I had issues with the way repping got with brawl (as a personal theory, I think it had to with the needs of SSE). There's questioning issues but the biggest one that I just cannot in this world find any reason to do so (well, beside my personal theory).
The Paper Mario series.
Note: I'm not saying that he doesn't have playable status as the op says (it's actually the opposite click on my sig for more details). I'm bringing this up due to him only having "some" chances and because, as weird as this might sound, it's so underreped that I want more rep in general than a playable character (but since it's the best case of repping and that it would be so awesome for me, that's why he's my most wanted).
Let me directly say it: repping this series with ONLY (that's the keyword here) trophies and stickers is pure INJUSTICE. I realised this after I played TTYD, my second favourite game of all time and my favourite rpg (first is ssbm because I wouldn't love video games if I haven't played it). I could do an essay of 20 pages to explain you why this game is a masterpiece (yeah, I pay THAT much attention to details). I basically became addicted to it because how it blew my mind. It's art and well though in every possible way (to name a few: texts, music, design and the way paper is represented, joke setup, battle mechanics and many many more that fits into those global category and make this game so memorable).
To tell you how amazed I was, I glitch hunted this game on emulator with ram hacking program for 6 months to make this game more popular for speedruns. I did find useful stuff but in the end, I can conclude this experience by this: I didn't find enough to break the game enough but this game IS SO SOLID. It became to a point where my theory got crushed because the game has so much defensive programming. The more and more I got into details, the more I was amazed as if it wasn't enough at the beginning.
I was fighting for getting more love on this game which brings me to ssb.
Can anyone tell me why this series got only trophies and sticker while it had 3 games, based on the main franchise and one of the game being a masterpiece? (first one too but imo, a little less the second game pushing the first to its limit). Even spm had awesome content to work for (does "ultimate show" remind you something?). Seriously, The minimum I request is a music but that repping from ssbb isn't deserved. Isn't ssb supposed to be the universal point between nintendo's greatest masterpiece?
Let me show you example just to tell you how much we missed in brawl. Tell me, would you like this:
Or this:
As music pieces in ssb? (imo, the former is the most complete boss theme and the later is... just listen it's perfection).
That is seriously goo music material (even excluding MANY other songs from the first game and other from TTYD... A LOT mor from TTYD).
As if this wasn't enough, one of the most awesome stage I heard was the the TTYD stage (it's a theater but the devs called it stg so live with that). It's a flat stages where many things can happen. Listing is way too long so if you want to know what potential this stage has, click on my sig anf go to the stage section (yeah I'm plugging my op a lot but quoting the part of it is too much so).
So, not repping this series as it should is VERY questionable. It really delivers what Sakurai keeps repeating what he wants the most in this game: uniqueness and making people by the game so it's attractive. The design of the series is what appealed to me the most so it's not a problem. That's more frustrating to see the M&L series getting reped by a (sorry but it really is) bland music. I only played superstar sags from the said series and even tough I found the game to be weak, I have at least 3 music that are way better than the one chosen (boss theme being the best btw). Again, it may have to do with SSE which now, gives me hope for ssb4...
Did you notice how repping seems to go differently than ssbb? Just smash run is really obvious look at how much rep series got even rhythm heaven got more rep. The removal of SSE may have to do with this but this really gives me hope for better repping in general which means more chance to see my favourite rpg repped properly. ssb4 needs to fix the weakness of brawl and so far, it's doing it but at this point, considering how repping is going right now, not getting more than trophies for this series would lead to a disappointment even though the game is already confirmed to be awesome imo. This would even reach the insult level but I hope it won't end like this.
On a side note, the paper peach trophy is, for now, fine here. It's nothing new from brawl but for now, I have no reason to take this as a problem. I said I don't want ONLY trophies there's a big difference.
