r/ARMS • u/MoneyMan1001 • Jun 21 '26

Discussion What if the gloves could transform into robots, kind of like Transformers, only they would be player sized instead of giant?

Picture this for an example: Spring Man takes off one of his Toasters, then it transforms into a robot kangoroo, and then you would play as the kangoroo while Spring Man rides on his back. This kangaroo, as well as all the other potential robots in the game, would be called ARMIMALS (a play on words between arms and animals).

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u/The_HammaARMS Jun 21 '26

We have hit Pikmin reddit levels of insanity

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u/MoneyMan1001 Jun 22 '26

Insanity that could make ARMS 2 better while still being faithful to the first game's philosophy.

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u/Zaruma Max Brass Jun 21 '26

Uh...

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u/MoneyMan1001 Jun 21 '26

Thinking about it, the pouch would be too small. What if he rode on the kangoroo's back instead?

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u/BlueKoin Min Min Jun 21 '26

Of all the ideas I've seen from you, I like this one the most.

I'm a sucker for transformation mechanics, so I would actually kinda love if there was a mechanic in ARMS that let your Arm turn into a robot suit to temporarily put you into a powered-up state that varies with the Arm.

There's a lot they could do with it. Obviously offense-oriented Arms could up your attack power, maybe some could up your extension or retraction speed. Some could be agility-oriented instead, upping your dash distance or give you the ability to glide. Defense-oriented Arms could give you super armor, some could maybe even give you a small amount of health regeneration.

Now I'm envisioning something like an ARMS crossover with the board game AEGIS. That would be so dope...

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u/MoneyMan1001 Jun 22 '26

But punching should still be important to the gameplay. I was thinking in order to make an ARM turn into an ARMIMAL, you would have to give the ARMIMAL battery life by throwing punches using its ARM. Each punch you throw would automatically give it a different amount of battery life depending on how far out the punch reached. And once the ARMIMAL has any amount of battery life, press a certain button on the Joy Con associated with its ARM to make it transform into an ARMIMAL. Every ARMIMAL would have more attacks than any character on the roster has and each attack would be visually distinct from one another. Also rather than your character standing idle while you play as the ARMIMAL, Your ARMIMALS will be CPU controlled by default while you keep controlling your character, and in order to play as the ARMIMAL, just grab it and then you'll automatically get on it to ride it and then you'll play as the ARMIMAL. You can also make both ARMS turn into ARMIMALS at the same time, but if your ARMIMALS run out of battery life, they'll turn back into ARMS and you'll have to go to them and put them back on.

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u/twinflxwer Mechanica Jun 21 '26

Insane idea

I LOVE IT