What we really need are RPGs bold enough to do wack settings like a food-themed area, a giant toyhouse, an orchestra land and so on. The genre is 30 years behind the curve of platformers.
>>3457403You go ahead, it's easy to make a rpg nowadays
>>3457403Never played a mario rpg,huh?
>>3457403I need flesh dungeons like The Bloom from Tides of Numenera.
>>3457403Dragon Quest Monsters 3 has a dessert theme area and its as stupid as you would imagine.
>>3457403Baten Kaitos already exists my dude
>>3457403Just go play Tomato Adventure.
>>3457403It's a video game, not a movie. A candyland setting won't have any bearing on the genre. Unless you have a playable Gingerbread Cookie race with editable equipment, expiration dates, and skill inheritance through cannibalism or "spirit cooking". And even then, it's nothing new. It's just mutant/esper/ digimon character development with digital devil saga VR philosophies about number crunching "indestructible data" into desirable recycled configurations, with a looming threat of a devourer-god on the horizon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erh2ngRZxs0
>>3457403RPGs need to be built from the ground up to allow you to radically alter the gameplay and narrative based on your character build and choices.
>>3457610white cope and self insertion.
>>3457610As opposed to the top down - because this spatial reasoning is supposed to mean something.
Kingdom Hearts?
>>3459548Well yes. Top down would mean trying to impose such a design on an already established foundation, which would be highly limiting if not impossible.
Baten Kaitos has what you're looking for as >>3457573 pointed out, the first game has a "weird" area with locations like a confectionery village. The sequel goes a step further and has an area (picrel) made of actual clay.
This is one of those things I wish I went in not knowing about and was surprised with, but it also has become a driving force for me to play the game in the first place and I might have not without knowing it beforehand. Goddamn I love claymation aesthetics
>>3463391>>3463483Distracting phone posting I’m fucking struggling over here
