If the “characters have to come from nintendo consoles only” fanrule is true then cloud was added to smash for the sole purpose of promoting theatrhythm final fantasy and nothing else, and theatrhythm final fantasy is extremely important to nintendo according to sakurai. Important enough that it alone justifies cloud being in and if final fantasy 7 never existed and theatrhythm was his debut he would still be in.
This sounds like an exaggeration but if he’s only allowed in smash because of a nintendo appearence then yea wouldn’t that mean sakurai considers the nintendo appearence to be very important? Obviously theatrhythm final fantasy isn’t that important of a game and the reason he was added in is because of his legacy to the games industry in general, why should theatrhythm be the only reason he was “allowed” in?
sorry for this rant, this mindset just bugs me a lot and I can’t wait for the day it’ll be proved wrong