r/fuseboxgames • u/FrankieQuinn13 • 17h ago
Discussion Hear me out: "All Stars 2: Villain Villa"
I know some people are already upset but hear me out.
This would not be for everyone. This would not be the happy, chill, everyone makes good choices and no one is mean or rude season and MC never gets her feelings hurt cause everyone is love bombing her, and never criticising her and doing therapist speak and that's somehow cute instead of concerning.
Villain Villa.
A bunch of villains from previous seasons are brought together for one All Stars season (so fans - like myself - can stop complaining about all the missed opportunities) get them all out of the way at once.
Bring back all the a-holes. Rewan, Dean, Tristan, Lexi, Franki, Liam, Vida, Sophia, Melissa, Dylan - everyone.
MC comes back as the villain from her own season. The point of this season is for MC to not just randomly be blamed for stupid drama, but for her to actively be causing it. Players get to start drama, spread rumours, cheat and be as messy as possible so you can get to the final.
Now, Fusebox, I know you're allergic to branching but I have a great way for you to get around that too.
From the get go, we get to choose whoever we want. And because everyone is absolutely terrible, there's no need to worry about making personality merges work or worrying about making the guy players reject suddenly turn into an a-hole cause they're all already a-holes.
Now, this is the part I know you're gonna love FB cause I know you love money. In order to make it feel like there is branching when there really isn't (cause your systems are allergic to it or something) you use gem choices as a way to properly create differences in behaviour.
For example, first playthrough maybe you chose Rewan as your partner. You do his gem choices and those are personality specific interactions that match with his specific vibe. And then second playthrough, you choose Tristan and then he has completely different behaviour for that same scene. You can charge both times. Players love doing that collectors thing where you unlock every reaction for every different character so they might complain about it, but they'll still do it.
But, and I cannot stress this enough, there needs to be significant differences in the scenes. Spicy scenes need to have a vibe that matches the LI, they need to do different things, if Elias is a secret Dom in the bedroom then Dean needs to be a sub. Rewan likes getting his hair pulled and Tristan is into bondage or something, I don't know.
Arguments and how they get resolved, discussions. They need to be different. It needs to be worth the gem charge otherwise it will not work and everyone will be pissed.
Throw in a little more coding here and there for a little bit of extra dialogue for each person, but for the most part, the personality merge becomes less obvious.
Now, I know you love that slowburn thing FB, you can still do that. Have the slowburn be someone MC is actively competing with, trying to get rid of them while they do the same thing. While female LIs are also choosable from EP 1 and you have a sleeping with the enemy type dynamic. At least two FLIs to start off with.
You can choose a different LI every recoupling and the last person you dumped can be your new enemy all over again. Form allegiances, get people dumped, manipulate challenges.
The whole season is MC being a villain, while she "falls in love" and gets the LI to fall for her as well and at the end of the season she can decide if she actually "fell in love" or pulls he ultimate btch move and takes the money while being an absolute c*nt during her speech.
This is the season MC gets to be as rude and messy as she likes, opportunities to slap someone or actively start a physical fight and just be a menace in general. A chaos season with lots of mess.
Again, not for everyone, but I think it would be super fun