Osohe Castle
You might remember that I made an Osohe Castle stage years ago, and I kinda hope you don’t! It was made out of models already present in Brawl, reskinned to look like other things. And that’s actually kind of creative, at that time porting models from one file to another was something newly possible, and nobody else seemed to think of the models as potential building blocks for something original except me… but, that was my first stage ever, I was far less experienced than I am now, and a do-over for it has been in mind since I made Grass Land, the first to use my own models made in 3ds Max.
Finally a good home stage for my main man Lucas
The courtyard can now be seen outside. I added this to remove a certain claustrophobic feel to the old one and make star KO’d characters visible… from some angles.
There are pits now. I’m not 100% adverse to walkoffs… but roughly 90%.
Because spiking opponents directly to Hell is fun stuff!
The story behind the gap in the platforms of the “second floor” is the same. I feel like Osohe Castle is the best pick for a Mother 3 stage because it’s relatively early in the game and is where the EarthBound whimsy starts really kicking in. Everyone who has at least finished Chapter 1 and played a ways into Chapter 2 will recognize something here. It doesn’t, you know. SPOIL THE END OF THE FRIGGING GAME, MR. SAKURAI
The ghosts are still here. In the old version every frame of theirs was on a different plane and they all teleported to where the ghost needed to be from behind a wall, like a dimension-rending flipbook. You could see the trick if the game ever went into slow motion. In this version they’re planes whose textures change per frame. Since… since I learned how to do that instead…
Brooms!
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The download has a .rel for New Pork but you know what to do if you want to replace some other stage instead… probably. It’s a Battlefield, again.
Skeleton you magnificent bastard; your work is a godsend to us all
A certain claustrophobic feel, you say?
I want to see the needle! Can we get a version with the front wall removed so we can see the courtyard?
oh my god i’m DYING YOUVE COMPleTELY OUTDONE YOUrSELF
i’m sorry my keyboard actually messed up but i’m too hyped to fix it
thank you so much sam aaaa you’ve saved PM because theyre flopping on 3.6
By the way they ended up not flopping with 3.6, just thought I should retcon myself.
All-Star Versus is my favorite thing, I love having different stock icons for my “team”
You’re top tier someone tell the P:M devs
They know I exist. Even though I am more or less done making new stages, when the applications open up I’ll ask if there is anything they’d like to have done with the work that I’ve already done.
Man this is gorgeous and a great idea for a stage as well. I love this area in the game. My only concern is that the lighting doesn’t make things look very Mother 3. Everything looks a bit dark and flat. Is that ok to say? It really is an awesome stage though. The brooms looks especially nice! I’ll be using it whether you update it later or not!