Why is the K. Rool thread turning into the Ridley thread in terms of off-topicness?
It's because we have a week left, we're starting to get antsy about King K. Rool's inclusion and in general the presence of the new clones seems to pretty much piss us all off. Clones characters are only going to be more problematic and more problematic as we get each new Smash game, especially if they are of this caliber. It's true we don't know the final roster, but it's looking bad for Lucas and Wolf two of the more arguably unique clones to exist ever in Smash.
I've been looking for an opportunity to express my displeasure in "clone gate" for a little while now, and you all are fairly reasonable, so here goes. Again Wolf and Lucas were the unique clones if anything from Brawl, particularly Wolf when he had Fox AND Falco to compare to, he was clearly the superior clone over Falco in terms of uniqueness and originality. Lucas also had a number of attributes to make him very unique as well. And the biggest part about both of these characters were that they were fully original main characters from their games, rival of Star Fox and protagonist of Mother 3. They don't take a huge amount of resources to create, and are certainly beloved by a number of fans, yet it looks like they've been cut in favor of other clones. Dr. Mario adds one more rep to an already crowded Mario representation and is literally just a costume for regular Mario and is perhaps my biggest problem with the clones overall. Then there's Dark Pit who isn't inherently all that unique of a character, literally created to be a mirror image of Pit. Yes he plays a substantial role in Uprising, but that doesn't really mean much either, Wolf and Lucas still have greater roles. Finally there's Lucina who is the only clone I'm particularly fine with, sure she spends half the game disguised as Marth, but at least she's her own character in the end and she is basically taking Roy's spot from him, and that more or less works for me if I can't have Roy back. Don't get me wrong I'm actually entirely OK with these three characters being put in the game, and I do like them to some extent, but they should have gotten the backseat when other clone characters like Lucas and Wolf weren't already in the game. Those two should have had first priority if there was any extra development time, over Dr. Mario and Dark Pit at least, but alas, it doesn't look like that's how that's going to play out. Sorry needed it out of my system.
As for our King K. Rool, I feel like he almost has to be part of a hype three trailer at this point. With Sakurai mentioning they are at the bottom of the barrel with newcomer videos left I don't really expect to see more than 1 trailer in the next week leading up to release, and the most logical trailer I see is one containing all three of the hype three since I expect both Ridley and Mewtwo as well. That'd be insanely epic to have the trailer start with those three fighting on Gangplank Galleon or something along the lines so it's just like BOOM, all of the awesome revealing information right in your face so you can instantly lose your mind over the inclusion of the material.