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Sakurai: "Thank you for your arrangement Mr. Kirkhope"
It's a possibility. It's not like Sakurai would be unaware of that since he mentioned the obscure western exclusive GBA games Grunty's Revenge and Banjo Pilot in Banjo & Kazooie's presentation. Sakurai knows his gaming lore.
Dixie's Challenger Pack could come with DKC3 music and Tropical Freeze music. I see no point limiting the soundtrack to only one game.
You gotta have SNES Nuts And Bolts on that list. With the right remix at the right tempo, that track is badass:
That would be a horrible idea especially with Kiddy. I didn't even like the conspect of the idea of Dixie and Diddy being a tag team duo character for Brawl. At most, Dixie she be a semi-clone or unique fighter with her hair attacks and some animal buddy Specials
I'd like it, or rather, I could like it, it depends how they would implement it.
It's perfectly understandable to be a little pessimistic even after the spirit fan rule was broken. Of course, it doesn't mean Dixie is 100% guaranteed but she still has a decent shot. I do have a couple/few questions after Min Min's confirmation. First, when was it decided that the ARMS director requested Sakurai to put Min Min in? She was a spirit in the base game and I know for certain that the 1st Fighter's Pass was decided internally at E3 2018. Also, I've heard/read that the 2nd pass might have been decided on last year (I maybe wrong on the times though).Had to yet come to share my thoughts on Min-Min cracking the whole Spirits Deconfirm-"rule" - I wondered a while how to even answer, and I might not come off as exactly pepped up as a lot of have been. Opinions would be highly appreciated.
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Now, despite all of that, sadly IDK if I'm feeling willing to hold my breath yet for Dixie - perhaps for Rayman, but not Dixie as much. Probably gonna spit a lot of pessimistic views under, but right now I feel beyond anxious to even hopping on this "final" train to support Dixie to the end.
I guess my biggest question will be: what would exactly make Sakurai or even Nintendo itself, push for Dixie becoming playable these days, especially over the 3rd Parties that would generate much more hype - or even if prehensile hair of Dixie being enough to be even explored as an addition?
Can I wait all way into 2021's end to get answer to those questions, especially with how, as far as I've come to observe, practically ANY character could be added as long as they pose for a fun design or possibilites or creative moveset, and Dixie's been just absent up to this point anyway? Remembering back on how this was same with Toad, who kept on forced to NPC-roles, until it more or less was implied that's all Sakurai saw him as by the time Piranha Plant made it to the scene - I don't exactly feel like living through similar "realization" after Dixie staying absent at the very end of this Fighter Pass, especially with this being ultimate boat to miss out at the end, frankly.
A ton of stakes, and I'm having a recurring hunch with my reasons on why Dixie should be in, most likely not shared with Sakurai, is really having me leaning on not seeing her make it to Ultimate still, despite ARMS now getting a place after already another Nintendo-centric IP. Remembering back on watching a lot of characters from my previous speculation periods getting deconfirmed here and there due varying levels of obscurity/nicheness (Starfy, Takamaru, Lip, Isaac, perhaps Lloyd Irving) or just not finding their ways as a fighter due varying lack of moveset potential or position (Toad, Dixie, any Rhythm Heaven-reps, and possibly Rayman) - is making investment on Dixie... not exactly encouraging, especially on long-term.
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Now, I don't want any of this to make ya'll feel discouraged. I guess I wonder how you guys can press on, especially with so little slots left - and a lot of implications that what the Smash-fans think isn't exactly anywhere reasons or "indicators" on what characters we'll see. I kinda dunno if I'm up to it here, especially with such long time window.
I keep forgetting Bubbles being one of the chars in Donkey Kong: King of Swing. Still brings a charmed smile on my face.
Nah, make it more varied, you can't make a Dixie-themed pass without including
BirthNote
that version is really good, but I like this remix more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwH9fPZd6Ng)Well, if they make the duo like
/ or and Dixie still has her full moveset but Kiddy follows you around like Nana (Without attacking) and viceversa, then I wouldn't see the problem, just play with Dixie and ignore Kiddy (But I suppose she would start to have problems killing, living the life of the solo mains).
My magnum opus, clearly life is all down hill from here on out for me.
Yeah I just heard it, I like it a lot!Nuts and Bolts (
See, I read Cloud Dixie and immediately thought 'So, she would Omnislash but with her pony tail?'
Super Saiyan Dixie.
Yes. That's what I want. Look at the OP. My moveset should be there.
Is this your first post in here or is the first time Im seeing one of your posts? Either way welcome! As I really enjoy seeing fresh new usernames join the discussion.I really hope that Dixie is in the fighter’s pass. It really feels like she should be in the game. Metroid added both Dark Samus and Ridley. We should have had the same treatment with King K. Rool and Dixie.
If Geno, Rex (Pyra/Mythra) and Dixie are all in, it would be a dream come true. I think they all have a shot
So some food for thought that I had when I read all the views up to this point about on the Dixie's overall "absence" in K.Rool's reveal trailer. Might get bit long too, but I believe this might be pretty substantial to what we might receive about Dixie in the future.
