While I know you want to keep things relatively accurate to griek myths,
perhaps a modification here for gameplay purposes might be helpful.
In Castlevania Iv, you fight medusa the Gorgon in the 2nd world. It's
obviously an action (allbeit one with extensive exploration anbd several
interesting environments and weapons), so having something like a polished
shield which you need to equip and use wouldn't be appropriate to the rest
of the game as there is no equipping or specific item use.
So instead, Medusa has two attacks. She pulls snakes from her hair which
slither along the ground at you, and fires a fireball from her eyes which
turns you to stone.
Perhaps taking this idea of making the gaze attack a projectile instead, you
could actually have the shield employed as a weapon used to bounce the
attack back at her a number of times, ----- but obviously you'd have to be
pretty quick with the shield to avoid her fireballs and stop becoming a
statue.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "clement chou" <chou.clem...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions
But if you were to have that shield, and if it did prevent Angela from
being petrified, that could be the only thing it would do, couldn't it?
Because if I remember right, Medusa would also have diferent powers other
than that... thouh that seems to be the most well-known. The shield
wouldn't necessarily have to protect against everything.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Peterson" <bpeterson2...@cableone.net>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions
That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look
at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be
some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use
a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily
turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming
petrified. That would definitely be way too easy.
We are the Knights who say...Ni!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions
Hi Bryan,
I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in
front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could
block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in
a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea
I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle.
On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson <bpeterson2...@cableone.net> wrote:
A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have
some
sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not
mistaken
didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the
dead to
life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades
complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus
killed
Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a
warning
not to tamper with the natural order.
We are the Knights who say...Ni!
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