scenes like that I approach it much more cinematically over a video game.
The constant issue I face with making this Sci-Fi VN is that no matter what people are always going to draw parallels with other Sci-Fi sources. Trying to do something different is always the goal, but ppl will think I have used others as inspiration. I'd say the combat would be closer to Star Wars, where they had squadrons, over Enders Game, where they had more dreadnought type chess battles. I have seen Enders Game, but I don't really think it inspired IFS. The story and themes are very different and not the direction I'm going in.
