Smash Bros "What-If" stages ideas

[MorganOni]

Per discussion over discord, the idea of other "what-if" stages came up. SMB 1-1 becoming a desert happened in smash

what OTHER ideas could you have?

First lazy idea that came to mind would be something like Jungle Japes or DK island (SNES/N64 era DK), frozen like in Tropical freeze.

 

[The Stoopid Unikorn]

Peach's Castle but taken over by Fawful.

Never gonna happen as a Smash stage but IT WOULD BE SO COOL

 

[KTG]

So the thing with Mushroomy Kingdom is that it honestly feels like a relic of old "realistic video game" art from around that same timeframe of the internet. It works because it's an interpretation of vague NES sprites, so whatever other stages get this sort of reinvention should probably be similar in that regard. And the thing is, Smash Bros already has a few more examples of this... in Melee. Notably: Brinstar, Icicle Mountain, Fourside and Temple are all pretty derivative to the source material. So we can use those as reference for this experiment.

I think a good one would be Death Mountain from Zelda 1, but reimagined as almost DOOM 2016-esque in its presentation; vaguely sci-fi/alien with big, ominous structures in various states of disrepair. I was going to suggest something from Zelda 2 since you probably take more liberties, but again, Temple is kinda that already. Plus we could finally have a home for that Death Mountain remix from Ultimate.

 

[King Sonnn Dededoo]

I always thought it wouldve been interesting if Corneria had more destroyed buildings like in 64 to show it as it was under attack