Hey, I'm currently working on a project with a few friends which requires a ton of sprites.
Let's cut all the bullshit and get to the meat and potatoes. i'm looking for medieval-type 2D platformers from the 16-bit era. Games with dark forests, villages, areas where you face God, and other places of the sort. Our game's story goes a little something like this:
"Our evangelist Gabriel has spent his life advocating and praising God in his village. After years of work, a traveler presents himself as one who came back from the dead, and claims that there is a way to reach the heavens and ask God for the eternal truths, requiring the player to venture out and purify themselves in the 3 Holy Springs in order to be able to walk in Heaven. Along the way, Gabriel experiences the outside world for the first time, stumbling into a war zone, confronting pirates, and an anti-religious sect along the way to each spring. Gabriel sees the world is not in order and blames God for the way things are, turning his love into vengeance. After purifying himself in the last Spring, Gabriel sets out to find the gates of Heaven, which the traveler claimed were on top of Azriel's Mountain.
Gabriel finally reaches the peak and because he is purified in the Springs, the way up is shown to him. As he reaches Heaven, he is let in and sent close to God's palace. Confronting God, Gabriel charges him with the crime of corrupting the world, to which God replies he lured Gabriel inside heaven so he could destroy him because of his intentions to destroy God. After failing to even hurt God, Gabriel is sent to hell. Fighting off demons and shit, Gabriel meets the Devil, who admits Gabriel is still technically alive and offers him a deal: If he bathes in the fourth "Holy" Spring, Gabriel will have the power to destroy God, at which point the Devil would be able to send him back up to Heaven to do the deed. Gabriel accepts. Back in Heaven, Gabriel is now disfigured as a Demon, so all of the angels that greeted him on his first trip are now enemies and Heaven is the last level(s) of the game. Finally reaching God's inner sanctum again, Gabriel takes on God in order to do what he thinks is saving the world from a corrupt deity. Upon victory, God explains that he too went through the same journey as Gabriel and destroyed the God of the last world. He chides Gabriel for not realizing the consequences of his actions. God is then dissolved from existence and in a twist of irony, instead of Gabriel saving the world, the universe is extinguished, linked to the life force of that God. Gabriel is then left in the void to reconstruct the world as the new God."
The Outline for our levels looks a little something like this right now (Replace Gabriel with Samael):
1-1: Nazareth - Basic town
1-2: Blackbrick Road - Linear; minor puzzle segments at mini fortress/checkpoint areas
1-3: Virgil’s Forest - Giant tree to climb and deceptive fungi
1-4: Gnarled Shrine - Lots of plants and puzzle solving; Boss is a Stone Sentinel (Rocky/George?) First spring
2-1: Shattered Plain - Basically a war zone
2-2: Earth in Anguish - Travel between above and below ground to avoid dangerous areas
2-3: Babylon - Stretch of war torn towns to travel between; all in ruins
2-4: Azriel’s Post - Cave w/ puzzle elements; Boss is Fire Troll? Second Spring
3-1: Town of Job - Town ruled by fierce pirates
3-2: Dredloche’s Fleet - Pirate ships
3-3: Loche Fortress - Pirate castle
3-4: Ironskull Bay - Secret ruins in underwater caves w/ puzzle solving; Boss is an Undead Pirate(?) Third Spring
4-1: The Foothills - Rocky upwards area
4-2: Chasm of Eden - Cross giant chasm
4-3: The Ascent - Mountain climb
4-4: Mesiah’s Escape - Mountain peak ruins w/ puzzle solving; Boss is a demon of some kind (?) Leads to Heaven
5-1: Confrontation - Not much to do, God sends you to hell.
5-2: Fields of Asphodel - Hell.
5-3: Satan’s Mound - Volcano
5-4: The 7th Circle - Satan’s palace; Boss is another demon (?); Strike a deal with the devil, and bathe in the “Fourth spring” to gain the strength to destroy God.
6-1: Hell’s Wrath - Climbing back up from Hell into heaven; changes from caves to clouds near the end
6-2: Pete’s Gate - Getting around the gate into heaven; you’re a demon now, they won’t let you in
6-3: Heaven - Like the first time but harder because everyone wants to kill you.
6-4: Etherial Sanctum - God’s palace, tower climb/puzzle solving to throne room
The Creator’s Sin - Gods throne room where multiple iterations are fought and destroyed.
Blood of the Universe - Final confrontation in ruins
Samueal’s Folly - God explains consequences of his destruction, universe is extinguished. Samueal becomes god.
Any games that would match this story and it's settings would be greatly appreciated. I'm already messing with sprites from ActRaiser and Super Castlevania, any other games and their names or direct links to spritesheets would be greatly appreciated!
