Totem Force (post-release thread)

Ok so this new cast could be some survivors from the experiment that escaped and fled to a different country. Remember u said some of them died and some survived so that can be canon.

The question is would they be stronger or weaker then the original? It could be either they were considered failures.

As for canon to the other story the old characters get mentioned on the news and what happened over there depending on their ending. Also would they actually meet and team up and fight together against a global threat or fight depending on their view of right and wrong.

This would make sense on the bad endings when the character joins the army or ends up as ruler. If they teamed against global threat how we make work since the mc can get god power in first game and one shot it. :joy: Rip Sammy

Unless the threat is otherworldly and stronger than the god in the first game. Maybe have a god of destruction that awakens and try’s to destroy earth.

Either way this is what my ideas are. No need to use if u don’t want to. Just finish your current wips first.

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Hi all. My friend Sen, the Totem Force cover artist is in a bad situation, and has set up a Kofi to help fund himself. Please consider donating if you can. Thanks.

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It’s the third anniversary of the release of Totem Force today, and in celebration, I’ve made quite a few posts about the game on Tumblr, if you want to look. Thanks!

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I was just playing Totem Force yesterday! I realize now that I’ve been imagining Anara’s skin colour wrong for three years—I always pictured her as dark brown for some reason.

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Honestly, it’s pretty much up to you. :sweat_smile: She’s described in the text as having “mid-brown” skin, which certainly could be darker than is depicted in the official art.

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It’s the third anniversary and I still haven’t quite got every achievement. I had fun playing it regardless and it’s has lots of replay ability.

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Hi; I recently started a Discord server. If you want to discuss the game (or any of my others) there, feel free to check it out. Thanks!

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Can anyone tell me the cut wires things please, which one should i cut?

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Whichever you prefer if it’s the one where everything was of a red color

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Yeah, it’s basically just a joke. :sweat_smile: There is no “correct” wire to cut.

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It was a fake bomb to pick whatever one u like. It was only a distraction for us

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I just finished reading this and I love LOVE it so much! I grew up watching Power Rangers and anime. I’m currently studying Japanese as well so seeing some Japanese words in the story made me laugh. :joy:

My fav references are tatemono and Pogioh. :joy: I, unfortunately, not familiar with Professor Methuselah so I hope you’ll be able to tell me who he is.

I was originally going for Chi because I thought he was the jerk rival from the story description and I have a thing for rivals to lovers trope. Turns out it was Ryu. Still love Chi though but Ryu has my heart.

Speaking of Ryu, I really love the way you handled his romance. I’m a sucker for tsuns and you wrote him really well. I love that I had to work hard to get him (I restarted ten times but it was all worth it) and he didn’t disappoint. I felt a lot of emotions (mostly fangirling) the whole time.

That climax scene though is just chef’s kiss. Like yes! Gimme that anguish and kilig feelings at the same time. :joy:

Ryu is now in my list of best tsuns and ROs in this genre. Totem Force is definitely one of my fav HG games! I’ll be sure to convince my friends to buy and play this.

Again, great job Author and I’m looking forward to your future projects!

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Thanks! I’m very glad you liked the game (and Ryu). I’m afraid that Professor Methuselah isn’t a reference (except to the Biblical figure Methuselah, who supposedly lived for about a thousand years); I just made up a generic “old superhero” name… :sweat_smile:

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Oh, I remember that game. It was such a breath of fresh air. I liked the Superhero / Power Rangers mix and obviously the anime parts were my kind of stuff too.

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Happy Totem Force Day! :partying_face:
To celebrate the fourth anniversary of release, I have written a brief look at what the start of a sequel might look like:

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The sky—or what passes for it here—is white, and yet it provides no light, and casts no shadows on the dark ground. The platform under your feet is spongy, as though it’s not really there, and whenever you touch it, little particles of… whatever it is float off in fractal spirals. It’s mostly flat, but covered in misshapen mounds which look oddly identical, and a few tall pillars stretch up into the sky. Far above you and below stretch out more platforms and pillars of the oily, spongy darkness, with dully shimmering whiteness filling in the gaps between them.

Here and there between the platforms float bright sparkling balls of glittering light. They look insubstantial, and oddly… two-dimensional? None are near enough to try jumping onto, but you’re not sure you’d want to try if they were.

From all around you, you hear them screech, the beings that were hunting you. The beings that are still hunting you; you’ve evaded them for now, but they’re everywhere. And they’re getting closer, their raw metallic screeches slowly crescendoing against the low background buzzing. And they’re the only living things here. No plants. No insects. Just these beasts and, for the last few hours, yourself.

And… you swear that every now and then, there’s something else there, watching, waiting, just at the edge of your vision, but whenever you turn to look, there’s nothing there. Could it be related to the sound of distant whispers you can’t quite hear?

Instinctively, you pull out your phone and check it again. Once again, you apparently have maximum signal (and battery too, even though you know it was under 50% before you came here), but it’s unusable. It looks like everything’s written in a thousand different languages at once, and every picture is staring at you somewhat uncomfortably.

Where even are you? This is too real to just be a dream. Is this death? Eternally hunted through this maze of dark platforms? And what happens if you fall?

Or they catch you?

A screech sounds, far closer than the others, and you turn to see one of the creatures stalking across the platform behind you. Seven red eyes glare at you from its two heads—the only colour you can see in this bland world—and its five legs are tipped in gleaming metallic claws. It opens a mouth and fluid drools from between its sharp teeth, hissing as it dissolves the dark platform. Around its feet flickers a shadow—something you yourself do not currently possess—which moves less like a real shadow and more like a two-dimensional creature that just happens to be anchored to this being’s feet.

You step backwards, stopping just in time to prevent yourself from finding out what happens if you fall.

But… what are you supposed to do? There’s no way to talk to them. There’s no way to fight them except with your bare hands.

There’s no way out.

Except down.

And to think, only this morning you were just an average teenager…

Just to be clear, I have not started working on this in earnest, and probably won’t until at least after I finish The One Chosen. Also, this would not be a direct sequel: it would be set in the same world, with similar themes and tone, but in a new location and with a completely new set of characters (some of whom are described on my Patreon, here).

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Damn, I had no idea there was a planned sequel to begin with.

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I still play it even now cos the game is that good. I wouldn’t mind a sequel even if it’s a new mc. I starting to get drawn into the teaser just now.

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A SEQUEL??? Eventho with different MC… HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE!!! :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes: :star_struck:

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Aww…just when Phil was officially mc’s boyfriend. :pleading_face:

Quite sad I can’t play as catman anymore.

The “bird” on the building scene when the mc has a feline theme going on, like mine, comes close to being British comedy gold. :rofl:

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It’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a bit now, although some things are still very much unsettled. :sweat_smile:

I’m very glad for the enthusiasm, but I feel I have to reiterate that this will not be started (beyond what I’ve already posted) until at least after I’ve finished The One Chosen, and I can’t see that happening in at least the next year.

Well, hopefully you’ll like one of the new guys just as much as him. Or you’ll fall in love with another side character and coerce me into making him romanceable. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Well, now I have to remind myself what I wrote back then… :sweat_smile:

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