Official Next Smash - Speculation & Discussion Thread

[Dukefire]

Finally, Sakurai's actions figures are now in Smash.

They could operate like how mokujin worked in Tekken. Literal wooden target dummy that fights like a character for each round.

 

[Wonder Smash]

Obviously, his NES design should be his default look, but that design should be one of his alts.

I thought that was based on his NES design.

 

[Perkilator]

They could operate like how mokujin worked in Tekken. Literal wooden target dummy that fights like a character for each round.

I feel like that would be way more difficult than Mokujin, given the various different sizes and body shapes of the cast. I think if the Dragon King were to be a real fighter, then they should be like this.

 

[Shinuto]

I'm hating people saying Dk new design is movie based. It's not the movie is based on his retro inner nintendo look!

 

[The Stoopid Unikorn]

I feel like that would be way more difficult than Mokujin, given the various different sizes and body shapes of the cast

This is someone Mokujin managed to copy.

 

[ninjahmos]

I thought that was based on his NES design.

Well, I guess it was. But the color scheme is different.

 

[Diddy Kong]

Paper Mario is in a very weird spot because if even the most conservative estimates for when smash 6 development started are true then that places the start of development towards close to when they added the 2024 spirit events, which means the project plan wouldve still been drafted before the Ttyd remake was publicly revealed.

Which means if paper Mario is a base game addition he'd most likely be based primarily on Origami King, which isn't a bad thing as the game itself is fine and dandy; it's just that it'd almost certainly lead to a paper Mario moveset that focuses on... just Mario. I don't think either side of the argument would be satisfied with that.

Edit: does anyone have that fan made poster for paper Mario from back in the day that depicts the smash 4 cast in the paper Mario art style? I believe Ridley was done up in the same way as Hooktail which was very clever.

I think Sakurai would look at the series as a whole. Not just Origami King. Paper Mario would just be like the name implies. A paper version of Mario. Central would be the hammer, jump stomp abilities but am also quite certain Paper Mario would fold himself into a paper plane as seen in The Tousand Year Door. 1000% certain in fact.

 

[Guynamednelson]

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This is someone Mokujin managed to copy.

True Ogre borrows animations from a lot of the Tekken 2 cast that didn't make it into 3, so he has to be rigged to the exact same skeleton as all of them, body shape be damned. Meanwhile, here's what happens when you try to make every single Smash fighter use a custom animation that was meant for Falcon and Falcon alone:

Even Ganondorf's body gets distorted when he default dances, and he's a Falcon clone.

 

[Þe 1 → Way]

Paper Mario's hypothetical moveset kinda plugs itself up with a fair amount of basic moves from the series no matter which game is used as a base (Hammer, Stomp, Koopa Kick, Bomb Omb). I think it depends less on modernity or popularity of the game and moreso whatever perceived moveset potential Sakurai would think of while designing him. It could also be something of a composite deal like K Rool.

Either way, a Dimentio assist where he draws a square then snaps his fingers to blow up anyone in it would be fire.

 

[fogbadge]

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This is someone Mokujin managed to copy.

this live action remake of Ring Fit Adventure is looking weird