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I'm aware of that, just seems like a detail that does not necessarily need to be included for the idea. It's more the idea of remastered DKC that I'm interested in. Whether its one or all 3, would remastered DKC be of interest to anyone?
I don't think it works that well to compare Zelda and Peach. They're both magical princesses but the way they play is completely different.
As much as I don't like a lot of Zelda's specials (namely Din's Fire), I think her normals are the things that really need reworked. Her normal moveset is all low-consistency kill moves with microscopic sweetspots and a lot of lag. They don't have to touch her specials for all I care, just make her normals more useful than landing the occasional lightning kick or up smash.
First Party
K. Rool and the Kremlings are Nintendos property, which was evidenced by the Kremlings in Smash Run if you don't believe me. Sakurai doesn't really need to ask permission for them... Of course he probably consults some important Nintendo figure as to whether the character is worth adding or not, but at the end of the day, Sakurai has free reign over Nintendo properties.
This is true. Sakurai can go to ask for K Rool and they insist he does Funky Kong instead or he goes to get Isaac and they push for mario tennis rep like Waluigi with a tennis moveset. I'm not saying this is a bad thing or one character > than another or that Sakurai doesn't have the final say but theres so much negotiating for characters in smash behind the scenes its important to think about this stuff. Sakurai has to work with the company to get the characters and if the company itself doesn't care much for the character... Well in those instances Sakurai has to really push for that character which might not happen.
But K. Rool and Isaac are first party character. Would Sakurai really need to ask permission for characters like these?
I'm Sure that AT LEAST out of respect, he would need to asks. Being first party or Not. It's still an immense honor to work with so many licence that I'm sure he at least asks to their creator/Department management.
K. Rool, definitely not, Isaac, I'm not sure how much say Camelot has.
of course k.rool is a first party character but is he actually used by retro or nintendo??? that is the question. is not sakurai responsabilty that the character hasnt appeared in a nintendo game in the last years, even in their own games. retro need to actually push the character and not a lip service, like liking tweets about the character, the same with golden sun and other franchises.
I was wondering about how some of the more requested fighters over here would fit this criteria of being picked. It must have helped someone like Rosalina get in because Sakurai saw potential in her and Luma to be an intergalactic fighter.
Ridley
Rejected for gameplay-values? Chrom.
I think in the case of Isaac, it's less to do with perceived redundancy and more to do with the state of his franchise, especially since he hasn't had a new game in around 8 years and so people have given up on him.
It’s worth mentioning that the K. Rool Mii costume was based on his classic Rare design, despite the fact that he already had an in-game trophy using the Paon redesign. When you look at some of the other characters who got one and had assets already in the game, usually the Mii costume reflected that.The fact that Sakurai chose to use the more popular, classic design could be taken as an indication that he recognized that the king does have a sizable fanbase, and put a little extra love in K. Rool’s costume.
Oh of course but you cant negate that some people have grown up a hateboner for anything resembling a blue or blonde swordman, this sentiment wasnt in the others smash, in fact i am curious what people would begin to hate in smash 5.
Xenoblade characters, perhaps?
If they bring something unique to the table, I'm sure people would embrace them. Isaac has interesting powers he could bring to the table. Shulk has unique mechanics. The FE characters are the only ones who suffer a bit, and even then, it's two clones that cause the stigma. If Roy and Lucina were gone, and four unique reps remained, I don't think people would care as much.
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Zelda’s jab isn’t really a standard jab. It functions more like a tilt and has very little ending lag. Plus she has down tilt to help with the lack of a fast close-quarters jab.I don't think I have to mention how slow Zelda's neutral attack is, but just in case, it seriously needs much less start-up. In fact, I think a good portion of fighters need to have their neutral attack start-up lag adjusted so that the first hit never takes more than 5 frames to execute. I can probably put up a list, just to give others an idea on how quickly a neutral attack's first jab should probably hit for each fighter...
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I'll remember this.Ridley
Why get angry over Alph?
Still, a neutral attack that takes longer to execute than a grab doesn't really feel right. Mario can grab fighters on frame 6, which means he can easily grab Zelda before her neutral attack even comes close to activating its hitboxes. If Zelda's neutral attack were to hit before frame 6, however, then she could potentially interrupt Mario before his grab hitbox becomes active.
Alph wouldn't be any more than a clone with minor differences, I don't see much point in getting mad over him.
Completely deserving if you ask me. Could be a Rock Pikmin user along with some other Pikmin 3 exclusive quirks if they wanted.
You said he brings nothing new to the table and I called you on the crap that he does. Hes a unique and popular boss from a popular series. Just as unique as any of the newcomers in any other Smash game. There are a ton of fan made movesets that go far more into detail, but the point is its so easy to make a moveset for a character like this. We don't have a Crocodile in Smash even, so his appearance is completely unique as well. What check marks is he missing other than personal bias and distaste for him? I've said before people think relevance has huge weight to getting selected...and to an extent they are right. But popularity is something that can't be glanced over. And popularity leads to relevance. Look at Little Mac. If K Rool were to appear in a new DKC game he'd fit the bill for even thing that makes a character a fighter in Smash Bros.
Yeah, it feels redundant to have every single aerial (except N-Air) being essencially "knees"
A larger sweetspot would probably be more helpful. Zelda has one of the most damaging f-airs and b-airs in the series, but having such tiny hitbox windows for them really hurts their overall viability.
So F-Air with a larger one but weaker and B-air with a smaller and more powerful one?