How to Make an Awesome Lucy Loud Video Game

(This is a screenshot of Lucy Loud from The Loud House.)

 

Alright, first post of January and 2025, and I’m back at this topic again. I was debating with myself with whether or not to do this post first or do my review of The Fifth Element first, and this ultimately won out. And yes, I do intend on reviewing The Fifth Element. I’ve never written a review of it, and it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, so it’ll work. So, after this post, expect a review of The Fifth Element, Luc Besson’s best movie by far. I also plan on reposting my review of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. I’m hoping I can get that out just before Trump’s inauguration or just after because some of what I plan to say in the foreword for that post ties into his purported foreign policy agenda. On top of that, I’m writing this post directly on Blogger. I’m writing this in my Drafts app or my Notes app because I’m running out of space on my iCloud Drive, and I want to save as much space as I can, so I’m just writing it here. It’s a complete Blogger original. I would’ve probably just deleted the original after posting it on here had I just wrote this on Drafts or on Notes beforehand. I’m just removing the middleman.

I don’t mean to make this tradition to make a Loud House video game post every January, it just kind of happened that way. I put this off until January because I didn’t want to write it in December. I only wanted to post a certain number of posts in December to close out the year with. That was my post about my ideas for a potential Jimmy Neutron reboot or revival, my post talking about my final thoughts on Star Wars: Republic Commando, my post about the fall of the Assad regime in Syria 🇸🇾 and the potential end of the Syrian Civil War 🇸🇾, my review of Weekend in Taipei, my post on the Yoon Suk Yeol martial law situation in South Korea 🇰🇷 and the assassination of the UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, and of course my 2024 New Year’s Eve Recap. So, I decided to save this for January even the topic isn’t as fresh in my mind as it was in December. 

But it is a bit more fresh now that I started playing SpongeBob SquarePants 🧽: The Patrick Star Game. Speaking of which, I was inspired to write this by two games: Piglet’s Big Game and the aforementioned Patrick Star Game. For those that don’t know, Piglet’s Big Game was a movie tie-in game to the Winnie the Pooh spinoff movie Piglet’s Big Movie. It came out in 2003, the same year the movie came out. Same month too, March, and the same day, the 21st, at least in North America. In PAL territories, it was released in July, July 2, 2003 for the GameCube and July 18, 2003 for the PS2. Don’t know why the GameCube and PS2 versions were released on two different days in the PAL territories instead of on the same day like in North America, but I guess the PAL territories do things differently. I will never understand their ways. The GameBoy Advance version was released in North America on March 11, 2003, and in PAL territories on December 3, 2003 (my 5th birthday 🎂🥳 actually). Though, from what I understand, the game does not follow the movie’s plot at all. It has a completely different story than the movie. 

 

 

 

(This is the theatrical poster for Piglet’s Big Movie.)

 

 

 

 

The only things they really have in common is that they’re both centered around Piglet (Piglet’s the main focus of the movie and is the main playable character in the game), and they both have to do with Piglet helping his friends and being seen as a valuable member of the group. The movie had nothing to do with dreams 💭 or Piglet going into his friend’s dreams 💭, or his friends dreaming about him 💭 (it’s a bit unclear which one it is), fighting against Heffalumps and Woozles by making scary faces at them. 

 

They’re almost completely different entities that happen to share the title and the same protagonist. Sort of like the two Jimmy Neutron games that were based off of the movie. The PC game has nothing to do with the multi-platform console game, like it has a completely different story, look, and style of gameplay. They’re not even in the same genre. The PC game doesn’t even really have that much do with the movie either. The plot of the PC game is nothing like the movie. The only thing they have in common is that they’re both center around Jimmy (he’s the title character and main protagonist), and they both have to do with him dealing with the Yolkians. But his conflict with the Yolkians is completely different in the PC game than it is in the movie or the console game. 

 

Even though it’s a 22 year old game at this point, it went viral in 2024 (even to the point of people going out and buying copies of it off of eBay) mainly for this piece of music, which is mostly referred to online as “Foreboding 1.” That’s it, that’s that only reason why this game went viral last year. That, along with other pieces of music from the same game, people were making all sorts of videos about the game trying to say that it’s a survival horror game for kids, “Silent Hill for kids” what I often heard it described as. It wasn’t even an ironic comparison, it was legit unironic comparison, like people started genuinely seeing Piglet’s Big Game as a survival horror and it seeing as “Silent Hill for kids.” The developers even came out and said that they were inspired by the Resident Evil series to make the game the way they did after the game went viral. Whether that was always their intention or whether they’re just saying that now because of how popular the game became and how much of a cult following it developed after the fact is unknown. 

