Recent content by Garteam

I don't think existing third parties will be cut in favour of new third-party franchises from the same company because that's just not how Smash does things. We've only seen Smash lose a franchise twice: Ice Climber, which was solely due to technical difficulties, and Metal Gear, which most seem...

I remember watching a Sonic 2 Let's Play back in the late aughts where the commentator said "I wish this enemy was in Shadow the Hedgehog so I could gun it down". Well, mentally unstable let's player from 16 years ago, Sakurai's got your back.

There seems to be a very unfortunate pattern across modern fighting games: Announce a sequel in a popular fighting game franchise Design the game around being a platform that has long-term, post-launch support Include just enough characters in the base roster to get a pass from the main...

This would be the quickest way to nosedive Smash into the pavement as a franchise. It would also be unnecessary, seeing how 85% of the current Smash roster feels very actualized and the remaining 15% that don't wouldn't need this much focus from the devs to change. Smash for Wii U/3DS had a...

Master Chief would be really cool, but I think the biggest issue facing him is needing to compete with Doom Slayer and Crash. All three could and should be in the next Smash, but we don't know exactly how intensive the language barrier is and how much that would practically impact the number of...

I like Issac and I think he has a reasonably decent shot for the next Smash, but he has always felt like a character who floats just outside of the top echelons of popularity. In Smash for Wii U/3DS, he never quite reached the levels of Mega Man, Little Mac, Mewtwo, Ridley, etc. In Ultimate's...

I remember when Wolf was added to the Elite Four by some groups following the ESRB Leak. Good times. Simpler times. I will admit that I don't remember who replaced Palutena. I wanna say that the fanbase largely left that spot open until later, but I might be mistaken. In terms of a modern Elite...

All of the newcomers in the next Smash game could be Mega Man characters and I'd still be relatively satisfied lmao. X is my favourite gaming character of all time, but the blue bomber has so many amazing choices that I really can't be too upset with who they go with. On the subject of Mega...

I think it's down to X or Zero for another Mega Man rep. Mega Man X is the most popular subseries after Classic and it is presently the subseries after Classic with the most representation in Smash. Both X and Zero are very popular among the Mega Man fanbase and have a lot of merit to their...

I think it's worth adding another Mega Man character and Geno to this list. Mega Man seems like one of the easiest, if not the easiest overall, third-party license to manage due to sheer amount of content the Blue Bomber has in Smash and his frequent appearances in CG Trailers and its a series...

For the base game, I have a good hunch about Bomberman. He fits well with the retro characters with strong legacies that we've traditionally seen as new, base game third-party reps. I also think we're going to see a good amount of second reps from third-party series already in Smash. I think...

Marth (with a Lucina echo), Sigurd, Ike, Robin, and Byleth would be a pretty amazing set of Fire Emblem characters. I like Roy, Chrom, and Corrin, but Genealogy is just an amazing game that has historically not been given what it deserves in Smash. Bonus points if Seliph is an echo or alt. That...

Sakurai never referenced James Bond as being from another medium as inherently problematic, though. He said the issue with Bond being a film character is because they'd have get Pierce Brosnan's likeness and it makes obtaining the rights to Goldeneye generally more difficult. He didn't mention...

It is worth noting that we do have one example of a game based on a work from another medium getting into Smash, albeit in a very minor way: [This is where I'd insert an image of the Motion Sensor Bomb from Melee had it not been late and had the website been working] Sakurai mentioned on...

I think its worth noting that every WTF character we've had thus far has had a separate angle: Mr. Game & Watch - a unique character amalgamating a bunch of minor characters from various short games. R.O.B - a hardware peripheral with a largely imagined moveset. Wii Fit Trainer - a supporting...