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Ah, jeez, did I mix up hitboxes and hurtboxes? I can never keep those two straight. Let me rephrase: if one of these costume characters has an idle animation where they, for instance, stretch their arms up over their head; that arm can be whacked by a sword when the default idle animation...

This is not a matter of console power. The Switch is perfectly capable of having multiple characters in the same CSS slot, as evidenced by the fact that you can stack echoes. I'm not really sure what you mean by "so many slots", either. I mean, who could you do this with that you can't already...

I mean, while characters with different proportions have the most obvious hitbox issues, having different animations - even just taunts or (more relevantly) idle animations - would also result in the same sorts of differences.

Eh... I'm not all that crazy about alt costumes having gameplay differences. Even when they're minor ones. It would feel weird to think about how your hitboxes would be affected by choosing the Classic Sonic alt or how the fire from Fire Mario's attacks will blow up Link's bombs but not affect...

I think something can... what's the phrasing I'm looking for... be a fad without just being a fad. For instance, I would say the FNaF fad, the explosion of attention it got in the mid-tens, is over, even if FNaF itself isn't dead.

I am a full day late on this, but here goes: I, er, no. I don't think they should "spice up the backgrounds". I don't think Shulk should knock you into his game. I don't think Shulk should be knocking you anywhere. It doesn't matter how cool your new place is, there's no reason he can't do a...

I figure I may as well weigh in on the whole... super specials and Final Smashes @Chuderz and @Quillion are having. I'm mentioning them because at this point I'm not sure which posts to quote. My thoughts on cutscene Final Smashes is that in a game where there can be players to whom the Final...

Not that I really get it myself, but from what I gather the male protagonist is called Aether and the female protagonist is called Lumine. It seems like it's a Japanese Byleth situation where their names and genders are kind of the only difference. The one I've moreso heard as the Smash pick...

I don't think giving Ganondorf a sword and magic could ever make him more similar to another character than he is currently as a clone of Captain Falcon.

I... think they mean full 3D movement. Considering I have no clue how that would work, I can't agree with the assessment that we should have expected it from Smash 4.

You're talking to the person who said that right now! I suppose the difference with Hero's MP is that it starts full, but I'm not sure that would be too difficult to change. Although it suddenly occurs to me that it might only really make sense with the version of the mechanic I've been...

I feel like a Super Special Meter ought to replace those sorts of meters in the first place. I mean, with it, Cloud and Hero would already have a meter that limits their access to powerful attacks. I don't really see the need for them to have a second unique one on top of that.

An item entirely out of your control that you have to hope pops up, yeah. With air dashes instead of jumps, if you need to recover and your opponent is ready and attempting to edgeguard you - you're basically forced to move in and eat whatever they have planned. One of your goals was to give...

Honestly, whenever people talk about a big next game, mechanics discussion interests me a lot more than "who will get cut", so I'm brushing past the roster talk and looking at the rest of the stuff. Yeah this one sounds good Air... jumps? I've heard of the concept of air dodges being replaced...

Okay, so I know I don't post in here like ever, but I need to scream into the void about this and as far as I can tell there's no dedicated Mario Strikers thread. I played the demo for the new Mario Strikers. For what it's worth, the gameplay mostly seemed similar enough to the GCN one that I...