Dead By Daylight Could Have Been In Super Smash Bros, But Nintendo "Very Nicely" Said No

Dead By Daylight Could Have Been In Super Smash Bros, But Nintendo "Very Nicely" Said No

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Dead by Daylight is arguably one of the forebears of the video game crossover, bringing horror icons from across the globe to one place to scare the living daylights out of all who play. However, the same can't be said of Dead by Daylight's original creations, as while the game has everything from Michael Myers to a Xenomorph, we haven't really seen Behaviour Interactive's original killers break out into other media.

That apparently isn't due to a lack of trying though, as we recently discovered that Dead by Daylight director Mathieu Cote did actually try to get a couple of the game's killers into another game. While there are probably a bunch of other horror games that could realistically benefit from a Dead by Daylight crossover, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate wasn't one of them.

Yes, in an interview with TheGamer at PAX, Cote reveals that he "tried to get Dead by Daylight in Smash Bros.", which would definitely have taken the crown for the most bizarre crossover ever had it happened. We then asked him which character he wanted to add to Nintendo's big platform fighter, to which he said "the Trapper, because he's the poster boy, or the Huntress,...

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