Smashboards Creates: Fighters Legacy, A Fighting Game Crossover

[Champion of Hyrule]

Over the years, countless tournaments have been held to determine the strongest fighter in the world…
But only one will determine the strongest in the universe!

So I thought it would be fun to make a creation thread about a platform fighter crossover between big fighting game series! I’m making it a platform fighter even though most of these series aren’t originally because those are more fun to make as part of creation threads in my opinion. We will decide the characters, stages, movesets, and pretty much everything else of a platform fighter crossover between all the big, and maybe even not so big, fighting game series!

Each character would have four types of attacks: normal, command normal, specials, and command specials, as well as strong and light versions of each attack. We will only decide the specials for each characters since normals would pretty much just be the same as their original game and wouldn’t be that interesting. Strong versions wouldnt change that much. Also we will have 50 characters in the base game.

Spoiler: Characters (16/55)

Spoiler: Stages (9)

Spoiler: Movesets (8/50)

Spoiler: Gameplay Modes

Spoiler: Bosses

So if you’re a fan of fighting games or even just of a few series and are interested, go ahead and contribute to this creation thread! Here’s job 1:

Job #1: Submit A Character
Please submit a character who you think should be added. Please submit the character, explain how they would fight, and why they should be in this game. By the way, Ryu will be an autopick and we will eventually have a job to add a Tekken character so just keep that in mind.

 

[CheeseAnton]

Arizona (Them's Fightin' Herds)

Arizona is one of the main characters in the game Them's FIghtin' Herds, a game full of ungulates trying to become the Key Keeper and save their world from the Predators. Arizona is a Calf of The Prairie, and is fighting to make her homeland proud.

Arizona would be a rushdown fighter with short range but some tools to compensate (her dash attack in game transitions to running and she has a lasso), she can stomp the ground so much to cause an earthquake, and is really strong.

Arizona should be considered because she'd be extremely unique variety from what I'd assume would mainly be a cast of humans, and I think would be a fun transition to Platform fighting.

Spoiler: First submission (didn't work; keeping in case there's a chance to use it later on)

 

[ssbashworld]

Inferno (Soul Calibur)

A major villain from the Soul Calibur series, In Soul Calibur 2 his boss fight mirrors the player so I imagine his moveset could use this to borrow from many of the popular fighters from that game & serve as a great general rep. for the series.

 

[cashregister9]

Kyo Kusanagi (King Of Fighters)

One of the main characters in KOF and one of the most popular characters in KOF. Kyo has fire attacks.

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Stardrop (Stardrop series)
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Stardrop is the shooting star originating from the Stardrop series (Stardrop Sprint and Stardrop Blaster), being most known for from his inclusion in the 2018 indie game Indie Pogo (a platform fighter with indie character with the gimmick being every character automatically jumps [I know that might sound tedious, but if you give it a chance and get used to it it's actually really fun]).

Stardrop is from Lowe Bros. Studios, the same developers for View attachment 337297, so I think having them would be great indie rep immediately and would also be some fun crossover-crossover, plus Stardrop has fun moveset potential for being a shooting star.

Sorry if I didn’t really make this clear but characters have to originate from fighting games for this.

 

[evanwoo10]

Job #1: Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat)

Liu Kang is the main protagonist of the Mortal Kombat series. Liu Kang was chosen to compete in the Mortal Kombat tournament to save Earthrealm from Shao Kahn and Outworld. Liu Kang could fight using his acrobatic skills, martial arts, and his ability to turn himself and some of his attacks into a dragon form. Liu Kang may not be as iconic as Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Raiden, or even Shao Kahn, but he is the undisputed Grand Champion of the Mortal Kombat Tournaments. Liu Kang is probably one of the most non-brutal fighters in the series (when he is not a zombie or revenant), compared to the rest of the cast (he didn’t even have graphic finishers in the first Mortal Kombat game).

 

[CheeseAnton]

Sorry if I didn’t really make this clear but characters have to originate from fighting games for this.

Changed it, is there any possibility we could add character's who have heavy roots in fighting game that might not have originated from them (like the cast of Slap City or Stardrop) later on down the line?

 

[Deleted member]

Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers)

Might be a little soon to add a second Capcom character but Morrigan is a crossover staple and tbh with a 50 character roster we're probably gonna have a lot of capcom, snk and namco anyway. Plus it would be good to have a female character early on.

