That sounds more like some sort of stage act... I'd rather focus heavily on showing bits of gameplay.


I'll try to dig deep in my imagination and come up with a script...

To give people some reference about what Plus does, I'd start off with some footage of vanilla JJ2 (which should look quite fun already, we don't want to scare people away!). That would show people what JJ2 itself is. Could start with the menus, joining someone's server. That would show two important things: how the server list looked before, and that there are still many servers online.

Show them SP, battle, CTF... some epic just-in-time flag score would perfectly add to the atmosphere you'd want to show in this phase of the video. Maybe also show some alternative stuff like Ground Force... the thrill you get from playing GF is quite easily captured in a video. It shouldn't be any longer than 1 minute up to this point, to avoid people tuning away before Plus enters the game.

Then, show a screen with some catchy text like "That's just vanilla JJ2 / Enter JJ2 Plus!". Don't keep it there longer than 2 seconds; videos with texts that stay on screen for longer than that always have appeared rather silly to me. After the text screen, revert back to the same gameplay scene as was shown just before the text screen. Then, launch Plus.exe (either outside of the video's frame or with footage of the Plus.exe icon getting clicked) to trigger the Plus welcome screen in the game. Keep Plus.exe's console window out of the video since it looks ugly and it's distracting.

From then on, focus on stuff that was not there before. For instance: Plus' chat messages like the CTF+ ones, killing sprees etc. It's good to start off with an epic kill, and then zoom into the chat message "... is on a KILLING SPREE!". Show the other ones in increasing order ("RAMPAGE", "DOMINATING" etc.) in between and during gameplay scenes, and at the very end of the video end with an epic battle, ending in a close-up of the chat message "...'s killing spree was ended by ..." while the background turns black for the level to cycle.

The Plus gameplay footage could contain stuff like spectator mode, reverse gravity, some heavily scripted thing (ask Sir Ementaler, he's made awesome stuff), maybe somehow squeeze the new server list in there (with some custom game mode/s if possible), more scripted stuff (I also want to nominate plusEnscripted.j2l), add the butterfly, palette fades, more awesome stuff, and that should do it.