Let's cut all the bullshit and get to the meat and potatoes. i'm looking for medieval-type 2D platformers from the 16-bit era. Games with dark forests, villages, areas where you face God, and other places of the sort. Our game's story goes a little something like this:
"Our evangelist Gabriel has spent his life advocating and praising God in his village. After years of work, a traveler presents himself as one who came back from the dead, and claims that there is a way to reach the heavens and ask God for the eternal truths, requiring the player to venture out and purify themselves in the 3 Holy Springs in order to be able to walk in Heaven. Along the way, Gabriel experiences the outside world for the first time, stumbling into a war zone, confronting pirates, and an anti-religious sect along the way to each spring. Gabriel sees the world is not in order and blames God for the way things are, turning his love into vengeance. After purifying himself in the last Spring, Gabriel sets out to find the gates of Heaven, which the traveler claimed were on top of Azriel's Mountain.
Gabriel finally reaches the peak and because he is purified in the Springs, the way up is shown to him. As he reaches Heaven, he is let in and sent close to God's palace. Confronting God, Gabriel charges him with the crime of corrupting the world, to which God replies he lured Gabriel inside heaven so he could destroy him because of his intentions to destroy God. After failing to even hurt God, Gabriel is sent to hell. Fighting off demons and shit, Gabriel meets the Devil, who admits Gabriel is still technically alive and offers him a deal: If he bathes in the fourth "Holy" Spring, Gabriel will have the power to destroy God, at which point the Devil would be able to send him back up to Heaven to do the deed. Gabriel accepts. Back in Heaven, Gabriel is now disfigured as a Demon, so all of the angels that greeted him on his first trip are now enemies and Heaven is the last level(s) of the game. Finally reaching God's inner sanctum again, Gabriel takes on God in order to do what he thinks is saving the world from a corrupt deity. Upon victory, God explains that he too went through the same journey as Gabriel and destroyed the God of the last world. He chides Gabriel for not realizing the consequences of his actions. God is then dissolved from existence and in a twist of irony, instead of Gabriel saving the world, the universe is extinguished, linked to the life force of that God. Gabriel is then left in the void to reconstruct the world as the new God."
The Outline for our levels looks a little something like this right now (Replace Gabriel with Samael):
1-1: Nazareth - Basic town
1-2: Blackbrick Road - Linear; minor puzzle segments at mini fortress/checkpoint areas
1-3: Virgil’s Forest - Giant tree to climb and deceptive fungi
1-4: Gnarled Shrine - Lots of plants and puzzle solving; Boss is a Stone Sentinel (Rocky/George?) First spring
2-1: Shattered Plain - Basically a war zone
2-2: Earth in Anguish - Travel between above and below ground to avoid dangerous areas
2-3: Babylon - Stretch of war torn towns to travel between; all in ruins
2-4: Azriel’s Post - Cave w/ puzzle elements; Boss is Fire Troll? Second Spring
3-1: Town of Job - Town ruled by fierce pirates
3-2: Dredloche’s Fleet - Pirate ships
3-3: Loche Fortress - Pirate castle
3-4: Ironskull Bay - Secret ruins in underwater caves w/ puzzle solving; Boss is an Undead Pirate(?) Third Spring
4-1: The Foothills - Rocky upwards area
4-2: Chasm of Eden - Cross giant chasm
4-3: The Ascent - Mountain climb
4-4: Mesiah’s Escape - Mountain peak ruins w/ puzzle solving; Boss is a demon of some kind (?) Leads to Heaven
5-1: Confrontation - Not much to do, God sends you to hell.
5-2: Fields of Asphodel - Hell.
5-3: Satan’s Mound - Volcano
5-4: The 7th Circle - Satan’s palace; Boss is another demon (?); Strike a deal with the devil, and bathe in the “Fourth spring” to gain the strength to destroy God.
6-1: Hell’s Wrath - Climbing back up from Hell into heaven; changes from caves to clouds near the end
6-2: Pete’s Gate - Getting around the gate into heaven; you’re a demon now, they won’t let you in
6-3: Heaven - Like the first time but harder because everyone wants to kill you.
6-4: Etherial Sanctum - God’s palace, tower climb/puzzle solving to throne room
The Creator’s Sin - Gods throne room where multiple iterations are fought and destroyed.
Blood of the Universe - Final confrontation in ruins
Samueal’s Folly - God explains consequences of his destruction, universe is extinguished. Samueal becomes god.
Any games that would match this story and it's settings would be greatly appreciated. I'm already messing with sprites from ActRaiser and Super Castlevania, any other games and their names or direct links to spritesheets would be greatly appreciated!