I keep having dreams about old games being way more awesome than they were, or had really cool scenes or sequels that never existed. Like last night I dreamed about a version of Final Fantasy I that was much more complex and darker in tone, that had a really cool scene with a huge bas relief carved into the wall of a cave, depicting four ancient warriors of light in a sort of big-headed hieroglyphic style that basically looked like if the ancient Babylonians carved the original Japanese box art for FF4 into a huge slab of rock. Also it was still pixel art but it was like double the NES resolution so it looked more like a PC-98 game or something. Also in the dream I had a version of Zelda 2 that came in huge box and included a ton of extravagant feelies like an artbook and a board game(!?)
Also in a similar vein this morning I found the notes I had taken after I read that
Godzilla creepypasta and had a dream inspired by it.
super tug - futuristic tugboat towing Derelict Ship
Derelict Ship - resembles whale carcass. contains different dimensions
area 1 - I can't remember this part...
area 2 - steel-floored warehouse with rectangular white windows
area 3 - sallow flesh world with floating platforms & evil fires. there are alien cadavers lying around & giant "Sabbat Witch" appears
area 4 - red haze? ghosts? purple lasers?
area 5 - darkness. red death is here. run away.
fuck, I can't remember how the areas tied together, most of the creatures or any of the game before the ship appears. useless :(
I can still visualise some of this stuff vaguely. As I recall, the "alien cadavers" were basically the space jockey from Alien, and the Sabbat Witch was some kind of giant hairy female demon/krampus thing. I can't quite remember what "red death" was, I think it was just a skull or a grim reaper or something like that. The Super Tug looked sort of like a cross between the Sub-C from StarTropics and a futuristic bulldozer.
The coolest thing though was definitely the "whale carcass" ship. It did have a "bridge section" shaped like a whale skull, but what it basically looked like was a cross between the Black Omen from Chrono Trigger and a pile of rotten shark cartilage (in other words, a
globster). Each deck of the ship was a progressively creepier and more surreal pocket universe with no consistent internal logic. Most horrifying of all, parts of it seemed to be based on Friday's final EK2 level D:
I can't remember what the player character was, and I can't even really remember what kind of game it was, though I
think it was a side-scrolling shooter. Sort of like a more satanic R-Type. I think there was also a bit before the globster ship appeared but that has all been lost to the sands of sleep.
