Preamble
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was around 15 years old and really obessed with the game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it was the first Nintendo Switch game I ever owned and I have all the DLC (sans Pirhana Plant and Mii Costumes) and the majority of Spirits unlocked. What you are about to see were my first serious attempts at storytelling and worldbuilding.
The Old Stuff
Unnamed Super Smash Bros. TCG project (2020~2021)
I don't know how to play trading card games (I still don't), so I tried making my own for some reason. The whole thing was an aimless mess and I ended up scrapping the whole thing and recycled what was salvagable into Super Smash Bros. Kingdoms.
Super Smash Bros. Kingdoms (2020~Early 2022)
Kingdoms was a worldbuilding project and SSBU: World of Light sequel(?) set in the "Smash Realm", a expansive world set at the center of the "Video Game Multiverse" that was divided into four major kingdoms; Isla Roja (Red), Alterberg (Green), Lyonesse (Blue) and Kaminari (Yellow). In-universe, Midair, the capital of Lyonesse, was where the quadrennial Smash Tourney took place.
There's at least multiple different versions of the Kingdoms story. Including one that starts with Mario having his soul stolen and dragged to Hell by a Shadow clone of his brother.
- "Revision 3" of Super Smash Bros. Kingdoms circa June 2022
- Map of the four Kingdoms
- Newer version of that same map
Super Smash Bros. Kingdoms "Ranshin Arc" (2021)
A sort of "sequel" to Kingdoms. An evil clone(?) of a certain ARMS Fighter, Ranshinmin has unleashed a hoard of soul-eating monsters called "Ranshin" onto the once peaceful Smash Realm. Everyone is violently extinguished except for a few characters, who must now travel across the desolate land to stop the Ranshin invasion at the source.
Frank West from Dead Rising and Viewtiful Joe were involved for some reason.
The New Stuff
Super Smash Bros. Starcross/All-Stars (Late 2023)
A bizzare sequel(?) to the 1989 cartoon "Captain N: The Game Master" featuring Kevin Keene's teenage daughter and 3 other randomly picked teenagers as they... uh... Honestly, I don't know what I was planning to do with this concept or why I came up with it in the first place.
Here's a Fun Fact: This was not the first project featuring Maria K. Keene. A younger version of her was the main protaganist of that TCG project from earlier. A bunch of important characters from the original cartoon, including Captain N himself, would've also shown up.
Super Smash Bros. BREAK (Late 2023 ~ Early 2024)
My latest SSB fanwork thingy. I wanted to make a Super Smash Bros. RPG with Persona-inspired gameplay. So after fantasizing about making this cool game, I downloaded and booted up Godot, didn't know what to do, then canned the whole project. The hypothetical game would've featured Tabuu, who has come back from the dead as "Khaos" after using Galeem and Darkhon's dead corpses to revive himself. Using his newfound powers, he transforms the the world into the “Kingdom of Sublimity”, reducing everyone to unwilling servants called "Crystalums".
Thanks to Crazy and Master Hand sacrificing themselves, a few video game characters stay alive at the cost of losing their memories and now must journey across the brave new world in order to free everyone and stop Khaos.
The "BREAK" in the title comes from a new ability the characters would've had, "Smash BREAK", which I described as a "long Final Smash" that occurs when one takes in more "Smash Energy" than usual.
This project was also called "Super Smash Bros. Rise", as in "rise up" (against one's oppressors) at one point.
This is a mockup of what a Spirit Battle in Rise/BREAK would've looked like. This image is from November 2023. Very close to what a Spirit Battle looks like in Ultimate at first glace, but this was meant to be a turn-based RPG, so the actual battle would look different. There's no mockup for that though.
Looks like we're up against a Ness Puppet Fighter possessed by Pawapuro-kun, a Neutral Ace-level Spirit with 9500 base power. Luckily, Incineroar, who is leading the party, appears to have a Defense Spirit with 9000 base power; so it should be a fair fight. I'm still quite proud of this image, not only because it took a lot of time and effort to make but also because it was made a few months before Nintendo actually added a Power Pros Spirit to Ultimate.
Conclusion
I really, really need to learn how to use Godot.