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If I had to choose a Mario RPG character to introduce into the main canon, it'd probably be Prince Peasley. Adding a prince alongside the princesses seems like such an obvious thing for the Mario universe to do, and there isn't much lore you have to get to understand the character conceptually like with say Fawful or Geno - there's a bean country next to the Mushroom Kingdom, it's enhabited by beans instead of mushrooms, extremely simple to grasp.

I'm personally partial to Vivian and she is a character who a return of is demanded, but I feel her design is so abstract (especially in regards to whether she's a ghost or not) that she could be offputting to casual players even if the entire fandom, casual and hardcore, miraculously agreed that having a trans character is OK. Lady Bow is a runner up, she's easily my favourite of the enemy-based RPG party members and would be super easy to sell casual players on ("existing character but girl" is a tried and tested trope, as is "gothic + feminine aesthetic")

removes all colour from the character
calls it colourful


I don't really get why you'd tone down the cplours here, I get it's to look more casual and less like kiddy-wear or cosplay, but either way it's a Yoshi-shaped onesie. It's gonna look stupid and extravagant.

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Toy Story 4 takes place immediately after Toy Story 3 in 2010, but they didn't have the hindsight to acknowledge the Chile earthquake or BP oil spill? SMH lazy lazy Pixar as always.

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Nintendo realising they've run out of Smash reveals to Get Outta This One™ with.

We are submitting veteran modifications, N64 allies, and adventure routes!

https://smashboards.com/threads/sma...veset-changes-retro-n64-allies.516955/page-27

Let me just put this out there: there will be a guest character job, possibly multiple, in the DLC cycle for SMSB, but Banjo; Sonic; and Pac-Man will all be 100% inelegible for what I have in mind. Link will probably only have one shot too.

Mr. Enter's Turning Red 9/11 Guy's "Growing Around" concept is really easy to fix, like just one tweak that completely removes the dystopian implications - just remove the adults and make it about a society of kids in adult roles. All you have to do now is put some storks in the backgrounds of scenes and BAM! No more literal 1984 subtext. The world he's created has some genuinely wonderful elements, it looks nice and the kid substitutes for adult activity are clever, but it just needs to drop the adults themselves.

Though I do still think Mascot Prep or Bozzlebag's Zip Code would be a better Shorty McShort Short to steal from. I need a HR Puffnstuff/Fat Albert hybrid isekai in my life.

I wish I could go back in time and apologise to the kid I made fun of for watching The Land Before Time when we were about 7 or 8

I only knew the sequels and show. Not the original film.

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I watched the leaked MVS footage (specifically red Jake vs. Harley) and, honestly, it looks bad. May just be that Jake is probably a lightweight being elastic and my eyes were drawn to him more than Harley on virtue of being, y'know, a giant shapeshifting red dog, but the game looked REALLY floaty - almost as much as PTE was - and the attacks looked like they had no impact whatsoever.

We are submitting gimmick stages and healing items!

It's kinda funny how Min Min in Smash made Arms look LESS appealing to outsiders from a distance. If they had either let the game die gracefully or handled Min Min's moveset differently, the game probably would be remembered as a cult classic, (even if I personally don't think it's that good) but they just had to go for a last ditch effort and now the game is associated with desperation and crippling simplicity.

Buzzfeed has posted a lot of concerning articles... but this is certainly the apex.

I have no clue if this'd be feasible from a design or development perspective, but I feel Mario Kart 8 probably should've had the Koopalings share a kart - I don't know if you could pull it off on a bike or ATV though.

I feel that EarthBound probably has a higher brand recognition among non-Nintendo fans now than a lot of Nintendo's former major IPs. (Metroid, Star Fox, F-Zero, e.t.c.)

I had a dream where the Kirby analog horror series was revealed to have been made by Nintendo as an ARG to promote and kick off an entire grimdark cinematic universe based on gross-out 90s Nintendo commercials.

It's kinda funny that the Wii-era kids who grew up not understanding why people prefer Melee over Brawl now prefer MKW over 8D for the exact same reasons people prefer Melee over Brawl.

