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Smash Legend
Your fighting game, filled with original characters, is the biggest indie game since Undertale and no conglomorate would ever want to miss out on their characters making a playable cameo - who do you choose with unlimited options?
Other than the base game featuring mostly original characters and this being DLC, there are no rules! Brand image mandates are off the table, you can set your guests and the amount of them to be realistic or ridiculous, you're not restricted to main characters, you have no budgetary restrictions thanks to your game's newfound fame, and you can get fighters from any medium: video games; cartoons; anime; comics; celebrities; ad mascots; books; movies - all game! It'd be prefered if you specified if your game is a platform or traditional fighter as well as the overall tone, but I won't force you to.
Other than the base game featuring mostly original characters and this being DLC, there are no rules! Brand image mandates are off the table, you can set your guests and the amount of them to be realistic or ridiculous, you're not restricted to main characters, you have no budgetary restrictions thanks to your game's newfound fame, and you can get fighters from any medium: video games; cartoons; anime; comics; celebrities; ad mascots; books; movies - all game! It'd be prefered if you specified if your game is a platform or traditional fighter as well as the overall tone, but I won't force you to.
This idea came about because I am planning a platform fighter project for some point in time and, while I do have two smaller and more reasonable-to-obtain guests planned (even if I'm not fully sure they'd be attainable), I've always liked the idea of getting guests from really big companies like Fortnite; Mortal Kombat; and Brawlhalla tend to do, but all of them being old, irrelevant, obscure, or otherwise kinda ridiculous - so I made this "DLC pass" mockup for this next to, if not, impossible scenario. My platform fighter, while I don't want to go into too much detail, is supposed to be cartoony; exaggerated; and kinda ridiculous in terms of tone, characters, and world, but a serious competitive game to boot.
This lineup was partially chosen on the basis of "who would get me on a top 10 weirdest crossovers listicle?", though I'm really passionate about all of these characters and can easily imagine them in a platform fighter setting. Non-game characters would be an absolute essential if I could get major guest DLC, it'd be a funny "one-up!" on Smash, especially if the guests were literal cartoons as that's the sort of aesthetic Smash fans crave right now - even if it's hard to say if Smash's homogeneity problem (or Smash itself even) will still exist by the time this project goes into development, let alone the hypothetical but completely unrealistic scenario where I can afford to put in characters owned by extremely stingy corporations (I have no GD experience... yet.)
This lineup was partially chosen on the basis of "who would get me on a top 10 weirdest crossovers listicle?", though I'm really passionate about all of these characters and can easily imagine them in a platform fighter setting. Non-game characters would be an absolute essential if I could get major guest DLC, it'd be a funny "one-up!" on Smash, especially if the guests were literal cartoons as that's the sort of aesthetic Smash fans crave right now - even if it's hard to say if Smash's homogeneity problem (or Smash itself even) will still exist by the time this project goes into development, let alone the hypothetical but completely unrealistic scenario where I can afford to put in characters owned by extremely stingy corporations (I have no GD experience... yet.)