Super Smash Bros. Infinite Project (Finally Finished!???)

[chocolatejr9]

Alright, i wasn't going to submit, but I just had an idea that's stupid yet entertaining.

Unrepped Genre: FPS
Claptrap (Borderlands)

Claptrap is the mascot of the Borderlands franchise. A robot that is meant to help Vault Hunters (yet is incredibly annoying), Claptrap is able to use various outlandish weapons to hunt for Vaults around Pandora. Plus, he has his own unique perks that can be activated at random, such as causing everybody to start jumping randomly. As for why Borderlands, it is essentially considered the father of the "looter shooter" genre, where the goal is to collect as much as you can while shooting as much as you can.

 

[Janx_uwu]

Didn't you imply you were going to submit BD Joe earlier? Because I would absolutely vote for him.

I was alluding to Crazy Dave earlier-the "drift" bit was unintentional (though that would be an awesome submission). I ended up liking Glubbflubb's PvZ submission more though, so I went with my other original submission.

 

[SmasherMaster]

3rd Party from New Genre: Zagreus(Hades)
Genre: Rougelike

Who?

Zagreus is the prince of the underworld, the son of Hades and Persephone. However. Zagreus has decided to attempt to escape from the Underworld, traveling throught the various parts of it, being assisted by various figures from Greek mythology such as Achilles, Nyx, Charon and most of the gods of Olympus (look Hera, Apollo and Hephaestus didn’t give a **** I guess).



What is Hades?

Hades is a rougelike dungeon crawler taking place in the Underworld. The genre is known for having all rooms, enemy encounters and rewards being randomly generated, and where if the player loses all their health, they need to start back at the start with a new character. The name rougelike comes from game Rouge, which was released in 1980.



Why Zagreus and Hades?

Hades is one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2020, where even mainstream sources such as Time and Washington Post rank it as the best game of the year.



Okay, but like what can he do?

Zagreus can use six weapons through his journey to leave the underworld known as the infernal arms. They are “Stygius” the Stygian blade, “Varatha” the external spear, “Aegis” the shield of chaos, “coronacht” the heart seeking bow, “Malphon” the twin fists of malphon and “exagryph” the adament rail. Each of them have a standard attack and a special attack of their own.


Zagreus can also use the boons offered to him from the Olympians, which can give him various boosts to all of his normal abilities.

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

Submissions will finish in little over an hour. Please try to get any in before then.

 

[Wario Wario Wario]

Venus of the Desert Bloom If Arle wins, will that disqualify all puzzle reps for future or only falling block/tile-matching reps? Because I'd want to submit Red again at some point if he loses.

 

[Jomosensual]

Venus of the Desert Bloom If Arle wins, will that disqualify all puzzle reps for future or only falling block/tile-matching reps? Because I'd want to submit Red again at some point if he loses.

Not Venus obviously, but pretty sure it gets rid of the genre until DLC

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

Venus of the Desert Bloom If Arle wins, will that disqualify all puzzle reps for future or only falling block/tile-matching reps? Because I'd want to submit Red again at some point if he loses.

From the prompt announcement:

• It will make an unique newcomer from the same company ineligible for launch. This not applied to an Echo fighter situation though.
• This will make another newcomer from this genre ineligible for launch
• This character will be our third revealed third party newcomer along with Crash, Jill, and Leon.
• This fighter will join the ranks of launch third party newcomers along with Snake, Sonic, Mega Man, Pac-Man, Simon, and Richter in addition to Crash, Jill, and Leon
• We will be showing a third party fighter for E3 and will have future opportunities for more third party additions prior to launch. Infinite will have more third party fighters at launch than previous Smash games.
• This fighter will be revealed in the same direct as Grovyle & Celebi and DJ Octavio.
• We will be doing our typical stage/content submissions following the voting and results period.
• Activison and Capcom are ineligible
• Tetris, Celeste, and Twitter are ineligible

So yes, for the launch roster.

 

[SharkLord]

Venus of the Desert Bloom If Arle wins, will that disqualify all puzzle reps for future or only falling block/tile-matching reps? Because I'd want to submit Red again at some point if he loses.

From the prompt announcement:


So yes, for the launch roster.

So with this in mind, I'd advise people to vote for someone who's probably gonna be the sole representative of their genre regardless, in case we ever want to add a new character from that genre for a base game prompt.

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

Here are the submissions!

