Lose the bad sex jokes and Kripke's cringe humor in general, especially at serious moments at Frenchie's funeral and after Homelander's defeat.
Soldier Boy and Ryan. Basically just have them bond throughout the season. Soldier Boy obviously doesn't like his son, so he sees the next best thing in his grandson, a chance to start over and be the father the kid needed before his father can fuck him over. Ryan tries to talk Soldier Boy into turning against his father and Ryan tells him what Homelander did to his mother, that has Soldier Boy rejoin Butcher and co against Homelander in the end
Closure between MM and Soldier Boy. MM kept in the rage all his life at Soldier Boy, but now that he sees that he's a jaded supe that had the antichrist for a son. Gives a speech that all the trauma and anger that consumed him all his life, he wants to break the hatred and revenge cycle and move on with his own family. Soldier Boy would apologize for killing his grandfather and what he's done to his people in general. They shake hands and move on with their lives
Soldier Boy reveals that Stormfront is Homelander's mother, Homelander realizes he pulled the Oedipus complex of the century and fucking loses it and goes complete scorched earth, organizes the Supes that are completely loyal to him and pledges to deliver them into the promise land aka his plan from the comics where he conquers America and takes Washington and a montage of attacking NYC, De Moines, Vought Tower in ruins, etc aka fulfilling his threat/promise from season 3. His final plan is to reverse engineer the Goldokin virus that will turn everyone into supes.....if they can survive the process that is.
Starlight actually wins a fight. Something that pissed me off throughout the series is how Starlight's powers were undermined and nerfed. So what I would've done is she beats Oh Father and breaks out the Starlighter camps
Noir II doesn't die. His narcolepsy actually comes into play. He passes out mid fight and Deep thinks he killed him, then Noir II goes into hiding. Noir II would find Starlight and tell Starlight about how the ocean wants Deep dead, which then lead to Starlight dropping him in the ocean like in the episode we got
Killing off Sister Sage. Sister Sage getting off with zero consequences did not sit right with me. She is one of the more evil characters in the show (while not complete psycho display like Homelander) but man she is directly involved with building Homelander's brutal regime (freedom camps) and responsible for so many innocents deaths. Also, her orignal plan to cause a purge and sit in a bunker like some moron. MM bonding with her felt so forced to me (a guy whose family died fighting vought). I don't care if she is… "QUIRKY". And she raped that one guy in Gen V, so yeah, fuck her.
There are two ways we can go about this. 1. V1 grants Homelander telepathy to a level where any barriers she put up were useless and she killed her the moment he caught wind of her treachery or 2. Butcher killed her with the tentacles because she played both sides and fucked them over in the past.
Then we get a final battle at the white house after Homelander goes scorched earth(aka keeping his threat/promise from season 3)
Butcher, Kimiko, Ryan, Marie, Starlight, Noir II, Soldier Boy aaaand a returning Maeve face Homelander.
Butcher's tentacles goes Doc Ock sized, Starlight absorbs the electric grid of the entire state, Marie uses her blood powers and Maeve kicks his ass. An actually epic fight scene that displays their individual powers and Homelander in peak V1 power Marie uses her blood powers to hold Homelander in place and Soldier Boy concentrates his power so it only takes his powers away.
Homelander loses his power and begs for mercy and Butcher tries to kill him, but Maeve stops him. "This isn't justice. If you kill him like this, Vought will just make another" and John begs that he will testify and they can bring them down together.
The least Butcher can do is knock him out with the crowbar.
Butcher would try and do what he did because he doesn't trust that things will go as smoothly as Starlight and Maeve make it seem and Hughie has to kill him.
Ending beats
Vought's assets are liquidated and effectively dead.
