inspired by first two screens of thecatamites new game Magic Wand, i got this idea. i'm just talking shit, but hey... you live only once, it's saltworld, i've deserved my right to be a boring idiot...
I wish there was like, a secret mod of GoldenEye 64 done by thecatamites, where the intro is the same (bond walking into gun pipe etc - btw, i liked even as a kid how when the title GOLDENEYE comes to screen, it pretty much transitions IMMEDIATELY into the game menu, without any kind of fade ins-outs... neat little dumbtopic detail...),
but once you get into the game menu... which is akin to authentic paper mission files...
this is where lot of real game actually starts, because if you keep digging the menu, you start to see all these black-and-white pictures of bond's real life... of course, the main menus are where he is cool and handsome in a suit, but then you find like ME AND FAMILY IN IBIZA (smiling happy like idiot, in hawaii shirt)... ME AND BARON SAMEDI FISHING! GOOD OLE TIMES (smiling happy like idiots, in hawaii shirts)... and then you start to find little bits of personal history, like piccie of daughter and saying like "i miss her... wish she would talk..." or pictures of Final Boss and regrets and love "I can't stop thinking about Final Boss... I-I'm in love...", or major revelations like "FINALLY!! I FOUND THE ENTRANCE TO ATLANTIS!! *mysterious archeology pictures, player trying to partch/sew together what happened down there*. Also, important part is a menu screen where you can unlock Dirty Little Cheat Codes, but they are like Big Head Cheat (ragnar screams of joy), but also stuff like UNLOCK ACCESS UP TO VENT IN FACILITY (YES!!!!). DAM - LEVEL LOCKED GATES UNLOCKED (YES!!!!!!). UNLOCK JAMES BOND SECRET MANSION (y e s! finally i can make bond RELAX and drink wine and have fun in his house in-between missions!! i'm stressed myself that he can NOT take a break and recharge between dangerous gunfights). JAMES BOND UNDERWATER RUINS ACCESS ENABLED/DISABLED (?! so the rumour IS true, there IS a secret Sonic the Hedgehog unfinished Atlantis level in game??). BARON SAMEDI FRIEND - MODE (i knew it!!!). SECRET TRUTH OF LIFE (like this has to be like mega-anticipation of some kinda deep philosophical secret within game or new secret deep ending or whatever). JAMES BOND UNCLE (!! :_-) FINALLY GET TO MEET HIS LONG-LOST DEAR UNCLE... I'M HAPPY FOR YOU, BOND!). ACCESS NEW FILES (aaaaaaa. there's even more secret main menus in this game!?). ENABLE NINTENDO 64DD (kids go crazy - i can access this secret add-on i saw in gaming magazines, without paying a dime! what cool worlds is there?? maybe bond can meet doshin the giant, and co-op together to steal goldeneye? does doshin use the fabled Golden Gun... um... what even IS goldeneye? nobody within game ever said what it is...)
like, the effect has to be that just like when i was a kid, you sort of get a hint of what the new cheat is going to be about or where it is, and then just go WILD about it: so there IS a Missigno within Bond files!! what do i have to do? Do I have to target and "assasinate" bond picture, so I hear a secret sound, to access Princess Peach Secret Ride - castle?? Is Luigi in there, finally? So Baron Samedi WAS actually bond's old friend!! Let's go fishing together, Bro Samedi...
... and all the access to this content is mysterious and hidden, like nothing is explained, you have to trigger and experiment shit. it's bit like Fez but with an actual deep off-branches the game couldn't deliver. Type ICEBERG you get from invicible frog to Luigi, and you'll get a completely secret, new branch of a story, the REAL story, the DEEP story...
barf...
so who would have known that the Passports Please - type of menus and real-life application forms actually make a GOOD mysterious gameplay?? who would have known?? read secret notes and silly little drawings of Bond from the sides of MI16 secret files etc... listen to Goldeye Main Menu - music for all eternity, sure i wouldn't mind...
also who would have thought that goldeye had EVEN MORE appeal, in a sense that one finishes the main playable game, only to unlock some menu stuff? FINALLY!! i beat final level in Insane Idiot - difficulty... NOW i discover more secrets and menus and REAL story of bond...
also hey don't u guys vibe that this type of surprise gameplay is pretty much... like DLC as form is pretty much MADE for this type of continuous creation and updates and new, enabled piece-by-piece story? who would have known...Kanye West looks on approvingly...
Last Edit: August 13, 2016, 02:44:41 pm by bonzi_buddy