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That really goes for every other company that has multiple popular characters with their own fanbases...
Chrom was the only F.E. character I heavily supported pre-Smash 4, so you can imagine my immense disappointment and irritation towards his de-confirmation (only made worse when I learned of the circumstances regarding the inclusion of his daughter and watched Robin's P.G.).
Well it was percolating once we got two newcomers at the same time and the count pushed up to four, but one was a clone and a popular request, and four wasn't seen as too egregious, so it remained in the undercurrent, a grumble here or there. Then we got Roy which pushed the count up to five, but he was a popular veteran, so the pressure rose a bit more but he was in turn excused and enjoyed.
People have been complaining about negative takes since Piranha Plant day, I'm not just referring to right now.
I remember there being people unhappy over Fire Emblem having two Marth derivatives and 5 characters even back before Corrin got in. In addition to that, a 6th FE character wasn't highly demanded within the Smash community and Corrin's inclusion had nothing to do with fan demand. Add in to the fact that his game wasn't released yet in the west and Corrin being revealed as one of the last characters, and thus, for all these reasons, Corrin got tons of hate. There is also the "Another anime swordsman!?" people. And then people got to play Fire Emblem Fates and things got worse for him considering he got in to showcase that game.
Monkey Ball's release date has been locked in long before we even knew of this presentation so I doubt it, as cool as Monkey Ball content would be.
And now you really don't see that much hate for the guy, mainly because of the whole Echo Fighter thing and Everyone being Here.
I just wish the complaints were consistent towards the characters. Too many for a smaller franchise? That's fair. Too many play similarly? Well that isn't the case for Corrin or Byleth but they had the most negative reaction. Cut some? Who? The unique ones? Pointless. The clones? Why? They're lower effort fanservice that take nothing away from fully developed fighters. Make them costumes instead? Why does that matter? So someone feels better about the CSS? Anime swordfighter? Nonsense. People get hyped over other anime characters.
Yes, it's just me keeping that fire burning now.
Well, reasons people dislike characters are generally consistent (or at least there are some fairly regularly seen reasons), it's just different reasons apply to different characters. I'm not validating all the detraction, but you wouldn't expect the reasons people like a character to be uniform either.
. Really, I think they're when I realized I like the big heavy hitbox-type attacks, like with Min Min, Sephiroth, and Pyra.I keep hearing Star Fox and Kid Icarus went through the same phase too. I think it just goes to show that unless you're one of Nintendo's original Big Three, if you start growing faster and nobody else is you're just an easy target for the vitriol.
Marth is never gonna be cut for sure. Perhaps Ike too. The questions start after that. Awakening as the savior of the franchise should have someone. Robin makes sense, but why cut Lucina when she's easy? Now after that is the interesting part. Roy should go imo even though I like him. He's basically Melee nostalgia. Chrom can go, Corrin probably will too despite having a more interesting moveset. Byleth I'd keep unless a future game does something to make you forget about Three Houses.
I request elaboration.
No. This is just like when people thought that Dante was the final fighter of pass 1 because the Sakurai presents was on the same day as some Devil may cry news.
No, I think Marth and Ike are safe. I know Robin is sort of the least buzzed about of the Awakening characters these days, but I think he's the likeliest to stay of the three tbh, since he's original. And so I think the cuts will come from the remaining five. Though who and how many I'm not even going to try to guess.
CacoMallow never outright said it'd come with Geno and Doom Slayer as characters.
They'll add Hector instead.
Pretty good list though I'd keep Lucina. Roy is super hard to figure out since he's 100% Melee nostalgia.
Roy and Lucina are the second most popular male and female character in the franchise.
That does bring up something interesting. Roy got semi cloned after coming back. It's possible they could do something like that with Lucina. Although since her shtick was pretending to be marth for a bit idk. Haven't played awakening in ages so I can't remember her moves.
I'll be honest, I'll always find fallacy over this argument, wether in favor or against.
First place was Gatekeeper which was the funniest thing.
No it was from all those people playing his game, lol.
This just goes to show how terrible a choice Corrin was back then and how bad it still is. There's people who have sworn to never touch a Fire Emblem game because of Smash, and that vitriol can be traced to Corrin's inclusion.
What's even funnier is how much IS commited to it once he won.
Now that you mention it, if we count all the votes for each CYL winner, then Gatekeeper and Edelgard are the most popular male and female, respectively. The latter being the most popular of all.
When Gatekeeper joins the Fight, Alfonzo takes his place.
I like Corrin in Smash. Shame.