Compound V is harder to find than breaking into the Vatican's archives
Stan Edgar, Ashley, Soldier Boy and Homelander all get life in prison.(although I would have Homelander "transferred" so Butcher can kill him after everyone is sentenced and before Butcher's death)
MM and Monique get married and take in Ryan
Kimiko lives in France but watches the wedding on face time
Hughie and Annie have a daughter
Ryan and the Gen V kids form their own team to show that supes can be actually good heroes and maybe hint at Ryan and Zoe being a thing
–This has always bugged me, how young the characters are and that the time passes so slowly. I would have either aged them up and have time pass equally or have each book be what occurs in a years.
–IF WITH EACH BOOK PASSED A YEAR, in the beginning of Winds of Winter Arya would be 14, Sansa 16, Jon 19, Dany 18, Bran 12/13, Cersei and Jaime 38(?, Tyrion 29, Margaery 19, Tommen 11, Myrcella 13, Arianne 27(?, and Brienne 23, Theon 24/25 and Sam 23.
This would, knowing George, cause more possibilities of sexual violence to the female characters. Arya, Sansa and Myrcella are the most possible candidates for this, because Dany at the beginning of Winds of Winter is already a dragonrider and probably the most powerful person in the Known World.
—IF WE CHANGE THE AGES AND LEAVE THE TIME AS GEORGE PUTS IT (2 years pass during the course of five books) we could have Dany start the book being 15 (which is much more historically accurate anyways), Jon 16, Sansa 14, Ary 12, Bran 11, Margaery 16, Brienne her canon age, Cersei and Jaime 35, Tyrion 26, Joffrey 15, Myrcella 13 and Tommen 10. The rest can be left with their canon ages.
This too would, knowing George, increase the chance of Joffrey sexually assaulting Sansa or even Tyrion deciding to consummate the marriage. It would also be, knowing George, possible that Arya and Myrcella suffer this two, or they could be given romances. I mean, knowing George he might have Myrcella making out with one of the Sand Snakes in Dance with Dragons. This would not be terrible, but it would be very sexualized instead of just romantic.
Diversity
–This is another thing that bothers me, the lack of diversity. ASoIaF has a lot of human races, but most are white, we could fix that.
–MAKE THE DORNISH UNQUESTIONABLY POC the dornish could be, as many fancast them, based in Indians.
–MAKE THE FIRST MEN NOT WHITE EUROPEAN the Starks and all the northerners could be based in the natives of Alaska, Greenland, Canada and Siberia.
–MAKE THE VALYRIANS BLACK the three Valyrian houses, Velaryon, Celtigar and Targaryen could be black. Essos is a big continent and we already have proof that there are people of color in the continent (Dothraki)
–MAKE WESTEROS HAVE FIRM ALLIANCES WITH THE SUMMER ISLANDS AND YI TI this will make a possibility of a more diverse Westeros. Many could be immigrants or other could be mixed (and honestly if Yi Ti is that rich they should definitely have an alliance with the country)
–GIVE THE DOTHRAKI POVS AND POSITIVE TRAITS Dany's most ardent followers and first culture to embrace her are also people and people and their cultures have good and bad things. Dany's loyal handmaids and kos should have POV characters during Feast for Crows they could have POVs showing how they see Dany and the situation and the changes, showing their relationships with one-another, what they like and don't like.
Women & Warriors
–Was always kinda weird to me how Dany, Who was abused by men many times, doesn't try to train or even carries a knife around (that I remember)
–MAKE DANY AN ASPIRING WARRIOR from book one Dany could have been training with the Dothraki or Jorah. She is shown to be very physically active, so why not training?
–MAKE IRRI AND JHIQUI WARRIORS the Dothraki could have women being physically active, using bows and whips if not arakhs.
–HAVE DANY TRUST IN HER DRAGONS MORE this is something many might not agree with, but Dany should have leaned in her family's strength more without forgetting who she is alone. Her bond with her dragons is special and she should have completely refused to lock them up, or have them out sooner.
Lets be honest. The franchise is a mess and it's never going to reach the heights of the original or even the remake. The 3D timeline is an abomination and 2022 is just awful. I love TCM 2, and 3 has some great bits. But god is 4 embarrassing. So let's try to fix them.
