There's a lot of great ideas for new Smash Stages. Stage Builder helps to realized a few of these but it's not entirely the same. There are so many amazing stage options that I can't possibly list every single one I'd love to see. Especially when you take into account all the ideas other people could have that you've never thought of before. Something I saw a lot of when I hosted that Stage Creation Contest last year.
To keep things narrowed down, I'd like to see new stages that can serve as a home stage for characters who lack one of their own. You know how Fire Emblem has 7 characters but only 3 stages? One stage for each FE character is the kind of thing I'm thinking of.
So in that regard, here are my ideas:
- Okay technically speaking there's enough Mario stages in Ultimate already to where you could assign one to each individual Mario Character. The problem here is that none of them really.........fit, as a Bowser Home Stage. So yeah, I'll jump on the "Put in Bowser's Castle" train.
- Pretty much the same case here as with Bowser. A Dr. Mario stage would be appreciated.
- So of the 3 Fire Emblem Stages we have so far, my opinion is that Coliseum fits best for Marth, Castle Siege fits best for Ike, and Arena Ferox fits best for Chrom. So what new idea could work for Lucina? I'm thinking the outrealms. Basically a traveling and/or warping stage going through battle maps from a bunch of different Fire Emblem Games. That whole concept started with Awakening and has some ties to Lucina's Time Traveling so it sounds pretty good to me.
- Now this one is more a...........Pseudo entry. Fitting as a Ganon's Tower Stage would be, part of me feels like Bridge of Eldin fits as Ganondorf's home stage well enough considering the final battle of Twilight Princess. Still, some may disagree with that so I'll mention this here anyway.
- Oh Boy. This one might be a tricky since I haven't delved too much into Pre-Awakening Fire Emblem games yet. Hmmmmmmmmmm......perhaps Castle Ostia?
- I'm not saying the idea of throwing in the Retro Stages like Wrecking Crew as R.O.B.'s home stage doesn't work. But actually seeing a Gyromite stage or a Stack-Up stage would be nice.
- I think we're at a point where the spoiler factor of having the back of the Fell Dragon Grima as a stage isn't quite as severe.
- Ken has had a couple of home stages throughout his Street Fighter career. The Battle Harbor from SF2 is the obvious pick, but I supposed there are other options.
- One would think the Opera House from the Trailers and you know what fair enough. That's not a bad idea. But the Bottomless Canyon sounds pretty good too.
- I don't know how many of you are familiar with Rondo of Blood. But the first level in that game is a village set ablaze called "Dinner of Flames". I think that would be a good home stage for Richter.
- I'm honestly surprised we didn't get a Gangplank Galleon Stage. Sure we already have a Pirate Ship with, well, Pirate Ship. But if we're talking home stages than I think they'd have to be from the same series. Though I guess that is up for debate.
- The lack of a Sun & Moon stage surprised me even more. Ultra Space might been cutting it too close for the base game but you still got plenty of Tropical Island locations to use I'm sure.
Other than that whole Home Stage thing. It'd be nice to have a Wario Land Stage to compliment the WarioWare stuff. And I'd also like to see some more stuff from other categories of Mario games besides Kart and the Platformers. We do have a Paper Mario stage currently but it's got a couple of hiccups to it. A more appealing Paper Mario Stage, as well as stages from games like Mario & Luigi and the Sports games would be nice too see as well.
Also a new Xenoblade Stage. I don't care which of the 3 games you pull it from just make it so that it doesn't have to rely on Battlefield and Omega Forms to be good.
It could have a type of hazard that both heals or drain the damage percentage by small bits.
