Mitchell Forces

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***Mitchell Forces*** is an upcoming adventure-platformer video game in the *Mitchell Van Morgan* series developed by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ Nordic and distributed by Nickelodeon Interactive Games for PC DVD, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The Value Steam version of the game itself is developed by Black Forest Games after the console and windows pc version was released. First announced as ***Project MVM 2017*** in July 2016, the game is scheduled for a worldwide release in late 2017.

Mitchell Forces follows Mitchell Van Morgan as he joins a resistance force to take back the planet, after Dr. Marquessa's Marquessa Empire took over 99% of it with the help of Marquessa's henchmen, the Phantom Stone, and a mysterious new villain known as Melvin Oxide. The storyline of the game also ties with Mitchell Mania. In addition, Mitchell Forces also introduces a third gameplay mode featuring the "Avatar", the player's own custom-created character. The game serves, along with Mitchell Mania, as a “continuation” of Mitchell’s 19th anniversary.

## Premise

### Plot

Doctor Marquessa attacks a city, and Mitchell sets out to stop him. Upon arriving he is attacked by Melvin Oxide, a mercenary transformed by the power of the Phantom Stone from Mitchell Mania. Infinite defeats Mitchell, and he is taken prisoner aboard the Death Zig. Without Mitchell, the land is left without a defender, and Marquessa, with the help of his Marquessanik robots, Melvin, Scottie Salmon, Vapor, Welton Payne-Smythe, and Metal Mitchell, manages to conquer the world within 6 months. Martin forms a resistance force with Gavin, David, Nicholas, Carolyn, Jennifer, Devin, Brock Detective Agency, Dusty, Ebony, Valerie, Dr. Alexander Payne, Amanda Payne, Airsailors and a survivor of Marquessa's attack whom they nickname the Rookie. Martin discovers Mitchell's whereabouts, and the Rookie steals a space shuttle, breaks into the Death Zig, and rescues Mitchell. Back in the city, Gavin is attacked by Vapor, but is saved by Younger Mitchell (who ended up in Mitchell's world following the events of Mitchell Mania). The two set out to spy on Marquessa, learning of the Phantom Stone and that Marquessa has a plan to completely destroy the Resistance which will take effect in three days.

Meanwhile, Mitchell encounters Scottie, who reveals that the Scottie Salmon following Marquessa is an illusionary clone created by Melvin, as are the other villains serving him. Gavin infiltrates Marquessa's computer network and finds the Phantom Stone's weakness: it is directly powered by the Death Zig's core, and without a power source it is useless. While the Rookie stages a diversion, Younger and Regular Mitchell destroy the Death Zig. Believing they have the upper hand, the Resistance attacks Marquessa's capital Marquessa Land. However, Marquessa has a hidden backup power source under the Metropolian Marquessa Land, and as Mitchell and company make their final charge on Marquessa's fortress, he has Infinite enact his plan; creating a second sun over the planet that will crash down and destroy the entire Resistance. Thinking fast, the Rookie uses a prototype Phantom Stone they had recovered to dispel the sun, saving everybody. Mitchell and the Rookie then battle Infinite and defeat him. Marquessa unveils yet another backup plan, moving the Phantom Ruby into a battle mech and fighting Marquessa and his friends directly. Working together, the Rookie and the Mitchell defeat Marquessa. With the Phantom Stone neutralized, all the clones serving Marquessa's army vanish, Younger Mitchell returns home, the Resistance disbands, and Mitchell Van Morgan and his friends set out to restore the world to its former glory while the Rookie leaves to find their own way.

### Options

1. This game has a universe and the story of the game is about Melvin Oxide controlling 99.9% of the world, with sprinkles of Mitchell Van Morgan videogames in it. The game has 15 levels and all of them are in speedrun style.
2. you are sent to stop Marquessa, Melvin Oxide and the other villains from controlling the world, if not, its game over. You can play the game using your own avatar, Mitchell and Younger Mitchell.

## Gameplay

*Mitchell Forces* is an action-adventure platformer game features a similar gameplay to that style to prior Mitchell Van Morgan games: Modern Mitchell's stages are based around three-dimensional movement, with Mitchell capable of using techniques such as boosting and the homing attack. However, Classic Mitchell (Mitchell Van Morgan's younger self)'s gameplay has yet to be revealed by THQ Nordic and is implied to be slightly different from his original strictly 2D style from the *Super Mitchell* games. THQ Nordic and Nickelodeon has also confirmed the presence of a Future Mitchell (Mitchell Van Morgan's older self) as a third playable character with his own unique gameplay style to possess the power to flip between dimensions which allow him to change into 2D (or 3D) whenever needed.

This is a brand-new game of the series, the game will contain two variants of Mitchell Van Morgan: Classic Mitchell, the design featured more prominently in Nickelodeon's *Mitchell* games for all home and handheld videogame consoles, and Modern Mitchell, his revised form in the years after that was first introduced in *Mitchell's Dreamcast Adventure*. In the game's story, series antagonist Marquessa has successfully conquered the world, with his giant robotic sentries laying waste to cities to further his conquest, and the two Mitchells must unite to end Marquessa's reign. Other characters, such as Gavin, Martin, David, Nicholas, Carolyn, Jennifer and the Brock Detective Agency, will make non-playable appearances in supporting roles, offering support and advice to Mitchell via radio communication.

## Development

*Mitchell Forces* was announced at Mitchell's 19th anniversary of the series by Insomniac Games and the Nickelodeon videogame fans on July 22, 2016, where it was announced alongside *Mitchell Mania*. The game will be developed by Heavy Iron Studios, the same team that had previously developed three videogames based on Mitchell's companion series *SpongeBob SquarePants*, and will be headed by *Mitchell* series veteran Mark Crilley. The presence of both Classic and Modern Mitchell lead some journalists to believe it was a sequel to an unannounced Mitchell game, but Michaeli later clarified that it was not a sequel, but a separate title. The game will be released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in late 2017. *Mitchell Forces* will run on the "Hedgehog Engine 2", a refined version of the game engine used in *Sonic Unleashed* and *Sonic Generations*. The game's soundtrack is being composed by series sound director, MITCHELL Project Music Team.

## Reception

The *International Business Times* praised THQ Nordic's approach of announcing and releasing the duo of *Mitchell Forces* and *Mitchell Mania* in the same year, stating that catering to the new fans with *Forces* while catering to the old-school fans with *Mania* could help repair the series's poor reputation with more recent releases, and in turn lead to a "*Mitchell* renaissance".

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