I like Palutena a lot, and I LOVE Kid Icarus Uprising. It's one of my favorite games ever, the dialogue is great, and everyone had a fleshed out personality.
So for a long, LONG time, I couldn't quite put my finger on why I didn't like Palutena's trailer. Like, I like the gameplay idea behind her, which is using various KI:U Powers and normals that utilize a shield and staff. But I just couldn't get behind her trailer.
Then I realized that I didn't like all the
Male Gaze that her trailer gave her in the animated bits. THEN I realized that Sakurai gave her an uncharacteristically emotionless face in-game, when I'd have liked to see her change emotions as she often did in the Uprising conversations. Finally, her trailer had all her gameplay bits thrown together near the end of the trailer while the rest was eaten up with different camera angles depicting Palutena walking, or float-running, or doing idle animations and just NOT ATTACKING.
The other character trailers didn't have these things (Villager's doesn't really count since his trailer was the official Smash 4 trailer), so Palutena's disappointed me in those regards. Nonetheless, you should all know that I'm looking forward to playing Palutena anyway since she was one of my favorite characters in Uprising, and like people have reported with Mega Man, she may not be as emotionless as she initially looks.