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Changed it, is there any possibility we could add character's who have heavy roots in fighting game that might not have originated from them (like the cast of Slap City or Stardrop) later on down the line?

Sure, maybe some time in the future.

 

[AlRex]

Taffy (ClayFighter)

I think he’d be good for helping give the platform fighter a different tone from most of the other series’ regular fighters, and he seems the most representative of the “clay” aspect of the games.

 

[KneeOfJustice99]

Character Name: Sol Badguy
Character Series: Guilty Gear
Character Origin: Guilty Gear (1998)

Sol Badguy is the primary protagonist of the Guilty Gear series, which is essentially the flagship series of esteemed developer Arc System Works - developers of such titles as the BlazBlue series, and licensed titles such as the Persona 4 Arena titles and Dragonball FighterZ. I think Sol's an interesting choice here - fighting with a weapon (and a unique one at that, given that it's literally both a sword and a gigantic lighter,) but in his own unique way, holding it with a reverse grip - I think he's a really interesting fighter, and one who would effortlessly represent one of the most important and respected fighting game series in the industry.

 

[Tankman from Newgrounds]

Job 1:
Filia (Skullgirls)

Filia is main Character of Skullgirls game. She was used to be 16-year old High School Student, but when Filia met the Dog, who had Samson on Neck, Filia didn't expected that She got Samson on back of her head, giving her new hair. She is most popular female Skullgirls character overall.

Well, if was in the Game, then I'll go with her moveset from Skullgirls. She could attack with Her Hairy Samson, who shapeshifts into random attacks and he could grab opponents and throw them. She could be Indie rep for the Fighting Game Platform Fighter. She could have Gimmick, where she could have Timer, where she can active the Final Smash-thingy like in SkullGirls.

 

[Deleted member]

Job 1:
Ryu (Street Fighter)

Ryu is main Character of Whole Street Fighter series. He originates from Japan and he wanders through whole world to compete with other Fighters as Guile, Chun-Li or even M. Bison. He was made by Capcom and he became Worldwide Gaming Phenomenon in whole Gaming History. He was even influence for other Fighting Games like Final Fight or Guilty Gear. He even was so popular that he appeared in Wreck-it Ralph and Fortnite.

His moveset originates from Street Fighter series and Smash. He could have same stats like in Smash and he could have design based on Street Fighter V, but his stage could be same like In Smash, albeit with some Details resembling Suzaku Castle from SF V. He could bring his Command Inputs and light/heavy attacks.

He's in already.

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Sorry for the wait everyone, here are all the options for Job #1. Please vote for your top three most wanted in order. Your own submission can only be in second or third place.
CheeseAnton Arizona
ssbashworld Inferno
cashregister9 Kyo
evanwoo10 Liu Kang
@Darkonedagger Morrigan
AlRex Taffy
KneeOfJustice99 Sol Badguy
Tankman from Newgrounds Filia

My votes are:
1. Kyo
2. Morrigan
3. Liu Kang

I think we’re probably gonna have to prioritize characters from the big fighting game franchises for now. There will be lots of opportunities to add the weird ones later on.

 

[KneeOfJustice99]

Sorry for the wait everyone, here are all the options for Job #1. Please vote for your top three most wanted in order. Your own submission can only be in second or third place.
CheeseAnton Arizona
ssbashworld Inferno
cashregister9 Kyo
evanwoo10 Liu Kang
@Darkonedagger Morrigan
AlRex Taffy
KneeOfJustice99 Sol Badguy
Tankman from Newgrounds Filia

My votes are:
1. Kyo
2. Morrigan
3. Liu Kang

I think we’re probably gonna have to prioritize characters from the big fighting game franchises for now. There will be lots of opportunities to add the weird ones later on.

1. Kyo Kusanagi
2. Sol Badguy
3. Liu Kang

 

[cashregister9]

1. Sol
2. Kyo
3. Arizona

 

[Tankman from Newgrounds]

1. Kyo
2. Filia (Filia is the girl that everyone needs to Respect her)
3. Sol badguy

 

[CheeseAnton]

1. Sol Badguy
2. Morrigan
3. Liu Kang

I think we’re probably gonna have to prioritize characters from the big fighting game franchises for now. There will be lots of opportunities to add the weird ones later on.

