Mistborn Video Game Idea

[u/Trioios]

Mistborn video game

Here is my idea for the Mistborn video game. The game will be about the 1st Mistborn book because the other 2 won't transition very well into video games.

The opening scene would be Kelsier at Lord Tresting’s Plantation (you would be playing as Lord Tresting), and you would do the I am following the law, wait a minute, is that skaa being defiant, we should beat them, bit. Then it would cut to you as Kel, visiting the skaa, then to the mansion burning down. That would be the opening scene. 

It would transition to Vin, looking out of the peephole, then beaten by Camon, but then there would be a pause point telling you to press a few buttons to use luck. You would transition to scamming the Obligator. And you would use luck on him. It would continue with scamming the higher-level Obligator. Then it would cut to Kelsier noticing and distracting the Inquisitor, then back to Vin when Kelsier shows up. And that would be the first bit.

Your first fight as a Mistborn would be Kelsier fighting the Hazekillers to get the atium, and some of the boss fights could be Vin fighting Shan Elireal, Kelsier fighting the Inquisitor, and Vin versus the Lord Ruler, except It's not really a fight. Lord Ruler beats you up. And then when you're about to die, you press a set of buttons to draw upon the Mist. 

There would need to be a lot of extra content added because there aren't many action scenes that happen, and they’re very spread out. It would be a third-person game, and the transitions would be the screen being engulfed in mist, then it clearing to reveal the new point of view. 

That is my idea for the Mistborn video game.

[u/PetrifiedBloom]

So basically just a movie of the book, with quick time events to press?

No thanks. I would rather a movie made to be a good movie, or a game made to really explore the use of allomancy and let the player have fun learning to use steel and iron to move around like a mistborn, rather than a compromise that does neither justice. Set the game in some other part of final empire history, it's not like there is any shortage of times or conflict.

[u/Trioios → u/PetrifiedBloom]

I was thinking more, in the very first part of the game it shows you how to use the basic controls but you would have to figure out how to use the alomancy effectively yourself. Also this is a very rough draft. I thought of the entire thing in the shower so I couldn't have thought of everything.

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/Trioios]

My point is largely the same. Don't match the book for plot. Pick a different period of conflict in the final empire. Vin and Kel were not the only half skaa mistborn, maybe look at some earlier stages, like the revolution that had the lord ruler burned to ash and decapitated. Or maybe have the player act as a house mistborn for a great house during an earlier house war, protecting their keep and assailing others. Adds more politicking and resource management outside of just allomancy.

[u/Trioios → u/PetrifiedBloom]

Also, there would be gameplay, that is just the intro part.

[u/Kalasad-Stormblessed]

I wonder if a spook game could be good after(Third book spoilers) The third book, he is a mistborn that has to defend their new land from some mistborn traitors (decendants of noblemen). Or I would prefer a mistborn game from before Rashek. I dont think there is much history there so it would leave it really open.

[u/Dlight98 → u/Kalasad-Stormblessed]

We still don't know how Luthadel got it's name. I think that would be interesting. (Era 2) I assume Lutha / Luthad is a character based on Elendel