 

 

 

(This is the front and back cover of the PS2 version of Piglet’s Big Game.)

 

 

 

Personally, I think this was yet another case of people taking a game (specifically a kid’s game) from 20 something years ago, and making it out to be a lot scarier than it actually is. I watched a full longplay of this game by the YouTube channel LongplayArchive, and it wasn’t anywhere as scary as people made it out to be. Sure, the Eeyore level is a bit spooky (very gothic), but it’s nothing that would too out of the ordinary or too intense for a kid’s game. The scariest thing about the game, the thing that was the most out of the ordinary, was the music. The music is what makes the game unique, and makes it stand out from the myriad of other Winnie the Pooh games at the time and other children’s games at the time, and makes seem like more of a horror game than it actually is. If the game didn’t have that creepy music, nobody would be thinking that it was scary, and it never would’ve went viral. 

 

A lot of the initial memes and fascination with the game was mostly based on the idea that this kind of music is out of place in a Winnie the Pooh game like this, or in a kid’s game like this. “Like, what’s this kind of scary music doing in a game for 6 year olds or 7 year olds?” “This kind of music doesn’t belong a kid’s game like this, it’s too scary and inappropriate.” It was that kind of mentality that drove the initial renewed fascination with the game, and it just blew up from there to people finding things to genuinely appreciate about the game, reevaluating it, and seeing it as a “hidden gem,” and as a misunderstood masterpiece. 

 

People liked the fact that the game was a bit spooky and had this foreboding horror movie type music. That’s why so many people tried to go out and buy it, despite it being long out of print, and it only no longer being available for sale from any of the major retailers. They had to get it from the resale market like eBay as I just mentioned earlier. There’s no way Disney’s going to release a remastered port of the game anytime soon, but then again, they did release a remake of Epic Mickey called Epic Mickey: Rebrushed 🖌️ by the same developers as SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated 🧽💦 and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake 🧽🔮, Purple Lamp. So, anything’s possible I guess.

So, when I saw all of the hype and love surrounding the semi-spooky nature of Piglet’s Big Game, it made me think, “maybe a Lucy Loud game could actually work.” Lucy is a gothic character, she is a very spooky character. She’s into some very spooky things, she’s into vampires 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♀️, she’s into the macabre and the occult, she’s always doing funerals for people around town, always talking about death 💀⚰️, she and her friends in the Mortician’s Club like to hang out at the cemetery 🪦, and she and the Mortician’s Club communicate with ghosts 👻. 

 

They even tried to start a business out of it, which fell through after the ghost 👻 they hired to haunt people intentionally went rogue, and started haunting people for real and refused to return to his grave 🪦. She’s also always casting spells, which is why I say she’s into the occult. In the earlier seasons, it always left ambiguous as to whether her spells actually worked or not, if they were just bunk, but in the current seasons, they’ve made it very clear that magic does indeed exist in this world and that all of Lucy’s spells are real and actually work. 

 

Like, there’s one episode in Season 7 where she casts a spell to where her birthday 🎂🥳 no longer exists and none of her family remembers it because she’s all embarrassed by them and doesn’t want to have to do the same rituals and traditions with them every year. The spell actually works and no body in her family remembers her birthday 🎂🥳 anymore, and just treats it like every other day, sparing Lucy from any family embarrassment just like she wanted. But then she reverses that spell, and gets her birthday 🎂🥳 back because she started missing all of the genuinely good and nice things her family did for her on her birthday 🎂🥳. 

 

In the “Road Trip” arc, there’s an episode where Lincoln accidentally puts a curse on the family after stealing a trinket (a tchotchke) from this emporium he wanted to visit but the parents didn’t let him, and Lucy is the one who ultimately has to lift it. So, she is highly skilled in magic, even more than Lincoln despite him wanting to be a magician 🪄. Though her magic is more occult witch type magic and is real, while Lincoln’s is fake magic 🪄, illusions basically. 