When voting, please remember what the winning submission entails:

• It will make an unique newcomer from the same company ineligible for launch. This not applied to an Echo fighter situation though.
• This will make another newcomer from this genre ineligible for launch
• This character will be our third revealed third party newcomer along with Crash, Jill, and Leon.
• This fighter will join the ranks of launch third party newcomers along with Snake, Sonic, Mega Man, Pac-Man, Simon, and Richter in addition to Crash, Jill, and Leon
• We will be showing a third party fighter for E3 and will have future opportunities for more third party additions prior to launch. Infinite will have more third party fighters at launch than previous Smash games.
• This fighter will be revealed in the same direct as Grovyle & Celebi and DJ Octavio.
• We will be doing our typical stage/content submissions following the voting and results period.
• Activison and Capcom are ineligible
• Tetris, Celeste, and Twitter are ineligible

This means the winning submission will represent the genre they are from which bars that genre from being repped again in the launch roster outside of Echo Fighter conventions. This also applies to the company that the character is from. When voting, please try to keep in mind that this character will join the ranks of third-party launch characters which tends to carry a different kind of vibe compared to DLC third party fighters. Still, vote what you think is best and who you think best deserves this third party slot for our last revealed character in the April Smash Direct.

Finally, we do have two unique options: Dangan Ronpa and Portal. If you wish to see one of these characters included, please vote for the franchise rather than the character. This is to ensure that the entries don’t cannibalizes eachother.

As per usual, please vote for your top three as ranked voting is active. Your second or third choice may be your own submission. Feel free to explain why you voted the way you did to shed some light on your thoughts on the submissions.

Visual Novel/Dangan Ronpa Rep (We will later vote either for Monokuma submitted by Yiptap or Protaganist submitted by Commander_Alph )
Physics Puzzle/Angry Birds/Red Wario Wario Wario
Tower Defense/Plants vs Zombies/Plant and Zombie Glubbfubb
Puzzle/Puyo Puyo/Arle Adrianette Bromide
Visual Novel/Fate / Stay Night/Saber cashregister9
Bullet Hell/Touhou Project/Reimu Hakurei SharkLord
FPS/Puzzle/Portal Rep Chell Paraster and GLAdDOS Janx_uwu (again, we will vote for the rep if this wins)
FPS/Perfect Dark/Joanna Dark Venus of the Desert Bloom
Run ‘n’ Gun/Metal Slug/Marco Rossi tonygameman
Visual Novel/Zero/Zero Escape ahemtoday
Beat Em Up/Axel Stone/Streets of Rage Speed Weed
Puzzle/Scribblenauts/Maxwell PeridotGX
FPS/Bioshock/Booker & Elizabeth Jomosensual
MOBA/League of Legends/Ahri warpenguin55
Visual Novel/Dating Sim/Sakura Wars/Sakura Shinguji @GamingGryffindor
FPS/Borderlands/Claptrap C chocolatejr9
Rogue like/Hades/Zangreus SmasherMaster

Finally, if I left out a submission, please ping one of the leadership members and assume that voting will be postponed until we can get the missed submission into it. If you voted before and we missed a submission, please edit your previous votes if you which to cast a vote for the missed entry.

 

[Wario Wario Wario]

1. Maxwell
2. Red Bird
3. Plant and Zombie

Scrimblo bimblo bias? Yes.

 

[Ramen Tengoku]

1. Axel Stone - we could use more classic in-house Sega characters aside from just Sonic, plus I'd think he'd transition over well to Smash.
2. Arle - Legendary puzzle series. Probably one of the next in line for Sega,
3. Ahri - LoL is huge, I think a character could more than work here

The alliteration was unintentional, I swear

 

[cashregister9]

1, Sakura - Sakura is in my top 3 most wanted characters in Smash
2. Saber - Another one of my top 3
3. Reimu - I love Touhou

 

[chocolatejr9]

1. Danganronpa rep
2. Claptrap
3. Maxwell

 

[Commander_Alph]

This is so hard..

Danganronpa (AA is out of the running but I may be doubt myself because there's still a small pool of options for the genre)

Reimu Hakurei (gotta go with her honestly, she's like the sole representation of schump with a big legacy so I doubt someone will miss Space Invaders)

Maxwell (like his game and would make an incredible moveset)

 

[warpenguin55]

1. Monokuma
2. Ahri
3. Maxwell

 

[Yiptap]

1. Danganronpa
2. Maxwell
3. Red

 

[SharkLord]

1. Ahri
2. Marco
3. Axel Stone

As usual I'm not voting for my own characters, so please do vote for Reimu for me

 

[tonygameman]

1. Joanna Dark
2. Marco Rossi (keep on voting, guys!)
3. Red

 

[PeridotGX]

Portal rep
Cool Maxwell
Zagreus

 

[Janx_uwu]

1. Axel Stone
2. Marco
3. Portal rep
EDIT: Since it’s apparently early enough in the voting, I’d like to change my votes to:
1. Maxwell
2. Axel
3. Marco

 

[Jomosensual]

1. Maxwell
2. Danganronpa
3. Ahri

 

[Adrianette Bromide]

[deleted temporarily]

 

[SharkLord]

I've been keeping tally of the votes so far

This is not a top three one would expect from Smash
(The tally in question)

 

[Speed Weed]

1. Arle
2. Reimu
3. Marco

 

[Golden Icarus]

1. Arle
2. Zagreus
3. Reimu

 

[Capybara Gaming]

1. Zagreus - the only indie game to ever be nominated for GOTY should show you the quality of the game, especially against FF7R, Ghost of Tsushima, DOOM, and New Horizons as it's competition.
2. Sakura Shinguji
3. Claptrap

 

[ahemtoday]

Considering this is for the base game...

