Mega Man NEO: My Stage Ideas

These are the stages that I originally created when I first made up this concept, but are not necessarily the final product. You can submit your own ideas and themes to the forum and we may use those instead, but this is just here for an example.

Stage Name	Main Location	Primary Aesthetic/Themes	Gimmicks (if there are any)	Name Connection in Norse Mythology
Alfheim	Large shopping district/mall during a riot	Light, neon signs, graffiti, nighttime, urban	Breakable glass panels, enemies that jump out of shop windows in background, neon signs that can be knocked down	Associated with the light element due to being the home of the light elves
Yggdrasil	Subway train travelling through the city	Railroad, moving stage, electricity	Falling off train means instant death, intermittent obstacles that must be avoided when on top of train	Associated with a subway system because of how Yggdrasil’s roots spread out to all the realms
Aegir	Water treatment facility, river	Water, ice, pipes, glass	Underwater level with swimming controls, floating ice platforms, water currents that can force the player in one direction	Aegir is the giant associated with the ocean, hence the stage having a water theme
Hnitbjorg	Mine tunnels	Crystals, rocks, construction	Stalactites and stalagmites that deal damage on contact, crystals that fall from the ceiling	Hnitbjorg was a mountain that Odin drilled into to find a sacred mead flask, hence the level being located in a mine
Svartalfheim	Factory/metalworks	Fire, lava, metal	Lava that deals damage on contact, moving factory machines that can crush characters	Svartalfheim is the home of the dwarves, who are known for their skills in metallurgy, hence the factory location
Bifrost	In the sky above an airport	Wind, storm, airships	Flying level, plays like a side scrolling shooter until the boss, which plays like normal	Bifrost refers to the rainbow bridge used to travel to other realms, like how an airport lets people travel to other countries
Jarnvidr	Forest/city park	Jungle, wooden village	Vines that characters can swing on, logs and other objects that turn into traps, enemies that pop out from grass or leaf piles	Jarnvidr is a forest that lies to the east of Midgard in mythology, so it would only make sense that the stage would also be one
Helheim	Prison/asylum	Darkness, stealth, military	Spotlights that trigger enemy spawns if they see you, dark areas where visibility is reduced	Helheim is the gloomy realm of the dead, and people often describe asylums as hellish places, so the two worked well together to create this stage

 This improves on the Designing for Prestige assignment by giving details of what the player will see in-game.