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Oh, yay, Hat Kid day! I love Hat Kid's design and the game's OST is just so great.
That said, my love of Hat Kid is apparently not mutual, as the game (at least on PS4) makes me incredibly motion sick to play. I don't know why; motion sickness from games is usually just something I deal with from first-person games, but something about A Hat in Time just knocks me out within minutes of playing.
Ergo, I have two questions to ask:
1) What area from the game do you think is famous enough to get a stage?
2) Would Bow Kid be an alt? I don't know much about her beyond her design and that she was revealed with art by the Curiomatic team, but I think she's a Luigi-esque character?
Chapter 2 (taking place in Dead Bird Studio) seems to be the fan favorite chapter, I think - though I think that's more down to the characters than the location. Still, a stage split down the middle between a western movie and some flashy musical would make for a pretty cool stage.
Bow Kid is the character Player 2 plays as. I could go either way on her, though - she's almost comically not-prominent, as her only appearance in the story is getting her picture stapled onto the corner of the loading screens. (Also, if you thought the camera was nauseating normally, it gets bad when it's trying to squeeze two players onto the same screen.)
Y'know, this... might be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I'm not sure I'd really want the different hats of the game to really have a place in the moveset.
I don't know - I didn't find myself using them a whole lot, so despite the game being named after them, I find it somewhat difficult to call them a core thing we would have to represent.
If we had some kinda hat-swapping gimmick... I mean, besides y'all knowing how I feel about those, I feel like it'd just be affecting one move of hers - which kinda doesn't really have a point. It's like Dante's styles and how they're not at all represented in MvC. There's no point in a stance that changes one move.
And if we just gave her the moves, I fear that would lead to a somewhat aesthetically-incohesive moveset.
Dead Bird Studios could make for a very cool stage. I feel like Mafia Town would probably end up being Hat Kid's stage for being the first area you visit and thus most recognizable. Although would Nintendo take issue with having the word "Mafia" in Smash?
When it comes to hat Kid's different hats, well, I forget alot of the hats she had tbh as its been a while since I played A hat in Time. I could see her different hats just kind of showing up throughout her moveset instead of having a hat-switching gimmick though. Like, one hat I do remember is that scooter one and I could see that being a special move similar to Wario's bike, or maybe they could even have it be a dash attack.
Spoiler: Moveset Ideas Neutral attack - Hat Kid swings her umbrella, using the 3-swing combo she used in her game.
Dash attack - Hat Kid dives forward.
Grab - Hat Kid launches a tether with her Hookshot Badge.
Pummel - Hat Kid bonks her opponent on the head with her umbrella multiple times.
Neutral special - Brewing Hat: Hat Kid's hat is replaced with the Brewing Hat as she shakes an explosive potion, charging it up. It behaves like a charge shot, except the projectile is a gravity-affected explosive.
Side special - Scooter Badge: Hat Kid summons her scooter as her hat is replaced with the Sprint Hat. It behaves like the Wario Bike except faster, less damaging, and not being destructible.
Up special - Dweller Mask: Instead of a traditional recovery move, Hat Kid uses the Dweller Mask to make a spectral platform appear below her. The platform disappears after a few seconds, and the move cannot be used for some time (marked by a cooldown meter by Hat Kid's character portrait).
Down special - Ice Hat: Hat Kid turns into an ice sculpture and falls downward quickly. It does less damage/knockback than Kirby's Stone, but has an area of effect when it lands.
Final Smash - Hyper Zone: Hat Kid throws a Time Piece down and in front of her. When it collides with a surface or opponent, it bursts into a void that transports all opponents that get caught in it to the Hyper Zone (the rainbow arena from the finale). Victims are bombarded by Time Pieces from above before Hat Kid shoots a large laser from her umbrella at them.
My pick for a stage would be Dead Bird Studio. A movie studio stage? With both disco and western decorations? And the potential to give Xander Mobus yet another voice role in this game? Sounds great!