1. Arle
2. Maxwell
3. Marco

 

[evanwoo10]

1. Plant and Zombie
2. Portal Rep
3. Red

 

[Mushroomguy12]

1. Arle
2. Reimu
3. Sakura

 

[Deleted member]

1. Reimu
I would do anything to get Touhou music in the game.

2. Marco Rossi
I would do anything to get more SNK music in the game.

3. Danganronpa rep
I would do anything to get Danganronpa music in the game.

Honorable mentions:
Axel, Sakura, Arle
I don't have as big as a connection to these three but their music is great too

 

[Mr. Robotto]

1. Marco
-rawket launcher!!
2. Reimu
-[insert funky cirno fumo gif]
3. Axel
-grand uppah!

these 3 are pretty based i think

 

[Paraster]

Third Party Genre Rep Vote
1. Reimu Hakurei (shoot-em-up)
2. Maxwell (puzzle)
3. Arle (puzzle)

I stuck to more characters that were more cartoony, or at least lighthearted, because more realistic or gritty ones would clash with Grovyle & Celebi and DJ Octavio a bit. (I know I submitted Chell, but these characters fit the mold better.)

 

[warpenguin55]

Am I allowed to change my vote order? If so, I'd like to swap Maxwell to first and Dangonronpa to 3rd please. Totally fine if I can't

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

Am I allowed to change my vote order? If so, I'd like to swap Maxwell to first and Dangonronpa to 3rd please. Totally fine if I can't

Yes, changing a vote is allowed up tunil a certain amount of time has passed. You should be ok though Paging our voting expert @airConditioner

 

[Glubbfubb]

Maxwell
Plant and Zombie
Booker
These are some my most nostalgic games of all time, that's pretty simple

 

[PeridotGX]

Scribblenauts is a very versatile game. Want it to be a an RPG?

There ya go. What about a mech game?

Consider it done. What about a sequel to the greatest game ever made?

Bada bing bada boom. The only thing it can't be is the hit tv show breaking ba-

I stand corrected, Scribblenauts can be anything. This is the variety maxwell can bring to smash!

 

[SharkLord]

We already brought this up on the Discord, but something about the vote changing rubs me the wrong way. Maybe I'm just a little salty that Reimu was approaching Maxwell's lead until the changes suddenly shot him up, but it feels like most of the changed votes are just to push up the current winner even more and push down everyone who isn't winning. I dunno, it just seems kinda unfair.

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

1. Reimu
2. Arle
3. Ahri

Once we get past our April Smash Direct, we will be incorporating a new method of voting that prevents vote switching and observing. I meant to do it for this vote but I forgot and that’s on me.

 

[Jomosensual]

We already brought this up on the Discord, but something about the vote changing rubs me the wrong way. Maybe I'm just a little salty that Reimu was approaching Maxwell's lead until the changes suddenly shot him up, but it feels like most of the changed votes are just to push up the current winner even more and push down everyone who isn't winning. I dunno, it just seems kinda unfair.

I get it, and I don't love changing votes personally, but also like I said in the discord, I usually vote early because otherwise I'll probably forget and that feels pretty worthless most of the time. Like it feels like we have people who hang back and put together mental counts and then just go for whats the least objectionable to them instead of what they actually want. That's not a bad thing necessarily as it's not breaking any rules, but then it feels like it cheapens me putting a vote in early for what I want when I don't feel like everyone else is voting the same way, and that mine has less influence. Only seems to be a thing for playable votes too, which also makes a good deal of sense for obvious reasons.

All of this is why I'm liking the idea of hidden voting that's been thrown around. Nobody is doing anything maliciously but we're all heavily invested in this too so stuff is gonna happen, and that keeps things the most fair.

 

[Glubbfubb]

Scribblenauts is a very versatile game. Want it to be a an RPG?

There ya go. What about a mech game?

Consider it done. What about a sequel to the greatest game ever made?

Bada bing bada boom. The only thing it can't be is the hit tv show breaking ba-

I stand corrected, Scribblenauts can be anything. This is the variety maxwell can bring to smash!

I was hoping for a official scribblenauts rpg