So I looked up Hooper and Henkel's original concept for TCM 2.
It was going to be named 'Beyond The Valley of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and originally involved an entire town full of cannibals, not just the Sawyer family. And the Hitchhiker survived and was supposedly tied to a tree by the family due to his injuries. And Sally was slated to return as well.
In my opinion they could've done this for the third and fourth movies.
It would be an easy explanation to have the town of Newt be cannibals and instead of Leatherface suddenly having new family members, he goes to known associates of the family, "neighbors" if you will.
Leatherface somehow survived and is taken in by the Slaughter Family's "Neighbors" the Sawyers.
Chop-Top is the family member who's taken alive.
Those neighbors would be Tex, Alfredo and Tinker.
Leatherface would have severe burns from the grenade and a hole in his stomache.
And instead of Sally, it's Stretch, cause Sally is institutionalized.
Stretch and Benny would work together to save Michelle
In the Next Generation. An easy fix is that.
Leatherface is in the Grandpa role. Gunnar Hansen would return to play him.
The whole "Illuminati" conspiracy is just the town conspiracy of the town cannibals.
There would be a side plot of Stretch meeting Sally. She fills her in on everything that happened. Lefty's death and the cannibal town of Newt.
The new Leatherface is the daughter from TCM3 and instead of being cringey and awful, she is completely and utterly unhinged and enjoys it more than Bubba ever did. The best part? She's takes her doll's name, Sally. The final mockery of the one who got away.
Vilmer and W.E are the other members of this new family with the Mayor of Newt as the matriarch and she bares the conspiracy for all to hear. Claims that "cannibalism is the trade and life stock of this town. Always has been. The Slaughter Family was the backbone, they inspired the rest of us."
And then a returning Chop-Top as the guest of honor.
An aged Bubba makes happy cannibal noises at his brother's arrival.
"Far out Bubba, you're the new Grandpa!"
Chop-Top tells Bubba and the new Leatherface "it's time to kill the fucking bitch"
Stretch comes to the rescue and blasts the family, killing W.E, Vilmer and head cannibal Mayor.
While the new Leatherface chases after Jenny and Chop-Top proclaims he's gonna finish what he started all those years ago.
…and Bubba finally finds the strength to get up. He even puts on the old Pretty woman mask and takes his old chainsaw. They won't get away, not this time. "dog will hunt" as his brother always said. This is for Nubbins. For Drayton and for Grandpa.
They chase Stretch, Jenny and Michelle throughout the town. The slaughterhouse, the old Slaughter farmhouse and the mental hospital where Sally is waiting for them.
It ends with Jenny and Michelle double teaming killing the younger Leatherface, Sally shoots Bubba in the chest with a shotgun and Sally saws his fucking head off and finally, Stretch kills Chop-Top
"Any last words?"
"The saw is fami-" Stretch shoots him in the head.
Stretch, Michelle, Jenny and Sally all leave from a safe distance. Stretch gets a call on her walkie talkie from Benny
"Are you safe? over"
"Yes, I got Michelle and the latest survivor and even Sally. We're all at a safe distance to watch the fireworks over"
"Good, over"
and Benny presses the button and suddenly the entire town of Newt blows the fuck up. A result of Benny planting C4 all around the town of Newt and finally ending the Cannibal town.
End of franchise
This is a neat way to end the series, or at least the original timeline Cause
the original timeline never declines in quality.
Leatherface stays consistent in the first three movies, passes down the saw to his adoptive daughter and returns for one final massacre
All the survivors return for one final confrontation with the town
Chance for All-American Massacre to happen
One big family reunion
And a proper conclusion to the franchise...that will never be fucked up by shitty sequels
The problem with Kai Leng is Mac Walters desperately tried to convince us that Leng was Shepard's ultimate equal when he could barely hold his own against an aged Anderson and a Drell with terminal cancer and in the end he was a tryhard egdelord that would make Kylo Ren embarrassed.
