Creatures Caves

i was reading this thing right here when i realized, what if we could somehow make what steve grand had in mind when he was designing the first game? naturally, we'd have to change the names of all the creatures, but it'd be incredibly fun to play!

by the way, here's the comparison for the original concepts of the creatures and what we know them as:

original norn: resembles ron norn, with tufted tail. if you have creatures 1, you can find their sprites, albeit off-color, in the full.spr folder. they are sentient, and keep ettins as pets, but the creatures you raise in the game have no knowledge of this, so you will have to teach them how to live - they will starve otherwise.
current norn: cute, catlike creatures that can mainly care for themselves, but may require the hand's assistance. probably have some sentience, and some of them probably think of small critters as their pets. a baby norn will eventually learn what can be eaten, what is dangerous, etc.
original grendel: far different from their draconic counterparts, they are gigantic metallic spiders. you must teach your norns to avoid them at all costs, or else they will undoubtedly be eaten! they live in the albian desert.
current grendel: green draconic beasts. although they will hit around your norns, they can be taught to avoid them, and some can even kill them in a one-on-one fight! they live in the jungle.
original ettin: small, stupid, lizardlike beasts. kept by the norns as pets. not much is given on them, but they supposedly live in caves.
current ettin: small humanoids that like building things. live in the desert and love to steal things.
original geat: benevolent draconic beasts. not very much given about them at all.
current geat: you can make it literally ANYTHING!

i feel like using the c3 engine would be a good start, if we were to do this. the main question is, what genre are we going to make it (it was described as an rpg type thing, but keeping the "computer pets" aspect is vital). it seems like guiding the norns to the place where they would come of age, then taking them back to breed and continue the process would be the best idea, with the journey being long at first, but slowly getting easier, with the norns bringing back supplies until they can quite easily get to the yggdrasil and back, and then you can raise the norns in their burrows like the "real" creatures games.

it would probably take like 1232421 years, but it would be incredibly interesting to play!