@Burb would
adore this discussion.
It'd be nice if we could get a little less aggression in here.
Here are the facts:
- Geno is a third party character, as noted in SS' credits where he is a registered trademark of Square Enix, Co. Ltd. That's the first obstacle.
- It is factually silly to make out Geno to be a more worthwhile choice than Cloud because of the staggering differences in popularity and relevance between the two.
- When compared to the third parties that have been in Smash and their significance in the gaming industry, Geno is practically nothing. If someone like Shovel Knight gets into Smash then this point can be disregarded.
- Geno cannot be compared to so called "niche nobodies" such as Robin and Shulk due to those characters being first party above all and from series with actual relevance.
- It is true that, as evidenced with Ryu, third party companies
can have two characters in Smash; it is not a fact that they
will. Square has more profitable characters than Geno to boot such as Agnes Oblige and loads of popular Final Fantasy characters.
- If the general public does not care about series such as Kid Icarus and Fire Emblem, their most recent installments that have characters in Smash likely would have not passed 1 million sales(Awakening sold 1.79 million worldwide, Fates has sold nearly half a million copies in Japan alone, Kid Icarus Uprising sold 1.18 million worldwide). While Xenoblade and MOTHER would theoretically fall under the niche stigma, Xenoblade was the subject of a loud fan movement to get it and two other JRPG's localized in North America and MOTHER continues to have a massive cult following which resulted in MOTHER 3's fan translation and eventual VC release of Earthbound. And they are dedicated enough to make a fan sequel to MOTHER 3; I don't see any of the same things from the SMRPG fanbase, and if it's happening, it simply ain't prominent enough to get reported on.
- I don't recall SMRPG setting any landmarks for Geno to represent the game as "an important part of Nintendo history". Super Mario Bros 3, 64, New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy are all arguably WAY more notable than SMRPG ever was. First Mario RPG? Sure. But I don't see the characters from it returning aside from cameos. And even though I despise the idea of another Mario character as DLC, to represent the RPG side of Mario? Paper Mario is infinitely better. First party and relevant.
So there you go. I do not think Geno is viable with everything I've said. If he's in? I'll gladly eat my words.
's case. I enjoyed it when all the haters were proven wrong.