So, a survival horror type game with Lucy as the main protagonist and main playable character could work tremendously well. But why Lucy? Why make spinoff game about her? Well because she’s easily the most popular Loud sister. She’s the only other character besides Lincoln and Clyde that has appeared in Nickelodeon crossover games like Nickelodeon Kart Racers and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl as a playable character. So, if any of the Loud sisters are going to get their own game, it’s going to be Lucy. I’m trying to come up with a game that is best suited for that character. Plus, I like too, she’s a cool character, a really funny and cute character. 

 

It’s hard not to love her, I don’t see how anyone could hate her or dislike her, whereas I can easily understand why someone would hate Lynn Jr. even though I personally don’t. That being said, I would love to see other spinoff games based on some of the other characters from The Loud House. I would love to see a Lisa Loud game, or a Lynn Loud Jr. game, or a Leni Loud game. For the Leni game, I would want to have it about her detective noir persona 🕵️‍♀️, Detective Leni Loud 🕵️‍♀️ if you will, and be like a mystery game who you have to go around solving crimes, and it’s all black and white like in the noir style. I think that would be cool and would be different. 

 

Given how long this show and franchise has gone on for, I think The Loud House has reached the same point that SpongeBob 🧽 has where it needs to try different things to stay fresh and stay relevant. SpongeBob 🧽 did with all the spinoff projects they got going on, making a spinoff series about Patrick and his family, making a spinoff series about SpongeBob 🧽 and other characters being at a summer camp when they were kids, a spinoff movie about Sandy Cheeks 🐿️, and coming soon, a spinoff movie about Plankton. Then there was that Tidal Zone thing which attempted to bring all of these spinoff projects together with the main series. This has now expanded into the video game arena with The Patrick Star Game. I think the Loud House franchise would benefit a lot from doing things like that. They’ve sort of attempted it with The Casagrandes and The Casagrandes Movie, but that kind of crashed and burned and didn’t really go anywhere. And they still didn’t go all with it by say giving each of the Loud sisters their own movie and game.

 

The trick to making a successful solo game for each Loud sister, or a solo game based on a side character outside of the Loud family would be tailor the game to the personality of the character, have the game match the character it’s based around in terms of genre and gameplay. Because if not, then why even do a solo game for that character in the first place? Why not just make it a regular ‘ol Loud House game? Not there has really been one of those yet. 

Now, would I want a spinoff title about Lucy Loud or any of the other Loud sisters before getting a full Loud House game like the one I laid out my previous post about a Loud House game? Probably not, I would want a proper Loud House game first before getting any spinoff titles of any kind, simply because The Loud House has never had an actual true video game before. I mean we got a bunch of SpongeBob 🧽 titles first before we got anything resembling a Patrick Star game. There’s also the idea of there being a Lucy Loud spinoff or solo movie, I don’t remember if that was something that I mentioned in my review of No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie, but it was something that I was thinking about after watching and reviewing that movie. Would I want a Lucy Loud movie first before getting a Lucy Loud game? After all, the only reason we got a Piglet game was that there was a Piglet movie. 

Well, ideally, I would want a Lucy Loud movie before getting a Lucy Loud game. But, if we end up getting a Lucy Loud game before we get a Lucy Loud movie, then so be it. We deal with the cards we’ve been dealt. If it was the other way around however, and we got a Lucy Loud movie first and then a video game, I wouldn’t want that game to be beholden or tied to that movie the same way the Piglet game was tied to the Piglet movie (even though as I said, the plots of the game and the movie have nothing to do with each other). I would want it to be its own thing, separate from any other movie or TV project centered around Lucy Loud.  

 

The Patrick Star Game, for instance, has nothing to do with The Patrick Star Show. None of Patrick’s family from that show appear in the game at any point, nor are they even mentioned. Which I suppose makes some sense since The Patrick Star Show is a prequel set in the past when Patrick was a teenager (along with SpongeBob 🧽 and Squidward 🐙), at least in one alternate universe, in one reality, while The Patrick Star Game is set in the present when everyone is an adult. So, we wouldn’t see Patrick’s parents or his sister, Squidina 🦑 (who is actually a squid 🦑 unlike Squidward 🐙, who is an octopus 🐙). Even the logo for The Patrick Star Game looks completely different from the logo for The Patrick Star Show. 

