One game I do not and one I want to play

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Many of my colleagues know that I play computer games, so I've already been asked twice this week if I'm playing Hogwarts: Legacy. The first time a colleague I'm less close to tried to recommend it to me and I couldn't be bothered to go into more detail than that I'm absolutely not planning to play it, nope; the second time a colleague I work with a lot asked me why and I was too short on brain to come up with anything more detailed than "Rowling is a bitch, and from all I've heard the game is bad and the antisemitism is badly hidden," which thankfully she didn't ask me to elaborate on (though in hindsight I do regret a little just going with that insult, meh.)
In general I'm torn between wanting to pretend that the game doesn't exist, and wanting to know more about it so I can make fun of it more accurately. There's been a lot of disbelieving "wait what??" at our kitchen table. DD was very annoyed that they didn't manage to make a better game even though Rowling wasn't even directly involved herself.

I want a game for Animorphs instead. I found out that there was an Animorphs computer game for the Game Boy in 2000, but I'm thinking of a big, basically-open-world one. Imagine: you can turn into animals, but you have to figure out how to acquire them first, and only for a limited time; and each shape is hard to control at first and it gets easier over time, but the risk of being spotted and then this type of animal being deliberately targeted gets higher. You have to choose who to trust, you have to weigh how important it is to you to keep your identity secret… I think it could make a cool game.

Comments

[shadaras]

There was both an Animorphs GameBoy game and a PC game (and apparently a PlayStation game as well), all of which are different! The PC game was a pretty fun rpg according to my like 9yo self, but a true open world game like you're imagining would be incredible.

[schneefink]

Cool! As you can see, the extent of my research was typing "Animorphs game" into the search engine and looking at the first result ^^

I was thinking of a game basically taking place in a AU that uses the setting (and most likely several of the plot points) of the original books, but all or at least most original characters. The player character basically replaces the original Animorphs, and over the course of the game you can build a "party" of people you share your secret with and that help you out during your missions (though mostly from a distance), and then at some point halfway through or so you find a way to give some of them morphing powers too and have to decide who, etc. etc. :)

[shadaras]

That idea sounds so cool, I would play such a game in a heartbeat <3

[primeideal]

Okay it will definitely not come as a surprise but I definitely! want! an Animorphs game!!

[schneefink]

It could be really cool! The game could become more serious over time, at first you will probably spend a lot of time trying to acquire different morphs and playing around with them and so on, and then as the story progresses the decisions become harder and your family and the people you befriended are in serious danger more and more often and it is extremely hard to find the route where nobody ends up seriously injured or dead.

[vriddy]

Animorphs game :D :D I like your description!!

[schneefink]

If only I could manifest games via my mind ^^