The solution to this is make Leng deeply connected to Shepard's personal history. Making him be a ghost from Shepard's past with a personal connection would have made this character much better. His backstory could change with whatever your selections are for Shepard.
If you are Earthborn, you are both members of the 10th Street Reds
If you are a Spacer, Leng and Shepard's families served together and Shepard and Leng were childhood friends
If you are a Colonist, Leng was Shepard's childhood friend and was in the rubble with Shepard
If you are a War Hero, Leng was wounded as Shepard held off the Batarians during Elysium. Leng's survival and stand against the Batarians attack on Elysium caught Cerberus' interest.
If you are Sole Survivor, you both survived an ambush on Akuze. Only Leng wasn't taken to be experimented on. Leng was recruited into joining Cerberus for his survival. Cerberus convinces Leng that the Alliance left him for dead and so did Shepard. Leng's sense of betrayal and human supremacy leads him to joining Cerberus
If you are Ruthless, you and Leng slaughtered the Batarians on Torfan without mercy, The sense of ruthlessness inspired Leng's cold hearted exterior and human supremacist beliefs and led him to Cerberus.
Where do we go from here? Replace Jacob with Kai Leng. And the books would be his ventures with Cerberus(but less as a cringe tryhard) Jacob ultimately added to nothing. He's so fucking boring and unlikable and turns into the stereotypical black guy who cheats on you.
Kai Leng's motivation when it comes to Cerberus would be this. I would say he was a young man who wanted to serve the human race and the alliance but when he saw that the politics of the Alliance kept holding him back from doing the right thing or the greater good, he saw that Cerberus was the only ones helping humanity.
Remove the cyber ninja aesthetic and combine Soldier, Adapt and Engineer to make him a Cerberus super soldier.
As for Kai Leng. A Leng who has personal history with Shepard has potential, plus Leng being indoctrinated with Cerberus human supremacist beliefs, but also somebody with a moral conscience when it comes to the missing human colonists, somebody emotional that you could agree with or understand, contrasting Miranda as a starting squadmate.
Through the course of ME2, he would grow on you as the rest of the squadmates of ME2 did. His loyalty mission would be centered around our background. If we're a War hero, we hunt down the Batarians who survived Elysium. If we are Sole Survivor, we hunt down the Alliance officer who led their squad to Akuze. If we're Ruthless, we deal with Batarians who want revenge for Torfan who plan on giving human hostages to the Collectors. Throughout their talks, Shepard can convince Leng that Cerberus is wrong and eventually Leng's loyalty with Cerberus begins to wavers, especially after TIM sends them to be ambushed in the Collector ship.
Leng started completely loyal to Cerberus, but when he works with Shepard he sees that Cerberus is wrong, but stayed loyal, but also loyal to Shepard. When The Illusive Man asks Shepard to give the base over and when he/she refuses, he asks Leng to force it. This is where Kai Leng finally stands up to Cerberus. Kai Leng all his life, all he wanted to do is serve and protect humanity. He sees that the humans of the Terminus Systems were proceed into becoming a human Reaper and was horrified and when the man he looked up to for years says we should use what killed the humans, he gets the message we should sacrifice humanity and the costs of uplifting humanity. Kai Leng has had enough. He sees through the illusion of Cerberus and with Miranda tells TIM to fuck off and he stays loyal to Shepard.
Between the events of ME2 and ME3, when Shepard betrays Cerberus, they realize that Kai Leng is probably the strongest link between Shepard and themselves, and try to use him against Shepard. Not as lucky as Miranda, TIM does not want to lose Leng so he captures and indoctrinates Leng, making him an agent, and reprogramming his mind to become somebody he was not before, working mindlessly for TIM, as his first lieutenant in combat, much like Bucky Barnes, we have an emotional connection to Kai Leng before seeing him as a villain in ME3.
