Before you say anything, i wanna ask YOU something, "who were the spiral knights before the events of spiral knights? Do you ever wonder what their home was like before the skylark?" Now I ask you to join me in asking Sega and three rings to write the story BEFORE the awesome MMO we all know and love: Spiral Knights! (face it, this is better than the other mmos IMO)
Okay, I was thinking something kinda like this:
You are a Spiral Squire, someone who trains to become a spiral knight (the tie to this game here) on the planet of "planet name here" (i dont have everything down yet). The leader of the spiral knights (before the events of this game), "someone," asks a spiral squire (you) to venture throughout the "planet" to find out whats going on (Its either planet is dying or something like that). As you travel, you will locate several towns with other squires sent on the same mission and play kinda like the game now (you control one of four[or less] squires in similar gameplay). You can equip any kind of weapon (which now have types[bout 7+] and dfferences), but allies(about 10) have limits (they can equip this type, but not that). As you play, you discover dungeons and can also craft items found in the game(not this one, spiral knights) and unknown ones. At the end of the game (played on the skylark), you have to save yourself from the crash taking some fancy "graduates gear" (based on the starter gear in game) and head to an escape pod. When you wake up, the story shifts to you waking up and recieving a call (sound faamiliar? it should, its how the game starts) on an unknown planet.
Im thinking since the game is so popular, they could make a game that tells of the story before this, but hey, what do I know? I just wanna know what they were like before this (and maybe we can finally learn what race we are).
Bring on the hurt (or love).
take this concept, make it single player, and i would like it. not sure the skylark ending part would work though, unless we know / they fill in the backstory for the crash? didnt something get on the ship from the planet? i dont know the lore so this may be known already.
however i would totally enjoy a side-story to this game, playable offline, with the same design style and universe as the setting. multiplayer content would not be necessary as it is here. i understand you want it for your concept, but for my twist on it, its not needed, and not particularly desired.