Oh my god, don't get the Quote fans hopes up
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On one hand, the rights issues re: Quote are an absolute travesty on the level of Kojima and MGS.
On the other, if this means some kind of official Isaac Mii Hat, I‘m on board.
So a modder gotten his KOS-MOS mod taken down by Nintendo and some people are freaking out over in the KOS-MOS thread right now. Here is the Twitter link:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Demonslayerx8/status/1205029531624431618
What do you guys think about this?
I have to preface these things with my usual disclaimer that I have nothing against this character in particular.
With that said, know that I mean nothing against the actual character when I say the harsh-sounding statement that KOS-MOS would be an incredibly disappointing choice for #5 to the general audience.
The claim that she’s “Namco’s crossover queen” sounds like she’s been in far more titles than she actually has been, when it’s really just been a Tales spin-off, some crossover strategy RPGs also developed by Monolith, and Xenoblade 2... where she’s an incredibly rare drop that many players might not even encounter in their playthrough. Her costume and weapon have appeared in a few more things, namely a few mainline Tales titles and Soul Calibur III, but that’s the entire extent of it.
I would absolutely argue that at this current moment in time, she’s noticeably more obscure than Geno is right now, but admittedly the only reason for that is years of Smash speculation where he’s an increasingly common name.
However, all that is completely besides the main point, the giant bonus Mii Costume in the room: Getting KOS-MOS as FP5 when Rex was just a bonus costume that comes with the pass will be seen as an especially missed opportunity, and I doubt they’d specifically go and mess with people like that. If KOS-MOS really was FP5, then it would make far more sense to save Rex’s costume for her instead of giving it to us at the outset, especially with him already being a Spirit anyway.
And yes, I am well and truly aware of Sakurai’s relevance comment, and think that it will be used to very good effect in post-pass. But I can easily see there being quite a bit of unrest going around if they “use that statement” to immediately give us practically the most obscure character currently known to Smash speculation as the final character of a pass that most people paid for in advance over a year ago, especially after giving us a bit of a lesser known character with Terry.
Note that none of this is specifically saying that she
can’t be #5, more saying that it would be a bizarre, controversial move, to say the least.