Thoughts about Fraxy bosses and possible solutions (YMMV)

[Scionox]

I was watching videos of Fraxy bosses and playing some of them, but after playing mostly only arcade shmups and doujin shmups for the time i was not on this forum, Fraxy bosses... just don't have good feel anymore. ;

They have feel of lost work/effort, or unfinished ideas that will not get completed.

The bosses in games are supposed to play culmination role of part of the game, be it stage, or final.
The whole meaning of word 'boss' is to be 'leader' of something.
But can it be leader if there is no forces to lead...

Well, i might sound a bit crazy, but i am suggesting to form a team that will make an interesting stages to fit for the bosses that already was made, including player weapons and scoring system.

Yes, that's not how everyone used to make things in Fraxy before.
But look at that from the other side: it will be a second life given to all of these bosses of the past that any of you liked at some point ^o^ .
And not just life, but a proper life of actual bosses rather than unfinished creations.

If this idea gets enough support, i will happily form a collab thread for all of you who wants to contribute to, and where we will discuss how we will do it ^.^ !

[Halico]

(note the first part where boss is not onscreen, the Mini Storm Hearts are fought before Storm Heart)

[Armored Entity]

I noticed this feel after I was banned from Youtube. Before then, they actually seemed very impressive both to play and watch (not just mine, but other's too). After that, most of the ones I've been seeing don't seem as good anymore, and were only treated to ones like those made by DrThunderousX and other lesser creators. I don't think I really have anything to do with it, but its just an observation I recently had. Why can't we have more creators like Zarro, Alexmdle, Purequestion, and others?

[Scionox]

@Dualer

No, i mean using boss resources that are scattered around to make Fraxy engine based shmup, with actual balanced stages, player weapons and scoring system, well, or series of shmups if it goes really good .

@Hyphen

I am glad you have same opinion on this.

@Armored Entity

You misunderstood what i was saying, i suppose ; ?

[Halico]

@Dualer

No, i mean using boss resources that are scattered around to make Fraxy engine based shmup, with actual balanced stages, player weapons and scoring system, well, or series of shmups if it goes really good .

So, something like Final Fraxy?

[Scionox]

Never saw Final Fraxy, sorry, can't answer.

[Halico]

Or something like FHQ? (vid below)

[PureQuestion]

that could be interesting...


But how would you choose which bosses? There's a lot of them out there, and it might be interesting to see people try to build a stage around the idea...

And for the people who don't understand, assuming I understand, the suggestion here is to take existing Fraxy bosses and make stages for them.

[Scionox]

@PureQuestion

Glad you find idea interesting .
As for which bosses...
Well...
We might vote/nominate them when/if collab gets started(Only thing that would be hard with it is to maintain difficulty curve and overall theme, i suppose), only thing i can suggest is that no more than 1 boss from single creator per shmup, so we can have different boss style going on per stage.

[PureQuestion]

I would suggest that if you want the collab to get started you should probably just go start it.