 

 

 

 

(This is the front cover art for SpongeBob SquarePants 🧽: The Patrick Star Game.)

 

 

 

Which brings me to The Patrick Star Game, and how it fits into all of this. I bring up The Patrick Star Game because it is a good example of a game that is tailor made to the character it’s based around. The Patrick Star Game is an open world sandbox game where you can do whatever you want, any time you want, and in any order you want. There is no plot to really speak of, it’s just Patrick having the day all to himself, getting the chance to do whatever he wants, free from the confines of a regular SpongeBob 🧽 episode or game.

A lot of people, when the game first came out back in October 2024, compared it to Goat Simulator 🐐, a similar open world sandbox simulator game where you play as a goat 🐐. They didn’t just compare it to that game because it was an open world sandbox game with simulator elements, but also because it was very buggy and janky game, which The Patrick Star Game is, it’s very buggy, it has a lot of glitches, and it has a lot of jank. You get the sense that the game was perhaps rushed or even unfinished. Goat Simulator 🐐 was an actual unfinished game that somehow managed to get a wide release on consoles because of how popular was on Steam, and because people liked messing around with it and laughing at it 😆. The jankiness adds to the game’s charm just as it did Goat Simulator 🐐. 

I’ve also seen people compare it to the GTA games (Grand Theft Auto), but I disagree with that comparison because while the GTA games are open world games with a lot of freedom to explore and do whatever you want, they do still have stories. There is still a main story that you can play through as well as doing all the side quests, messing around, doing whatever your heart ❤️’s content, in fact some of side quests are story related. So, GTA is not a good comparison, the best comparison is probably Goat Simulator 🐐 even though I’ve never played Goat Simulator 🐐 in my life. 

The style of game fits Patrick perfectly because Patrick is a really dumb character. He’s usually considered the dumbest character on SpongeBob 🧽, and the dumbest guy ♂︎ in town. Everyone knows that he’s an idiot except SpongeBob 🧽, who thinks that he’s a genius. He’s got nothing going on upstairs, not a single intelligent thought or thought of any kind going on up there in that noggin of his. So doing an open world game with no plot or story to speak of where you can just wander around aimlessly doing whatever comes to mind fits Patrick perfectly. It wouldn’t really make that much sense to do an overly story driven game with Patrick, it just wouldn’t. The developers who made this game are PHL Collective. 

It was not made by Purple Lamp like Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated 💦 and The Cosmic Shake 🔮 were, it was made by different studio entirely and you can tell because while Purple Lamp’s games are not the most polished in the world, they certainly are a lot more polished than this game is. Sometimes the lip sync is off, the dialogue audio doesn’t at match the lip movement. It just looks like their mouths are moving every direction while they talk sometimes. PHL certainly approached the license in a much different way than Purple Lamp. Not even The Patrick Star Show is that story driven, from what I understand, it’s a very episodic and surreal series where anything can happen at anytime and everything does happen at every time. It’s a show where random stuff happens basically, and that too fits Patrick perfectly.

That was what made me think that any spinoff game about a specific character should fit that character in terms of genre and gameplay. Piglet’s Big Game had some of this too because Piglet is a scaredy cat, he’s a very nervous and easily frightened character. To someone like him, everything seems scary even if it actually isn’t. So, it makes sense that a game centered around him would be a bit spooky and lean into the survival horror end of things. A big theme in the game (and in the movie kind of) is Piglet trying to overcome his fears and be more brave for not just for him but his friends because his friends need him, at lot than they realize. 

In the case of Lucy Loud, the video game genre that fits her the most is the survival horror genre, with gameplay sort of similar to Piglet’s Big Game, but not exactly. It’d have its own touches and flares to it to set it apart from the rest. After all, she’s always sneaking up behind everyone and scaring them. Not intentionally mind you, she’s just so quiet that no body notices when she walks into a room or when she’s right behind, so it appears as if she’s teleporting behind them even though she’s not. Why not have her get sneaked up on and scared for once? Which has happened before, in the episode of “Back in Black,” where Lucy develops a crush 😍 on Rusty’s little brother Rocky, and tries to change her look and her personality to try to impress him after listening to her sisters’ bad advice on how to attract boys ♂︎. They want her to be more “regular and normal” like them (even though they very much aren’t), and took this opportunity to do that, make her look and act more regular and normal. But, at the end of the episode, it turns out that Lucy was under the wrong impression, and Rocky actually does like her the way she is, he was just nervous to talk to her, as all boys ♂︎ are when they’re that age and they develop a crush on a girl ♀︎ 😍. 