The first time we'd see Leng in ME3 is on Earth. We see this lead Cerberus Phantom in a unique mask stalking you and Anderson. And as we're leaving Earth, we see Kai Leng killing Anderson. With Shepard swearing revenge.
Throughout ME3, Leng would be stalking Shepard. Causing trouble as we encounter Cerberus. Trying to kill Eve, activating the bomb on Tuchunka and the attempt on the Council.
He would become the same Kai Leng that we all know and hate but we would be able to sympathize with him more.
When we finally confront him in Priority Citadel, we face him and omni-slash his mask off. We get the reveal. Shepard is shocked, Leng hesitates after hearing Shepard utter his name. Maybe in the Cerberus coup on the Citadel, if his loyalty mission was completed in ME2, he would not kill Thane, out of respect of a former squadmate, and regain conscious thought again for a brief moment to spare him.
It would also help to explain his inexplicable plot armor. Rather than surviving against the onslaught of Shepard due to plot reasons, he would not be killed, as Shepard still sympathizes with him, and doesn't want to kill him, sparing him and letting him escape, or not being able to fully focus, hoping there's a little bit of the real Kai Leng still in there.
Of course this would lead to multiple outcomes towards the end of the game. He could either be recruited back or un-indoctrinated somehow, but for a good plot he would only be able to turn good again and rejoin the squad way too late in the game, maybe in the last third of the game, like Legion in ME2. Bonus points if you can romance him as Femshep, would still make a better romance carrying on to ME3 than Jacob.
Otherwise, he would have to be killed and could not be saved. I don't think that convincing him to commit suicide like Saren or TIM would work, because it would be too similar to the TIM suicide not too long, and would lose impact because of it. He would have to be fought and killed one last time in combat, and have a tragic end most likely.
If we saved Kai Leng, he would've been transported on the beam. Depending on your reputation and war readiness, Leng can break through the indoctrination and kill The Illusive Man or Leng kills himself, which distracts TIM and Shepard shoots The Illusive Man. If Leng broke through and killed TIM, he apologizes for killing Anderson and being unable to control himself. If you were just friends they hug, if they were LI, they kiss. Leng's fate would be either being aboard the Normandy to put Shepard's plaque on the memorial or finding Shepard's body and bringing him back and then we'd get Shepard putting Anderson's plaque on the Normandy.
SO that's how I would've handled Kai Leng. Making him more connected to Shepard and less of a tryhard edgelord that they made him to be in canon.
Things I would change about Life Is Strange True Colors
So after multiple replays of True Colors, I've finally come up with a list of changes.
My other LIS changes
LIS
LIS:BTS
LIS 2
First change would be the logo. This was the original logo and game menu. Just keep the True Colors logo and keep the record in the title and it's perfect.
Compare that to the bland logo we got, it really works better
To help make the game longer, I would've added a prologue chapter where it's about Alex's final days in Helping Hands. We get to interact with Alex's friend Chelsea, see what happened between Alex and Mari, see the reason why Alex wants to keep her power bottled up and tries to get away from strong emotions, get the call from Gabe and end with that final session with Dr Lynn.
In general, I feel like there should've been more consequences to Alex's powers. All we get is Alex beating the shit out of Mac and taking Charlotte's anger away from her turns Charlotte into a husk of a person, and Alex pisses Steph off and of course not telling Eleanor the truth causes her to turn against you. The trailers showed Alex has the tendency to be consumed by powerful emotions and Alex constantly talked about her power like it was a curse. There should've been more build up to Alex learning to control her empathy. High Empathy leading to good choices and good ending while low empathy leads to her friends turning on Alex.
I initially thought there would be more drama like helping Charlotte forgive Ethan. Her pain towards Ethan feels understandable when your loved one's death is indirectly caused by someone who's also dearest most.
Whether Riley and Mac continue their relationship or not, it doesn't feel if there's any impact in it.
Apparently there was SUPPOSED to be consequence for taking away Pike's fear.
