A... a new game. · 6:58pm Aug 30th, 2012
AND HERE COMES ZEL WITH ANOTHER IDEA THAT HE WILL WORK ONE DAY ON AND THROW IT INTO THE OBLIVION OF HIS HDD NEXT DAY.
Anyway.
Imagine you have a swarm of monsters in Equestria.
What will you do as the ruler? Go to the battlefield to oliberate countless enemies?
Of course not.
You have six ponies here just waiting for your orders.
Give Twi scythe, Pinkie the cannon,
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AND THIS SEXY MOTHERFUCKER TO RARE.
Nevermind, got carried away a little here.
Not like I am going to even START on working on this.
Here is the problem: How do you expect a pony to wield a weapon? I can understand unicorns, but there will not be a good slasher without the protagonist dancing with her sword/lance whatever she has got.
So, I would either have to go with ponies standing Lyra-like on their rear-legs, ponies being more anthropomorphized in physiques or being completly humanized with only colorful manes etc.
I seriously have no friggin idea how it would look.
Another idea was to go with (possibly older) Spike as protagonist (It would be certainly a nice twist) but then again, I really hate him.
Ponies could wield (sharp) weapons in their mouth, though parrying effectively would be nearly impossible even if they took it in sideways. You could exploit the whole 'wings are basically like hands' theory and let the pegasi wield weapons using those. For the others, I guess they could also strap a ball & chain to one of their forelegs.
323505 Yeah, I did not really think about mouths for some reason.
But if you played a typical fighting game like afromentioned DMC, you would know that characters often do various flips, piruets and other eyecandy crap like that. Meanwhile, hooves and mouths have very limited angle.
This is why we need to genocide the pegasus and earth ponies, they're useless. Also wtf are you even crossing over here.
If I had a swarm of monsters (you forgot to specify what kind) I'd just send then to various rural towns/villages (at random) and watch gory hilarity unfold.
325215 Nah, they would be kinda enemies, you know. Changelings or something similar.
And they would already had oliberated half of equestria by the time of start.
(And by the end we would go Mass Effect 3 on Equestria)
But anyway, I probably would stick only with unicorns. Especially considering the fact that I would need to have non-direct combat spells to accompany fighting.
Or like in the Video...
Just call Dante and so they can kick ass together.