The MultiVersus Killer

There's a new game in town. (Rivals of Aether, 2015)

[Mr_Spaghetti]

When Sakurai said “Everyone is here!” it was to protect us from this. Man was not meant to actually have everyone here.

[MrLWEL]

What makes Rivals of Aether so amazing isn’t the terrifyingly large number of mods that exist for it, but the fact that so many of them are designed to actually be played legitimately and not solely for shitposting.

[hideokojima]

“I can’t wait to play as Hideo Kojima.”

- Hideo Kojima

[matej]

The fact that these meme mods are actually incredibly detailed and well made is amazing

[alecbormia]

Making a character creator in rivals is easily the single best decision they've made bc now they genuinely have something smash bros doesn't: The ability to make basically any matchup happen no matter how random or crazy it may seem. The only limits are that of the player base and that is so smart and so cool.

[perchperkinshere]

When big yoshi used the "sit" move, it really got me immersed in his character

[bungo]

Rivals of Aether was the first game I genuinely enjoyed as a platform fighter that wasn't smash bro's. Severely under rated

[bastionunitb]

The chess piece is legitimately super fucking cool.
There's so many jank ass mindgames with it.

[johnlight]

Can we talk about how good dunkey’s commentary was? He’s really stepped it up recently

[chamtheman]

Jokes aside, there cannot be a greater crossover than this masterpiece

[GigaMan]

I love how Rivals of Aether quite literally became the MUGEN of platform fighters.

[spencer]

I used to play this with my roommates. I'm a sweaty melee player so whenever I went accurate fox or falco they'd just change to Super Saiyan Ronald McDonald and whoop my ass. Good times

[ukey]

Mama Coco desperately trying to bounce forward through the fire is just so damn funny to me

[superanxiety]

Rivals of Aether unironically fucking slaps and deserves so much more recognition, and I mean beyond the fact that you can put famy guy in the game

[whoisthis]

3 minutes of straight awesomeness without the need for a single line of voice-over, 100% Dunkey quality.

[ColorfulChickenLeg]

1:53 finally, the Jerma & dunkey collab we've been waiting for

[isbladee_bh]

Talking Ben seems to be the perfectly balanced character we all have wanted in a platform fighter

[TooMuchDog]

I’m actually very surprised Dunkey managed to do the infamous Talking Ben 0-death, pro’s have been trying to hit that for YEARS. What’s more, he did it all with a blindfold and a USB steering wheel that wasn’t even plugged in, astounding

[fabiofabiobio]

I main Farmer Joe from Balan Wonderland. His vegetable-based projectiles are great at interrupting momentum of speedy lightweights like Slenderman and Tim McGraw, but he struggles against heavies with decent aerial maneuvering such as George Costanza from Seinfeld. And the best part of it is, you all have no idea if any of what I just said is true or not.

[shi-dt]

This game is a mastapiece. Seriously, getting George Costanza and jerma into smash is the best descision ever made. Steam workshop support is a must in games like these, Bravo.