Whoever cobbles together the best Bionicle fan-fiction within 24 hours of this post will receive a code for Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.

Crossovers are optional if there's a common theme between the settings like "Bionicle's Great Beings are the same as Marvel's Celestials" or "It's just Lost with Transformers". At risk of losers feeling cheated, the winner will be chosen entirely by my subjective appreciation. Most of the things I like in a story take longer to write than I am allowing, but I also want to give this game away quickly so 1 day is a compromise.

Rules are simple: The story must be at least 1 paragraph long (longer is better) and you need to understand whoever or whatever you describe. That means everyone is in-character, there are no contradictions with official stories, and the story makes imaginative use of traits and lore that haven't appeared in official media.

Now that my giveaway is a pathetic failure, I'll just give it to the first person who asks.

not me

I admit that when I read your thread yesterday I was wondering "What is even Bionicle?!!"
I don't want the game either, because I don't like games with constant enemy respawn!
I'd propose to you to give the code to Lone_scout instead, if you want, as a donator to GOGmmunity giveaway!

CarChris will deliver the code soon and probably look into the most badass thing Lego ever made for good measure.

It starts with a spooky tropical island populated by robotic animals and color-coded tribes with a heroic protector of each village, and it's all founded on a comatose machine-god who needs a magic macguffin to be saved from his devilish brother.

It's done. I've sent it to Lone_Scout. +1

LOL I honestly just don't remember the names of the characters anymore. I used to watch it sometimes a long time ago tho.

Not in since I already own both it and Shadow of War on GOG (and have them on Steam, too) but man, I loved Bionicle as a kid! I really loved those ones that you could roll up into a ball, I can't remember what they were called, but they were definitely my favorite type. I think it was partly because it reminded me of Samus from Metroid in her morph ball form haha

Actually, it was the one where the story revolves around two kids (if I remember correctly) on an adventure of recovering a golden mask or something. And the mask would change the appearance of the wearer once worn. It was the old version that I watched, as it was already a long time ago and I don't remember watching any other Bionicle movies since then.

EDIT: It was the Bionicle: Mask of Light movie. Also, I just realized that the movie I talked about is actually part of the Miramax trilogy you mentioned lol. Now I might actually watch the other two movies in the future after knowing this fact.

Both are about prequels by the way, from when the village elders were rookie heroes in part 2 and mutated by spider venom in part 3. Keep in mind that when there's a double solar eclipse in part 2, that's seriously God entering a coma.

In terms of telling the story, Bionicle is horrifically fractured into several mediums. The Miramax trilogy is years 3, 4, and 5; the best ways to get the story of years 1 and 2 are the Mata Nui Online games (preserved) and Masks of Power (fan-made) on the fan site https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/. There's also The Voya Nui Online game for 2006 and comics/novels for every year, but the literature tells just as much a fraction of each year as the other mediums. It all came to a screeching halt when a major character is banished to another planet in 2009 and had half an adventure (and crappy movie, made by the same people as Food Fight) to himself before the story was canceled; we skipped over a year or so of content to get a badass ending that makes kaiju movies look like bacteria documentaries.

I see, thanks! Btw, are the Bionicle games considered as abandonwares now? Or did they just become free at one point? I noticed a lot of games there on the website that you shared that are available for download. Anyway, I think I might just play the online game first to understand the story better. Thanks again!

The official games were previously on Lego.com, but were scrapped in favor of new content to keep the traffic flowing. I think that qualifies them as abandonware, but Lego's game section of the website was always free. I thank my Lucky Star body-pillow (I don't have any of those, I just wanted to spin the saying) that Lego allows fans to operate old franchises. Any year now, the polished version of Masks of Power will release on Steam and it'll either be free or Lego gets a cut.

The only consoles games ever worth playing were on Gameboy Advanced in 2001/2. 2003 saw a tie-in for Mask of Light, but it was a grossly rushed (3-month development!) abomination and I vividly remember everybody online before release were impatient little shits about it, only to instantly regret every word. Bionicle Heroes was ok in 2006, made by Traveler's Tales, but the "story" was just the villains doing gag comedy to start every level and waiting for the player to beat them.

I see. One more question if you don't mind. I've already started playing the Mata Nui online game, and I wonder whether the chapters need to be played in chronological order? I found myself skipping to chapter 4 already since the game basically allows you to travel to wherever you want from the get go. With that in mind, I have to say I'm quite enjoying the game so far. So thanks :)

You get a better feel of the story if you just do everything sequentially. You may have missed Gali defending Ga-Koro from a boxing tread-lizard or yourself discovering that a shady merchant is selling infected sports-rocks to athletes in Po-Koro.

Also, the higher framerate of modern machines makes the turret section towards the hive way too difficult; I rage-quit for the night over that reason and chapter selection is the closest thing to a save function.