"if Alex took Pike’s fear away, when she was down in the mines (apparently in this draft she wouldn’t have been shot by Jed but instead would have found an entrance to the mine another way) Pike would become this “weird emotionless serial killer” and would start chasing Alex around in the mines in order to protect Diane. If it isn’t clear to you by now, the game seemed to have a much darker tone than what we ended up getting in the final game. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if that’s a good thing or not."
Honestly more consequences to Alex's powers depending on our high or low empathy should've happened in general.
I feel like more time should've been spent with Steph and Ryan. To me neither of these relationships are believable. The difference between Alex's relationship with Steph and Max's relationship with Chloe is that we spent a good chunk of the game with Chloe.
And as little time as Max gets with Warren, there is at least some substance with those scenes Max has with Warren. Warren starts up the plot of the game by getting the flashdrive, Warren helps Max against Nathan, Warren offers Max to take mind off things by asking her out on a date, Max can help Warren with his science experiment, Warren helps Max make a bomb, Warren saves Max and Chloe from Nathan, Warren takes the picture that helps Max get back and Warren is supportive no matter what choice Max makes.
Yes Ryan helps Alex in the record store, patches up Gabe, helps find Ethan and we have Ryan dealing with his grief and sorrow of losing Gabe. But that's it. Everything else is obligatory detective work or talking about trails and birds. Ryan is boring.
What we know of Warren
He's a geek like Max
He's into sci-fi, horror and a lot of obscure media
He loves science
He's helpful
a kind and sensitive nature
very shy and insecure and struggles to express and deal with his feelings, so he tries to hide that underneath humor and bad jokes
He's dealt with bullying in the background "knows how to be invisible"
He will ride or die for his friends
What we know of Ryan
He loves Gabe and his friends
He loves his dad to a fault and has good memories of his mother
He protects people
He loves birds n trails
*Cricket chirps*
I'm about to compare screen time between Chloe and Steph. I replayed both games and I counted up all the scenes in their respective games where the player is forced to have an extensive dialogue with them, this discounts optional conversations and interactions that are made of a single choice. I am counting the bare minimum number of times each game forces the player to somewhat meaningfully interact with them. Let's start with Chloe.
The truck scene
The scene talking about Rachel
The conversation after Max attempts to fix her camera, Chloe gives Max William's old camera and they reconnect
The Lighthouse conversation
Reconnecting at the diner
Funtime at American Rust
Train track walk n talk
The Chaos Theory talk in Chloe's truck
"Scary Punk Ghost"/Blackwell Ninjas
Pool
The aftermath of finding out about Rachel
Alternative reality Chloe at the beach
Alternate reality at Chloe's home
Returning to Chloe via Warren's picture
There are a total of 14 meaningful scenes with Chloe not counting optional interactions
With Steph.
Black Lantern conversation
Foosball
The LARP
The investigation after the festival
4 meaningful scenes. That's it. There's just a total lack of content regarding our two romantic options in True Colors, now sure the number of times we interact with a character doesn't necessarily dictate how much we grow to like or sympathize with said character, but it's glaring just how few meaningful interactions are had with Steph or Ryan.
Also, really? Steph and Ryan are really willing to run away with Alex so quickly in the amount of time they've known her? "I wanna spend the rest of my life with you" you knew each other for an entire month, calm down.
And I feel like there could've been more time and substance in regards to Steph & Ryan if the game were longer and were developed as an episodic game in terms of being developed like LIS 1 & 2 were. I felt like they just got all the superficial aspects of a young adult relationship, slapped it all together and called it a day. So yeah more time with Steph and Ryan is definitely needed.
In regards to the Jed & Mr Chen Twist. I felt like it was unnecessary.
Jed as a pawn for Typhon works. The whole Mr Chen being one of the miners left behind and emotion guiding Alex was so contrived and convoluted. Also it changed from Typhon to being an evil and soulless corporation to Jed being the guilty party and I strongly hate the notion of changing the perceived big bad to a lame twist from someone you trust. In LIS 1 it was Nathan and his father as the perceived villains but what a twist! It was Jefferson all along! Now it was Jed. Stop. Doing. That!
