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There are people out there who claim that Kirby being the starting character in World of Light is "an example of Sakurai's Kirby bias". I can see where that assumption comes from, but factually speaking, it's been confirmed that this is not the case.

As he says in that interview, he narrowed the starting character down to either Kirby, Palutena, or Bayonetta based on who could actually plausibly survive Galeem's Attack.

I've known this for a while, but it's still fascinating to me that this is the case. Can you imagine Palu or Bayo being the starting character in WoL? Nothing against the idea but it would be pretty weird. Especially if it was Bayonetta.

So, remember the Fate franchise? It’s possible you may have at least heard Sabers name in Smash Speculation. Not the most popular character idea, but there are fans.

The thing is though, is Fate able to count as a video game franchise? I know it started out as a visual novel, which does indeed count as a video game, but when you look at the franchise as a whole there’s so much anime and manga and other such things that it makes one wonder if it can truly qualify for Smash since Sakurai and team are still rightfully adamant about no non-video game franchises.

Then again Fate does still have a good number of video games. Including a mobile game that at least at one point was one of the most popular mobile games out there. Might even still be.

It’s probably impossible to truly know without a direct statement from Sakurai. But I still find myself wondering about it from time to time.

I mentioned in my last post how I’m thinking about getting a copy of Little Town Hero despite its unfavorable reception.

But there is another game with just straight up bad reception that I’m still considering playing. And that is Balan Wonderworld.

I know that game bombed pretty bad. And if I do play it I’m fully expecting to made aware of how it’s a bad game.

But I have come across people who enjoy the game regardless of all that and what can I say? They inspired me. I have mad respect for people who show appreciation for a game they like despite it being more common for the game to be hated.

And even without all that, I do still respect the idea of what Balan Wonderworld tried to be.

Lots of games have great soundtracks, but I often find it trickier to truly enjoy a game’s soundtrack without playing the game itself.

It’s mostly an immersion thing. When I know the context behind where a track from the game is supposed to play, I’m able to develop a much greater appreciation of it.

For this reason, I’m actually considering giving Little Town Hero a try at some point. I know that reception for that game isn’t exactly favorable. But people praise the music a lot and given my common need for immersion to appreciate a soundtrack, I think playing the game has a chance to be a worthwhile experience for me.

Plus you know, I have yet to find a review or explanation that makes me understand what people don’t like about Little Town Hero.

Opinions often vary regarding multiple aspects of emulation. I myself am ok with it if it’s done for a system that’s been discontinued for a while, but even if you’re against emulating for systems such as that, I think you’ll have an extraordinarily difficult time getting on someone’s case for emulating the GBA Boktai games.

Boktai is an obscure Konami franchise created by Hideo Kojima where you play as a character who uses various solar powered weapons to fight vampires.

It’s quite an interesting looking series, but the first few games in said series, which were Japan only releases on the Game Boy Advance, had a very unconventional way to charge your weapons.

As I said, your weapons in these games are solar powered. So the game cartridges had a built in solar sensor, and detecting real life sunlight through that sensor was how you charged your weapons.

Living proof that a creative idea isn’t always a good one. But emulation of Boktai has figured out a way to charge the weapons in a way to where it can be played like a normal game without having to go outside and hoping it doesn’t rain.

So even if you’re against GBA emulation, it’s really hard to harp on people for emulating Boktai.

In the last message Venus left on the Smash Infinite thread before locking it they said that their decision to leave Smashboards was “irresponsible given their duties to the site”.

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t they have a kid to raise? If you ask me it says a lot about how responsible they are if they’re prioritizing taking care of their kid over a forum about a video game. Pretty clear which one is more important.

Part of the reason I never try to envision what would be my idea of a perfect Smash Bros. is because it's very easy for me to really like a character idea. Often times all I need to sway me is either a fun sounding moveset or a really cool source game. Antasma from Mario & Luigi Dream Team has some neat looking abilities? Bring him on in! Diddy Kong Racing is a blast to play? Send Timber an invitation! All 4 campaigns of Shovel Knight Treasure Trove had amazing gameplay? Screw it. Go ham and make each playable Knight their own character!

That's often how I end up liking character ideas. So as you can imagine, it's also pretty sweet when a character already in Smash that I didn't pay much attention to before ends up winning me over when I see their source games in action.

