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Changing The Game: Why Nintendo Needs An MMO
02.10.2023 - 14:49 / mmorpg.com / Nintendo
For those of us old enough to remember, Super Smash Bros first came to the Nintendo 64 back in 1999. At the time, it was revolutionary because it combined 12 characters from 9 different Nintendo franchises for a new fighting game experience. It featured a great commercial with different Nintendo characters frolicking in a meadow until they started beating each other up. This ushered in a whole new franchise for Nintendo that nowadays draws on all of their IPs and even some 3rd party IPs like Street Fighter and Metal Gear Solid .
A few years later, Square Enix and Disney would take this formula and recreate the magic by releasing the wildly popular Kingdom Hearts on the PS2. Kingdom Hearts still lives on with a mobile game and a fourth installment of the main franchise in development. What makes Kingdom Hearts so endearing is the same cross-pollination that makes Super Smash Bros. so successful. With a huge catalog of Final Fantasy and Disney characters and worlds to explore, the draw of Kingdom Hearts is easy to understand.
Nowadays, everyone has an MMO, including Star Trek, Star Wars, DC Comics, and Lord of the Rings, just to name a few. There has been a lot of speculation that MMOs are on the decline in recent years, but it doesn’t have to be this way. The genre is really just one great release away from completely revitalizing MMOs as we know them.
That’s why I think it’s time for Nintendo to pull from their bag of tricks an already tried and true method for creating something magnificent — a crossover of IPs to create an MMO that has never been tried before. Make no mistake, it would be a risky move, but it could lead to an absolutely phenomenal game in the MMO space that has never been attempted. So, what would this look like? How could a game like this work? I’ve given some time to think about this. In fact, the idea has been living in my head rent-free for a long time.
Nintendo already has a proven track record of making RPGs. With action RPGs like The Legend of Zelda , JRPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles , and an impressive catalog of Mario RPGs, including an upcoming remake of the Super Nintendo’s Super Mario RPG , Nintendo is no stranger to the genre. A small leap could take all of these franchises and make them into a real gem of an MMO.
For this idea to really work, there would have to be a big PVP component to the MMO. This is because when creating your character, deciding if you plan to play a hero or a villain is important. Heroes and villains would have their own stories and questlines but PVP would be an important merging point where the good and bad guys had intersecting quest lines.
Human characters could come from any number of realms such as the Mushroom
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