Level One- Detail

LEVEL DESCRIPTIONS

LEVEL ONE: GUILIN CAVERNS AND JUNGLE
Objectives: Escape the Dungeon
Sub-Objectives: Follow tutorial prompts: Bandage self, get gun from storage space, break lock, and choke guard

Level Description:
Mei and her uncle are taken to a cavern in a cliff side that houses not only one of Liu Gui’s war machines in the making but also produces mechanical infantry in the form of golems. With guards as well as mechanical golems, Mei and Uncle Chang are under intense guard, being kept in a dungeon within the cavern.
However, Mei won't give in without a fight.
The player needs to her protect not only her life, but her uncle's life as well. When the player attacks one of the guards near the cell at the beginning o fthe level, they receive a prompt to "choke" the guard. When Mei does so, her hand begins to flow red and she absorbs his life. This is how Mei leanrs she has the ability not only to give life but to also take it away!
The player can use this new ability, as well as the matchlock gun and other pick-up ranged and melee weapons in the leavel, to make their escape out of the dungeon and out of the compound. Howin is used to reach items of interest that are out of reach, such as keys.
As soon as the player escapes, there is a cinematic showing Uncle Chang becoming hurt and afflicted with ricin poisoning injected into him through a tiny tube. He will die without an antitoxin dosage, obtainable only from the ingredients found within the forbidden garden labyrinth outside the boundaries of the temple sanctuary.
LEVEL DETAIL:
The level opens with a tutorial stage, in which the player is informed as to how to perform certain actions. You will be prompted in the following manner:
-Move character in any direction
-Move camera in any direction
- You will be told you are bleeding from the raid and should use a bandage: Look for a bandage
-Pick up a bandage from the inventory floor.
-Go to inventory to heal self with bandage.
-Channel Uncle Chang: Use his advice to check in the storage space between your cells to find the gun.
-Inspect a “weak spot on the wall”
-Kick the wall to break down a portion of it.
- Inspect the bag
-Pick up gun and ammo.
-Shoot lock off the cell. (triggers cinematic where you use Neogenesis ability on the sleeping guard that wakes up)
-End Tutorial Stage-
Golems begin approaching from the end of the hall- some are ranged, some are equipped with melee weapons (clubs)
-Target enemy
-Zoom in on approaching enemies for a better shot.
-When one of the enemies gets closer, you will be prompted to use the Neogenesis command.
-Prompt to release Uncle Chang from jail.
Once Uncle Chang is released, you will explore the lower level of the dungeon to find a way out. There are enemies, including more golems, positioned along the way. Uncle Chang will have his own health bar and will need to be protected. If he dies, the mission will fail and you will have to restart the level from the golem fight.
-Prompt to use Howin to get key (in a stone dragon statue’s mouth) to upper level of cavern.
Use the key to open a locked door leading to the upper level. There are tougher enemies here. You will get another key, which leads to the way outside.
Open door to go outside to the courtyard
Boss Fight: Falun Khan, boss. Lead Falun Khan to the edge of the cliff to push him off.
(End of Boss Fight cinematic: One of Falun Khan’s followers poisons Uncle Chang.
-Prompt to Heal Uncle Chang using a reverse of the Neogenesis ability.
-Prompt to mount horse outside post. (you will hoist Uncle Chang onto the horse as well)
Ride horse (with Uncle Chang) down path to the temple sanctuary. Uncle Chang’s health will be diminishing, and you will have to reach the cave within a time limit or he will die, which will result in objective failure (you will restart at just after the Boss Fight).
-Prompt to talk to friendly NPC: the monk.
-Prompt to save at well.
-Prompt to “Talk with Uncle Chang”- access menu for upgrades, etc.
-Prompt informing you as to your next objective (the second level)

THE GARDEN LABYRINTH
Objective: Obtain a flower, a seed, and a dragon’s claw to make the antitoxin needed to cure Uncle Chang; defeat the mad scientist.
Level Description:
Mei learns from Uncle Chang that the cure fo the ricin poisoning is an extremely rare flower believed to be extinct for 10,000 years. The last living flowers are inthe possesion of a mad scientist living in a walled-off artifical garden. Other ingredients will be needed as well.
The player begins in the forests of Guilin. Howin alerts the player to the presence of hidden dangers such a lurking tigers and snakes.
Once the player reaches the garden, they must solve a puzzle of rotating stones to gain entrance. Once inside, strange robotic demons and biomechanical ceratures and booby traps make the garden treacherous and challening for the player. Once the player manages to make their way through the labyranth, they must enter a huge greenhouse, where the flower is housed. Mei must fight off the mad scientist and a giant mechanical snake-dragon to obtain the flower.