Firstly, I want to name some of my favorite innovations. Since that’s not the point of the thread, though, I’ll stick it in a spoiler. [spoiler]Paper Mario’s action commands. Yes, I know, they first appeared in Super Mario RPG, but TTYD nailed them the best. See, each attack triggered a small button prompt, ranging from press A before hitting an enemy, to hitting a random button string, to flicking the left stick. Steven Universe: Attack of the Light brought the idea to touch screen, where it has possibly the widest possible applications. Steven Universe: Save the Light handled super moves interestingly. Using support moved raised a “friendship gauge” between two characters. Once full, they could unleash a devestating team attack![/spoiler] And something neat that’s upcoming; [spoiler]Indivisible seems to fuse turn based combat with a fighting game. Seems interesting![/spoiler] Okay, now, my idea. I’ve always loved the idea of fusion, and while it’s been done a few times in various games, I’d love to see a game embrace it. A lot of games will bar fusion off to a spell, like DBF, or an Ultimate, like SU:AotL, but I want to see it as something of a regular attack, that you can initiate & break at any time, but have a fused form have not just pure benefit, but also some drawbacks. For example, let’s say a fusion is stronger, but can suffer from hallucinations, possibly disabling them for a turn or two, or possibly their attacks require more action points, making them not vuable to use all the time. I think the best way to handle it would to be to let any pair of party members fuse, but have their stats determine what drawbacks the fusion has. For example, you could merge two folk one with a high INT, one with a low, that would balance out to a medium INT stat, while two high INT characters complement eachother for a similarly intelligent fusion. However, that skyrocketing INT could result in the aforementioned hallucinations, while a low overall INT would result in them being a little clumsy & bumbling attacks. This would add the depth of whether you fuse two characters that compliment eachother’s strengths and weaknesses, or one that balances them out. Of course, one pretty important bit here, is it would require highly customizable characters. If Anna always has low INT, and Piccolo always has high INT, than Annalo (or whatever) would always have medium INT, which is frankly, kinda boring if the game focused around fusion, while if their INT levels were highly customizable, Annalo’s could be too, allowing for its unique attacks to vary in effectiveness. There’s also the problem of incentivizing switching between fused/unfused states throughout the battle if it can be used freely. Possibly something like FP (Fusion Points) draining while fused, and recovering when separate? I dunno. Could be fun, could be awful, who knows?