General…
I would like it to be like an investigation action RPG where you basically hunt supernatural beings. The investigation side to the game will come from maybe searching hotel rooms for clues of what happened there if there has been a murder. You could find things like a blood trail, footprints a secret door or something along those lines. The camera angle for the game will be above head and be similar to the look of the old Zelda and Pokémon games. You play as a ‘Van Helsing’ type character in the modern day who hunts supernatural beings in a city scape in the style of GTA. You are a crime scene investigator and you’ve always noticed strange scene’s that can’t be explained but you’ve just disregarded them until one case where you decided to look into to further and start researching supernatural occurrences. The reason you are hunting these demons and supernatural beings is because one of them has kidnapped your wife after you started searching for more information on the supernatural and you are looking for clues to which one has taken her and where she might be. The sorts of antagonists you will come up against are vampires, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, demons, zombies and all sorts of supernatural beings. You’ll also encounter NPC’s in the game which will help you on your way to finding your wife, these might be people who also hunt the supernatural and have information how to kill certain enemies. They could also be people you are just helping because they have some sort of ghost haunting them and they need help getting rid of it.
Leveling…
You will level up by killing enemies to gain experience, you can also gain experience by trading in rare items that will be difficult to find, and they will be traded into a NPC. Experience will be used to level up stats like endurance to run longer and dexterity to move quicker, I will also add stats like improved investigation but I haven’t decided how they will work yet. You will also be able to use experience to level up weapons and armour if you feel that is more useful to you then stats at that time in the game.
Weapons, Armour and Items…
There will be a range of weapons you can use like pistols, shotguns, machine guns, rifles, swords, bows, daggers, glove claws, spears, baseball bat, shields, stake etc. The reason for the range of weapons is that you will need different weapons for different enemies like for example guns may not work against vampires but a sword or stake will and the same goes for other enemies so you will have to find the weapons before you can defeat them. The weapons will be obtained via NPC’s or just finding them in places some will be hidden if they are rarer, and some will be rare drops from defeating enemies. There will be armour in the game and the heavier armour you wear the slower you move and the lighter the quicker you move. It will be stuff like enchanted clothes because you can’t wear armour in a modern city because it will look out of place. Items in the game will be all sorts of things that can be collected like painkillers and medicine of some sort if you get injured for healing. Also things to collect will be add-ons to weapons like for killing werewolves you would need to find silver bullets and other things of that nature.