You'd probably need a few more for a full board (only character I can think of to add is Mafia Boss, maybe Bow Kid if she isn't an alt skin), but here's what I have. (Note that stages may be substituted out based on what the HiT stage ends up being.)
The Conductor
Advanced
Support: Fog Immunity
Orange Falco on Spirit Train
The enemy starts with a Killing Edge, Bob-ombs will rain from the sky
DJ Grooves
Advanced
Support: Bomber Equipped
Pink King Dedede on New Pork City
Item: Party Balls, Hostile assist trophies (Yuri Kozukata) will appear, The enemy likes to taunt
The Snatcher
Ace
Primary: Initial Damage 30%
Giant purple Kirby on Dracula’s Castle (Ω form)
The enemy will occasionally be invincible, The enemy has super armor and is hard to launch or make flinch, Certain items (Spiny Shells) will appear in large numbers
Queen Vanessa
Novice
Support: Impact Run
Green Peach on Luigi’s Mansion
The enemy is invincible, The enemy favors grabs and pummels, Stamina Battle (you have 1.0 HP), Survive until the timer runs out (45 seconds)
Mustache Girl
Legend
Support: Time Stop (start the battle with the Timer effect)
Red Isabelle (or Hat Kid?) on Norfair
Item: Timers and Daybreak, The enemy is easily distracted by items, The enemy has increased move speed when the enemy’s at high damage
Also, I mentioned Bow Kid--would she get to be an alternate skin for Hat Kid?
A while back I came up with some ideas for Hat Kid's moves. Not a full moveset, but I think my ideas are decent.
My pick for a stage would be Dead Bird Studio. A movie studio stage? With both disco and western decorations? And the potential to give Xander Mobus yet another voice role in this game? Sounds great!
You'd probably need a few more for a full board (only character I can think of to add is Mafia Boss, maybe Bow Kid if she isn't an alt skin), but here's what I have. (Note that stages may be substituted out based on what the HiT stage ends up being.)
The Conductor
Advanced
Support: Fog Immunity
Orange Falco on Spirit Train
The enemy starts with a Killing Edge, Bob-ombs will rain from the sky
DJ Grooves
Advanced
Support: Bomber Equipped
Pink King Dedede on New Pork City
Item: Party Balls, Hostile assist trophies (Yuri Kozukata) will appear, The enemy likes to taunt
The Snatcher
Ace
Primary: Initial Damage 30%
Giant purple Kirby on Dracula’s Castle (Ω form)
The enemy will occasionally be invincible, The enemy has super armor and is hard to launch or make flinch, Certain items (Spiny Shells) will appear in large numbers
Queen Vanessa
Novice
Support: Impact Run
Green Peach on Luigi’s Mansion
The enemy is invincible, The enemy favors grabs and pummels, Stamina Battle (you have 1.0 HP), Survive until the timer runs out (45 seconds)
Mustache Girl
Legend
Support: Time Stop (start the battle with the Timer effect)
Red Isabelle (or Hat Kid?) on Norfair
Item: Timers and Daybreak, The enemy is easily distracted by items, The enemy has increased move speed when the enemy’s at high damage
Also, I mentioned Bow Kid--would she get to be an alternate skin for Hat Kid?
Neutral attack - Hat Kid swings her umbrella, using the 3-swing combo she used in her game.
Dash attack - Hat Kid dives forward.
Grab - Hat Kid launches a tether with her Hookshot Badge.
Pummel - Hat Kid bonks her opponent on the head with her umbrella multiple times.
Neutral special - Brewing Hat: Hat Kid's hat is replaced with the Brewing Hat as she shakes an explosive potion, charging it up. It behaves like a charge shot, except the projectile is a gravity-affected explosive.
Side special - Scooter Badge: Hat Kid summons her scooter as her hat is replaced with the Sprint Hat. It behaves like the Wario Bike except faster, less damaging, and not being destructible.