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That's what the point of the shy guy french name

If I had to make a Smash newcomer lineup designed to sell DLC, I'd have a pattern:

1. 80s/earlier serious
2. 80s/earlier funny
3. 80s/earlier fantasy
4. 90s serious
5. 90s funny
6. 90s fantasy
7. 00s serious
8. 00s funny
9. 00s fantasy
10. modern serious
11. modern funny
12. modern fantasy

(Fantasy in this case, meaning the more lighthearted, modern anime/Disney-esque idea of fantasy. Crono would be fantasy, Dragonborn would be serious.)
That way every age group and tonal preferance has something at least. An example of the sort of lineup this could entail would be...

1. Bill Rizer
2. Q*Bert
3. Avatar
4. Doomguy
5. Crash Bandicoot
6. Crono
7. CJ
8. Ratchet & Clank
9. Lloyd
10. Dragonborn
11. Cuphead
12. Tiz Arrior

There are some series that might blur the lines a little here though.

If there was room for 16 characters, I'd add "era Nintendo" as an extra set - though if enough time has passed when this hypothetical game is released it could be a split of "10s tone" and "20s tone" instead.

Episodic cartoons can be super hard to get into in the streaming/piracy age - streaming services weren't really designed with non-serialised TV content in mind, especially legacy content. When I watched the Simpsons on Disney+, I just watched the episodes I remembered enjoying as a kid and the ones I missed that's premises intrigued me, but if I didn't grow up on Simpsons I'd have no clue where to start even with the general "seasons 2 through 8 good, seasons 1 and 9 through 12 alright, everything else bad" baseline - there's just so many seasons in the golden age alone and it's got such a slow start that it'd be really hard to tell which episode would give you the best basis for who these characters are in a show where every episode, sans a few gimmick/spotlight episodes, is intended to hook you in for more the next week. Shorter shows with 2 to 4 seasons, maybe 5, are easier to manage getting through the whole backlog of, but you still can't really get that non-completionist casual TV watching experience anymore.

A "random episode" button would be really appreciated on streaming services, especially with season narrowng. Maybe even a random episode playlist option to replicate the classic TV experience.

Aghast! You assassinated Kennith! Were you concieved prior to wedlock?

If I made a public domain themed fighting game, I'd probably focus on super obscure stuff rather than the characters people still use and/or are associated with Disney (though Pooh would be there for sure). I'd also take major liberties from the source materials to create a sort of shared universe that, without context, would be hard to recognise as a crossover.

current license holders for old sonic cartoons dont steal fanart challenge (impossible)

"Our target audience can't even read yet, we simply CAN NOT name this show a portmanteau containing one of the most inconsistenty pronounced and spelled common words worldwide and another word that is not remotely pronounced like any of the other's pronunciations!"
"funny pun go brrrr"

If Sony made Smash, I'd probably want DK to be Nintendo's first rep, but if Microsoft made Smash I'd prefer Mario and/or Luigi; a non-Pikachu/Lucario/Charizard Pokémon; or Link - if only because DK would feel very strictly pattern based and like he was just added because of his connections to Rare.

While I do think the concept of Pibby is fundamentally stupid and more fit for a band's barely-legally-distinct T-shirt than a full series, I will at least give it credit for sticking entirely to cartoons unlike WB's other megacrossovers.

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We are submitting Captain Syrup's moveset and alt costumes, and voting on Geno's Final Smash + the reveals in our first direct!

I just want to tell you that the "Don't pee on the floor, use the commodore" fish comes from a licensed game based on a cartoon that got Iggy Pop to do the theme

It's kinda funny how people will be super insecure about enjoying things like Kirby; Avatar; Harry Potter; e.t.c. and bring up its darker elements to prove "it's not (just) for kids", but then adult fans of stuff like Barney and Bob the Builder will be completely unashamed in their earnest enthusiasm, and celebrate its "kiddy" status/image

If there was a Disney platform fighter, I'd want it to have an extremely heavy emphasis on the animated canon and Pixar - if there was a 20 fighter roster, for example, I'd probably only want 3 or 4 characters who don't fit into those two camps at max, (not including Mick; Don; and Goof) and would much prefer acquired IPs over live action or TVA.