Shadow of the Colossus was a very early PS2 game. It was the first one to actually use HDR rendering on the PS2. You should check it out. It's probably $10 (or less) now. It's a great game. The scenario you presented is very similar to the boss battles from that game. In order to defeat the Colossus (Colossi?) you must climb up their bodies and strike them on the weak parts of their body. Each Colossus has different spots. The people who made that game also make the PSOne game ICO.
On the fly editing of INI files, so that you can see the results as yuo edit it, would be great.I don't know if a custom INI editor is in the workings, but for example on the RF2 demo videos, Andy is trying to move the menu text underneath the RF2 logo, and it takes a bit of trial and error, if it was changed on the fly, he could do that much faster and more accurately.The example is probably not the best but I don't know what else to cite, althoguh what would be even cooler is on the fly EDIT/RENDER so that you can change lghting on the editor and then open up the MINIMIZED game and see the lighting changes immediately.Probably not easy to do though.
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