Smash Bros Ultimate Gets Fortnite Ninja Mod | Screen Rant
A modder in the Super Smash Bros Ultimate community has added world-famous streamer, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, to the game's massive roster of playable fighters. More specifically, Ninja's Fortnite skin hs been modded into the game as an additional skin for Snake from the Metal Gear Solid franchise. This skin includes custom voice lines ripped from some of Ninja's most memorable streaming moments, and it is mapped to Snake's body almost too perfectly.
Modding different characters into Smash Bros games is nothing new to the Smash community. Players started by modding ROMs of Super Smash Bros. Melee on their computers and were later able to add mods to Super Smash Bros Brawl directly to their console with the use of the Wii's SD card reader. Mods are developed to add anything from music, to minor skin changes, to complete re-skins of characters. While characters such as Peter Griffin from Family Guy have been modded into Super Smash Bros Ultimate already, the Ninja skin for Snake looks and sounds as if it were made by Masahiro Sakurai himself.
The Ninja mod was added to the popular gaming mod website, GameBanana, and was posted by user CashClay. The post includes a YouTube video showing footage of the Ninja skin in action, as well as a series of screenshots that show what the skin looks like up close and during different animations. The highlight reel also showcases some of the voice lines that have been taken from Ninja's actual streams. While the skin is the same Ninja skin that's featured in Fortnite, which has multiple variants, there is only the one skin variant for Ninja in Super Smash Bros Ultimate – but perhaps Jonesy isn't too far behind.
While this is CashClay's first mod, comments on GameBanana and YouTube have praised how clean the skin looks in-game. Modders have added "new" characters to Smash Bros games in the past but rarely do they ever look as good as the Ninja mod. When a modder adds a character to a game they often reskin a character instead of building one from scratch. This can cause some characters to look awkward as their skin does not map to the original character's frame very well. With that said, the Ninja skin from Fortnite maps perfectly to the wireframe of Snake which makes it fit seamlessly into the Smash roster.
After seeing how well a Fortnite skin can fit over Snake's model, the Smash modding community may see an influx of Fortnite related mods. Since Fortnite skins are made using the same hitboxes, and some skins reuse the same assets, adding a large number of Fortnite skins to Super Smash Bros Ultimate seemingly wouldn't be too big of a task. After all, the Ninja skin looks and sounds fantastic and it would be a shame not to add more variety to the world of Smash.
Source: CashClay