There's pretty much an endless list of fighters people want to see in Smash — Geno from Super Mario RPG (the Mii costume doesn't count!); Isaac from Golden Sun (we know he's an Assist Trophy!); Dante from Devil May Cry; Phoenix Wright from the Ace Attorney series.
This is just a tiny handful of dream additions people wanted to see. And while Sora from Kingdom Hearts ultimately rounded out the roster for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it didn't stop people from dreaming. But why dream when you can create mods and bring whatever character you want into the game!
That's exactly what @pm_pik and a team of Smash Ultimate modders have done, using their skills to bring Chrono Trigger's protagonist Crono to the fight. This mod is actually a skin for Dragon Quest's Hero — which makes sense as Crono and the Dragon Quest series characters share the same character designer, Akira Toriyama. But this mod goes beyond just simply creating a skin for the character.
Crono looks absolutely perfect — like a model from a dream remake that we desperately want to see. And while the skin retains Hero's entire moveset, the modders have adjusted the colour of Hero's 'Magic Burst' to make it look like Chrono's level 8 Tech Luminaire.
No detail has been spared on Crono's alternate costumes either. For all seven costumes, Crono has an outfit for five of his six companions from Chrono Trigger, one for Chrono Cross' protagonist Serge, and an eighth for fellow SNES RPG Secret of Mana's Randi.
You can find even more detailed screenshots — including Crono in Metal form, Crono with Spekkio's second form, and the character using many of Hero's moves (which look pretty darn natural on Crono!) over on the download page.
But you know what the most important part is? Crono Kirby.
Let us know what you think of this gorgeous-looking mod in the comments.
[source twitter.com]
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no ayla costume?
Really well done, though personally I'd much rather see Magus.
Thank you! Finally Smash Bros gets an anime sword fighter.
@Degenerate_Mii
To be fair i can see how something like KH would have more worldwide recognition especially considering chrono trigger didn't come to Europe during the snes era and hasn't seen a console release since the wii virtual console.
The remaster of cross which came out relatively recently was also the first time that game made it to europe.
The title of the article got me thinking that it was a full moveset mod, I’m disappointed that it’s just a costume. It’s rare to see NintendoLife make articles on Smash mods, the only other one I remember seeing relatively recently being the “Fire Emblem only” mod.
I saw the list of people he noted as being involved in the project and noticed he missed Sakuri and Nintendo from the list.
@Handy_Man - My thought exactly. Though it is admittedly a solid skin mod, making sure the rigging doesn't break, nothing of the attributes of Hero is changed to the very least.
I don't think good skin mods need to be covered really, we'd be here all day reading those.
I'm down for any Chrono Trigger related news.
This is gorgeous...
@Handy_Man has smash ultimate modding progressed to the point of moveset tweaks? i haven't been keeping up with the scene given it's a bit of a hassle to futz with modding if the console isnt dead
@Degenerate_Mii It's a wonderful world
The good thing is that Crono's Life (Revive) spell is already in the game if you play in stock Team Battle Mode.
@Degenerate_Mii Well I don't like war, inflation or famine, but I do enjoy a world with Kingdom Hearts in it. And I'm glad Sora is in Smash too.
That said, I wouldn't have minded Crono in Smash either.
Just the thumbnail of Crono almost made me pee.
This is amazing, wish it was real!!! ❤️❤️
Pretty cool mod, too bad its just a costume though.
@Handy_Man: I didn't even know Nintendo Life posting about Smash mods was rare before now, was under the impression that it was a something common thing.
A few weeks back, for their 'Random' articles, I actually emailed NL about a recent silly funny Smash mod that lets you "play" as Bully Maguire (Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3), lol.
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2022/jun/01/mod-bully-maguire-spider-ssbu/
He deserved being in Smash more than Sora, just saying.
Man i want this sooo much
Guess you could call this a … **wait for it**… CHRONO CROSSOVER
(Sees myself out)
… Wun can only hope.
I'll just stick to adding music to my game...it's fun, especially going in an editing an anime song and making it loop FOREVER! xD
Usually I'm not very impressed by skin mods, but this one is amazing. It actually looks professional.
Definitely tempting...
I remember the Melee modding scene could make custom fighters with actual custom attacks still have yet to see that in newer games
@Erigen Even though I'd love to see Chrono in Smash, that was a good one ^^
No videos? We need a video, please
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