So I dipped into rom hacking recently, and while my first hack was decent at best and abysmal at worst, I would like to begin on a much larger project.
A full custom hack called Fire Emblem Utopia. I've been thinking of ways to make it stand out from other hacks for quite a while.you know, 3 days lol. And this idea came to me today, one map for every "chapter" that is quite large and is meant to be the entire in game world. In other words, a open world FE game.
Tho this isn't my only idea for this hack, it is the biggest one that I would like to implement, and as such I am curious if either FE 7 or 8 can support such a sizable map. I would stick with FE 6 but you can't do as much with nightmare as you can in 7 or 8, but if 6 is more workable with this concept, I will go back to it and forego FE2 bow range as a feature.
So in short is this workable, a good idea, or completely bonkers.
other ideas for project Utopia are a fully custom story, custom characters, a custom world set on a island, custom soundtrack, and a bunch of other nifty features.
I haven't decided on much for this hack yet other these few things that I know will be implemented regardless of where the hack winds up down the road.
the Syphon Filter theme will replace the FE theme in the main menu because nostalgia
and bows will have 1-5 range like in Gaiden because why not.
I would put screenies but I haven't even properly started on this yet and don't even know if this is a good idea, so I made this thread to disscuss my plans for this project and learn if they would even be good ideas.