Gotterdammerung opera to video game

Gotterdammerung from opera to video game

Written by Hannah Rogan

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Art and Technology

This opera lends its self to a video game due to its Goal oriented plot line, which is to get the ring, and the characters who are fighting against one another. It also gives an evil character who is Hagen and who is the final character to be defeated in order to win the game. The game will start out by the player picking their charter which will be one of the three Rhinemaidens. They will then continue through each level which will be comprised of one challenge and then a character that the player will have to defeat in order to continue to the next level. In the end they will receive the ring and destroy the Hall of the Gods in order to win.

After picking a character the player will be put in an underwater world which is the Rhinemaidens home. The Rhinemaidens will appear slightly see through and spirit-like underwater because they are the spirits of the water. The player will have to collect 300 hundred gold coins in the river while avoiding the fish. If the player runs into the fish they will have to start the collecting process over. Once they have collected 300 hundred gold coins they will have to fight the norms. The norms are old mystical women that sit around a tree and predict the future. Each time the player has to battle a character a board of weapons come onto the screen and the player will have to pick which weapon they want to use to battle the character they are battling. They will have a choice of a spear, a sword, a bow and arrow, or a catapult. In order to defeat the character they have to strike them a certain amount of times and the amount of times the character needs to be struck will change based on the level. The Norms need to be struck five times in order to be defeated. Once the Norms are defeated the player continues onto the next level.

The player will then have to walk to Waltraute’s Cave which is in the forest between the river      and the Hall of the Gods. Waltraute is a fierce warrior and she will defend her cave till death. First you will have to use a spear that will be found in the beginning of the cave to fight her large black guard dog. In order to defeat her guard dog the player will have to strike it in the head. Once struck in the head the dog will die and you will be able to proceed to battle Waltraude. In order to defeat her the player must strike her eight times.

Once the player has defeated Waltraude they will proceed through her cave to the Hall of the Gods. In the field in front of the Hall there are dragons guarding Gutrune who is the goddess sister of Gunther. She will be in front of the gate of the hall. The player has to avoid all of the dragon’s fire as they run across the field. If the player is caught in the flame they have to re start at the beginning of the field. Once across the field the player will have to battle the Gutrune and she requires eleven strikes to be defeated.

The player will then processed to the door of the hall which will be locked. The player will receive a fire catapult which they will have to use to break the lock on the door. Once the lock is broken the player will proceed into the first room of the hall where they will have to fight Gunther who is a God and brother of Gutrune and Half-brother of Hagen. In order to defeat Gunther the player will have to strike him fourteen times.

The player will then process into the throne room where Brunnhilde will be standing in front of the thrones where Alberich and Hagen sit. Brunnhilde will be shooting arrows at the player who will have to hit her bow with one of their own arrows and knock it out of her hand in order to be able to get close enough to battle her. Brunnhilde will require seventeen strikes in order to be defeated.

Once Brunnhilde is defeated the player will have to battle Alberich who is Hagen’s father and he requires twenty strikes and an arrow through the heart in order to be defeated. While battling Alberich the player will also have to avoid the lightning bolts that Hagen will be throwing at the player. Once the player has defeated Alberich they will battle Hagen who is the one in possession of the ring. In order to defeat Hagen the player will have to strike him Thirty times and once they have struck him thirty times the player will receive a magic spear that they will throw and have to hit Hagen in the heart in  order to defeat him.

Once the player Defeats Hagen they will receive the Magic ring back. The Rhine River will then flood washing away the Hall of the Gods and the game would be over and the player would win the game.

The Characters

Rhinemaidens

Waltraute

Gutrune

Guther

Brunnhilde

Alberich

Hagen