I've been working on a game for months on and off. The story is different at least for a RPG Maker game. BUT I was wondering if the game would actually appeal to anyone?
SYNAPSE:
An evil demon from Hell seeks power to gain power. In Hell he is a mere demon. A minion of the emperor of Hell. As a demon he is already immortal, but to gain the power he wants, he must bargain with the emperor of Hell. The emperor of Hell is tired of ruling a dead realm with ghouls, zombies and demons. He wants to invade Earth and Hell has a portal directly to the planet, but Hell cannot invade with brainless zombies.
Seeking power and an escape from Hell, the demon makes a ploy to his master. If the demon is granted access to a human form, the demon will travel to Earth and steal the souls of mighty warriors for the army of dead that Hell is assembling. The souls will be stolen from the warriors and channeled into soulless empty bodies that await them in Hell. Once the demon has channeled enough souls where Hell has a compitant army, the invasion will begin!
The demon however serves many masters. Known only to the demon is a second master that he serves. The emperor of an alternate world. That second emperor also seeks to conquer Earth and integrate it into the worlds that he has already conquered. He has the mightiest army anyone will ever see, and has used it to conquer many other worlds. There is just one problem. While he has a grand army, there is no portal to Earth. The second emperor has promised that if the demon open a portal from Earth to the alternate world, the demon would become the ruler of Earth.
On Earth the demon is known as a human sorcerer. He makes powerful allies and powerful foes. Craving power, the demon allies with the Chinese emperor after gaining the favor of the emperor and after killing the general of the Chinese army. The people of Earth know that the demon in a human form is evil and incredibly powerful with magic a strength that is not humanly possible! The Chinese Emperor only knows that he will use the human sorcerer to obliterate his enemies! He is a more powerful ally and a foe that could easily decimate his army.
There are dream sequences where the demon is yanked back into Hell to speak with Hell's emperor. While in Hell, the ruler of the alternate world has a messanger there to aide the demon and give him more instructions. In his human form, the ghouls, and zombies treat him as a human. They seek to eat his flesh! Hell's emperor and other demons are the only ones that recognize him for the demon he truly is underneath of his human skin.
To make things more interesting, in Hell, the demons envy the demon for his human form and ability to walk on Earth's soil. Hell's emperor can easily replace the demon if he fails or dies as a human. While a demon is immortal, his human form can die and he will be sucked back to Hell! Meanwhile, if the demon betrays the second emperor, the servants / messangers will be waiting to snatch the demon and lock him in a box for all of eternity. Demons are immortal, but they will grow mad with nothing to do trapped in a box.
Keeping things interesting. There are demon slayers, angels, the gods of Earth want to know what the demon is up to and what Hell's emperor is plotting. There are several factions that want the human sorcerer dead for killing faction members.
The game spans generations, at the destruction of the Chinese Empire by rogue invaders. The empress smuggles away her only child to be raised by someone that knows the truth about the human sorcerer. That man trains the child into a great warrior that knows the demon in human form caused the fall of his father's empire.
TWIST:
The twist is that you play as the demon / human sorcerer. You are the evil, cold one. This is not a game where you save the world and do justice. This is where you bring about an invasion through your stealing souls and opening a portal to let in an awaiting army. It will also lead to your rise to the top of your own evil empire.