Inferno of Anger 2

PREMISE
Inferno of Anger 2 is a metrovania/dating sim hybrid.

STORY
Blasé with his romantic relationship with wuxia serial writer Deng Xiaoai, Pan Fernández-Schrödinger takes her cat, Galford, on scenic trips through the Wudang Mountains and often Guishan, the turtle hill, near Wuhan every weekend. This ritual of escapism meets a horrific dream-punching end when Pan’s motorcycle crashes into a person, flinging him and the cat overboard. When Pan regains consciousness, the cat is nowhere to be seen, and Pan himself has been vaulted off a cliff.

Overwhelmed with a sense of guilt for Galford, Pan traverses the rural countryside to find him. At first it seems normal, but Pan soon crosses a threshold into necromantic terror. With that, a flash appears before Pan’s mind, it was a jiangshi that lunged in front of his motorcycle. The new otherworldly adversaries become a proxy of Pan’s lingering guilt. Pan begins a swath of revengeful fury against the beckoning undead.

INTENT
Inferno of Anger 2 is a game about sophisticated martial arts, underlying reward-tension, and the mysteries of life. Shaped around the idea of grotesque hedonism and closet guilt, Pan finds himself not only in a world of dangerous creatures, but of dangerous love as well. Set in an open world, Pan is entrapped by the flavor of wanderlust. The pastoral Arcadia is full of treasures, women, and perils, but it is up to the player and his handful of martial art skills to conquer them.

The game will utilize a key-lock system involving skill powers; however, acquisition of these powers will be non-linear and can be retrieved from both quests and exploration. Exploration into the deeper regions will require combining skill power use. Searching deeper in the wilderness is searching deeper in the consciousness. That is, if it exists. Adjacent to this system will be Pan’s ability to charm the village-folk. Not only does this provide a deeper interaction between Pan and the game’s environment, it also sets up themes about debauchery and bureaucracy.