I agree, problem is that I mainly play "smaller" (for lack of a better word) fighting games because I'm still dabbling in fighting games and I'm not going to pay $30+ for a 2D fighter I'm not even sure I'd like. Basically Arizona was the most popular fighting game character I actually know what I'm talking about with, meaning I most likely am just going to be posting weird characters no one heard of until I start doing more research,

 

[AlRex]

1. Sol Badguy
2. Morrigan Aensland
3. Taffy

 

[ssbashworld]

Morrigan
Inferno
Taffy

 

[tonygameman]

1. Sol Badguy (Robotto's going to like the idea of this thread)
2. Kyo Kusanagi (I got both movesets designed for these two)
3. Liu Kang

 

[Mr. Robotto]

1. Kyo Kusanagi
2. Sol Badguy
3. Liu Kang

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Here are the results of the voting for our first character:
Arizona 1
Inferno 2
Kyo 16
Liu Kang 5
Morrigan 9
Taffy 2
Sol Badguy 17
Filia 2

Alright so, given it's pretty early on right now and we have a lot of series we can add... I'm going to add our top three most voted-for characters: Sol Badguy, Kyo and Morrigan! Now onto the next job:

Job #2: Submit A Tekken Character To Be Added
Like I mentioned before, I envisioned someone from Tekken to be an auto-pick but the only issue is that it might be difficult to decide who should be picked first. Tekken doesn't really have a definitive main character and it's somewhat polarizing in the fanbase when you ask people who should be chosen for crossovers first and so we'll do a job to vote on a character here. Tekken almost certainly will have more than one character eventually but whoever we pick first could change a lot about who comes in the future so we'll do a job for it now.

Please submit whatever character you think should be added first to represent Tekken. Please submit who they are, explain how they fight, and why you think they would be a good first tekken rep.

 

[CheeseAnton]

don't know much about Tekken so I'll just submit the character that got in Smash because clearly they are a valid choice and I don't want someone more knowledgeable on the series have to use their submission on him.

Kazuya Mishima

Kazuya Mishima is one of the main characters in the Tekken series. He appears in all Tekken games except Tekken 3, in which he only made two cameo appearances. Although he is seen as the main protagonist and hero of the first Tekken game, Kazuya became one of the major antagonists of the series ever since Tekken 2. Kazuya is the son of Heihachi Mishima and Kazumi Mishima, the possible love interest of Jun Kazama and the father of Jin Kazama. He's also the half-brother of Lars Alexandersson, the adoptive brother of Lee Chaolan, and the grandson of Jinpachi Mishima. (literally all of this paragraph I stole from the Tekken Wikia)

Reason to consider him is pretty straightforward. He's in Smash. He was the chosen Tekken rep out of all the Tekken characters I don't know about, he was the one that was picked. Also, we have some idea that he'd be decent in a platform fighter.

 

[AlRex]

Here we go, from another thread

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Yoshimitsu is a character who's in both Tekken and Soul Calibur, sort of. In that sense, he can rep two series at once, while also fulfilling the "not the main character" sort of thing for this job. As far as sword-fighters go, he's pretty unique, hopping around on it like a pogo stick, stabbing himself to hurt others, spinning it like a windmill, and even changing stances for further trickery. He also supplements his sword attacks with gas attacks and bionic limbs, as well. With multiple appearances in two separate fighting game series, he'll definitely have a lot to work with, and his alts. can also reference both.

 

[Tankman from Newgrounds]

Job 2:
Heihachi Mishima

Heihachi is a Villain of Tekken Series. He is Kazuya's father and Kasumi's Husband and Jinpachi's Son. He threw Kazuya to volcano while Kazuya was 5 year old and later he was thrown by Kazuya in Tekken 1 & 7. Heihachi is the most Iconic Tekken Character and he is considered to be Tekken's Mascot.

If he was Added into Fighting Game Platform Fighter, he could have the Same moveset from Tekken Series and Playstation Allstars. He could be Rushdown Character, where he focuses more attacking Enemies while going towards them. His Final Smahs could be where he throws opponents into Volcano like in Tekken Series.

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Alright, we’re gonna do a poll for whichever Tekken character we want. Please vote for your preferred option:

Who Should Be Added? - StrawPoll.com

What is your opinion? Vote now: Kazuya, Yoshimitsu, Heihachi

strawpoll.com

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

We have a tie between Kazuya and Heihachi. My vote was for heihachi so I’ll just remove it, meaning Kazuya will be our Tekken rep! Now onto the next job:

Job #3: Submit A Street Fighter or King of Fighters Stage
Please submit either a stage for Street Fighter, a stage for King of Fighters or both if you want to. Please submit a location, explain the layout, and any cameos. Cameos dont deconfirm just so you know. If you want to make one stage completely flat and have it be out “final destination” equivalent then you absolutely can.

