Am I late for the "characters I recognized" thing? Oh well. This is based on the time of reveal/unlocking in Smash.
Played their games:
Knew of them:
Unknown:
As of now, I've played games from the Metroid, Metal Gear, Kid Icarus, Pikmin, AC, Mega Man, and Xenoblade franchises. I actually had no idea who Mega Man was until I saw people requesting him for Brawl, but I knew of Snake and Ryu before seing them in Smash. I also played the Game & Watch Gallery games growing up, so G&W in Melee was the highlight of that game.
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Called it.
Trailer was awesome looking, he's pretty neat.
(After the laughter of Link and Kirby doing yoga) ...Wait, what? Are you serious?
Why is Nintendo shoving her in everything? Poor Toad.
Wow, he actually made it.
I don't even care about Mewtwo and I don't like this.
Predicted almost to the very last detail.
Lady Palutena! Finally someone I care about!
PAC-MAN! YES YES YES!
One of the most hype trailers if only for Captain Falcon wrecking Chrom. Robin is the best FE choice too.
But then they killed it with an even
worse choice than Chrom. She's a clone though so it doesn't matter.
That accent is amazing, I need to main him. And I did.
Wait, Shulk means... well, there's Scrappy Jr. At least I don't have to look at him, there's Wendy and Ludwig.
I really don't care for the game at all, but I love the idea of the fourth wall breaking shooter.
Tryhard Pit, not actually that bad, but his arrows are too stiff. Can we get Viridi now?
DLC hype. Snake, Snake, Snaaake!
No crying until the end... Snake is closer.
My boy! Still waiting, Snake.
I like Ryu because he spits in the face of almost every Snake argument ever.
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