 

 

 

(These are some screenshots from the Loud House episode “Back in Black.” The first two show Lucy’s new look, her blonde makeover or glowup, which her sister kind of forced her to have believing that it would be the best look for her to attract Rocky and get him to like her. When the reality is that Rocky just likes Lucy the way she is, and didn’t need or want her to change her look to be blonde and wear all pink clothing. This is what I mean when I say the sisters gave Lucy bad relationship or dating advice, and know as much about dating and relationships as Lincoln does, which is not a whole lot. In fact, I’ll go as far to say that they know about as much about boys ♂︎ as Lincoln does about girls ♀︎, which again is not a whole lot. 

 

But, this blonde and pink look of Lucy’s could be an alternate costume/skin in the game. Just like how The Patrick Star Game featured all of Patrick’s various looks and costumes throughout the show as alternate costumes. This Lucy Loud game that I’m proposing could do the same for Lucy but with all the looks and outfits that she’s had throughout the show. The third and last one shows Rocky, Rusty’s little brother and the object of Lucy’s affection in that episode. So far, this is his one and only appearance in the show or in any other media outside of the main series much to the chagrin of fans who were fond his and Lucy’s relationship. Indeed, I would love to see Rocky again, and a Lucy game would be a great opportunity to bring him back and develop their relationship further.) 

 

There’s a moment at the end of episode where Lucy goes back to being herself again after the makeover thing failed, and she goes in the kitchen to put something in the fridge (I believe it was a container full of fake blood 🩸), and she gets startled by Rocky who was behind the fridge door. She’s been startled just as she has startled others. There’s another episode where she gets startled, “Fandom Pains,” where Lucy is on the couch, watching her favorite show, Vampires of Melancholia (VOM), and she gets startled by Lori and Leni who snuck up behind her. 

 

 

 

(This is a screenshot of Lucy, Lori, and Leni from the episode, “Fandom Pains.”) 

 

 

So, we got a genre pinned down, we got a gameplay style, but what about a plot? What would the story of this game be? Survival horror games usually to have some sort of a story or plot going on, that gives a reason why all these scary things are happening, and why the main character is trying to survive them or trying to stop them. And as someone who writes, who is a writer, and has written stories in the past, I value storytelling, and I appreciate when a game puts in the effort to have a story even if it is super basic. The only thing I can really think of for what a Lucy Loud game could be about is that she’s fighting against ghosts 👻, or vampires 🧛‍♂️ 🧛‍♀️, or werewolves 🐺, or zombies 🧟‍♂️, or some other supernatural threat, trying to protect her friends and her family, and perhaps all of Royal Woods. Maybe she’s facing off against a rival goth, someone who’s also experienced in magic and the occult, but uses them for evil. Lucy going up against another goth would be interesting. 

 

Another thing would be interesting would be to explore a grown up Lucy, a game that explores what Lucy would be like as an adult. I would be interested to see what they come up with in terms of her design, given how they draw women ♀︎ on the show, and how they’ve drawn a couple of the other Loud sisters as adults, mainly Lori and Leni, probably because they’re much closer to adulthood than the other Loud siblings. Lori’s pretty an adult now, she goes to college, she lives on her own, granted she in the Loud family’s neighbor’s garage, but still that’s away from home. Lily doesn’t count since that was her as a teenager, not an adult. 

But I doubt that this would happen because children’s networks like Nickelodeon for some reason have this thing about not having adults as the main protagonists in any of their projects, even in their video games. Unless the characters are talking animals, then they have to be children. That’s why the people who worked on Infinity Train ∞ couldn’t do this one story arc or episode they wanted to do on that show about this one specific character because that character was an adult and not a kid. I guess it makes sense to some degree, they make shows (and movies and games) for kids, so they want kids to be the main characters because then the kids watching will someone to relate to, someone to connect with. And if they were to have an adult as the main character, there would be a disconnect because kids don’t know what it’s like to be an adult and have adult problems. At least in the minds of these network executives. But I don’t think it’s as big of an issue as they think it is. 

