That’s nice dear. Sakurai literally said there is a future there’s even more of them in terms of fan requests. There is nothing stopping that for Ultimate. Travis never even had high levels of demands. There is always a possibility of either way of Geno playable. You don’t decide who is better as a Mii costume if it is still missing.
EDIT: How does all of this suggest that he WILL be costume?
This is a pretty old post at this point, but I've mentioned before that I tend to take weekends off from this madhouse (among others) but I just gotta say, this is the absolutely
worst response to that particular post imaginable. Is it obnoxious when people suggest the Geno mii costume is coming back? Sure. Is it a safe or healthy mindset to take an entire, decently thought out list of possibilities and throw them in the trash and respond with something virtually unrelated? No. It's ****ing desperate looking.
I must be turning into an old man because I'm tired of the word "literally" getting thrown around in cases like this because what Sakurai literally said was " This was another fighter that I received a lot of requests for – mostly from overseas. That being said, King K. Rool and Ridley were pretty fervently requested too. And as I continue to grant these requests, I can only see a future where there’s even more of them!"
The quote comes from a translated Famitsu column and
boy, do I hate translated Famitsu columns. The original text is always nowhere to be found so no one else can double check these translations. I don't doubt the ability of these translators to appropriately translate the words, but I do doubt their ability to appropriately translate the meaning of the written word in a language that depends heavily on context. Even in English, the statement is ambiguous and this is probably the intention - it is
such a Sakurai play. Let's rework the sentence in a few ways. To start, the original sentence:
"That being said, King K. Rool and Ridley were pretty fervently requested too. And as I continue to grant these requests, I can only see a future where there's even more of [them]."
What is [them]? Is [them] K. Rool and Ridley?
"That being said, King K. Rool and Ridley were pretty fervently requested too. And as I continue to grant these requests, I can only see a future where there's even more King K. Rool and Ridley."
There can't possibly be more K. Rool and Ridley on the way, unless the Legacy XP takedown was so they can add Ridley 2. So then... is [them] "these requests"? Or maybe just "requests"?
"That being said, King K. Rool and Ridley were pretty fervently [requested] too. And as I continue to grant these [requests], I can only see a future where there's even more [requests]."
You can look on the bright side all you want. You can contort this man's words to be good for whatever character you can possibly think of, but you can't ignore that this sentence is deliberately vague to the point that it can be interpreted in two ways. Sakurai is a master at this, and I think his forked tongue is right up there next to his "everybody wins" mentality in terms of bad traits. I've pointed out before that the Sakurai in interviews and the Sakurai in presentations are different, and he does a good job being a character, but I think there's a very real Sakurai in his humor - He can be very sarcastic. Think about the way he described the request from Nintendo to add Minecraft Steve. Compare that to the way he says other things, his statement about Mai, his acknowledgement of how much Fire Emblem we have to endure... This statement is him lamenting the fact that the requests keep coming and he can't satisfy them all. This is probably especially taxing on a guy with such an "everybody wins" mentality, like I already mentioned. He deals with it through that sarcastic sense of humor. Banjo's in, now the requests will keep coming. These noisy fans will never ****ing shut up. The best thing to ever happen to him is to have no liberty of who gets into the game, at least he can sleep well at night knowing that he can blame Nintendo for these decisions.
No character is better as a ****ing Mii costume (well, there are a few, but one of them is now a Villager echo). Only a troll says something like that. The post you quoted to reply with this nonsense? They didn't suggest he works better as a Mii costume, they suggested that the arguments point equally towards or maybe even lean in favor of a Mii costume. No one genuinely wants to see fan favorites get turned into lifeless ****ing mascot costumes to be worn by Great Value Mario, Samus, or Link, but it's a possibility we'll have to live with until something happens one way or another. This kind of faulty logic, this dodging of the truth and ignorance to the alternatives is the kind of infuriating horse **** I've tried to call out in this community for a month and instead it looks like the opinions are getting more and more galvanized rather than people keeping an open mind to the possibilities. I know this year sucked but for God's sake, are we here to discuss the possibilities or are we
actually becoming the echo chamber that the GameFAQs people want to paint us as?
Failure is very sadly an option and you can't stick your fingers in your ears and pretend not to see it. Either refute the claims with facts and evidence or shrug and say "yeah I guess it's possible".
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