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I think the move with Dread might be an EMMI Zone stage, you could do a lot with that chilling atmosphere and an EMMI hazard spiritually similar to 5-Volt in Gamer could be a pretty effective way to represent one of the game's most significant quirks. But given the explicit chozo focus through the game too, maybe it'd be valuable to do Ferenia. There are quite a few options I'd be content with.
I'd be fine with EMMI zone too, particularly for the reasons you said on top of EMMI's importance to the game itself.
Were you thinking Artaria, the starting area? It would certainly be unique from the other Metroid stages, though it's aesthetic is a bit basic compared to Ferenia, Burenia or Hanubia.
Yeah I was thinking of Artaria. I think it would be a beautiful stage in Smash.
Yes, thank you! I'd go as far as to say that you can use the 'pistons'(??) in a hypothetical Gyromite that Professor Hector activates to either serve as a platform OR... crush them under your feet (or over your head)
you're right it's got so much great stage potential. I think City of Tears would be my pick but they're all good. especially if they can recreate the art style
I would love Lab Discovera, but I have serious doubts that they'd pick the final boss area for a Kirby stage lol
Sorry to be extreme, but if this is the future of the series - keeping status quo with minor adjustments every game - I'm going to eventually lose interest and I'm certain many others will too. Smash 4 was a decade ago, there's really no excuse for keeping a bunch of series' identities in a perpetual 2013.
But there's already over 100 stages, with many series having multiple stages representing different eras for those series. With Smash, the main thing for me is the character roster more than the stage roster. Having another Zelda stage when there's already 9 (which cover just about every major era) is honestly a bit much at this point, for example. I'm not opposed to new stages, I just think (at least for the next game), they should prioritize stages from newcomers in a series that didn't previously have a stage.
Well yeah, if there's a character from an unrepresented series they will absolutely get a stage to accompany them. New stages are not mutually exclusive with new characters, though. Games prior to Ultimate, like Brawl and Smash 4, have juggled upwards of 20 new stages and still had crops of 15-18 newcomers. Obviously characters come first, but stages are not going to interfere very much with that and shouldn't be disregarded as another exciting way to introduce new ideas and worlds either.
That doesn't mean the next game will keep all of them.
I feel like this is implying that the stages would just be added to Ultimate's list rather than more new stages meaning fewer returning stages, as was likely to happen anyway since next Smash will likely be more "typical" for lack of a better word.
Sure but Zelda is one of the few franchises to be in a really good position with stages though it could still stand to maybe have some dungeons and the like. Mario is in a poor position overall with all the redundant stages, Wario could use a Wario Land stage, Sonic could easily stand to replace Windy Hill with something else, Metroid is laser focused on either spaceship interiors or fiery/acidic areas, Fire Emblem could easily replace the generic locations with actual locations from the games (Fates Opera House and Serenes Forest or RD 3-13 pls), Kirby could really stand to have modern stages especially when we know we lost an Epic Yarn stage in favour of Yoshi's Woolly World and so on, DK has more than an old arcade game and a bunch of samey jungles to offer and so on.
At the very least they should update green greens to look like green gardens tbh!
I feel this is falling a bit into a quality vs. quantity issue in some respects. Some series have done well in both regards like Zelda, but there's a number that feel that despite the number of stages they have still feel lacking for what they could be.
I do agree, even though I don't hate them or anything - I just think the novelty wears off if there's a whole bunch of them.
No way! I LOVE those retro stages. In fact, those are the ones I play on the most, including the GB Dream Land stage (that stage is fun). I say we should keep those stages all of the time.
I'd be super down for this honestly, I remember thinking all the non-character affiliated stages in Brawl were cool when I was younger, like Smashville and Pictochat. I remember not liking Hanenbow a ton, but I still thought it was neat that stages didn't have to have characters.
The Samus is dead!How about the Bedroom from Smash 64?
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Pay no attention to the dead Samus
How about an Urban Champion stage?
Sure why not. Add the flowerpots as stage hazards, too
If we can't get Starfy, a Pufftop stage or some other stage in the universe would be nice, maybe give it a music track or two because somehow even with Ultimate giving him like 6 Spirits there's no Starfy music even ripped from the original games to stick into the Other category lol
I'd take 5 Mario stages with drastically different settings and locales over the 15-ish mostly grass Mario stages we currently have in Ultimate.
