I sadly think we can't get more than two merchants.
Tom Nook is more deserving. But Anna would be the **** hype!
Eh, I'd argue that Anna is more deserving.
She's been around longer. More street cred.
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Plus with red hear she'd make a nice Roy replacement.
More people advocated for Tom Nook than Villager, not all choices will be the "popular" ones Smashboards overall does.
I'm not saying that Tom Nook will get over the most popular though, it's annoying that everytime we discuss an unpopular but plausible character that "he's not getting over Ridley and K. Rool." gets said every time.
I'm aware of that first point. I supported Tom Nook.
I was initially a little irritated that we got Villager announced as the first Animal Crossing character and not Nook.
I didn't mean to annoy you. I apologize. Let me just expand on my thoughts here....
There comes a point where unique characters that are relatively unpopular (Unpopular in the sense that not many request them.) reach a limit. We don't necessarily know when this limit has been reached, but I find it safer it say that is has been now. The game is going to include popular characters. And I think those characters extend outside of just Little Mac, Mega Man and most likely Mewtwo. I find that, in terms of forming a full prediction roster, putting generally "'popular'" - (There's no need to quote "popular." Most of the characters popular here are overall pretty popular We're not that special, as I'm sure you know. Our overall love for Takamaru is probably the biggest thing that separates us from other English communities.) - characters will make my roster closer to that of the real final roster. It's
very likely that there's going to be another character that I didn't expect, but, in the end, I'm better off not trying to guess it. Because, as Melee and Brawl have shown us with many of its character choices, popular characters
are chosen. I can more easily guess out of the pool of the generally most popular characters than out of the pool of lesser popular characters since the former pool is much smaller and seemingly more likely to be picked out of. You feel me?
Animal Crossing could certainly get a second rep and I wouldn't say that it broke the limit of Animal Crossing characters. But I would say that it's a little irritating that we're not getting characters that tons of people want to see. Wii Fit Trainer is a nice character, but a lot of people want K. Rool, Ridley, Dixie, Palutena, Mewtwo, what-have-you. It's unfair to just ignore them. Though, here, I'm more referring to the reveals we've gotten thus far. I think we're going to start getting the heavy hitters in our next few reveals. Starting with the next one that will most likely be in this upcoming Direct. I suppose I don't really have much other than gut feelings for thinking that.
(Sorry about the late reply!)