So apparently SEGA's attempt at turning Sakura Wars into a gacha game went badly. Very badly. Wah wah wah.
So much the better, says I. A century of Taisho makes no goddamn sense, even more so than Sakura Wars usually refuses to make sense. So last night I thought it might be an interesting time to drag out an old concept I'd toyed around with but never got around to actually writing, see if anyone finds the concept interesting because lord knows I'll never write the thing.
Call it SAKURA WARS SHOWA - THE DAY OF THE ANGELS
Yes, it's the Showa period, not the cheerful days of Taisho magic. The middle of the Great Depression, to be precise-ish. A few years before WW2 really gets going. Japan is sliding into fascism - Germany's already there - the Soviets seem unstoppable - and FDR is up for re-election and under fire from both sides of the political spectrum.
Our heroes are mecha-pilots by night (the mecha being about the size of a Titanfall mech instead of those gnarly-looking trash-can motherfuckers) and actors for some middling Hollywood studio by day, playing various roles in various film serials like the kind of stuff Indiana Jones was based off of. My original idea emulated the harem shtick the other games so eagerly embraced, I even wrote up some waifu archetypes, but I guess I could toss that aside if having a gender-even cast would make more sense.
The bad guy would be a sort of Charles Lindbergh mixed with Ronald Reagan more than Trump / Huey Long - explicitly political, yes, absolutely a fascist, but with ruddy cheeks and a winning smile and a radio show that made him famous in the 20's. It was tempting to involve a spinoff of the real-life Black Ocean / Black Dragon Society working with this creep, but I scrapped that idea because it would become too yellow peril-y. (Would another story involving such a society be more interesting if it took place in Japan, with the Teikoku Kagekidan's former members struggling against a series of soft coups? Maybe drag ol' Shinjiro Taiga back from America, caught between his 'samurai honor' and his personal morality? Hrm.)
Musical bullshit would be involved. At least one chapter would involve the cast fighting Cuphead monsters instead of the usual Slimy Horrors From Beyond. So on and so forth.
So much the better, says I. A century of Taisho makes no goddamn sense, even more so than Sakura Wars usually refuses to make sense. So last night I thought it might be an interesting time to drag out an old concept I'd toyed around with but never got around to actually writing, see if anyone finds the concept interesting because lord knows I'll never write the thing.
Call it SAKURA WARS SHOWA - THE DAY OF THE ANGELS
Yes, it's the Showa period, not the cheerful days of Taisho magic. The middle of the Great Depression, to be precise-ish. A few years before WW2 really gets going. Japan is sliding into fascism - Germany's already there - the Soviets seem unstoppable - and FDR is up for re-election and under fire from both sides of the political spectrum.
Our heroes are mecha-pilots by night (the mecha being about the size of a Titanfall mech instead of those gnarly-looking trash-can motherfuckers) and actors for some middling Hollywood studio by day, playing various roles in various film serials like the kind of stuff Indiana Jones was based off of. My original idea emulated the harem shtick the other games so eagerly embraced, I even wrote up some waifu archetypes, but I guess I could toss that aside if having a gender-even cast would make more sense.
The bad guy would be a sort of Charles Lindbergh mixed with Ronald Reagan more than Trump / Huey Long - explicitly political, yes, absolutely a fascist, but with ruddy cheeks and a winning smile and a radio show that made him famous in the 20's. It was tempting to involve a spinoff of the real-life Black Ocean / Black Dragon Society working with this creep, but I scrapped that idea because it would become too yellow peril-y. (Would another story involving such a society be more interesting if it took place in Japan, with the Teikoku Kagekidan's former members struggling against a series of soft coups? Maybe drag ol' Shinjiro Taiga back from America, caught between his 'samurai honor' and his personal morality? Hrm.)
Musical bullshit would be involved. At least one chapter would involve the cast fighting Cuphead monsters instead of the usual Slimy Horrors From Beyond. So on and so forth.