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Super Smash Bros Crossing Over With Other Games

Champion of Hyrule

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A while ago a One Piece game for 3DS had a crossover with Super Smash Bros.

I randomly remembered it and thought it was interesting that it did a crossover with Super Smash Bros specifically. Is there any other games you think could/should do a crossover including stuff from Super Smash Bros specifically and not just any of the Nintendo series? How would you want this to happen?
 

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Dynasty Warriors, if only because such a game leans purely on the casual aspect and the "requirement" to reference the source material has more room to be played with without negatively impacting the gameplay on a functional level (see the tradfighter characters, the Animal Crossing characters, Robin, Inkling to some extent...)
 

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I've been saying this a lot in the past, but "Vs. Capcom."

Not necessarily (nor preferably) to add a bunch of Capcom characters to Smash at the expense of so many other characters, but to re-imagine the Nintendo characters in a new environment: the 2D traditional fighter.

I'd hope it's a "juggle fighter" like MvC or DBFZ though.
 

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I could see an argument for another "crossover-themed" series of some kind working well alongside that, with something like Project X Zone probably being the first thing to come to mind (even though, by technicality, it does retroactively have some Smash characters in it already.) That said, I don't think it'd be treated as a dedicated crossover between PXZ and SSB, more likely just that SSB would be represented in the game either more loosely or with a chapter or two with a story inspired by something from the Smash series - for instance, gathering up characters who've also featured in the Smash series to fight Master Hand on a Final Destination location, but in a turn-based format instead.

...I suppose you could also make an argument for something like Mario Kart Tour? Not necessarily leaning into the "Smash Kart" angle, but moreso by including Smash-themed stuff like costumes or whatnot for the Mario cast (Luigi in a Marth costume or Peach in a Samus costume, for instance). But then that's kind of just leaning into a more general "Nintendo crossover".

The difficulty is obviously that Smash itself - that is, Smash-original elements - probably aren't interesting enough on their own to warrant a crossover with it specifically, especially when Smash's biggest-known idea is that it, itself, is a crossover. You could totally represent Smash-original elements, but I think it'd inevitably feel more like a "Nintendo crossover with Smash elements" than anything.

That said, it would be very funny for some kind of gacha game to exclusively crossover with Smash-original elements, resulting in things like a Master Hand boss fight or characters like the Fighting Polygons, the Fighting Wireframes, or the Alloys. That'd probably have worked better back when Brawl was around, though; because of the Subspace Emissary.
 

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If there is ever a crossover fighting game between a bunch of different fighting games - Street Fighter, Tekken, Guilty Gear, etc. - Captain Falcon should represent Smash Bros. Maybe Marth as well, though depending on the kind of game this is a sword might not be appropriate.

I also think more games should add characters' Smash alts to their home games, like what Xenoblade 2 did with Mythra's spirit outfit. Maybe in Sonic Frontiers you could put on Sonic's Smash recolors.
 
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Champion of Hyrule

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I've been saying this a lot in the past, but "Vs. Capcom."

Not necessarily (nor preferably) to add a bunch of Capcom characters to Smash at the expense of so many other characters, but to re-imagine the Nintendo characters in a new environment: the 2D traditional fighter.

I'd hope it's a "juggle fighter" like MvC or DBFZ though.
It’s a shame there aren’t more cartoony fighters that are a more traditional 2D style like Pocket Fighter although I get why it’s not as common

If there is ever a crossover fighting game between a bunch of different fighting games - Street Fighter, Tekken, Guilty Gear, etc. - Captain Falcon should represent Smash Bros. Maybe Marth as well, though depending on the kind of game this is a sword might not be appropriate.
I didn’t end up submitting him because there were other picks I wanted more but I thought Captain Falcon could have been a really fun pick for the Battle of Ages thread, with a Smash inspired moveset and Sega did make an F-Zero game.
 
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