Level Design Documents

[Winston1]

I can't exactly post this directly on the forum, so here's a link to Robert King's site;

sites.google.com/site/cirianmedievilresurrection/Home/levels

He was a designer on Resurrection and has the level design layouts for Scarecrow Fields and Pumpkin Gorge posted on his site.

[Garden Variety Zombie]

Those are really interesting, thanks I guess you never think about HOW the levels are built and how it all works, just what is in them.

Also I thought some of the icons on the map are pretty cute

[werck]

Interesting, thank you!

[InnocentSam]

I shall read deeply into these later!

[cryptoshadow]

Sweet! Thanks for the link! :-D

[crashtefano]

Man, these ones are very nice...
I might try Resurrection someday

[mortus]

Levels are the same as levels in first MediEvil. There's only better textures.

[rawtalent]

More like inspired by, the levels in the most part are laid out somewhat differently with only key elements being the same.

[Garden Variety Zombie]

Dec 31, 2013 20:34:02 GMT mortus said:

Levels are the same as levels in first MediEvil. There's only better textures.

They share the same name and some of the same features, but I would hardly say they are just upgraded textured versions of Medievil 1 levels.

[InnocentSam]

Dec 31, 2013 22:38:41 GMT Garden Variety Zombie said:

Dec 31, 2013 20:34:02 GMT mortus said:

Levels are the same as levels in first MediEvil. There's only better textures.

They share the same name and some of the same features, but I would hardly say they are just upgraded textured versions of Medievil 1 levels.

Agreed. For one, the pirate level isn't even in MediEvil 1

[mortus]

I didn't say that it's the same models. I mean that in MediEvil Resurrection levels are the same.
e.g. Graveyard, Hilltop Mausoleum etc

[Garden Variety Zombie]

Some are somewhat similar, and even the ones that are, are nothing like their Medievil 1 versions.
For example, explain to me how the two versions of the Graveyard are anything like each other? They are completely different and clearly not just upgraded texture wise.

Not being rude, but are you sure you've played Resurrection and not just a version of Medievil 1 on the PSP by accident?

[Dan's Friend]

I think he meant both games have most of the same levels. Which is a given, since Resurrection is a remake, after all. Can't have a remake without a lot of the same.

[mortus]

I've played Resurrection on PSP and MediEvil 1 on PSX. I know both parts. I know that's a remake. I mean that this parts are not as different as a MediEvil and MediEvil 2. It is a pity that instead of remake we don't have a third part.

[Garden Variety Zombie]

Saying both of the following:
"Levels are the same as levels in first MediEvil. There's only better textures"
"I didn't say that it's the same models. I mean that in MediEvil Resurrection levels are the same.
e.g. Graveyard, Hilltop Mausoleum etc"

Without specifically saying something like "The names of certain levels are the same", you can see why I might have thought you were getting it wrong, right?

On a side note: As we have later found out (and I found this really interesting) from the question we later got to ask developers or people involved with the series, Resurrection actually featured a lot of stuff that had to be cut from Medievil 1 (like the duck shooting, as evident by a file name being found inside Medievil 1 for example).
So essentially Resurrection was a next generation directors cut of Medievil 1.

[Winston1]

Jan 1, 2014 12:22:08 GMT Garden Variety Zombie said:

Saying both of the following:
"Levels are the same as levels in first MediEvil. There's only better textures"
"I didn't say that it's the same models. I mean that in MediEvil Resurrection levels are the same.
e.g. Graveyard, Hilltop Mausoleum etc"

Without specifically saying something like "The names of certain levels are the same", you can see why I might have thought you were getting it wrong, right?

On a side note: As we have later found out (and I found this really interesting) from the question we later got to ask developers or people involved with the series, Resurrection actually featured a lot of stuff that had to be cut from Medievil 1 (like the duck shooting, as evident by a file name being found inside Medievil 1 for example).
So essentially Resurrection was a next generation directors cut of Medievil 1.

As far as we know, the only thing featured in Resurrection that was cut from the original was the duck mini-game. I really would not say that Resurrection was a next generation directors cut of MediEvil. If that were the case, than it would have been more like the Resident Evil GameCube remake and would have featured levels cut from the original such as the Mortan the Worm mini-game. I've said it before, but I really don't think of Resurrection as being a remake of MediEvil 1. Rather, I see it more like a reimagining, or a "what if" version of the original, similar to Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. It basically took the plot, characters, and levels of the original and did something completely different with them. Some of the lead people who worked on Resurrection even refer to it as reimagining of MediEvil rather than a remake.

[Garden Variety Zombie]

This is what made playing the game awkward for a lot of people, not knowing that kind of stuff. It would have been cool if the developers were allowed to put a diary entry in Dan's Crypt or something about this kind of stuff.

[Winston1]

A little late reply, but I was thinking and, yeah, that probably is the main thing that was awkward and turned off a lot of fans of the original, myself included. People generally went into this game expecting a straight-up remake of MediEvil 1 and that's not what they got. They wanted the same Gothic, Tim Burton atmosphere and the same exact levels and the same characters and a similar but improved gameplay system. Instead, what they got was a game inspired by the original. I suppose that's not entirely the game's fault, since Producer Piers Jackson did kind of promise ahead of time that players weren't going to be getting any of those things. But I think if the team had focused a little more on explaining just how different Resurrection really was from the original, then perhaps the reception from some people would have been a little more forgiving.