Like with Bayonetta. When she was added I thought it was cool but she wasn't really a character I payed much attention to. But recently I saw some really cool gameplay of Bayonetta 2 and my mind went "Man that looks awesome. This kind of makes me want to see Bayonetta in Smash. Oh wait, she's already there!"

I wonder what a Mario game in the Metroidvania genre would be like.

You know 2 characters I find confusing in terms of the idea of them becoming playable in Smash? Kraid from Metroid and Hades from Kid Icarus.

Before Ridley became playable I was all in on the side of the argument that his size did NOT present an issue. But for a long time I felt that Kraid and Hades were the kinds of characters to where the "too big" argument could actually be used against them.

But lately I've been questioning if it truly can because both of them have some good points in favor of it not being a problem. Much like Ridley, Kraid's NES interpretation puts him at a completely workable size for a Smash character, and I might be remembering this wrong, but I recall something about gods in Kid Icarus Uprising being able to be any size they choose. So if Hades wanted to, he could be the same size as Palutena during the boss fight against her.

Not to mention, a big part of the reason the size argument was ever a thing with Ridley in the first place is because a decent crop of people on the internet tend to be a bit picky, and in some cases elitist, about Smash characters and details that work against them being playable.

If we were talking something like Kraid and Hades becoming guest racers in Mario Kart 9 then no one would try to use the size argument against them.

Is it fair to say that Sega is the only video game company out there whose name is pretty cool spelled backwards?

I just found out that the Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series will not be getting a physical version in the US.

I’ll admit I can think of more problematic issues, but I would say I am of the opinion that there should be a physical copy.

Anyone else a fan of any of the Smash Moveset YouTubers of pizzadudemanguy, Delzethin, FeliciaFan, and brawlfan1?

I ask because I made a compilation video of victory themes for all the Smash characters and all the characters with movesets these guys have done.

Check it out here.

You know, Brighton from Mario Party 6 and Mr. Bright from the Kirby series are both characters based on the Sun. And Twila and Mr. Shine from the same sources are both characters based on the Moon.

So which duo would be the Echo Fighters? The Mario Characters or the Kirby Characters?

So about 4 years ago I hosted a stage creation contest here on Smashboards. In fact the thread for it is still around.

And lately I’ve been feeling the itch for another one. Problem is, if I host another one I feel like I would have to be one of its judges. And this time I would rather compete in a contest like that instead.

So that’s a bit of a dilemma I find myself in right now.

You know, there was a time where I had a bit of an obsession with the idea of games that were spiritual successors to oldschool franchises that either stopped getting games or started getting games that were divisive among fans at best, and straight up put the franchise in a decline at worst.

Bloodstained for Castlevania, Bug Fables for classic Paper Mario, what the currently unreleased Pizza Tower is trying to be for Wario Land, things like that.

Nowadays I'm not as obsessive with the concept, but I do still find the whole thing fascinating enough to where I've been brainstorming some ideas for Smash bosses that basically fuse enemies from the classic franchises and their spiritual successors into one boss.

So far I've come up with 4, but for the sake of this post not being too long, I'll only share 2 right now.

First is a boss from Banjo-Kazooie and Yooka-Laylee. It's Gruntilda riding on her broomstick, but she's carpooling (broompooling?) with Capital B, who is reading out the world tome (the magic book where the Pagies come from) to enhance Gruntilda's Magic. I call this boss "World Tome Witch"

The Second one I have for today involves Mega Man. Mighty NO. 9 tried and failed to carry the torch, but like others, I think Azure Striker Gunvolt was a rousing success in this regard. But people are also quite fond of 20XX on this whole thing, so I decided to combine all 3.

It's Dr. Wily in his latest Wily Machine, but said Wily Machine is built out of the same material as the Repro's in 20XX, and is equipped with Septimal Weaponry like that of Gunvolt's Rival, Copen. Also known as iX in the Luminous Avenger timeline. I call this boss "Wily Repro iX"

So I saw Wario Wario Wario's signature saying how Corridor Platformers are real 3D Platformers and I thought "What's a corridor platformer?". So I looked it up, and now that I know what they are, I must admit I'm surprised this is even a debate. I would have thought it'd be super common for people to believe that corridor platformers are real 3D platformers.