Did you know that Rivals of Aether has unique holiday alternate palettes for all twelve Rivals? I don’t quite remember which holidays are represented, but I do know that earlier this year, I got to see what the Valentine’s and Summer alternate palettes looked like, and I just HAD to show off a few of the Halloween alts because of how great the costumes are!

Here’s a good portion of the roster in their respective Halloween alts! Up until the moment you move, the Rivals have little costumes on, but the instant you start brawling, they dissipate into thin air (I would imagine because it would be rather tumultuous to animate each one), though whomever you play as will still keep their spooky alternate palette!

I think one of my favorites out of the eight you see above might be Absa in her witch costume— the colors are really nice and she just looks so darling! Zetterburn’s vampire costume is also quite cool and I’m sure you can imagine how loudly I laughed when I saw that Kragg’s costume is just a giant pumpkin.

Even Shovel Knight gets in on the action! This one is also one of my favorites because he is very clearly dressed as a certain scythe-swinging specter… he’s got the scythe down-pat, though it half-looks like he just threw a sliver of fabric over his helmet and called it a day. I would imagine going for the real deal might lead to some… unruly consequences from Specter Knight.

Though perhaps the real show-stealing costume belongs to Wrastor. Sure, Kragg going as an oversized pumpkin or Orcane in the typical ‘bedsheet ghost’ garb might be iconic, but then you have Wrastor, who’s dressed as…

QUINN?!

I vividly remember actually shouting “WHAT?!” when I got around to seeing Wrastor in a plague doctor mask and hat combo— I seriously was not expecting to see some plague doctor representation in Rivals of Aether, but to say that it was a pleasant surprise would be vastly underselling it. This is AWESOME.

Now, we wait until Christmas (Or Thanksgiving, I dunno if the latter has any unique alternate palettes) to see the next set of festive color schemes! And, because I haven’t said it yet…

Happy Halloween!