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To be fair 90% of everyone didn't really expect Pyra without Rex. Like, imagine going back to base game, FP1, heck, even during the ARMS guessing game, and tell people we'd be getting Pyra without her Driver.
...It just occurred to me that Smash Pyra/Mythra is more or less autopilot, given the nature of the Blades.
But that's the thing, that possibility was ALSO brought up quite a bit before the announcement, it was less common but it still happened a lot meaning it wasn't that out of left field. This is the same bull**** that's being said to make Isaac come across as this super unpopular pick nobody would like just because he's not a frontrunner in speculation for once
Maybe it's just been a while but I don't really remember solo Pyra being brought up that much. Rex and Pyra together was the majority opinion back then, and most of the time when people meant an XC2 rep, the default terms was just "Rex." At least, that's what it seemed like to me.
People also love to forget ARMS was not a compete curveball either, in no small part due to that one Sakurai interview being front and center.
I mean, the fact Sakurai discussed why he didn’t go with Rex due to tech limitations does show that Sakurai did have a design to do Pyra with her Driver. What we got was effectively his fall back option if the driver stuff couldn’t work.
I mean, Sephiroth was not exactly a complete left field leak due to that Seven Squares stuff, although he was far from the front runner there. But the fact people were speculating we were getting a Square character imo shows that even Sephiroth was not as much of a curveball as people might think.
Sure, the solo idea wasn't as common as Rex but that doesn't undermine the point how damn near everyone was calling an XB2 character which is my main argument
See, I don't agree with this, people always used that interview for Rex, nobody cared about Spring Man being there
I think that was just people not caring about ARMs in general
I mean, I saw plenty of people mention ARMS because of that interview. Sometimes it was to counteract XC2 and sometimes it was to say it might get content too. At the end of the day, it was far from a curveball at least in my eyes. As obvious as XC2? Nah. Everyone knew that would happen. But a curveball? I don’t think so.
This is the same community that ya see people saying Geno can still happen this pass after his Mii costume and cacamallow is real in June of 2021. Smash speculation can be... odd at times.
They hated him for he spoke the truth
I genuinely do not remember the latter but now that you mention it I think I did the former so I get your point even if I don't fully agree
Genshin aka Breath of the Waifu is super popular. It ain’t my cup of tea, but I unironically would say it was one of the bigger games to come out last year.
Calling Genshin Impact a BotW Knockoff is like calling Halo a Doom knock off, Final Fantasy a Dragon Quest knock off, or Mortal Kombat a Street Fighter knock off
I can't believe Sakura is adding 25% of all enemies in BotW to Smash.
I mean, game looks heavily inspired from BotW from what little I've seen.
I'll never get over how my first discovery of Genshin was an article titled "BotW clone breaks PS4." Nor will I get over that one time I was at a friend's house and everyone popped the %$#@ off over them pulling three characters in their first roll, which spoke a lot about what I was getting into when I had downloaded a gacha game myself shortly before that hangout.
Cue half of the fanbase celebrating us finally getting a new Zelda character and the other half upset that they went for a mook instead of an actual character people care about
It was inspired by it, but once you get about 20/30 minutes in it's clear it has it's own identity both in combat and presentation. About the only things that make it a BotW Knock off is a huge map, being able to climb everything and a glider.
I've been tainted by Granblue's system.
Japan Studio being dead?
I would unironically love to play as a Lynel. He'd easily be a heavyweight, and Lynels in Breath of the Wild are typically known for their overwhelming power, attack speed, and large assortment of weapons and attacks. You get a (likely super) heavy with a sword and thus high range, projectiles with the bow and arrow and fire breath, and overall high attack strength. On top of that, it being a centaur puts it in this weird quadrupedal-but-not-really state that probably opens itself to some more unique-looking standard and aerial attacks. It's the compete package!
Genshin is it's own game, the game is far different from BotW to call it a knockoff. Sure, it's inspired heavily by some of BotW's mechanics but it has enough unique stuff added for it to be it's own thing. For one thing the combat in Genshin is far different (and honestly better) than BotW's combat. Genshin at it's core is an RPG team building game with a huge open world to explore and puzzles to solve. I'll admit that Mondstadt is boring and bland, but once I left it and reached Liyue, that is when I started enjoying the world design and started forgetting about this game resembling BotW.
I mean, the thing about Steve is, well, the Banjo vs Steve wars weren't some fairy tail, they happened, and were miserable.
But I really wanted to play Rex AND Pyra
The feelings are mutual. I remember all of the crazy mayhem and leaks and rumors that happened throughout the speculation scene back in 2018. Vergeben, rumors someone had stolen a demo kiosk, the Grinch leak, and of course the incredible hype building up to every single reveal and direct. It will be sad to see all of that go dormant until the next Smash comes around, but I think for close to eight years of speculation after Smash 4, it had a pretty good run.
Imagine coming into a thread that is about speculation of future content for Smash Ultimate and posting that you are happy that you won't have a reason to be posting here much longer.
I don't have to imagine. It's how a lot of people feel, including myself.
Nobody's forcing you to speculate. I just find it silly when people say they're glad it's almost over. It's not your job, so if you don't like it you can go outside or something.
Going outside when my state's still in a somewhat lockdown mode due to the 'rona? Probably not the best idea.
