Touhou Game Ideas
As someone who hasn't played Touhou... I guess I don't really have much of anything to say here.
I wasn't really expecting you to; I figured there might be a slight chance one of the regulars who are interested in Touhou might find the pitch interesting. And on the vaugely related note that's more a complaint, why has nobody done a video series detaining shot-types in the games. *grumble grumble*
It's-a-me, MARRRRIIIIOOOOO
All of these ideas sound intriguing except for one fairly glaring issue, which I am going to dub "The Nabbit Problem".
If you all remember, Mario is not a playable character in Super Luigi U; instead he is replaced by reoccurring villain Nabbit, who can't use power-ups, but doesn't take damage from enemies.
If you can't see the problem, the crux is that Nabbit's play-style is so different than the other characters, compounded by essentially being broken in a Mario game format, that effectively nobody wants to play as him, particularly in Multiplayer.
And that sort of becomes the issue here too; the characters are so different that people will have trouble playing together, for example Warrio not being able to follow Luigi and Yoshi jumping up somewhere, thus limiting one half the group.
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And since I've been working on this most of the day... here's a Mega Evolution!
Mega Haxorus (Normal Stats in Brackets, along with changes)
Steel/Dragon
HP: 76 (76, No Change)
Attack: 167 (147, +20)
Defense: 100 (90, +10)
Special Attack: 60 (60, No Change)
Special Defense: 90 (70, +20)
Speed: 147 (97, +50)
And it gets a completely made-up Ability, "Metal Body" that works exactly like Normalize, Aerilate, Pixilate, and Refrigerate; All Normal moves become "Steel" type and have a +30% damage boost. Primarily because Haxorus normally gets exactly one Steel move as of Gen VI (probably due to the Fairy Type's weaknesses), so "Metal Body" gives it access to more Steel-type STAB moves that don't require tutors or Egg Moves.
If Haxorus' move-set was changed to include more Steel-type moves, than it could have a different ability, though I don't know what. Also, if 147 speed seems too high, cut it by 10 and add that to Special Defense.
Don't suppose anybody else has some Mega Evolutions they've been thinking of...?