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I say get good at B-reversing just to be able to do it but I have been finding a ton of success just recovering low as Ridley. Use Side-B if you are really far out and then just fly straight up with Up-B when you are close enough to the edge.
To be fair to heels, professional wrestling is fake. No entirely fake, but the drama is 100% acting. I know that's not earth shattering to most people, but even then I have a source. My own dad does some local wrestling for a small west coast league. He's a real dastard when in his persona, but outside or wrestling he's the sweetest guy you'll ever meet.
still though how's that change the fact that incineroar is usually played up as a heel character except in the anime where his villainous persona is toned down to the point it doesn't exist?
Fair enough. I can see your point. I was noting something or someone portraying a heel being a nice big lug isn't unheard of, but I'll concede that that's thrown out the window if we don't see them acting as a heel at all. Duality and work vs. personal life and all that.
If we still didn’t have our character, you can bet we wouldn’t be as happy campers, though I still would’ve been more sold on Ultimate than SSB4 just on the concept of everyone is here/back.
Or people think their characters deserve the spot more, and if they're first party characters, the probably do. Don't forget that Smash doesn't always include the most important Nintendo characters (I can think of one HUGELY glaring omission up until Ultimate in particular, BIG even), so try and see things from their perspective and sympathetically reason with them instead of crying out "salt."
I can see their perspective, up to a point. Like I said, I understand being mad that a character isn't in. I was crushed back in Sm4sh when my two most wanted prospects- Chrom and Dark Samus- were relegated to cameo roles. But, especially with all the other great stuff Ultimate has besides just the roster (story mode, 103 stages with beautifully updated graphics, 900+ music tracks, real Classic Mode, Spirits mode with 1300+ unique battles) there comes a point where the good stuff should outweigh the stuff you're upset about. Everyone of course has a right to their opinion, but I personally cannot understand people who are letting one or two roster absences ruin the entire game for them. I sympathize with DK fans who want Dixie in, and I understand even wanting her more than K. Rool... but come on, we got K. Rool. Don't let the fact that Dixie still isn't in ruin what is in.
I understand getting disappointed if your most wanted character doesn't get in (pretty sure we've all been there at some point), but honestly, that's still no reason to point fingers at and attack whoever happens to get in as a character. It does nothing but cause divisions and even further resentment in the fanbase.
It may not be a Nintendo bubble. It may just be an I-don't-have-a-playstation bubble.
If you don't play JRPGs then not hearing about Persona 5 is a bit more understandable, but it was easily one of the most talked about games last year. The battle theme video has over 10 million views, with its boss battle music having over 12 million, it sold over two million copies in its first year, and generated one of the biggest memes last year, with this Simpsons version probably being the most well known. The title definitely left a footprint in gaming culture.
In a way, it's a similar situation to Cloud: JRPG series that started on the NES but is represented by its most iconic and popular character whose game was not released for Nintendo. Obviously Cloud and FF7 are way bigger than Joker and Persona 5, and Joker's inclusion surely breaks all sorts of "rules" about third parties in Smash, but I think DLC will just always be a special case due to Nintendo wanting to attract headlines and sell marketable characters.
I don't imagine most of the people upset have no characters they like in the game. The roster is made up of over 70 characters from almost every major Japanese video game franchise under the sun. Like I doubt the people hoping for Isaac or Bandana Dee or Dixie don't have fondness for ANY of the cast. Even as someone who was disappointed with Smash 4, there were still quite a few newcomers in it I really enjoyed (especially Mega Man and Cloud), and several veterans that I enjoyed coming back to (particularly the new and improved Bowser). While I could maybe understand if none of the newcomers were to their taste, if the biggest crossover in video game history doesn't have any characters at all for them to enjoy, then they probably don't play many games.
This was my point. Of course, you can be disappointed that a character isn't in while someone you've never heard of is, but it's on you if you're gonna let it ruin the whole game for you. If your mindset on the subject is "but I want X character, so therefore Y character is trash," then you're setting yourself up to never be happy with the game. Like I said awhile back, I take issue with a lot of aspects of Sm4sh, the roster being just one. But it still had redeeming qualities that made me decide it was worth playing. Plus, it's rude to show up where people are getting excited about Joker just to dump on him for not being what you expected/wanted.
When Cloud was announced, I was so excited because FF7 is one of my all time favorite games, despite being outraged and saddened by the K. Rool costume during the very intense ballot campaign. I didn't look at Cloud and think "why aren't you K. Rool?" I would see comments on other sites being mad that Cloud isn't XYZ, K. Rool being one of them, and it made me realize how important it is to keep a healthy perspective on these things. Overall I've been pretty damn blessed by the Smash roster and I can't ask for much more. I'm holding a torch for Banjo-Kazooie for this Fighter Pass, but if they don't get in, my reaction will be mostly an "oh well" thing. Getting a third party character in, especially one like Banjo, is so much more complicated and tricky than any of us can possibly imagine, that it's a borderline miracle whenever we do get a third party character, and I'm fine with accepting that.
A YouTuber I watch made a point that the more characters are in the game, the more people have a reason to be angry. Because at this point, for some people, it could be "There's 77 characters in the game, and they couldn't pick just one that I really wanted?"
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There is something to be said about how all-consuming Smash character speculation can be, and how it colors a person's perception of the game. I didn't get into this sort of thing until the Smash Dojo back in 2007, so while I was able to enjoy games like Melee perfectly fine without worrying about who got in, it's also enhanced how I appreciate the new Smash games. Despite the fact that I've spent 60 dollars on games I enjoy far less than Smash, a Smash game where zero newcomers that were on my wishlist get in might give me some pause before buying it. Literally every game, I get someone from my top 5 newcomer wishlist, without fail, but funnily enough, only two:
I guess it has to do with the fact that my only time in the speculation chamber was this year, from June to now. I didn't participate in online discussions for Smash until this year, despite playing the series for over 15 years. I guess because it's always just been more of a family thing in my experience, so I didn't feel a need to discuss it. But Ultimate was so exciting after E3 that I had to find an outlet for it.
I think the problem with Smash 4, in addition to lacking a core theme or identity besides "another Smash game" (hell, it was literally just titled "for X console" like it was routine) was that every mode it innovated wasn't really any good.
