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I feel uncomfortable saying this because I REALLY feel like I'm just grasping at straws out of desperate hope. But IIRC he said last "new" fighter.
Oh no. A few years without a game. If FE6 was that big of a revival, it wouldn't need Smash.
Oh, trust me, I'm not a fan of Bayonetta either. From her design to her moveset especially, I do not like her at all. She just doesn't fit. Also, I'm still puzzled if she actually the ballot.
I would feel the opposite if Kamui was not one of my sister's most wanted characters. I am hype for her, and she is hype for me. That being said, I cannot believe Bayonetta actually won the ballot. I support her, yet I still feel as though something shady happened with the results to be completely honest.
But people are saying these two don't deserve to be in Smash. Two Indies would inflame the internet as the last ones because they definitely would not deserve to be in Smash.
Seems reasonable, there's no way for me to guess what other countries voted for, aside from various polls I had seen. I never saw Bayonetta high on them, so she was ever on my radar, but who knows if they were only polls focused on the west or what.
Nope. Only character from ballot was Bayonetta, anyone else was solely Sakurai's choosing.
That's why it was one of the best selling FE game in Japan?
whom at least the later is sorta justified but was put in the worst predicament of being the final DLC character.I would have freaking anyone. Including the Inklings who I mentioned before i'm no fan of. At least with them being in the game I can be happy for the fans who wanted them and understand how having them in the game is a benefit.
Trust me, I'm holding out for that, too, even if it is a lost cause. Fortunately, Wolf is the ONLY character who still has a shadow of a chance of still being DLC. After all, we're at three veterans and four newcomers, so maybe Sakurai will add him to even out the roster? Unfortunately, being stuck by lightning whilst underground is probably more likely at this point.
To be fair, I am horrible at predicting reactions. After I saw Kamui and Bayonetta, I thought that everyone was going to be happy for a day or two before they realized that this is all we are getting. I honestly did not expect many complaints at first. But I started watching a couple of reaction videos and, of course, I came back to "this."
They seem to have toned Bayo down, she even gets a dress when using Wicked Weaves
FE6 had the same reason Awakening was successful. MARKETING. Something FE9-12 lacked.Another thing that infurates me is the length of time it's been since this broadcast and the June broadcast. All these months of speculation, hype, and excitment was all for this and I think that's probably the thing that bothers me the most.
That's why it was one of the best selling FE game in Japan?
I don't give a flying crap about what they can do. There was potential for so many different characters that people wanted and requested and we ended up with them. Fanservice my pasty butt because this was the exact opposite of that. No K. Rool. No Wolf. None of those great characters. Just friggin.
I'm not gonna go in circles here. I'm just sick of this really. Especially having to go back and forth with you which is the biggest nuisance of them all no offense.
I would have freaking anyone. Including the Inklings who I mentioned before i'm no fan of. At least with them being in the game I can be happy for the fans who wanted them and understand how having them in the game is a benefit.
Much like you, I'm not very fond of Bayonetta either.
OK, thank you. I've been hearing mixed reports.
We live in a time where 8 year olds play Call of Duty and more grown up people Pokémon tho
You don't honestly believe Bayonetta won the vote do you? Sakurai is lying. Where was that silent majority when it came to buying her game? Millions of people must have voted in this contest. It's statistically impossible. I don't believe the ballot was legit at all
Well... At least you got Geno
I would not get my hopes up, that would result in, well, "this." It is a possibility of course, but people who try and misconstrue Sakurai's statements usually do not get what they want.
Maybe Bayonetta was a troll character vote? People voted for her just to see if Sakurai would do it... Maybe.
It still doesn't change the fact that Fire Emblem not only has the same number of reps as Pokémon, but got THREE newcomers while Pokémon only got one, which isn't fair. Sakurai kind of screwed over one of Nintendo's biggest series just to cater to his own bias. It's an insult to even suggest that Fire Emblem is anywhere near the level of Pokémon, a series that I feel deserves more reps than Waifu Emblem.
That's the other problem. Maybe the votes should have turned public while the ballot was open after every month, so we could have prevented this or had known the candidates. The more I think about it the more I think about how different this could have been executed.
They never said she was the clear winner though, it says underneath the numbers she was of the realized characters. That could disqualified 10 other people who knows. We PRb will never know.
One shouldn't count as Lucina is the exact same as Marth. Roy was brought back by popular demand. Fire Emblem's got MUCH less overall representation than other franchise. 'It's not fair' Boo hoo, if you get rid of every newcomer we got that I didn't want, Bayonetta would be the only one there alongside Mega Man
Nice knowing ya.
I feel the bigger problem isn't Sakurai but the Pokemon Company itself, they're extremely protective of Pokemon and if they don't want it, it doesn't go in. If anything I feel Pokemon might be the toughest to actually get into Smash because of them.
It's not that simple. The Pokemon Company and Gamefreak have to approve of everything Pokemon-wise(and another company, but I forgot who it was). It's easy to work with one company, but 3 at once? Sakurai can only do as much as they allow. Also, there's nothing to suggest we were getting any more than Greninja as a newcomer. Squirtle and Ivysaur were intended to return under Pokemon Trainer with Charizard. That was it.
Maybe. I'll admit that even still, Bayonetta is rather strange as a ballot winner, but it's still a character with popularity regardless. However, I'm sure there are other things at play here. Perhaps some of the characters we've been thinking of (Isaac/Rool) just have had their day. I suppose in the end recency really does play a key. So, even if they were higher in some way, Sakurai could still say no to them due to being characters a young generation might not remember.
from what i tracked, it was Wolf, K. Rool and Wonder Red.
Hmm. That certainly is something to think about. I suppose you're right. That HAS to be the logical reason why Sakurai gave more love and attention to Waifu Emblem than Pokémon. I really don't understand why TPC is so overprotective of their series. It seems to me like they're insecure.
Yes, absolutely positively why people voted in Bayonetta. Literally that many people wanted another waifu. Why couldn't they choose the character I wanted? My character is popular, my character has such a deep and engrossing history.
You don't have a right to know.
Oh, thanks for bringing that up. We never really decided how the voting system worked, or how broken/unbroken it was.
