Recent content by BackseatSakurai

Did the Switch version of NASB2 run significantly worse than every other version? I liked the first game and wanted to love the second but it felt broken or defective in some indescribable way on launch - like it almost made me nauseous to play it, it was weird and I've never felt that way about...

Lol, quoting this post because the other one was really long. I get your point, for me - I like to hold Smash to an especially high standard just because it's the rare case where a mainstream AAA entertainment product actually makes a solid effort to showcase the history of the medium. While...

Disconnected from your larger point, this sentiment rubs me the wrong way. Even if it's how you feel about Smash in particular, I don't understand this view of games at large. I don't want to frame it around what you personally do or don't believe about the medium as a whole, because I can't...

I think fan demand filtered through some sort of other criteria should be the way it's done. For example, if the most popular character request is Goku, that doesn't sway the needle, because it doesn't hit other checkboxes. However, if two characters that are virtually equal across every other...

Yeah, I've played all of the available options and they all fall short in one way or another. I think Rivals has the best pool of available stuff just by virtue of the engine being solid gameplay wise and the game being by far the most popular out of the ones with custom content (so there's a...

I fall on the opposite end where I do enjoy the discourse and weighing of this character vs that one, even just as a fun excuse to get people talking about the history of the medium, but I agree with the tension you're identifying here. ECISF taken to its logical extreme would, in fact, justify...

I think it's a completely useless term within speculation discussions - we're all speculating, no one is genuinely trying to make "rules" - it's just that if you try to use any criteria or line of thinking that would cut against a character someone likes, framing that criteria as you making...

To me the clones are by far the least offensive because you know they're taking the least amount of devtime and are just being added as extras because they slot in easily over Marth. The continuous new characters that could have presumably been anything else by allocating that time to a...

I could see it happening, but I feel as if the number of people who'd go in for this is extremely low. I tried to get every amiibo at first, and just speaking for myself personally, outside of my favorite characters that rarely get official merch, I completely regret buying all of them. Pretty...

Yeah, but it's literally the only character he showed off with a "....?" type of reaction at all. That's all I meant, lol. The reveal was definitely uncharacteristic.

I don't know if this is what Diddy Kong meant, but I have always found it odd that Mr. Sakurai presented the character by basically saying: "uh...yeah, I don't get it either, but Nintendo asked me to do it, so I did it!". Even when we know this is probably the case for some other characters, and...

A question I don't even want the answer to, personally. The truth is - there's too much money to be made in ways that most people would not like (but would still accept). Sakurai seems to be the barrier, but I also realize that could be a naive perspective on my part. I honestly think the...

This is a random fun one but one of my most wanted characters that almost certainly wouldn't go over well with the general fanbase, if anyone, is Sokoban - the titular "Warehouse Keeper" himself. I think by pretty much any metric he "deserves" to be in, not only based on the long history and...

Arle is definitely one of the most obvious exclusions and it plays in nicely to the whole anime discussion too. One part of it is definitely the RPG / puzzle vs platformer stuff as you pointed out, for sure. But the ironic / weird thing is that I always envision Arle in her Compile-era form...

Hoping the thread stays open. I think there's an attitude where people flatten Japanese art / games to mean "anime" in a borderline offensive way. Mascots are treated as western (even when created by Japanese artists) as if Japan doesn't have a huge culture surrounding mascots specifically...