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Luckily, we had decided early on in development that there wouldn’t be any fall damage in the game because the game is about free exploration and we didn’t want to punish that. However, we just didn’t think that was very exciting. Lydia drives a car that can travel through dimensions so it would make sense that she could find a way to be parked way up in the sky in the Idle Lands. Our first idea was to have Lydia pick you up in her car. One of the issues we had to solve was working out how we’d get the player down from there at the beginning of the game. I thought to myself, “how do we make something like that in a first person narrative game?”Īfter abandoning the arriving by plane intro, the story had developed in other ways and we had decided that the exiled Lady Love Dies was going to be in some kind of prison cell called the Idle Lands, high above Paradise Island.
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It is one of the best game beginnings anyone has ever made, it really makes an impression. That’s quite the challenge! For those who haven’t played it, the beginning of Bayonetta sees the player fighting a huge army of angel freaks on a ruined cathedral that’s plummeting through the sky. Eventually Phil, our technical director, said to me: “I want an intro like the beginning of Bayonetta”. It wasn’t very exciting and it didn’t feel right for our game, so we shelved the idea and worked on other things while we thought about it. With this in mind, our initial story draft started with LD arriving by plane, allowing the player to see the island as they flew over it. We hoped that giving the player a bird’s-eye view of a huge vista that was ready for them would blow them away and whet their appetite for exploration. The island is quite big and you can explore the whole thing, but you don’t usually get to see the scale of what you are about to explore in games. As we were making an open world game, we wanted to start by showing the player the whole world at the start. We knew that the start of the game would depict LD arriving on the island and introducing the player to the world. In Paradise Killer you play Lady Love Dies (LD), an investigator brought out of exile to investigate the crime to end all crimes on the bizarre Paradise Island.