And boooy don't get me started on how impractical Alex surviving being shot and thrown down a mine shaft is.
Like if Alex can survive all that, Chloe can survive Nathan's gunshot in the bathroom.
So an easy fix would be Jed and Alex going down the mine together and Jed shooting Alex and leaving her for dead.
Just keep to the "Jed doing "Typhon's work for the devil" Add a subplot that Typhon was responsible for the death of Ann Lucan via lead poisoning or some other heinous crime. Jed and Pike were working together to bring them down. But the mining & Gabe's accidents happened. Typhon gave Jed a choice. Either he goes down with them or he gives him and Ryan a chance to live. He's a puppet, but he's being blackmailed into doing Typhon's dirty work instead of being the only guilty party of being judged. Like Pike, you should've been able to turn Jed up against Typhon in the end despite what he did to us. Honestly instead of Jed, Alex's judgement should've been reserved for Diana's boss Lena.
However, the bit I mentioned about Pike being turned into an emotionless serial killer, What we can do is have Pike purposefully screw up his and Jed's investigation and when the mine accident happened, Pike made everything go away and Typhon gave Jed the deal. Pike takes Jed's place as the hands-on villain, where he was always on Diane's side (because ACAB), and Alex thinks she's taking his fear of Diane, but in actuality, she takes his fear of everything coming to light, so that's what sparks him to take Alex to the mines, then chase her through them to try and kill her. Lena the big bad. Diane was a reluctant party and now Pike just doesn't care and wants to kill Alex to save Diane. Also because ACAB
As for the endings. This reddit post sums up what could've been.
After finishing True Colors for the first time, it felt wonderful. But after I finish the game for the second time, I don't bother to play it again as the outcome is pretty much the same. True Colors' endings don't affect me much emotionally compared to LIS1 & LIS2 endings.
Whether you choose to forgive or condemn Jed, he just broke down into tears in similar way. Unlike LIS2, you can spare Lisbeth's life and let her witness her downfall or have your revenge by killing her; you can spare the vigilantes by breaking them out of custody or let them remain locked or even killed them.
Outside LIS franchise, there're other games (e.g Bioshock 1 & 2, Dishonored 1 & 2, etc) that also gave different endings based on how the players play. Kind merciful gameplay -> optimistic endings; Harsh brutal gameplay -> darker twisted endings.
In LIS2, you can actually transform Daniel into a law-abiding citizen or a career criminal based on your morality choices. Your treatment towards your little brother will also affect the brotherhood.
Tell Me Why is another worthy mention because it's a choice-based game developed by DONTNOD. Despite it's not a LIS game, it's still able to capture similar energy with LIS1 and your choices do matter. Since the game focuses on twin siblings reunited after many years of separation, good choices will strengthen their bond; bad choices will strain their relationships -> their conversations become less compassionate but more awkward.
Since True Colors is about empathy, they should give us different endings depend on how Alex treat people around her in Haven Springs.
High Empathy rewards happier endings like we have in game. Every council members sided with Alex for showing kindness to them. Empathy also increased by forgiving Jed, calming Mac down that earn his respect, helping other people in Haven (e.g a guy who lost his dog, telling two people that they were in love with each other, etc). In the end, Alex would use her power to help people in need, also being kind, merciful and show forgiveness.
The worst ending is nobody believed Alex in the final confrontation, Jed & Typhon got away and Alex was forced to leave Haven and go back to foster care. Harsh reality, some bad people do get away (e.g Chad & Mike in LIS2 EP4; if you chose to hit Hank & steal the camping gear, Hank would be labelled as a 'local hero' in the newspaper in LIS2 EP2). Low empathy would cause Alex abuse her powers to manipulate others, make others look worse like how Alex chose not to calm Mac down.
