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Relationships to other games?

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  • 09/29/2020 08:21 PM
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So, you might have noticed that this game shares a name with another game. While the setting of that game was more fantasy, it was still mostly post-apocalyptic, in it's own way.

I actually think of this game as a meeting point between the original Heaven's Gate, and Bunker 9, as it kinda took inspiration from both. Though, you might argue that Bunker 9 and Heaven's Gate are related in that they both concern themselves with interdimensional portals, with Bunker 9 having hints and suggestions leaning towards being in the Matusomri Series (ie: these three games).

The original Heaven's Gate had no such referencing to previous games. If anything, it was build as a small love-letter to the Might and Magic series. That's a property this game retains in it's own way, but, the referencing to the Matsumori Series is certainly more observable. Of course, Masako (Matsumori Days, Konae's Investigations)has a cameo appearance as the innkeeper in Middlegate. That much I provided as public information. However, and this might be considered a minor spoiler here...

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...she also provides the final boss fight. She's certainly not as tough as she could be! However, given the limitation of no plug-ins, and that it probably wouldn't feel fair if she just wiped you regardless of what you could do, well, I'd like to think I did what I could.


Actually, I'm looking at my games, and there's a mess of tie-ins! Naturally, the "Matsumori Series" are tied to each other. However, there is a cameo of Princess Gojo Sakura (Chance Encounter, Oracle of Askigaga) in Arbiters From Another World. This was absolutely done on purpose to link Oracle of Askigaga to the Matsumori Series, and gives players another look into the world in which the cast from Arbiters From Another World came from. However, the cameos of Mina (Arbiters From Another World) and Masako in Baclyea Revolution were expressly not intended to link that game to anywhere else. Rest easy, the cameos that exist in Baclyea Revolution are just cameos!

So! While I'm not sure if this train of thought was going in this direction, maybe I should veer away from the interconnections a tad? Maybe. Then again, I have, on more than one occasion, considered a remake of Uchioniko, and have done a little bit of work in that regard? I dunno. It seems all I do anymore is event-games. Not that such is a bad thing, necessarily because I earn more MakerScore that way, but, it might be nice to do something completely and utterly unrelated to anything I've done so far. I was kinda hoping the Trials of MV event would get my creative juices pumping, and create that opportunity. Yet, here we are.