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My current round of Smash Rally images has come to an end* so what better way to finish up than with the character I voted for in the Smash Ballot!

As the game is first and foremost a Nintendo showdown I had to pick a first party character and I know that Captain Syrup's chances are very low but she just ticks all the right boxes for me. She's a villain, rather obscure, has a decent legacy as a 'classic' character and debuted in one of my all time favourite games. As I've said before, we can all expect at least one new character based on the number of votes made but I'm still confident that the 'reason' field is significant. I think it could be enough to convince them to include a kind of 'Player's Choice' character, so I'm sure my heartwarming tale of playing Wario Land on the Nintendo Challenger will carry enough gravitas for the occasion.

So Captain Syrup. I've already talked about her: professorfandango.deviantart.c… and I'm still surprised that Wario Land isn't even getting a nod in Smash so now more than ever I'd like to see that rectified. I also came up with some new moves, though there's nothing particularly wrong with the old ones, I just wanted something new here and to conceptualise some new ideas.
In Wario Land II Syrup employed a number of robotic and electronic devices which I never really agreed with - a sentiment I shared for Gruntilda in Banjo-Tooie where a villain with a set (albeit clichéd) theme comes back for the sequel boasting Dr. Eggman levels of robotics seemed...a bit lazy to me. I figured that if the Sugar Pirates had to use machinery of some sort then it should be clockwork, or at the most steampunk, so as to at least suit the existing theme. Though I didn't get to use much of that in the end as I kept changing my mind!

NEUTRAL Derived from - Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, Wario: Master of Disguise. I just really wanted somebody to have an extendable boxing glove attack! I was trying to think of a way for this to function by having it deal no damage but lots of knockback, but then by also having a long range might make it too overpowered.
SIDE Derived from - Wario Land: The Shake Dimension. I was running out of ideas by this point but something involving a treasure bag, either swinging it around in a circle or overhead, might be nice.
GRAPPLE Derived from -Wario Land II. I also really like the anchor aesthetic and wanted to fit it in somewhere. I originally had it as a side special but - get this - it latches onto an opponent and pulls them towards you! Like Scorpion! Then I realised that was just a long range grab so I adjusted it to be one.
UP Derived from - Wario Land II. Again I was trying to move away from mechanical things and up specials as tether recoveries had been removed from the newest Smash games without fanfare so I came up with this. Inspired by her getaway balloon and looking a little like Mario's cape, it's a piece of cloth (maybe a sail?) which billows open to lift you up and can be closed again like Peach's parasol, but only once.
DOWN Derived from - Wario Land. I spent ages trying to make this look like a mechanical shark, or even a bear trap, but nothing was coming out right. Eventually I figured a bomb would work in the same way as Syrup does use lots of them, but I couldn't draw it buried for some reason! A trap move, it's essentially like Snake's down smash which buries a bomb in the ground that can either be set off by stepping on it or remotely detonating it. It was designed from a "buried treasure" angle but I couldn't get the drawing to work for me.
FINAL Derived from - Wario Land. I just remembered I didn't draw the effects I was going to here. It's mostly the same as the last time I did this, except I wanted to genie to generate spinning balls of energy, as the Shake King does in The Shake Dimension. I also wanted to jazz up his design.

You know way back when I first started the Smash project I wanted to have the moves all fully drawn and even had all of Meowth's done but it was just taking far too much time for such a large, conjectural project. Even here I decided against fully colouring every image but I do think it looks better for it.

I'm not trying to convince you to vote for this character and I don't expect miracles but I do hope you won't mind too much if she makes the grade!

*I may very well come back to it at a later date but right now I've got lots of personal projects that need my attention!

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My current round of Smash Rally images has come to an end* so what better way to finish up than with the character I voted for in the Smash Ballot!

As the game is first and foremost a Nintendo showdown I had to pick a first party character and I know that Captain Syrup's chances are very low but she just ticks all the right boxes for me. She's a villain, rather obscure, has a decent legacy as a 'classic' character and debuted in one of my all time favourite games. As I've said before, we can all expect at least one new character based on the number of votes made but I'm still confident that the 'reason' field is significant. I think it could be enough to convince them to include a kind of 'Player's Choice' character, so I'm sure my heartwarming tale of playing Wario Land on the Nintendo Challenger will carry enough gravitas for the occasion.

So Captain Syrup. I've already talked about her: professorfandango.deviantart.c… and I'm still surprised that Wario Land isn't even getting a nod in Smash so now more than ever I'd like to see that rectified. I also came up with some new moves, though there's nothing particularly wrong with the old ones, I just wanted something new here and to conceptualise some new ideas.
In Wario Land II Syrup employed a number of robotic and electronic devices which I never really agreed with - a sentiment I shared for Gruntilda in Banjo-Tooie where a villain with a set (albeit clichéd) theme comes back for the sequel boasting Dr. Eggman levels of robotics seemed...a bit lazy to me. I figured that if the Sugar Pirates had to use machinery of some sort then it should be clockwork, or at the most steampunk, so as to at least suit the existing theme. Though I didn't get to use much of that in the end as I kept changing my mind!

NEUTRAL Derived from - Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, Wario: Master of Disguise. I just really wanted somebody to have an extendable boxing glove attack! I was trying to think of a way for this to function by having it deal no damage but lots of knockback, but then by also having a long range might make it too overpowered.
SIDE Derived from - Wario Land: The Shake Dimension. I was running out of ideas by this point but something involving a treasure bag, either swinging it around in a circle or overhead, might be nice.
GRAPPLE Derived from -Wario Land II. I also really like the anchor aesthetic and wanted to fit it in somewhere. I originally had it as a side special but - get this - it latches onto an opponent and pulls them towards you! Like Scorpion! Then I realised that was just a long range grab so I adjusted it to be one.
UP Derived from - Wario Land II. Again I was trying to move away from mechanical things and up specials as tether recoveries had been removed from the newest Smash games without fanfare so I came up with this. Inspired by her getaway balloon and looking a little like Mario's cape, it's a piece of cloth (maybe a sail?) which billows open to lift you up and can be closed again like Peach's parasol, but only once.
DOWN Derived from - Wario Land. I spent ages trying to make this look like a mechanical shark, or even a bear trap, but nothing was coming out right. Eventually I figured a bomb would work in the same way as Syrup does use lots of them, but I couldn't draw it buried for some reason! A trap move, it's essentially like Snake's down smash which buries a bomb in the ground that can either be set off by stepping on it or remotely detonating it. It was designed from a "buried treasure" angle but I couldn't get the drawing to work for me.
FINAL Derived from - Wario Land. I just remembered I didn't draw the effects I was going to here. It's mostly the same as the last time I did this, except I wanted to genie to generate spinning balls of energy, as the Shake King does in The Shake Dimension. I also wanted to jazz up his design.

You know way back when I first started the Smash project I wanted to have the moves all fully drawn and even had all of Meowth's done but it was just taking far too much time for such a large, conjectural project. Even here I decided against fully colouring every image but I do think it looks better for it.

I'm not trying to convince you to vote for this character and I don't expect miracles but I do hope you won't mind too much if she makes the grade!

*I may very well come back to it at a later date but right now I've got lots of personal projects that need my attention!