Yggdra UFO (YUUFO), Let's make a fan shmup Options

[Raijinili]

Side-scrolling or top-down, I dunno.

Based on
[14:33] <&Rhiannon> LOW UFOS ARE TOO HARD AS FENCER

== Controls ==

Movement on the left, shooting and Union button on triggers, and the right controls Passive-Aggressive (if necessary). Maybe the triggers should control passive-aggressive. Who cares, customizate it.

== Single player ==

You start off as Yggdra or whatever. Other characters are powerups dropped rarely (miniboss/quest rewards?), and you can catch them into your Union formation.

The shmup bombs in this game come in the form of union attacks. Everyone in your union shoots their special attack. I guess Unions also launches your leader's Card ability. In fact, maybe bombs are all in the form of Cards. Yes, you collect Cards to be able to launch Unions.

Maybe if you die, your Union Leader gets replaced by a random(?) other member, and either the union formation is shuffled, or all the chars are launched and you have to recatch them.

The other chars have smaller sprites, and either have smaller hitboxes or are just invincible.

The bullets are your followers? E.g. Yggdra shoots Valkyries.

== Multiplayer ==

Instead of pressing the Union button to trigger a Union, you hold the Union button and, if no one else is already holding it, the Union grid shows up under you. (Maybe instead of straight-up 8-slot grid, it's just glowing lines in an X or + shape.)

When you release the button, any players in your formation will shoot off their Union attack. If none, you do it alone. Maybe a Super freeze animation. Players in the union also get a bullet-absorbing shield, I guess (Leader gets biggest), and the ones that don't make it into the union can still hide in the shields.

Players aren't locked into the formation and have to manually steer into it. Or they can hold their Union button and fly into the formation, and get locked into it (relying on the leader's steering).

== Passive-aggressive ==

Aggressive: Move faster. Shoot harder.

Passive: Move slower. Smaller hitbox.

== Other, weaker ideas ==

You get, like, powerups in the form of a weapon icon, which gives your units with the right thing a random YU weapon of that type.

There will be places in the stages that are like towns. Instead of shooting the houses like in regular shmups, maybe you have to stay on them for a while.


EDIT: CHANGED NAME FROM "Yuufoo" TO "YUUFO" BECAUSE THAT COULD BE "UFO" OR "YGGDRA UNION UFO". MAY CHANGE BACK TO "YUUFOO" WHEN WE CAN CALL IT "YGGDRA UNION UFO ONLINE".

[Rhiannon]

I drew a thing nobody wanted.

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Which has nothing to do with the idea I posted in this thread but oh well. The Gran CentUFO's "eye" thing opens up to let party members out to float in space on these speedy little disks. Speardra is a real person (THANKS STING FOR THE FREE DESIGN YOU NEVER USED) because out in space having Yggdra's hair fly freely would be a problem and also she can't use the Gran Centurio because she turned it into a giant spaceship that fires a huge GUESSWHATTHISISPOWEREDBY laser. Yggdra pretty much gets real close to enemy UFOs (piloted mostly by servants of goth) so she can spear them. Someone like Elena would be shooting arrows at them instead. I don't know why they don't just have the Gran CentUFO laser everything. Maybe it's too slow to aim at them.

I also kept thinking of doing something with GU's Centurio Buster because having a gatling gun instead would be cool too, for like, rapidfire stuff, but I didn't get the chance to think of what ridiculous way you could switch from the blade to that because the design of the the thing really doesn't have anything to do with the Gran Centurio's.