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Most of the Metroid Prime content in Smash date back to Brawl, when the subseries was at its most relevant, and Prime 3 came out too late (August 2007 in the west, after Brawl in Japan) to get any meaningful content in there. By Smash 4 the focus had largely shifted to representing Other M, and...

After Ridley was revealed I said that Ultimate was likely going to be the last game I'd actively partake in speculation for, not because I wanted to make some big decision, but simply because I expected my interest to naturally dwindle after I got the character that brought me here to begin...

First Party Waluigi - Pretty simple, Waluigi is the closest Nintendo have to someone like Ridley or K. Rool, a character who can lift the roof. His history in Smash speculation isn't as extensive as those two's since hope for him tends to be swatted pretty swiftly, but there can be no doubt...

Favorite Moment: E3 2018 - I already talked about this a few pages back, so I'm not going to elaborate too much. Everyone Is Here + Ridley is some way to set the tone for the rest of the game, if that had been all we got for this game I would have been perfectly happy. I really enjoyed seeing...

Pyra/Mythra: 50% - When I look at XC2 I see a game with beautiful landscapes and a killer soundtrack, but character designs and gameplay that puts me off to the point where I'm never going to try it. Pyra and Mythra's designs won't ever grow on me, and if I had rated them right after their...

Min Min: 50% - I'm pretty happy that they chose her to be the ARMS rep, and she's obviously very unique. I've never quite got the hang of playing her myself, and she is a bit of a pain to play against, but ultimately my feelings on her are pretty similar to Inkling, she's very much a middle of...

A hair late to the previous batch, but oh well. Isabelle: 25% - She's well animated and has a lot of personality, but I rarely ever find much reason to play her over Villager, who's moveset just flows a whole lot better imo. Ken: 75% - Definitely the coolest echo in many ways, although that's...

Simon: 80% - I'm very happy they chose the classic design, Smash Simon is the definitive Simon to me. He's a fun character too, and I actually don't mind playing against him either despite him being a zoner in a game with terrible online. He brought top tier music with him as well, and...

Inkling: 50% - They play alright, without having anything too crazy about them. They're the kind of character I only play if I get them when choosing Random, but I also don't mind getting them there either. They were entirely expected, so I find them to be a pretty good middle ground character...

Congrats to the people who wanted Sora, I know there are plenty on here to whom this means the world. He's not my cup of tea, but I've long since been satisfied, so that doesn't matter, the more important thing is that Ultimate goes out on the high note that it deserves to. It's been a...

I think I'm gonna miss Sakurai's presentations more than I'll actually miss anticipating which character is next, there's no one who can get me as excited and invested in something I otherwise might not care about as he does. Regardless of who the character is I'm certain he's pulled out all...

I agree, at least when the Smash 4 boards were closed the site still had the Groups section where a lot of the character support threads ended up migrating to, but that was removed with the last redesign. I know I at least appreciated still having a Ridley thread after original one was closed at...

Not sure if the mods have announced anything, but for past games the Newcomer Speculation boards were closed entirely after the full roster/DLC was revealed.

-There was this random ResetEra "leak" before Ultimate's E3 reveal with Steenee and Kirby in his Planet Robobot robot on it, which some people, albeit very few, defended because "ResetEra ban fake leakers". I'm not sure if the original guy got banned in the end, but he was just some random...

I've been replaying every 2D Metroid game leading up to Metroid Dread's release next month, both out of excitement as well as to refresh my mind on what the different games do well and what they don't. I didn't plan on writing these reviews, but ended up doing so just to clear my head, and I've...