Other thread died with only a few replies so I’m doing it again
You get the same amount of time to develop a story for Ultimate that it took to develop The Subspace Emmisary, which is 6 years, and whatever budget was used for that. How would the story go, how would Subspace Emmisary fit into the story, and how would you introduce all of the characters into the story (excluding DLC characters)
Itt: we make a better story mode than World of Light
Hudson Cox
Isaiah Jenkins
Bump
Alexander Campbell
take the same premise as world of light, except actually make a short story about it.
starts the same with kirby, you rescue mario and then stumble upon the city.
most fighters have already broken free from galeem's control and have been living for hundreds of years in the world of light.
each of the fighters you can find in the light dinension has a different circumstances, for example link is completelt broken and hopeless after failing to find zelda for hundreds of years, the few FE characters are looking for clues about the disappeared members of their group, a "missing" board containing all the dark dimension characters is posted somewhere but everyone lost hope ro get reunited to them.
from here on it plays a lot like WoL excepr less filler and more cutscenes.
Noah Richardson
subspace but actually good like smash run
Jaxson Thomas
Maybe a ton of weird mashup sections. Like bokoblins take over a race track in the F-Zero universe and link has to race Epona on a super fucked up race track while falcon fucks up the booth they're all at. Or whatever. Idk but if you don't focus of mashing up franchises you're lost
Benjamin Ross
Very good ideas
Easton Cook
Bump
Wyatt Foster
Okay so you take all the beloved characters with unique series enemies and locations, and you throw most of that away
We'll keep Mario stuff like Goombas and Koopa Troopas, but everything else will be original stuff
Locations? Make them generic, that way everyone can fit in. Generic sky, generic desert, generic jungle, generic ruins. They can just put a specific track for each one so the player can go "Ahhhh, this stage is really a [game] reference".
As for cutscenes, make about 90% of them just be characters looking at each other before an awkward cut to a character select. Then throw in a couple of fanservicey cool ones that people will remember most.
Maybe for the final area, have the players revisit every single location again. It will be like a really bizarre, neat nostalgic rush, you know?
Isaiah Morgan
Make subspace bigger with more enemeis from each franchises. Example:
DK Enemies
Kritter
Kutlass
Krook
Krusha
Klump
Klobber
Kannon
Klaptrap
Ka-Boing
Klinger
Zinger
Necky
Pops
Charlie
Waldough
Trench Tuck
Harrold
Klick Klack
Neek
Spiky Tuck
Soary
Harry
Fluff
Tuff Fluff
Fire Hootz
Blue Hootz
Hootz
Walbrick
Walnut
Zelda Enemies
Bokoblin
Sword Bokoblin
Scope Bokoblin
Metal Bokoblin
Boom Bokoblin
Moblin
Fire Bokoblin
Stalfos
Darknut
Peahat
Leever
Kesse
Bubble
Redead
Octorock
Lizafols
Fire Lizafols
Electric Lizafols
Guardian
Ice Lizafols
Taurus
Lynel
Daria
Wizzrobe
Gibdo
Poe
Hinox (LTTP Variant)
Yoshi Enemies
Bandit
Boom Bandit
Scope Bandit
Sword Bandit
Big Bandit
Fire Bandit
Metal Bandit
Shy Guy (Blue)
Shy Guy (Yellow)
Shy Guy (Red)
Shy Guy (Green)
Snifit
Raven
Burt
Lemon Drop
Pitcher
Catcher
Zeus Guy
Tap-Tap
Goonie
Fat Goonie
Lantern Ghost
Nolan Richardson
Is my budget adjusted for inflation and relative size compared to the rest of the game, or am I working on SSE's budget while the rest of Ultimate has like fucktuple that?