Touhou Super Smash Battles = Touhou x Smash Brothers
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 10, 2015 04:20 JST
- Tags: Crossover, Doujin Soft, Fighting Games, Smash Bros., Touhou, Video Gallery
Indie development studio From Soy Sauce has revealed “Touhou Super Smash Battles“, a fighting game that uses concepts from the well-known Smash Brothers franchise while containing characters from renowned bullet-hell shooter Touhou – sure to be a popular crossover for the intersection of the already gigantic fanbases.
While the game’s main mechanics are heavily inspired by Smash Brothers, other unique features have been implemented such as free-falling and bullet hell in classic Touhou style – along with a host of other ideas likely incomprehensible for people not accustomed to the complex nature of competitive Smash Brothers.
Some gameplay videos courtesy of From Soy Sauce’s YouTube channel:
The game is currently being crowd-funded on IndieGoGo for $10,000, though after a single day the project has already raised an impressive $4,000 – Touhou Super Smash Battles is planned for release on Windows, Mac, Linux, Wii U and potentially other platforms, should it not come to the attention of Nintendo’s legal department…
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I like the idea, but the character models need to improve
Also polishing on the skills, as they look out of place color wise.
They should have just use an existing MMD model for Sakuya and Reimu, it's much better
Agree to this.
This game needs to happen and get visually optimized. It's all kind of awesome. At least the PC versions... Wii U can collect dust in other peoples homes.
Wii U can allow u to play on TV with 1080p graphics. + Super smash is for wii u. I want wii u :c
Agree
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!
If they get the funding they can most likely hire MUCH better artists and stuff. Also. THIS GAME IS AMAZING. do want. *throws wallet*
Za Warudo!!!
pretty much a 3d free for all hisoutensoku...
Funny thing with Zun's policy and user license: You can create things and sell it but you can't take money then create the things to sell. Kickstarter had a card game project scrapped because of it.
It's sad that Zun had to adopt that legal mindset to protect his legal ownership of his creation in Japan.
wait they want to release it on the wiiU?
Touhou Hisoutensoku was WAY better
The floating mechanic.
PM Mewtwo everywhere!
So many Touhou games every year. Is Touhou really that popular?
Many doesn't even start to sum it up
It has its own con with quite some attendees, not to mention taking a noticeable part of Comiket every time. So I'd say yes.
I actually attended Summer Comiket back in 2010. Let me put it to everyone this way: on day 2 of what is easily the largest doujin convention out there, they had to dedicate an entire wing of the building just to Touhou. Said wing was so packed that everyone had to move around the tables single-file in a line which extended well outside the doorway. Basically, imagine an overcrowded subway, except the area size is roughly equivalent to a school gymnasium.
FUCK....YES...
did they get the rights to actually make this?
It's essentially a SmashBros clone, but I don't think there's any specific copyrighted elements being used beyond the general design, which can't be copyrighted. So I don't think they actually need any rights from Nintendo here.
And as far as use of Touhou goes, only one man will ever have any rights to it's copyright, and far as I'm aware he's never once enforced it on fan works. Keep it away from the corporate likes of SquareEnix or big business deals, and ZUN is fine with it.
Pretty much what Anon 12:58 said. Nintendo doesn't necessarily own the rights to the formula. In fact, imitation of other works (or "inspiration from other works", if you'd prefer) is usually how genres are born to begin with. Besides which, Touhou fan works have already dabbled in plenty of other things, like Mega Man and Pokemon clones. What should be a more pressing concern is whether these people will ultimately use that inspiration to make a quality game, or embarrass themselves with a poor man's knock-off like Sony did.
I like both of those things so that sounds awesome :D
Maybe I'd read too many doujins by FLIPFLOPs and got my perception of how the characters are supposed to look warped, but darn, those characters in the videos don't look like themselves.
Burn the graphics with fire ! The Reimu face looks very very bad
+1111111111111111111111111
Touhou games always look very crude and lazy, I hope this changes one day.
a game franchise developed by a one man developer is crude and lazy? goes to show that you know fuck all about game development
My thoughts exactly.
Hell even making ONE of those games is damn impressive.
Sakuya stabbing animation looks totally noob.
Okay let's do it, i'll handle the programming.
That's because they're all either indie fanworks, or the official ones made by ZUN alone. There are certainly some select really well presented and visually appealing still, but I'll definitely agree that this one leaves a fair bit to be desired though.
A touhou fighting game without bullet grazing?
My Body is (Not) Ready :(
C&D from Zun in 3...2...1...
This isn't the first Touhou fan game out there you know. There are literally hundreds. As long as it remains indie, and larger companies don't get involved, ZUN is fine with this kind of thing.
Hideous.
Oh, these monkey gaijin doesn't agree with you.
Yep.