I keep hearing how Ridley was constantly teased and how the big 3 were handled badly. I'm just going to copy-paste what I wrote in the K. Rool thread with regards to Ridley being handed poorly.
He wasn't constantly teased. He was hinted to be a boss two times in an entire two years. It's even more trivial when you consider the fact that Sakurai posted pictures nearly every day of the year and yet he only got referenced twice in all that time. It was bat**** clear to anyone who wasn't an overspeculating-Smashboarder or anyone who didn't overstate the fact that he was the #5 request in the West, that he was going to be a boss from the start (ie. to the entire casual community).
People are conflating how much the big 3 were teased because they spent too much time speculating about it. Let's take a step back and look at how much they were actually 'teased' over the span of two years-
Ridley: Hinted to be a boss twice
Mewtwo: Greninja's hands didn't have webbing
K. Rool- Kritters in Smash Run and a kritter trophy.
None of that constitutes constant teasing, and in Ridley's case it was really obvious to the casual community that he was going to be a boss. It also didn't help that the Smashboards community got this idea in its collective head that a character not being disconfirmed was somehow a hint towards them being playable. That criteria was never stated by Sakurai and was manufactured by the community.
To Smashboarders it just seemed like more teasing because they spent so much time reading too much into it and devising theories about it.
He wasn't constantly teased. He was hinted to be a boss two times in an entire two years. It's even more trivial when you consider the fact that Sakurai posted pictures nearly every day of the year and yet he only got referenced twice in all that time. It was bat**** clear to anyone who wasn't an overspeculating-Smashboarder or anyone who didn't overstate the fact that he was the #5 request in the West, that he was going to be a boss from the start (ie. to the entire casual community).
People are conflating how much the big 3 were teased because they spent too much time speculating about it. Let's take a step back and look at how much they were actually 'teased' over the span of two years-
Ridley: Hinted to be a boss twice
Mewtwo: Greninja's hands didn't have webbing
K. Rool- Kritters in Smash Run and a kritter trophy.
None of that constitutes constant teasing, and in Ridley's case it was really obvious to the casual community that he was going to be a boss. It also didn't help that the Smashboards community got this idea in its collective head that a character not being disconfirmed was somehow a hint towards them being playable. That criteria was never stated by Sakurai and was manufactured by the community.
To Smashboarders it just seemed like more teasing because they spent so much time reading too much into it and devising theories about it.