Super Mario Chiaroscuro

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 (known as スーパーマリオブラザーズ：明暗の衝突, Super Mario Bros. Clash of Light & Dark in Japan) is a tactical/strategy role-playing game developed by Nintendo, set to release on the Nintendo Switch and The V². Set in the Super Mario universe, the game, advertised as, "the adventure to end them all", is a crossover RPG, with playable characters appearing from every corner of the Super Mario franchise. This includes the main series, spin-offs, Mario Kart, Mario Party, and even the older, more obscure sides of the series. The gameplay of Chiaroscuro is reminiscent of the Fire Emblem series, but with a quirky Super Mario feel.
The game’s story stars Mario who learns from Princess Peach that strange portals are cropping up around the Mushroom Kingdom, acting as gateways to previous timelines and alternate realities. However, when a goddess known as Arcana enters the current reality through one of these wormholes with the intent to freeze the entire universe to morph it into one of her many own kingdoms, Mario must team up with hundreds of characters, friends and foes of the old and new kind, to stop her from destroying their universe for good. 
The game is slated for a release date of January 18, 2020 worldwide.
==Plot==
One day, Mario and Luigi are enjoying a relaxing picnic in the Mushroom Kingdom when a Toad delivers a letter to the brothers, stating it’s from Princess Peach. While Luigi panics at first, assuming it’s a kidnap notice, Mario finds it is a simple invitation to the northern outskirts of the kingdom, to meet her and a colleague. The brothers head out, but not before running into a clan of rogue Goombas, as they defeat them in a tutorial battle.
The brothers arrive to the hills of the outskirts, where they are startled to find Princess Peach with Toadsworth and Bowser. Mario prepares to fight the Koopa King, but Peach stops him, explaining that she and Bowser decided to temporarily ally themselves with each-other to decipher a strange anomaly in the Mushroom Kingdom: mysterious portals that are cropping up all over the kingdom. Peach shows the brothers a portal she found, as Toadsworth explains he believes the portals are gateways to alternate universes; he’s unable to decipher exactly why they’re cropping up in the Mushroom Kingdom, however. 
As he says this, a Koopa Troopa under Bowser emerges from the portal, out-of-breath, as he confirms Toadsworth’s theory: the wormhole leads to an alternate Mushroom Kingdom, where the land is ravaged. While this concerns Peach and Toadsworth, the Koopa Troopa also mentions a woman resembling Peach saw him come out of the portal, and he came back to escape her. 
As he explains this, the portal begins to emit energy, as if someone else was returning from the other side: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toadsworth, and Bowser hide, but the Koopa Troopa fails to run to cover, as the figure emerges, revealed to be a red-haired woman in a dark dress. She says nothing to the Koopa as it begs for her to not hurt him, instead firing an eerie red orb at him, which enters his body and knocks him out. He reawakens with a snap of a finger, his shell changing color from green to dark red, now loyal to her. 
This alone causes Luigi to panic once more, giving up the five’s hiding place. They attempt to run, but the red-haired woman simply forms a large red cage around the group, trapping them. She introduces herself as Arcana, the ruler of a realm she calls the "Maiden's Underworld", and explains she is a dimension traveler, exploring different realities with the intent of corrupting them and morphing them into her own miniature kingdoms, with the Mushroom Kingdom being her newest target. She recognizes Mario, Peach, and Bowser from different versions of themselves from other realities, and prepares to dispatch them immediately: however, Bowser destroys her barrier with his sheer strength, and the five make a run for it. Arcana follows intently, a wave of crimson smog following her and engulfing everything in its path. As the five run, Toadsworth fails to outrun the smoke, and disappears. Luigi also trips and falls to the ground, unable to recover in time before he disappears as well. Mario, Peach, and Bowser finally escape the outskirts of the kingdom, as the fog dissipates. Arcana watches from atop a hill, with an unconscious Luigi at her side, as the portal opens up again, revealing several minions. Her plan now in motion, Arcana smiles, ordering her minions down to the Mushroom Kingdom to capture the denizens.
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The remaining three stumble down the hill, falling into a strange, unfamiliar forest. Peach identifies their location as Super Leaf Forest, a jungle on the farther outskirts of the kingdom. The three assess the situation, as Peach worries about Toadsworth and Luigi, while Bowser yells about how "he wanted to be the one to take over the kingdom, not a red-haired stranger". Mario doesn’t say anything, instead taking notice to a strange glowing orb on the ground: he silently pockets it to further inspect it later. Peach and Bowser collectively decide to stick together and search for a way out of the forest, and the three begin walking.