Second-worst ending is low empathy with nobody believed Alex except Pike. Alex hard-exposed Jed & Typhon that they had to face their crimes in the end. The whole town resent Alex as they were still in denial how their local hero turned up to be a liar, miners losing their jobs in Haven.
Neutral ending is half of the town believed Alex. Jed & Typhon were exposed and the town initially was in denial but eventually accept it. Alex would use her powers to help good people, but manipulate others who are bad (I'll show you kindness if you're kind, I'll give you asshole treatment if you're being an asshole). Neutral may be achieved like Alex calmed Mac down, but condemned Jed.
What bugs me is there are absolutely no consequences for the actions you take in the game. In LiS 1&2, and BTS you can get people killed if you do the wrong thing, you can ruin lives and end relationships if you commit to the wrong choices. There is absolutely no consequences in this game in the end. No matter what you do it ends the exact same way and you get to choose your own happy ending it feels so unearned.
So yeah big things I would've changed.
Helping hands Prologue chapter
Episodes are longer lengths, episodically releases and more development for the game in general.
More negative consequences to Alex's powers
Actual development with Alex's relationship to Steph and Ryan
Keep Typhon as the villain with Jed as a blackmailed pawn
I loved Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 and if I'm being honest it was all great until Venom became a mustache twirling villain.
Venom has a great appearance, the fight was good, but his motivations was bad. Wanting world domination and pulling Web of Shadows and just the personality of a brick.
So here is how I would've changed Harry as Venom
TLDR;Dive into Harry wanting the power and feeling like Peter is stealing everything from him, the suit, his fathers love, any chance of survival. Have Harry's motivation then to take everything from him convinced that was what Peter wanted to do to him.
Have the game build up that Harry pretty much gets addicted to the suit doing heroics with Peter and Miles as “agent venom“
When Peter gets the suit, Harry slowly descends into jealousy with him having not just his cure, but his new method of really healing the world
Side note. I would've added Eddie Brock into the story. He's Peter's old rival at the Bugle and now has it out for MJ. He's a really skeevy and shady Fox News/Freddie Lounds type reporter. We help MJ prove he's a fraud and get Brock fired from the bugle. Then in the fight against Kraven or The Lizard, we destroy Brock's house and later his girlfriend leaves him. Eddie hates Spider-Man, MJ and Peter Parker and this leads him to the ending where the symbiote falls on him in the end.
Once the whole shit show of Peter going insane happens and is done with the symbiotes back at oscorp
Norman and everyone won’t let Harry near the thing anymore
But this time he goes to Harry noticing that he’s with the Symbiot and it’s like containment unit
He is also dying himself and gives him a little speech about they shouldn’t let us just with away. They should let us have all the strength that we can
To be The best version of ourselves
He released the symbiote and let Harry bond with it and tell him to meet him at Times square to fulfil his last wish
To fight the ultimate predator
Venom is born
The whole thing happens in Oscorp, but it’s not security that you’re fighting. It’s just hunters.
Venom kills kraven
This time Harry goes back to Oscorp looking normal
He pretty much tells Peter to go to hell and Norman is too occupied with the fact that is so in his healthy and the suit isn’t corrupting him from what he’s seeing
Harry then makes a speech outside of the Emily May foundation in the next days
He now declares that he is agent venom and then uses the footage of himself killing kraven and frames Peter for being this monster
This is way more personal venom that also ties in with the themes of addiction and Harry’s goal of healing the world
Instead of it being an invasion, force of aliens
It’s the symbiote and Harry using their combined hatred of Peter and desire to be a hero that they want to be a better Spider-Man
Then obviously later down this rabbit hole Harry will fight Peter and Miles as the normal venom behind closed curtains and eventually when he is outed in the public
So to sum it up. Harry gets addicted to being hero. Starts to resent Peter. Set up agent venom persona as the new hero. Uses his monstrous venom form to frame Peter. Eventually is outed, defeated and add a scene of the Venom symbiote falling on somebody else(obviously Eddie Brock to set up the Venom game)
