I was gonna make this post originally sometime after the game came out but then uh... Showman's got cancelled for a little while so uh... yeah

Anyways now that it is NOT cancelled anymore & will actually be coming out, I thought I might as well share some fun stuff.

For starters alot of hardcore Iz fans will know this game was based on a joke game Iz once made called Mercury Murray's Wunar Warp. The game was made on little big planet 3 so it sadly cannot be accessed publicly anymore due to playstation 3 being shut down but Iz did show it off this year recently, revealing what the game plays like.

Previously before this, information was very limited & the only mentions of the game was included in a history timeline Iz made of all his phobia games, however other than this we had nothing else about the game for a long time.

Johnny's Mercury Adventure to Save Harry had to work on limited information because of this as it was developed way before Iz revealed what the game was like. Overall I think I got the basic idea across, although honestly Mercury Murray's Wunar Warp is a better game as there is just a lot more fun content while Johnny's Mercury Adventure is just a little fun experience you won't revisit. There's no replay value & thats it's biggest flaw, it's still a fun game but like again... your not gonna be revisiting it... like ever.

Now onto the good stuff, the chief & alien enemies are based on scrapped characters that would've replaced the wiggle characters while Iz was rebranding it into Showman's.

Originally only the alien was supposed to be a "scrapped/beta" character, however due to an accident of me being dumb, I ended up using concept art of an early design Tony had, by the time I had realized this it was too late. I will admit this does make the game feel kinda weird as we have two scrapped enemies with 2 normal ones, it would've made more sense if it was just one beta enemy with the rest being the proper showman gang. I guess you could call it a happy accident though, since that is kinda cool even if it wasn't intentional lol.

Scrapped Content:

The Shop

I dont think it's a suprise the shop is never going to be added since the game has been out for 4 months now lol.

I didn't get too far with it but I did have some plans on what it had & what you could buy. You would've been in a little shop run by the idiot quest guy (this guy:

I only managed to think of one thing you could buy from him which was "Idiot Quest Mode".

As the name suggests, it would've replaced all the heads with Idiot Quest heads. Other than that it would've also been a harder version of the normal game, so anyone who wanted a harder experience would've had a fun time with that mode.

other than that, nothing else was planned. although I did think of maybe adding a little minigame you could play with idiot quest guy in his little shop. like playing poker or shooting bottles he had set up on shelves in his shop.

Overall I still love this game but it is extremely rough & i might remake it sometime to be more accurate to the game it was based on & also just generally make it more fun so you'd want to revisit. but that's for the future me.

If there's anything I'm gonna touch first if we're talking Phobia/Showman's, it's gonna be Phobia: Nightmares.

That game is doo doo & needs a actually good remake.

anyways I hope you somehow found this interesting, bye!