 

[AlRex]

Suzaku Castle (Street Fighter II)

Gonna be basic and submit the version of this from Smash, as is.

Neo Geo Land (King of Fighters)
This also was a real life location, but it was also featured in several King of Fighters games. Basically, fighting in front of a massive arcade/indoor amusement park on a street. It's a long, flat walk-off stage where you can get knocked off to the sides. There could be cameos within the random bystanders, but that mostly depends on which SNK characters do (or don't) get in.

 

[ssbashworld]

Shopping District (Street Fighter)

Kind of image the layout being similar to the1st area of the Garreg Mach smash stage.

Geese Tower (King of Fighters)

Basic Layout, big bottom platform, middle platorm a little smaller, top platform even smaller, you can pass through middle & top platforms.

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Okay so I’ve been thinking and I think I’ll change the rules so that non-fighting game characters would be eligible as long as they’re more closely thought of as a fighting game character. So someone like Athena Asamiya or Ralf/Clark would be eligible but someone like Yu Narukami would not.

So CheeseAnton your Stardrop submission would be eligible in the future

 

[CheeseAnton]

Battle Harbor (Street Fighter ||)

You fight on top of a boat. It has an uneven stage layout with a flat line at the bottom from left till it curves up slightly at the right. It has a second platform which (assuming this is taken over from Smash) you can fall through and jump through that has slight evenness at the left but curves up drastically to become slightly even at the right. Some powerful moves like strong attacks can rock the boat depending where they happen and the water is just cosmetic as I feel water physics would ruin the stage.

Dinosaur Museum (King of FIghters '99)

You fight on top of a Dinosaur. It's layout is kind of like the first phase of Garreg Mach Monastery but the walls are higher and there is a (dead) dinosaur in the middle.

Spoiler: EDIT: I'm a dummy, I thought we were submitting Tekken stages (like the idea I made though, so I'm saving it for later)

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Well here are all the options for a Street Fighter stage:
AlRex Suzaku Castle
ssbashworld Shopping District
CheeseAnton Battle Harbor

And all of the options for a King of Fighters stage:
AlRex Neo Geo Land
ssbashworld Geese Tower
CheeseAnton Dinosaur Museum

I want you to vote for your most wanted out of the street fighter and kof stages. You can vote for your own submission.

I’ll vote for Shopping District and Dinosaur Museum.

 

[CheeseAnton]

Voting for Battle Harbor and Dinosaur Museum (sorry I self voted twice, not to say I don't like the other submissions but I really want to fight on a ship and dinosaur)

 

[Tankman from Newgrounds]

Suzaku Castle

Neo Geo Land

 

[ssbashworld]

Shopping District
Neo Geo Land

 

[AlRex]

Shopping District [I kind of like the first Street Fighter stage actually being fighting on a street]
Neo Geo Land [I liked the Dinosaur Museum one, but the Shopping District is already Garreg Mach-ish, I guess]

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Here are the results of the Job #3 voting:
Suzaku Castle 1
Shopping District 3
Battle Harbor 1

Neo Geo Land 3
Geese Tower 0
Dinosaur Museum 2

And so Shopping District and Neo Geo Land will be selected as stages. Now onto the next job:

Job #4: Submit A Moveset For Ryu or Kyo
Alright, so right now we’re onto the first moveset job. For our first one I’d like you to submit either a moveset for Ryu or Kyo, or both. Your moveset will have to include the following:

• A neutral special, side special, up special and down special as well as, if you want to, the strong versions of each special.
• Any command specials or gimmicks if the character has any notable ones.
• The ultimate attack. (the copyright-free name for final smash here) A character can have up to two, which depend on if you're far or near when you activate it but they can have just one if you want.

If you have any questions about the moveset process, go ahead and ask me. And have fun with your movesets!

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

I will submit something for Ryu:

Spoiler: Ryu

Spoiler: and kyo as well

 

[Champion of Hyrule]

Okay so I think I'll just use my movesets by default. If people don't show interest in movesets more in the future I think we might just not do them in the future. Anyways for now we'll do a job to decide the actual name of this game:

Job #4: Submit A Name For This Game
Please submit what you think we should title this game. Submit the full name for the game and why you think it fits.