I don’t think kids would mind that much if the show, movie, or game had an adult character instead of a kid character. Depending on the age and depending on their own experience, kids kind of look up to adults, and want to be adults. I know that when I was a kid, wanted to be older, I wanted to be more grown up and be seen as mature. No kid really likes being talked down to and treated as a kid, if that makes sense. So, as long as there’s nothing that’s too inappropriate for kids like swearing, sex, nudity, or excessive violence, I don’t think there would be an issue with having an adult protagonist in some meant for kids or for families, and I think kids would accept having an adult as the main character. But unfortunately, I don’t run these networks, I don’t make the decisions, so it’s either kids or nothing at all. 

So, we’re stuck with kid Lucy, which is fine, I like kid Lucy, I don’t really mind it, but it still be cool to see adult Lucy. Same thing with adult Jimmy Neutron BTW, I wouldn’t mind if the Jimmy Neutron reboot or revival or whatever focused on Jimmy as an adult, I think that would be really cool, but I know it’ll probably never happen because these children’s TV networks are against their programming having adults as the main protagonists, even if the show in question is a sequel to an old show they used to air and the character in question was a kid at one time but is now all grown up. No reference intended to the Rugrats spinoff series, All Grown Up!, which was kind of a lie since the kids weren’t all grown up, they were still kids, just much older kids than they were in Rugrats. They were supposed to do another spinoff series focused on one of the characters as an adult, Angelica Pickles in her college years, but that project fell through likely for the reasons that I laid out and also because Nickelodeon itself as a whole hasn’t really tried doing adult oriented programming. 

They don’t have their own Adult Swim where they can do things like that, a spinoff of a show from their main catalog that focuses on one or more of the characters from that original show as an adult in more adult situations. Not necessarily sexual, but any adult situation or adult problem, there is more being an adult than having sex. They could’ve turned Nick @ Nite into their Adult Swim, but they didn’t, they didn’t pursue that for whatever reason. It’s still just a network where they air reruns of old sitcoms and syndicated shows that they still have the license to air. 

 

Spike TV, or just Spike (what eventually became Paramount Network) kind of was like their Adult Swim, that’s where they aired all of their adult cartoons and other adult oriented programming meant for a young 20 to 40 male audience ♂︎. But that also kind of went no where, I mean it got stripped down and turned into Paramount Network. MTV was also briefly used to air more adult oriented cartoons that weren’t as adult or as explicit as what was on Spike TV, but that ended pretty much by the mid-2000s, and MTV no longer makes cartoons. None of Nickelodeon’s attempts at doing adult cartoons were as successful as what Cartoon Network was doing with Adult Swim. Any animator or creator who wanted to make a cartoon for adults went to Adult Swim, not MTV, Spike, or Nick @ Nite. Especially not Nick @ Nite.

 

 

(This is the logo for Nick @ Nite from 2006.)

 

 

 

I don’t know what exactly the story of the game should be, what the plot should be. I feel like this something that could be discussed and brainstormed in a writer’s room where multiple writers can bounce around ideas, and decide which one would be the best one. Or even just have two writers working together to brainstorm and bounce off each other’s ideas until they come up with the best one, the one they both like. Now what about the characters? Some characters that I would like to see in this Lucy Loud game besides Lucy herself, would obviously be the Mortician’s Club because they’re her main friend group, they’re her only real social circle. They’re only other kids she hangs out with outside of her family. And I like the Mortician’s Club, I think they’re fun characters, most of them anyway, don’t really care for Morpheus, he’s kind of a whiner and his character looks really stupid. He’s the one character that always felt out of place in the Mortician’s Club. If it were me, I’d cut him out of the show entirely. Don’t even explain it, just phase him out and move on. That being said, I wouldn’t want this to be yet another Mortician’s Club centric story. They can appear, but they can’t be the main focus or be her main companions throughout. 

I don’t like how every Lucy centric episode of the show always had to involve the Mortician’s Club, even though I don’t hate them. Like I said, I like the Mortician’s Club, I think they’re the best friend group out of any of the Loud siblings’ friend groups. I just think that they’re overexposed and get too much focus and screen time, and they kind of limit your creativity on the kind of plots you can actually do with Lucy. Something that isn’t necessarily the case with the other Loud siblings. The other Loud siblings are still each able to have plots centered around of them individually that doesn’t involve their respective friend groups.

