Gamingboy
Smash Lord
Based on the I've kinda imagined it as being sort of like you'll build a "stable" of fighters to oppose the Ancient minister over time. I'm guessing it'll be like this based on images available AND the cut-scenes, as well as what I can figure out logically. Take all this with a grain of salt. I'll update it as I learn more.
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Opening Cutscene: "The Rules of this World"
Level 1 (semi-tutorial): Mario vs. Kirby. You can pick to be either Mario or Kirby, but either way, you must defeat your opponent.
CUT-SCENE: The Primids arrive via the Halberd. Mario, Kirby, Peach and Zelda stand ready to fight.
Level 2 (Fighting Primid Team): You can play as any of those 4 in a "FIGHTING POLYGONS"-type fight against a group of Primids. This fight can be seen with the player character being Mario in the screen below.
CUT-SCENE: The Ancient Minister arrives and delivers a Subspace Bomb. Petey Pirahna knocks Mario out of the stadium and kidnaps the Princesses.
BOSS FIGHT: PETEY PIRANHA. You can only be Kirby here. You fight Petey, and can rescue one of the princesses. It is unknown what happens to the one you don't rescue, but somehow I think that the fight with Petey has a time limit (due to the Subspace bomb), and that once you rescue one of the princesses there is no time left to rescue the other without escaping before the entire stadium is blown up into subspace. I'm guessing the Princess you DON'T rescue will not be playable until late in the adventure, after you rescue her from subspace.
CUT-SCENE: Results of victory/rescuing a princess. The stadium is engulfed into subspace.
CUT-SCENE: Pit watches the destruction of the stadium from the heavens (apparently, he's spent the last decade or so watching TV in a pool, a sad fall), and is distressed. But Palutena has an order for him: help stop the Subspace Army! Descending from the
heavens.... PIT HAS RETURNED! But, (this is speculation based on a previous screen shot), the Subspace army has learned of his coming, and ambushes him!
LEVEL 3: PIT AMBUSHED!
Using Pit, fight through some of the subspace army's nastiest machines and lackeys.
Speculation:
A) Just go linearly to the next level with Kirby and whatever Princess you saved as your available characters.
OR
B) Have branching paths depending on which Princess you saved. If you saved Peach, she will force you to look for Mario and make sure the Mushroom Kingdom is OKAY. If you saved Zelda, she will force you to go and recruit Link to help your party.
OR
C) Continue linearly and go to another character. Sakurai said "This is a new, never-before-seen form of aggression...but now is no time to stop and stare. Everyone, everywhere, is beginning to move against it." After the escape from the Stadium, perhaps you take over those characters moving against it and you have several threads going (this I think maybe the least likely). (With the coming of the latest PIT video, this has increased in likelihood).
OR
D) From colbusman
Recent updates have showed that I am for the most part right in my predictions.. With the bonus of a 2P co-op mode!
You will be able to, before each stage, pick members from characters you encountered. For example, take this picture below:
As you can see, at this point in the game there are two teams:
Kirby and Zelda (from the Stadium... Zelda would likely be Peach if you rescue her)
Pit and Mario (obviously, Mario landed all the way in Skyworld. Which is cool, in a cartoonish way)
Sakurai says that The protagonists form teams based on the developments in the story, and the characters they encounter join their team.. Meaning you likely have more then one team going on until likely the very end.
I'll continue posting as more comes available or I find time.
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Opening Cutscene: "The Rules of this World"
Level 1 (semi-tutorial): Mario vs. Kirby. You can pick to be either Mario or Kirby, but either way, you must defeat your opponent.
CUT-SCENE: The Primids arrive via the Halberd. Mario, Kirby, Peach and Zelda stand ready to fight.
Level 2 (Fighting Primid Team): You can play as any of those 4 in a "FIGHTING POLYGONS"-type fight against a group of Primids. This fight can be seen with the player character being Mario in the screen below.
CUT-SCENE: The Ancient Minister arrives and delivers a Subspace Bomb. Petey Pirahna knocks Mario out of the stadium and kidnaps the Princesses.
BOSS FIGHT: PETEY PIRANHA. You can only be Kirby here. You fight Petey, and can rescue one of the princesses. It is unknown what happens to the one you don't rescue, but somehow I think that the fight with Petey has a time limit (due to the Subspace bomb), and that once you rescue one of the princesses there is no time left to rescue the other without escaping before the entire stadium is blown up into subspace. I'm guessing the Princess you DON'T rescue will not be playable until late in the adventure, after you rescue her from subspace.
CUT-SCENE: Results of victory/rescuing a princess. The stadium is engulfed into subspace.
CUT-SCENE: Pit watches the destruction of the stadium from the heavens (apparently, he's spent the last decade or so watching TV in a pool, a sad fall), and is distressed. But Palutena has an order for him: help stop the Subspace Army! Descending from the
heavens.... PIT HAS RETURNED! But, (this is speculation based on a previous screen shot), the Subspace army has learned of his coming, and ambushes him!
LEVEL 3: PIT AMBUSHED!
Using Pit, fight through some of the subspace army's nastiest machines and lackeys.
Speculation:
A) Just go linearly to the next level with Kirby and whatever Princess you saved as your available characters.
OR
B) Have branching paths depending on which Princess you saved. If you saved Peach, she will force you to look for Mario and make sure the Mushroom Kingdom is OKAY. If you saved Zelda, she will force you to go and recruit Link to help your party.
OR
C) Continue linearly and go to another character. Sakurai said "This is a new, never-before-seen form of aggression...but now is no time to stop and stare. Everyone, everywhere, is beginning to move against it." After the escape from the Stadium, perhaps you take over those characters moving against it and you have several threads going (this I think maybe the least likely). (With the coming of the latest PIT video, this has increased in likelihood).
OR
D) From colbusman
Also, I believe that after you defeat a stage, you may be able to go back and play it again with a new character. So if you want to fight Petey Pirahna with Diddy Kong, you could after you beat it with Kirby.
Recent updates have showed that I am for the most part right in my predictions.. With the bonus of a 2P co-op mode!
You will be able to, before each stage, pick members from characters you encountered. For example, take this picture below:
As you can see, at this point in the game there are two teams:
Kirby and Zelda (from the Stadium... Zelda would likely be Peach if you rescue her)
Pit and Mario (obviously, Mario landed all the way in Skyworld. Which is cool, in a cartoonish way)
Sakurai says that The protagonists form teams based on the developments in the story, and the characters they encounter join their team.. Meaning you likely have more then one team going on until likely the very end.
I'll continue posting as more comes available or I find time.
