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[Kosheh]

Something quick and simple: The Third Dimension.
For training maybe?

The uhm. Having the stage's floor plane go that far (especially where fighters stand) ends up giving it a really wonky look in execution (given it's 45 degrees while the characters stand on an assumingly "0 degree" plain). You're practically giving characters on a 2D plane an isometric floor. The ideal characters here would be ones with 3/4 views - not fighting game characters.
It's okay for background details - like the Bomberman grid in Mighty's stage - but for a foreground plane where the characters stand, it...clashes.

As for making those types of stages, you'll want to heavily skew the floor plane in a way that doesn't make the stage FLAT AS A BOARD but a healthly in-between.

Ken's stage in SF2 as an example of the skewed plane that makes up the floor where the fight takes place.



These games though also make use of parallax scrolling techniques, though to give the impression that the camera orientation of the stage is following the player (and skews logos, etc. on the floor on the same sprite layer in a slant facing towards the center of the stage)

It's an awesome idea for a training stage, though! If you skewed the player's standing plane really hard and adjusted the cubes to suit the camera angle, this would actually look Pretty Fricken Sick.

Also, does anyone think it's a bad idea for me to make a STORY thread? We should probably talk about it before too long but it might be a bit early to plunk discussion into that just yet.

It's not a bad idea, but I don't see this game having a particularly rich story, lol aside from the rivalries each character has in story mode playthroughs, idk