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Honestly, just being a Spirit is a huge deal for Shantae. We know that Shovel Knight has sold at least 2 million over all platforms, Hollow Knight is over 2.8 million, Stardew Valley is over 3.5 million, and Undertale is over 3.5 million just on Steam alone, to name some indie breakout hits with public numbers. We've never heard anything about Shantae's numbers, but the Steamspy leak (link here in a CSV file) from last year has her best selling game on that platform around 134K.You could be right, but let's not get too excited about that silence because look where that got us Shantae fans.
I always forget about that. Anyways, hear me out:
yeah and her attitude really makes me feel she is just enjoying the show messing with ppl
It would be amazing if they put in a Snowboard Kids spirit, even just Slash would be awesome to see. If they managed to put both Banjo & Kazooie as playable characters AND reference Snowboard Kids in some way, my freaking childhood on the N64 would be completely represented in Smash!
I know a lot of people would probably hate Paper Mario being in as that would be three different Marios in Smash, but I've been hoping for Paper Mario for a while as well, honestly. He'd be different enough and have enough gimmicks and new moves to constitute being a new character. If there can be three Links and practically four Marths (Marth, Roy, Lucina, and Chrom), then there can be at least three Marios. He is Nintendo's flagship mascot and icon after all. Plus, as said before, having Banjo-Kazooie, Snowboard Kids, AND Paper Mario represented in Smash would be great representation for the Nintendo 64 era, especially since it's sorely lacking representation in Smash since at Melee, and it would make childhood me who played tons of Nintendo 64 VERY happy.
Paper Mario is one of my picks too personally. Even though he'd be a 'third' Mario his moveset would be vastly different and make use of the hammer and possibly his jumps.
Really though Paper Mario shouldn't be in a similar situations as the multiple Links or Marths as Paper Mario shouldn't share any moves with Mario. Unless Sakurai just has no respect for the series.
With how the last several Paper Mario games have been. I don't think Nintendo has any respect for the series.
I'll admit Intelligent Systems no longer knows what it is doing but at least Color Splash was an improvement over the compete garbage of Sticker Star. That's something I guess...
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This doesnt make sense. They still have to program the AI for the FP, and theyd still make a Smash series amiibo for them
I agree with this for the most, especially on how Nintendo has benefits in putting Banjo in
People said the same thing in 4 and Corrin got in anyway though.
You know what, let's give thanks to Phil Spencer and RARE as well: Phil for engaging the Nintendo fans with their own games and making the dream for RARE properties to come back to Nintendo possible and RARE for... you know.
Sakurai was asked about it, and the guy has a hard time saying no to people, culturally-speaking.
Yeah but Sakurai himself even showed concern of there being too many FE reps.
People sorta excused Roy because he was just a returning veteran, but Corrin's reveal caused a lot of backlash. I really can't see Sakurai being that tone-deaf to include yet another unique FE character.
I know I got really mad when Corrin showed up. I actually missed the opening movie of his/her trailer in the Final Sm4sh presentation and thought he/she was a new Xenoblade character, and for a second I was okay with them. But then it was revealed they were yet ANOTHER Fire Emblem character made mainly to promote Fire Emblem: Fates. And that wasn’t including the fact that Robin and Lucina were revealed in a random trailer that people (including myself) were hyping up when it was gonna be a stand-alone trailer not attached to a Direct, which I thought meant well this must be a big time character to get a special reveal all on their own. But nope, Fire Emblem got its own trailer out of nowhere and I was severely disappointed. Roy, like you said, was fine because one, he’s a Melee vet, and two, I actually like him. Cool appearance, fire move set, I was happy to have him back. But along with Marth, Ike, Robin, Lucina, AND Corrin, that was too much Fire Emblem for one game. With Ultimate, though, I was fine with it since everyone was back and a lot of the newcomers were awesome selections, and even though Chrom was shoehorned in, since he and Lucina were still ‘echoes’ that you can even make as alternates to Marth and Roy, the Fire Emblem reps don’t bother me too much any more. And if Banjo & Kazooie become playable through the Fighter Pass? The rest of the DLC could be nothing but Fire Emblem reps and I’d be happy.
Imagine if for FE, our next character is one who rides a pegasus! For the whole battle!
As long as he has a remix of this theme then I'm in
That'd be really cool.
That'd be the equivalent of how fans reacted when that one lame Naruto villain was added to Jump Force. Not that that game was a high production in the first place, but still.
I think the only FE character that wouldn’t cause that much salt would be Lyn.
Also, the Black Knight. Sadly, both have missed the boat...
You wanna state your reason on why that is? I ain't mad or anything but I still have hope for the half genie girl. Why should I not?
A character that would face the same hurdles as her and would get included for the same reasons generally outclassed her in all relevant merits and only ended up as an AT.
Yeah, it's also the reason that I doubt we'd get an Undertale rep, too. Shantae has longevity with Nintendo and Shovel Knight is arguably bigger as a franchise now than Undertale will ever be, mostly because Toby Fox doesn't want to go too far with it. The only other indie rep with huge longevity I could see happening would be Quote from Cave Story, and even he is extremely unlikely in my eyes. I wouldn't expect indie reps at all for Ultimate. For the next game, however, it seems more likely, especially with how much Nintendo is favoring indies as of late.
The obvious choice would be Papyrus
No one really cared about Chrom because he was just an echo fighter of Roy without the sweetspot at the hilt and with Ike's up B. He was a harmless addition to the game all things considered, considering he took up little dev time.
