Much of Mega Cat’s résumé so far has been work-for-hire projects, some of them using licensed properties (most recently, Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, a Vampire Survivors-alike based on the Nicolas Cage movie). WrestleQuest is the largest game his 11-year-old studio has attempted, Deighan said.

“As someone who’s had such a massive reverence for RPGs, we wanted to make sure that we were ready to commit to something that we think fans would want to play, and the time needed to balance and adjust, something that has that much content. “This is all part of why we wanted to make games in the first place, and why we started Mega Cat,” he added. And one of them in the locker room afterward, maybe what he’s doing is twisting his face back around, because he’s a toy. “What inspired the game is that same sense, these two toys are just gonna go hard in that ring. “That’s part of the high fantasy playfulness,” Deighan said. Land a particularly devastating move from the top rope, and a guy’s plastic arm might pop off. Combat takes place in the ring (usually) and follows a familiar turn-based cadence, with wrestling moves and action points nimbly taking the place of spells and mana. 8 on everything (including mobile, via Netflix), players explore a fantasy realm dotted with gyms, arenas, and even shrines to the legends of yesteryear. Joe and the He-Man characters are in the ring with Hulk Hogan, and that bout plays out, and that ended up inspiring this kind of WrestleQuest universe.” “Something that’s inspired us, heavily, is a lot of us grew up not having a ton of things,” Deighan told Polygon. The world in which the main protagonist “Muchacho Man” lives is a fantasy realm of toys, the kind a middle-schooler would spread out on the bedroom floor and mash up in glorious crossover, non-canonical throwdowns. The characters - 12 of them playable, 400 of them NPCs, and about 30 of those real-life, old-school heroes from the past 40 years - are all action-figure representations. It makes for an unexpected wrinkle in WrestleQuest’s story. I remember more about my wrestling toys,” than other sports. “Some of my favorite memories of my childhood are all around wrestling. Deighan and the younger of his six brothers were born later in his dad’s life, in his 50s. “I think he actually watched that industry come to life,” Deighan said of his father.

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