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It must explain why Tiny Kong existed, too. Not that Tooty will amount to anything now, mind.
This is a great opportunity to really show our support for Dixie being the most deserving 1st party character. A lot of outsiders might currently be down on her for being "boring", so participation is key now.
TBH I feel she is likely due to her being relatively popular and an easy enough echo for Diddy. Could she do more? Probably. But if she had her ponytail grab and helicopter hair, I think I could live with her borrowing a lot from Diddy. I also feel an Echo pass might come to fruition.
I see a lot of people outside her base being down on her chances though (most 1st parties in that thread are being shredded right now), that's why we need to scream as loud as possible like Rool and Banjo's fanbases.
Originally, Rare only wanted characters from DKC1 in DK64 (or that might've been a mandate from Nintendo; I don't know). That's why they created an OC, Tiny, instead of using Dixie. But then later they added Wrinkly and some DKC2 enemies like Klobber and Shuri anyway.
She's not rare. She doesn't appear at all until you summon her at least once (the same applies to every summonable spirit, I think). After that, she's no less common than any other spirit.
Don't forget, the "Smash Bros. x franchise" thing has been used for first-party reveals as well, including the King K. Rool Mii suit in Smash 4.
I'm still thrown for a loop whenever someone says they played DK64 before DKC and its sequels. I can't imagine how my idea of the series and its characters would develop if I hadn't played the Countries first.
Well, in my case I played and beat DKC 1 and Diddy Kong Racing before DK64; DKC1 came out when I was 2, and by the time I played it I was 4 and thus the N64 had just come out (1996), so my family left the SNES behind. With Diddy Kong Racing coming out in '97 and me loving Diddy almost as much as Crash, when DK64 hit in '99 I was all over it as I could finally play as Diddy in a Mario 64 style game. I didn't learn about Dixie until I read Tiny's bio in the manual, and didn't know what she looked like until I saw her trophy in Melee. I'd already played and beaten DKC1, but didn't get to the sequels until 2007, at which point I gravitated towards Dixie because she made the levels much easier.
I know about the summon thing which I done a long time ago but she never shows up on my game up until that day.
Yeah, I can see her shrinking being used for FS purposes in particular. They would just need to do it in a way that's like a more balanced version of the Poison Mushroom status.
I'm the same way. I only played DKC, DK64, and, Diddy Kong Racing as a kid. Never played DKC2 and DKC3 until after Brawl was released through the Wii VC in 2008. My actual first exposure to Dixie was Mario Superstar Baseball on the GCN and Mario Hoops 3 on 3 on DS. I fell in love with her design in those games. But fell in love with her character through DKC2 and DKC3.
As expected, Dixie's chance went down (though not as much as I expected, mainly due to the inital rating being fairly low). However, it is a pleasant surprise to see her "want" rating actually go up, as
GoodGrief741
possibly attributed to Rool and Banjo fans flocking over to her side now that they have been satiated. Either way, it's nice to have a little positive news, however small it is.
Another interesting thing to note is that people have very low predictions for her, yet the actual rating surpassed them all. This may be indicative of an interesting phenomenon, where everyone thinks the others are low on Dixie's chances and act accordingly, yet when asked individually it turns out people have higher hopes. Something similar to pluralistic innocence, or the Abilene paradox. So maybe we should be more optimistic about her perception!Some interesting developments over on the Rate Their Chances Thread.
As expected, Dixie's chance went down (though not as much as I expected, mainly due to the inital rating being fairly low). However, it is a pleasant surprise to see her "want" rating actually go up, as
I mean, that’s kind of already the case for Ultimate.
You're right, but I think people at least understand why she isn't in this time, with King K. Rool and the limited newcomers. After another 5-7 years and the next Smash speculation cycle starts, there will be more hunger for Dixie and no other DK character will be on people's minds more than Dixie, especially after Ultimate generally speaking hasn't had many female newcomers. There will be no way to explain her absence other than Sakurai not feeling she is worthy.
And for Smash 4, too.
Unfortunately, I think they're starting to wind down Amiibo this generation, Mario Maker 2 not having them was a bad sign.
Which is such a shame IMO because their is so many more Nintendo characters I'd love to own amiibo of. But amiibos seem to be dying as unlike the Wii U era, Nintendo doesnt need the extra revenue amiibo bring/brought to survive as the Switch and its software are selling like gangbusters.
PsychoJosh
and
Mushroomguy12
! Mushroomguy has active here for a bit but is now an official member; as for Josh it's good to see a fellow member of the Halo thread over here. Welcome to the Barrel!
Well at the very least if there's one more shot of a DK newcomer, it's gonna be Dixie.
There’s a DK World Theme Park?
Yep there's gonna be a DK section in the Nintendo World at Universal Studios. It looks great!