To begin, I personally am hypothesizing that by most likely case, we won't be getting Dixie revealed in a way we expect through being continuation of K.Rool's trailer incase she's an Echo.
So far, all the Echoes were revealed via dropping them right off the bat in our faces during the presentations. The only exception to this was Richter, but that was again due being part of Simon's trailer overall.
However, K.Rool's trailer ended up not featuring Dixie in any form, so the "boat" for that has passed for her (I really wanted to say "ship", but it doesn't really work figuratively).
I'm presuming there's two outcomes that could come later regarding how we might see Dixie later.
The more likely outcome would be that we see Dixie's revealed in a later Direct as an echo, coming in from another "wave" of announcements featuring that Direct's Echo Fighters (much like Chrom & Dark Samus).
This by the way, won't feature a "continuation" to where we left off from K.Rool's trailer, as Echoes don't get such extrensive reveals, but instead are just dropped right on our faces to be shown. I presume they reveal her on SSBU's hypothetical Tropical Freeze-stage to tie in with Dixie's recent adventure in that game.
The conclusion we could then come from why she ended up an Echo despite her enduring popularity and demand from Smash-community would be that K.Rool' was just higher priority and asked for more resources due being such an unique character, so Dixie would have had to put away to a shelf some while as a considerable candidate to the roster by her own whole uniqueness, and then been casted as an Echo after dev time seemed to be plentiful enough to make some clones.
By this logic, I feel like she should have been featured in K.Rool's trailer - the only reason why she wasn't would have been to showcase her in the Tropical Freeze-stage.
Now to the other hypothesis I've made up out of what we have received so far, and what it might be in store for Dixie, incase she'd be unique. I'm thinking people will raise eyebrows at this, but just bear with me on this.
If the fact that we didn't see Dixie back in K.Rool's trailer is because she's still being worked on as a semi-clone in vein of Lucas/Wolf, I think a trailer to justify all that would feel teensy underwhelming, unless she has lots to offer despite using the same mold as Diddy Kong. See the Echo-part above.
Another thing to note is that the trailers for newcomers have all used crossover theme throughout them via featuring other Smashers, as per what we had also in Smash 4's ensemble of newcomer trailers.
So if Dixie were to get her own trailer, it'd have to have her go against not only K.Rool, but also some other villains that might be with him.
Now I don't want to say she can't take on them all together, but if I were Sakurai, I think her being another take on Diddy with hair mainly on the center would feel tad like waste of resources better used to showcase another character with more unique features to sell them at Smash's overall crowd.
In fact, if she seems more or less another spin on Diddy (harhar), what could make her unique features be even more accentuated and complemented with?
The answer is to all of this is...
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Now hear me out. I know this would make Dixie not be featured on her own end and I don't try to imply she can't be unique enough to stand on her own but at the same time, I think Dixie being tagged with Kiddy Kong would be more interesting to Sakurai, as that not only allows for something unique to be made out of her as a playstyle, but also lets her more unique aspects to flourish even more, being able to pull stuff from recent DK-games, such as Returns + Tropical Freeze.
Starting in DKC2 and 3, you had "Team-Up"-ability, which allowed you to carry your teammate and throw them to reach unreachable places both above and below - or you could just lob them at your enemies to defeat them.
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This became kind of the main component behind the Kong Barrel-system we saw in Returns, where upon getting it DK could be able to hover via Diddy's rocket barrel - and allow continuous rolling if you kept shaking the Wiimote (or held the button on the 3DS-port):
So what I am trying to suggest could be in the works is that Sakurai would have gone to revisit the tag team concept that he tried to implement with Diddy and Dixie in Brawl, except with Kiddy Kong this time. This would allow Dixie to use her ponytail not only for attacks, but also lob Kiddy at enemies, or even set him for a roll as we saw in DKCR, among other ideas for tag team attacks.
Speaking which, that bit about how DKCR had continuous rolling?
It actually is from DKC3.
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So it all adds up.
Imagine if in her reveal trailer, Dixie goes against K.Rool and some villains along him. She then whistles for a call, and suddenly out of nowhere comes a toddler chimp that's almost her size. The villains laugh at this, but then Dixie hauls Kiddy up with her ponytail, and throws him at them. After that, Kiddy might rebound back to Dixie, who then might try her best to carry in the air (like her Helicopter Twirl from Tropical Freeze), and use that to set up for B-Rolling Attack, and proceeds bowl over rest of the villains, until freeing DK and Diddy (incase they were shown imprisoned in cages in the trailer.)
Now I guess the things that would be ending up open here would be if Kiddy's overall implementation - would he be like Luma/Nana, or could you actually play as him? If he'd be also controllable, I can see him be (fittingly) portrayed as mini-sized echo of DK, and you could play as him via switching (giving you basically two characters to play as via former Zelda/Sheik).
Anyway, that's my thoughts on this matter. What do you all think of this? I really try to not invalidate Dixie's uniqueness here, but again, I'm just pinning down what might go down with her as of late, and with the Echo Factor playing so strong, I'm feeling less confident that we might be getting her as uniquely as she could be.
Beautiful! Magniflque!Did a Dixie Kong Fighter's Spirit based on how Min-Min's Fighter Spirit just added (Fighter) at the end of the Spirit Title.