Up special - Dweller Mask: Instead of a traditional recovery move, Hat Kid uses the Dweller Mask to make a spectral platform appear below her. The platform disappears after a few seconds, and the move cannot be used for some time (marked by a cooldown meter by Hat Kid's character portrait).
Down special - Ice Hat: Hat Kid turns into an ice sculpture and falls downward quickly. It does less damage/knockback than Kirby's Stone, but has an area of effect when it lands.
Final Smash - Hyper Zone: Hat Kid throws a Time Piece down and in front of her. When it collides with a surface or opponent, it bursts into a void that transports all opponents that get caught in it to the Hyper Zone (the rainbow arena from the finale). Victims are bombarded by Time Pieces from above before Hat Kid shoots a large laser from her umbrella at them.
I... think it's somewhat comical how much I disagree with this moveset. Not that it's bad, but the little I have of a moveset contradicts this almost completely.
The neutral attack is the only thing I actually agree with.
I think the dive is such a big part of movement in this game that I think making it a standard dash attack is a wasted opportunity. I had it as a side special.
Same goes for the Hookshot Badge, which I put on up special.
The hat specials are fine, and it's fun having all four specials be hats, but... I don't know, the hat abilities have always felt kind of ancillary to me. I only really used them when required outside of the final Death Wishes.
Finally... I dunno, it seems weird to me for Hat Kid's final smash to be breaking a time piece when, like, the entire plot of the game is that she doesn't want people to break the time pieces for... kind of unspecified reasons.
I only know a little bit about A Hat in Time from watching one episode of Shadypenguinn’s streams on YouTube. The game looks fun and very charming but I’m having difficulty coming up with a question that hasn’t already been asked.
For now, I’ll just go with a general question: What could be a good boss or assist trophy if Hat Kid gets in?
I only know a little bit about A Hat in Time from watching one episode of Shadypenguinn’s streams on YouTube. The game looks fun and very charming but I’m having difficulty coming up with a question that hasn’t already been asked.
For now, I’ll just go with a general question: What could be a good boss or assist trophy if Hat Kid gets in?
A while back I came up with some ideas for Hat Kid's moves. Not a full moveset, but I think my ideas are decent.
My pick for a stage would be Dead Bird Studio. A movie studio stage? With both disco and western decorations? And the potential to give Xander Mobus yet another voice role in this game? Sounds great!
You'd probably need a few more for a full board (only character I can think of to add is Mafia Boss, maybe Bow Kid if she isn't an alt skin), but here's what I have. (Note that stages may be substituted out based on what the HiT stage ends up being.)
The Conductor
Advanced
Support: Fog Immunity
Orange Falco on Spirit Train
The enemy starts with a Killing Edge, Bob-ombs will rain from the sky
DJ Grooves
Advanced
Support: Bomber Equipped
Pink King Dedede on New Pork City
Item: Party Balls, Hostile assist trophies (Yuri Kozukata) will appear, The enemy likes to taunt
The Snatcher
Ace
Primary: Initial Damage 30%
Giant purple Kirby on Dracula’s Castle (Ω form)
The enemy will occasionally be invincible, The enemy has super armor and is hard to launch or make flinch, Certain items (Spiny Shells) will appear in large numbers
Queen Vanessa
Novice
Support: Impact Run
Green Peach on Luigi’s Mansion
The enemy is invincible, The enemy favors grabs and pummels, Stamina Battle (you have 1.0 HP), Survive until the timer runs out (45 seconds)
Mustache Girl
Legend
Support: Time Stop (start the battle with the Timer effect)
Red Isabelle (or Hat Kid?) on Norfair
Item: Timers and Daybreak, The enemy is easily distracted by items, The enemy has increased move speed when the enemy’s at high damage
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Also, I mentioned Bow Kid--would she get to be an alternate skin for Hat Kid?
