Apr 3, 2010

Anime Videogame Paiyya

Whatever follows is bullshit. I've warned you.

Take the typical tamil film. The hero is more often than not, surrounded by 20 or so hitmen and one Boss. The hitmen come one by one only, mano-e-mano. They get knocked out by the hero, one by one, and after the last one is down, the first one wakes up again and comes back, you know, because he has a 1up and all. So do the rest, and after one more round, the hero finally gets to meet the boss.

Now when we look at this carefully, we see inefficiency. Let's assume the hero has 1500 hit points (and of course he has 2 lives, one of which he loses against the boss after the initial beating). Let's assume each of the hitmen have 100 xp. That makes 2000 in total. They shout, flail their arms and run from a distance of 15 metres while attacking which reduces their energy and so their HP by say, 25. So a wastage of 500 presents, and further more they don't attack together. So as a result, the hero is just weakened.

Now the boss steps up. As always the boss is huge and has special powers and resilience. So he beats the hero once. Then the hero uses his 1up, (which is a look of desperation fixed on the face of the heroine, held captive by the magically revived hitmen) and goes to challenge the boss, having figured out his tactics, and having gotten a boost. The rest is history. He finally jumps off from the tall building and grabs the flag to fireworks. All's well :)

No, I wasn't jobless. Code's compiling!

1 comment :

ravindra said...

lol funny.
nice observation,i must say!