 

I think that should be a challenge for the writers, doing a Lucy story that doesn’t involve the Mortician’s Club at all or involves them very little. Like, don’t make them main characters, keep them side characters with limited screen time. They can appear in the intro cutscenes, and they can appear sporadically throughout the game, and even have small sections where one of them or a few of them are playable. Just like how in the Piglet game, there were small sections where you did play as other characters besides Piglet, namely Pooh and Tigger. Guess that explains why they’re featured so prominently on the front cover alongside Piglet. Then again, Eeyore’s on the front cover too, and there’s never a section where he’s playable, so I don’t know 🤷‍♂️. But it should still be Lucy’s game through and through, she should still be the primary playable character, and it should be mainly a story doesn’t center around her relationship with the Mortician’s Club. My personal preference would be to not have the Mortician’s Club in the game at all, but if they have to be in the game, then do what I just laid out. 

 

 

 

(This is a screenshot of Lucy with the Mortician’s Club. Morpheus is the dorky looking kid with the glasses 👓 BTW.) 

 

 

Of course, I’d have at least a couple of the other Loud siblings appear in the game, mainly NPCs but a couple of them can be playable at different points and in a more limited capacity. Just like with the Mortician’s Club, but I’d give the Loud siblings a bit more screen time than them. The Loud siblings I would mainly want to include would be Lynn Jr., Lisa (gotta have some of that magic vs. science dynamic going), Lola, and maybe Lana because why not? We don’t see Lucy interact with Lana that much in the show. But we have seen her interact with Lola a few times. In fact one of my ideas for a Loud House movie sequel was to have a movie centered around Lola and Lucy and their relationship, their dynamic. No Lincoln though, I hate Lincoln, and I’m tired of him always being the focus, and I genuinely don’t think he needs to be in every single Loud House project. Film, TV, video game, or otherwise. But, if he has to be in the game, then so be it. It’ll be the one trade-off, the one compromise I’d be willing to make. 

 

 

 

(These are some screenshots of Lynn Jr., Lola, and Lucy. The first one is Lynn Jr. by herself, and the second one is Lola and Lucy together.)

 

 

Lastly, I would like to feature Rocky. He hasn’t appeared in the series since “Back in Black,” and hasn’t even been mentioned either. Their relationship was introduced and teased as being something a bit romantic ❤️, but they never followed up on it. This would be their chance to bring back Rocky, and actually acknowledge their relationship, and expand upon. Give him a sizable role in the game, maybe have a big part of it being Lucy trying to save Rocky, and Rocky trying to get with Lucy and help her out because he really has to be with his goth GF. It could be something really cute and endearing, I think the fans would really like that.

There is always this issue when you do anything with Lucy as the main character, as the main focus. How do you convey emotion with a character who always speaks monotone, who hardly shows her emotions outwardly or gives away what she’s really thinking or feeling, and who has her eyes covered up with her bangs? It is kind of challenge, and they always succeed at it in the show itself. But I don’t think it would be as big of an issue for a game because you’d be playing as Lucy, and you’d be mainly seeing her from the back, not the front. So, you wouldn’t even see her face anyway. This would probably be a bigger issue in a movie, in a movie where she was the main character, the main focus because we’d be seeing her face a lot more often. 

Lastly, what would the title of this game be? Would it just be called Lucy Loud? Or just Lucy? Probably not Lucy because there’s a movie called Lucy (a really bad movie that I hate 😤). I’m thinking probably something along the lines of The Loud House: A Lucy Loud Game, or Lucy: A Loud House Game, or Lucy Loud: A Loud House Game, or The Loud House: Lucy Loud’s Game, or The Loud House: Lucy Loud’s Spooktacular Adventure, or The Loud House: Lucy Loud’s Big Spooky Adventure, or The Loud House: Lucy’s Frightful Nights, or The Loud House: Lucy’s Friday Frights. Maybe something related to the plot or the main villain. I’m partial to Lucy: A Loud House Game, or Lucy Loud: A Loud House Game myself. The Loud House: Lucy’s Friday Frights is a good one. 

 

 

 

(This is another screenshot of Lucy Loud.)