Okay, I have thought of a big Nintendo crossover fanfic that I could try to write this year (probably in the summer when school is out), but I have the basic plot and characters
Basic plot: Several Nintendo villains (barring Bowser and Bowser Jr), gather to form a Legion of Doom-esque team. They plot several heinous acts, among them are killing Chrom and Female!Robin, and destroying the Mushroom Kingdom (also killing Peach). Several Nintendo heroes and Anti-Heroes team up to stop the bad guys from conquering the Nintendo universe.
Characters (not counting the dead ones already mentioned):
- From Super Mario: Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Yoshi, Wario, Waluigi, Fawful, Ashley, Rosalina
- From Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Cranky Kong, King K. Rool, Dixie Kong, Tiny Kong
- From The Legend of Zelda: Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, Vaati, Girahim
- From Metroid: Samus Aran, Ridley
- From Kid Icarus: Pit, Palutena, Magnus, Dark Pit, Hades, Viridi, Phosphora
- From Fire Emblem: Marth, Roy, Ike, Lucina, Male!Morgan (this version would be Lucina's brother, regardless of who Chrom marries in Awakening)
- From F-Zero: Captain Falcon, Samurai Goroh, Black Shadow
- from Kirby: Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede
- From Star Fox: Fox Mc Cloud, Falco Lombardi, Wolf O'Donnell, Krystal
- From Pokemon: Pikachu, Charizard, Mewtwo, Lucario
- from assorted Nintendo franchises: Little Mac, Hikari, Ness, Saki, Captain Rainbow, Shulk
Do you guys think that this idea has potential to make a decent fanfic?
edited 1st Mar '15 8:27:59 PM by powerpuffbats
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!Sounds... a bit morbid for a Smash fic.
Also, weird question: How would you pull a Leeroy Jenkins in Smash Bros....?
edited 1st Mar '15 8:47:10 PM by TroPartner
The rule of thumb in smash is generally that the characters who hit hardest should hit least. Meta Knight and Marth and Fox and so on can move quickly and keep pressure up, whereas Dedede and Bowser and especially Ganondorf should keep the focus on something of a parry-riposte style, avoiding attacks as much as possible and punishing misses with huge slams.
I sure said that!Has anyone ever noticed that in All-Star Mode it seems as if each opponent is assigned a random AI type from a few choices, rather than all behaving normally? Sometimes even on Hard one or two will mostly stand around accomplishing nothing, sometimes one or two will be stupidly aggressive (If all three are, then you run a severe risk of being combo'd from 0%-70% if one grabs you), and sometimes certain ones will do nothing but spam a specific move.
That latter one stands out and is what makes me notice this. Sometimes Charizard does nothing but spam Flare Blitz, sometimes Dedede just whacks Gordos everywhere, and I once encountered a Robin that literally just kept running away from me to charge up Thoron, and never confronted me up close.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Yep, I am deliberately going for a more Darker and Edgier vibe if I did that fanfic.
It should be noted that my original idea for a Nintendo crossover fic was Injustice Gods Among Us with Nintendo characters instead of DC characters. And the roster was about half of what it is in my current idea.
Peach is killed off because I couldn't find a way to fit her in my story (and to add drama for Mario and Luigi...plus that was my original idea in the first place and because she is useless in non-spinoff Mario games).
Chrom and Female!Robin are dead because in this version, they are Lucina and Morgan's parents, so to add more drama. And to make Lucina fill the role of "second parent" that older siblings can fill.
What do y'all think of my character selection? I understand if y'all think it's too much.
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!To be honest, this isn't really the place to post a long list about elements in a personal might-be fanfic where a lot of people that shouldn't have any business dying die because Dark Fic, or any fanfic really.
And also to be honest, you posting very long lists about personal stuff unprompted (like Miis in your game or your least favorite characters in order) breaks the flow of the thread and can get quite annoying after so many times.
edited 2nd Mar '15 7:19:01 AM by Elbruno
"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
I usually like asking you guys who you like to use most/least.
I do usually like to know what you guys like to use in Smash Bros in regards to characters/stages/music.
I also didn't really have anywhere else to post my idea.
I'm not really that affected by what y'all think of my idea as even I don't know if/when I'd get to writing it anyways.
But, I am sorry if I am annoying you guys by breaking the flow of the thread.
Anyways, which game had the best Single Player experience? I think I'd go with Melee as Classic was completely random, and it had the better Adventure Mode. The events I'll say are a pain in the ass. ( and yes, I do realize I'm effectively changing the topic of conversation again...from my own topic that wasn't really going anywhere as it was just me posting an idea. I tend to like having these crossover ideas for some bizarre reason.)
edited 2nd Mar '15 7:41:07 AM by powerpuffbats
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!Cameo or not featuring her would be better, yeah. Or just give one of the characters a Hand Wave line explaining that she's doing royal stuff back in the Mushroom Kingdom. Anything not involving fridging her, really.
"We're home, Chewie."To be quite honest, anything grimdark involving Mario characters is doomed to be terrible. The only reason to go grimdark in the first place is if there's something you have to prove. If what you're trying to prove isn't better served with literally any other set of characters, it's not worth proving. (For the record, I can't imagine any point other than "oh man it's child-friendly franchises but with gratuitous violence, this has never been done.") (PS: It has.)
(The only exception I can think of would be creepypasta because the ancient trope of corrupting something associated with childhood just never goes out of style.)
I mean, this sounds cruel and all, and it kinda is. Don't get me wrong, though. I'm just saying that writing this fanfiction would be a mistake. Of course, making mistakes is a part of growing up and growing better! Do go ahead and make lots and lots of mistakes! I just think I'd prefer to dissuade you from tackling a project that's just a big mistake in concept already so maybe you can skip that part and gain writing experience writing something that at least has the potential to be good.
edited 2nd Mar '15 9:28:55 AM by Fawriel
No concept is terrible. Just the execution.
If you wanna go ahead with this, do so! :3 Just be very, very careful because this franchise is pretty light-hearted, and it'd be hard to make it not-so while still being the Mario Series.
Although there are ways... Like doing something with the hypothesis that Mario suffers from antisocial personality disorder.
Or how the Mushroom Kingdom's organisational skills are if they can't even keep their royal princess from being kidnapped. Heck, even the implications the coins and lives would bring if you thought about it in anything other than a game mechanic.
New tier list, this time taking customs into consideration.
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Greninja being just out of A tier pleases me.

Morgan Freeman.
Call me butter, because I am on a roll! 3ds friend code: 5258-0885-3903 Wii U: Bowser Charizard