So, listening to The Walking Eye’s podcasting on Monsterhearts, I come back to the notion that the game really really reminds me of Scott Pilgrim. (The books, not so much the movie.) And yet it’s not actually straight Monsterhearts either–the social timeframe is changed, and the social tensions and growing-up are way more of a slow boil.
So how does that translate? Is this a Monsterhearts hack? I feel like it’d be weird to introduce a Scott Pilgrim-inspired skin into a game of highschoolers.
Also, it suggests a really interesting interpretation of Darkest Self, i.e. Nega-Scott.
I talked about this in my stream quite a long while back.
MH definetly doesn’t help you much with super cool fight scenes though…
That’s true…but on the other hand, I can’t really think of many Scott Pilgrim fights that actually wound up as super-cool involved fights.
The other interesting notion, of course, is that the key fights, especially the final “boss fight”, involve the character coming to a sort of self-understanding and/or personal resolution.