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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4566403" data-attributes="member: 32536">My favorite mechanic for how &quot;Love&quot; would work as a powerful factor in a game is from the Super Robot Taisen series of videogames. In these games, every character has a short list of &quot;Spirit Commands&quot; that reflect their personality, and spending &quot;Spirit Points&quot; to activate these commands gave you incredible benefits. For example, you can spend a small amount of SP to give a character a flash of alertness, so he has no chance of being hit by the next attack aimed against him. Or, you can spend more SP to inspire a bout of hotblooded rage in a character that doubles the power of that character's next attack. Basically, it is designed to reflect the kind of emotional insanity that is the typical backdrop of Japanese mecha anime, where battles are won as much by guts and courage as they are by skill and effective weaponry.In these games, the &quot;Love&quot; spirit command is the single most powerful, immediately activating 6 or more other spirit commands for a bargain price and temporarily turning that character into an invincible powerhouse, and it is typically only seen on characters who are involved in love triangles or are otherwise passionately in love with someone else. In later games, the &quot;Courage&quot; command is given similar power, though, so it is not always the only ultimate command.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 4566403, member: 32536"] My favorite mechanic for how "Love" would work as a powerful factor in a game is from the Super Robot Taisen series of videogames. In these games, every character has a short list of "Spirit Commands" that reflect their personality, and spending "Spirit Points" to activate these commands gave you incredible benefits. For example, you can spend a small amount of SP to give a character a flash of alertness, so he has no chance of being hit by the next attack aimed against him. Or, you can spend more SP to inspire a bout of hotblooded rage in a character that doubles the power of that character's next attack. Basically, it is designed to reflect the kind of emotional insanity that is the typical backdrop of Japanese mecha anime, where battles are won as much by guts and courage as they are by skill and effective weaponry. In these games, the "Love" spirit command is the single most powerful, immediately activating 6 or more other spirit commands for a bargain price and temporarily turning that character into an invincible powerhouse, and it is typically only seen on characters who are involved in love triangles or are otherwise passionately in love with someone else. In later games, the "Courage" command is given similar power, though, so it is not always the only ultimate command. [/QUOTE]

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