After some distance, they stumble upon another portal, this time in a crater in the forest. Peach and Bowser are wary around it, fearful that another enemy will emerge from the wormhole, but Mario feels the glowing orb in his pocket reacting to the energy, and reveals it to the other two, only to throw it into the portal. The portal begins to spark like it did with Arcana earlier, but, rather than revealing another enemy, a different figure is forced out of the portal: a woman resembling Bowser. She is wary at first, but, upon seeing a flabbergasted Bowser, she realizes she was sent to another dimension by force. She introduces herself as Princess Bowser, the leader of the Koopa Kingdom of her own world. Her and Peach begin to piece together what happened: Princess Bowser comes from an alternate reality where the Super Crown works for more than one person, and the orb that Mario found seemed to have brought her over to the present dimension. Princess Bowser prepares to go back to her own world, but Mario stops her, explaining the current situation involving Arcana. Acknowledging that her own world doesn’t have nearly as much conflict as the current one, she agrees to help the three, and Peach deduces that more orbs could potentially summon more people from different times and realities. With a new ally in the group, the four continue their journey to escape the forest.
===List of Campaign Missions===
==Gameplay==
As stated before, Chiaroscuro is an homage to the Fire Emblem series in terms of its gameplay, playing as a chess-like tactical RPG where the player character control party members, or units, on a map. During their "turn", the player directs their units in different directions, sometimes towards objective points or enemies, and perform actions based on their mission. Each "mission" has varying objectives, often consisting of defeating a boss character or clearing the map of enemy characters. 
To engage in combat, the player must direct a unit to an enemy character and select an attack to use on them. The player must utilize these attacks, as well as occasional items and weapons, to take down the enemy. Defeating an enemy will also yield EXP to whoever damages said enemy: reaching a certain number of EXP allows the character to "level up", increasing their eight stats. The stats consist of:
*HP (Hit Points): Measures a character’s health bar. If a character’s health bar runs out, said character will either faint or die, depending on the mode: either way, they will not be able to be used for the remainder of the battle.
*SP (Skill Points): Measures a character’s “skill bar”, which depletes when certain attacks are used. While every character has a 0 SP attack, stronger moves will require more SP.
*ATK (Attack): Measures strength of physical/melee attacks.
*SPC (Special): Measures strength of special/magic attacks.
*DEF (Defense): Measures character's capabilities of taking hits, and taking less damage from attacks.
*SKL (Skill): Measures character accuracy and damage dealt when a critical hit occurs.
*SPD (Speed): Measures the character’s ability to attack more than once in a turn, and their evasion.
*LCK (Luck): A strange stat that measures various factors, such as evasion, critical hit rate, and factors in certain attacks and abilities.
==Party Members==
One of 's defining features is the massive playable cast of characters. Throughout the game, the player can recruit characters through 2 different methods: befriending them during the story, or summoning them through a Dimensional Pocket (a portal). 
Characters recruited during specific missions, Base Characters, must be approached during a mission to even get a chance at befriending them: depending on the mission, the player may have to clear the objective, retreat an item for them, save them from harm from enemy characters, or simply talk to them to get them to join your team. 
Characters recruited through Dimensional Pockets, the portals that have been cropping up around the Mushroom Kingdom. There are approximately 30 Dimensional Pockets that are accessible from the overworld or the world map, and, when a portal is found, the player must utilize a new item, the Rift Orb, to summon a randomized character from the portal. Rift Orbs can be found in a multitude of ways: defeating certain enemies, completing objectives, finding them hidden in the overworld, receiving them as gifts, and even buying them from shops later in the game. Using a Rift Orb on a Dimensional Pocket brings over a random character from the designated portal. Different portals have chances of spawning characters from specific past events and alternate realities. 
Character's base skill is measured by a "star" system, a la Fire Emblem Heroes, out of 5 stars: one star being the weakest, and five stars the strongest.
===Base Characters===
NOTE: All base characters are at a rank of 3 stars by default, with the exception of Geno.
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===Allies===
==Character Skills==
==Items and Weapons==
==Locations==
==Trivia==
*Fantendoverse X: Time and Fantendoverse X: Space served as major inspirations for this title.
*The AMAZING logo was made by , credit to them!!
==Gallery==
SMC.png|The game’s logo by .
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