Starting Ideas: Shikai

[Vincent Crescent]

Okay, I'm going to leave most of this to Jaransan, as it was mostly his idea to start with. Simply put, he wanted a way of each person having their own individual Shikai ability. Now in your average game, this would be...impossible, basically. We however aim to be different.

Our overall idea is that you can get various abilities which combine together to make your general shikai. In essence, this means that no one will have the abilities of the major characters from the series, however you can produce similar effects, such has healing shikai, and poison inflicting ones too.

This idea is still in its early stages, but it looks promising, so we'll keep you informed on how this goes.

[Vincent Crescent]

The idea is pretty much fully completed. We only have a few details left to sort out, and then its down to our iconner and coder to finish things off. So I'll give an update:

You choose two shikai. Yes. Two. Your first chosen shikai gives the form of your zanpakutou. So if you've chosen poison, your sword will have some relation to poison. It could be a cloud of gas, or something else. This is the iconners choice, and as such, has not really been decided as of yet.

Your second chosen shikai provides the aura. If you chose lightning, for instance, sparks would fly around your sword.

The idea behind this is that no one in any game is happy with one style. You may be a damage dealer (fire's a good choice for this), but every now and again, you might want to heal yourself, or do something different. This is where your second shikai comes in handy.

One of the main reasons for this is that training to a higher level is going to be difficult. Becoming Captain is no easy task, and keeping it is going to be almost as difficult. Hence, we're letting you have two shikai abilities.

It also adds to the customisation value, changing from a shinigami with 19 options to one with 171 options. We hope this means that its less likely that two shinigami will be the same, and even if they are, its likely they use the abilities supplied by their shikai differently!

So make sure you choose the right shikai!

[Kiyoshi]

That sounds really Unique and awesome! Man now I really want to play this, I made an account just to say this too

[Jaransan]

lol its much appreciated kiyoshi. were working on the game still but wed probably be prompted to move faster if there was slightly more forum support

[Vincent Crescent]

I'll hopefully be starting coding again either this week or next week, depending on what else is happening where I am. But its great to see support every now and again