Immortal Mantis
SEQUEL DEMO RELEASED!
You can play it in: https://bit-life.itch.io/immortal-mantis-revenge-demo
GLES2 renderer + Tiny updates
-Updates:
- New portrait of the policeman, to make it clear that he is injured.
- Fixed the name "Sergei", which was previously "Serguei"
Portrait preview:
Some corrections + Immortal Mantis 2?
- Translation issue : Ending two newspaper says the girl is a half-sister, but the correct translation is "step-sister", because they don't have any parents in common.
- Adding dialogue on the phone, Akin says he needs to go get the gun anyway. Some people are confused about what to do after calling the police.
- Going from the end one menu to the main menu did not reset the ambient sound. Now it's fixed.
- Added dialogue when getting the hut password to make it clear that it is necessary to leave.
About Immortal Mantis 2:
Yes, the game is being made. It's at the very beginning of the project, but I'm really excited!
I'm planning a gameplay that will switch between Mantis and its step-brother. In the Mantis part, you will enter people's houses and kill them, while as a policeman the player will investigate the murderer's case.
In my opinion, one thing that was lacking in the first game was a mantis chase after the player, I confess that my limitation as a programmer prevented me from doing it, but I am studying how to do this and I have already arrived at some interesting results.
Probably the game will not be called "Immortal Mantis 2", I want it to be a game that anyone can play, even without the experience of the first one. For that, my initial idea is to add a playable intro, which will explain everything about the story that is important:
I'm also already working on some scenarios:
It's all very early and open for changes, I think it's a good time to accept suggestions.
BIG UPDATE!
- New artwork and all-new text that explains the Mantis lore a little better
- New menu, among the options there is a load to encourage players to get the ending 2
- It is now possible to pass the texts by pressing the interaction key (ENTER / A)
- Other small juices.
Ending 2:
- Gameplay remake, with new items that better explain the story
- New rotoscoping animation
- New cutscene in the hut
- Improved cop interaction final scene, SPOILER: Now you can rip his head off.
- Cop scene, small change in lore SPOILER: Mantis no longer calls him brother.
- Added ending dialog at the end of end two
- Interactions in all papers outside the house
Paintings puzzle:
- Added new paper that indicates the need to check paintings
- Dialogue with the paintings at the time of the puzzle will facilitate the resolution
- Time for the hint to appear reduced
- Diary text has been slightly changed
- Paper symbols that indicate colors caused confusion, the tip has been simplified for better understanding.
Improved dialogs and orientation:
- Wrench location made easy through dialogue and with arrow
- Indication of need to check windows through dialog and brighter windows
- Less disorienting paintings puzzle (see notes above)
- Switch dialog indicates you need to leave the house
- Gate dialogue points to unlocked room and can also be repeated
- Round the Corns puzzle REMOVED (All-new puzzle added)
- Improved awkward transitions in the cornfield
Mantis in the hut:
- Small room, so people don't try to walk around the Mantis
New gun puzzle:
- Now the weapon is locked in the graveyard.
- Small cutscene when picking up the weapon.
Other adjustments:
- Reduces the effectiveness of spamming all buttons in the final scene to reload the weapon
- Transition from rotoscoping to engings much smoother
- Player freezes until the fade is over when fixing the wires
- Minor adjustments to translations
Some necessary changes
Changes to the English translation:
- There was a text in the sink that at one point was not translated, now it has been fixed.
- Some words didn't have the exact meaning, some of them caused disorientation in the player.
- A text in the second ending (in the drawing) only appears in English as "..."
General adjustments:
- The sledgehammer in the hut has been made more visible.
- Improved the Mantis walk animation in the hut when you try to escape by dodging him.
- Cemetery gate collision was increased, it was a bit annoying to enter.
- Sound of paper in the cabin playing without the paper being there
- Reset to the appropriate ambient volume.
- "The clue", there was a problem that if you interacted and quickly flipped the paper sprite it wouldn't disappear.
- The esc button now shows the "Quiting in..." in red not to be confused with the "Quiting in..." window.
- Reduced glitch in the final two family photo.
Additions:
- Change in the paintings puzzle, after a certain time a hint will appear.
- New achievment, if the player solves the riddle ahead of time, he will receive the "Genius" achievement, otherwise he will receive "Not a genius" achievment.
- Small rework of the "puzzle" where you need to get the gun back in the cornfield.
- New animation when the character goes to sleep (before, he teleported to bed and teleported out again).
- I noticed that several people wanted to interact with the headstones in the end two, so I added dialogue with each one.