Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-2202259-20191010124259/@comment-679780-20191018041434

Ristar could rival with Kirby. Both heroes have round, cartoon bodies, travel to colourful planets and meet creative enemies. Though Kirby's ability to gobble enemies, change apperance and takeon their abilities is quite a creative novelty than "stretching arms" can't really cover.

As for Pokémon, I don't think anything can top that. Even Digimon is regarded a knock-off of Pokémon and Digimon is older than Pokémon. While Sega does have franchises like Mushiking and Dinosaur King, these franchises are more based on insects and dinosaurs which is more for aquired taste of entomology and palentology. When I was a kid I thought dinosaurs were cool and fascinating but the idea of a dinosaur shooting lightning just sounds silly to me.

I think the perfect rival to the Metroid series coulda, shoulda would of been Zillion, a game about a space hero landing on an alien planet to explore it's cavern and underground.

As for Smash Bros, I really don't think sega should attempt to knock-off Super Smash Bros at all, it would look both pathetic trying to rip off one of Nintendos most top game series as well as poor sport on account Sonic is already in the Super Smash Bros series. Instead I think they should make a direct sequal to Fighters Megamix, a game that predates the first Super Smash Bros. game and is a Sega crossover fighting game. So Sega can hold bragging rights on who made a crossover fighting game first, but those rights will probably be revoked for never continuing the series, another drawback for Sega not bothering to use their old IPs.