Yeah, I thought about making the Dweller's Mask an up special too. It sounds like it could be a pretty unique recovery. Then again, the Hookshot fits the recovery thing too. I suppose we could make the a Ice Hat a down air, but I feel like it fits as a special better.
Regarding Bow Kid, it seems like she'd make for an easy alt. She's basically cosmetic anyways, with no real story presence or alternate abilities that would make her unique enough for her own slot, even as an Echo.
I think I was actually leaning toward the idea of the hats not being in the moveset at all and instead just being Hat Kid's alts, with her outfit changing in color scheme to match the hat.
The remaining two would probably be the parade outfit and the detective outfit.
What about Hat Kid's classic mode? I imagine it being her going up against people with time-related powers, or have been involved in grand time-travel adventures (Like Shulk, Bayonetta, Sonic, etc); or maybe about going up against characters that look plucked right out of the mafia (Wario would totally fit, for example)?
What about Hat Kid's classic mode? I imagine it being her going up against people with time-related powers, or have been involved in grand time-travel adventures (Like Shulk, Bayonetta, Sonic, etc); or maybe about going up against characters that look plucked right out of the mafia (Wario would totally fit, for example)?
What about Hat Kid's classic mode? I imagine it being her going up against people with time-related powers, or have been involved in grand time-travel adventures (Like Shulk, Bayonetta, Sonic, etc); or maybe about going up against characters that look plucked right out of the mafia (Wario would totally fit, for example)?
Hat Kid's stage would be centered around her spaceship, most likely inside. But, rotating different stages should be on the table.
I think relegating each hat to each move is better than strictly following wheel command which is her source material.
Just giving entirely new moveset for each hat seems like waste to me.
Should her dash attack have homing ability like in her original game?
Master Chief x everything I have up to this point.
It's difficult to say specifically. But one particular thing I'd want to see is them never specifically calling her "Hat Kid", in keeping with the general way no character in the game really calls her by a specific name.
(I would like to see them attempt to call her by her canonical name, >Ļᒣ-!♭ᒣ<⊣, though. That'd be funny.)
It's difficult to say specifically. But one particular thing I'd want to see is them never specifically calling her "Hat Kid", in keeping with the general way no character in the game really calls her by a specific name.
(I would like to see them attempt to call her by her canonical name, >Ļᒣ-!♭ᒣ<⊣, though. That'd be funny.)
The noms list has gotten so large that I've added a new division, at least for the time being. Spend your final noms of the week wisely, everyone. We got Ryza's and Gordon's days left, so plenty of time for things to continue moving around.
The noms list has gotten so large that I've added a new division, at least for the time being. Spend your final noms of the week wisely, everyone. We got Ryza's and Gordon's days left, so plenty of time for things to continue moving around.
Welcome to the sixth episode of the =1&c[users]=Sari&o=relevance']Smash Underdog series! In these articles, I’ll be taking a look at some of the lesser talked about characters in Smash speculation. These characters aren’t as popular as big names like Crash or Geno but would be just as great...
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I think having Hat Kid with different hat attacks is the best way to represent her. Also she has an insane amount of costume potential.
It's hard to choose which stage she'd have since there are so many great options. I went with her Spaceship that travels to different locations, but if I had to choose just one actual level I'd probably go with Mafia Town.
For my noms I'll put whatever the max amount is towards Carl Johnson.
I once made an entire script/mockup for a Palutena's Guidance where Palutena and Pit are interrupted by a certain character (much like Chrom in Robin's or Alcard in Richter's).
Not sure how good it is in hindsight, but I'll let you guys be the judge of that.
It's difficult to say specifically. But one particular thing I'd want to see is them never specifically calling her "Hat Kid", in keeping with the general way no character in the game really calls her by a specific name.
(I would like to see them attempt to call her by her canonical name, >Ļᒣ-!♭ᒣ<⊣, though. That'd be funny.)
