Miiverse Daily Pic Thread: 2nd Edition (Updated 9/19)

[juddy96]

Interesting character request. I must say this is the first time I've heard this one be requested.

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/replies/AYMHAAACAAAYUKlZ3wDo8g

 

[Amazing Ampharos]

The way this comment is written I'm kinda wondering if this is actually some special game mode; it's not like it would be hard to make a Balloon Fight mode with what's already in the game, and it would be a pretty fun minigame probably. I'm not sure the comment really makes any sense if that's not the case actually. It's too bad he wasn't clear about that; he usually is very explicit with what he's announcing.

 

[shinhed-echi]

I don"t get it. Is this just filler and this is the balloon fight stage. Or is this a Balloon Fight minigame?

If It's the stage then eh.
If It's a minigame then awesome!

 

[Sehnsucht]

The fish still gives me the willies.

Are those willies free?

 

[Hayzie]

Sounds like it's a new mode for fun and giggles. One can hope that is what Masahiro Mah Hero means by his caption for this PotD. Jam-packed? Balloon Fight mode confirmed.

 

[Flaxr XIII]

Are those willies free?

That's two now! Stop doing that!
Like: 20x's

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Sounds like it's a new mode for fun and giggles. One can hope that is what Masahiro Mah Hero means by his caption for this PotD. Jam-packed? Balloon Fight mode confirmed.

It's too bad RARE isn't still with Nintendo anymore

For some reason this makes me want to see a jetpack mode

 

[Frostwraith]

Why are people thinking this is a new mini-game based on Balloon Fight when it's been confirmed on the Smash Bros. Direct back in April that there's a retro styled Balloon Fight stage?

Hope you are aware that Villager's Up Special is based on Balloon Fight.

Therefore, all that's happening on this picture is nothing more than Villagers using their Up Special (and one of them being the fish's dinner) on the Balloon Fight stage.

Why are people thinking this is a new mini-game or anything like that?

Anyway, I'll just laugh.

No offense, but I find it funny when people start over-thinking things and making absurd conclusions that are far away from reality, but at the same time, it is disappointing.

The way this comment is written I'm kinda wondering if this is actually some special game mode; it's not like it would be hard to make a Balloon Fight mode with what's already in the game, and it would be a pretty fun minigame probably. I'm not sure the comment really makes any sense if that's not the case actually. It's too bad he wasn't clear about that; he usually is very explicit with what he's announcing.

"Sakurai" and "being explicit" is like an oxymoron. For every explicit comment Sakurai makes, there's probably two or three or four vague comments and/or teases from him.

 

[Flaxr XIII]

Why are people thinking this is a new mini-game based on Balloon Fight when it's been confirmed on the Smash Bros. Direct back in April that there's a retro styled Balloon Fight stage?

Hope you are aware that Villager's Up Special is based on Balloon Fight.

Therefore, all that's happening on this picture is nothing more than Villagers using their Up Special (and one of them being the fish's dinner) on the Balloon Fight stage.

Why are people thinking this is a new mini-game or anything like that?

Anyway, I'll just laugh.

No offense, but I find it funny when people start over-thinking things and making absurd conclusions that are far away from reality, but at the same time, it is disappointing.


"Sakurai" and "being explicit" is like an oxymoron. For every explicit comment Sakurai makes, there's probably two or three or four vague comments and/or teases from him.

Thanks. I would've said this but couldn't be bothered to write it out. I was just gonna wait for someone else to figure it out. Glad that didn't take too long.

 

[ripa9]

Pic of the day. The all-time classic Balloon Fight returns to the modern age, now playable with four players.

>>>>>

This is only a small piece of this jam-packed game.

<<<<<

You people are stupid as ****, it's clearly a balloon fight minigame.

 

[PLATINUM7]

>>>>><<<<<

You people are stupid as ****, it's clearly a balloon fight minigame.

Not sure if serious

 

[Halfhead]

Whether or not this is a Balloon Fight mini-game is questionable. This isn't one of those times where we over analyze his quote too far, this is different. Could anyone give us the direct translation of the Japanese PoTD please?

 

[Hayzie]

It's too bad RARE isn't still with Nintendo anymore

For some reason this makes me want to see a jetpack mode

It is too bad. I dare not think more again about the possibilities with this game.

 

[JForseti]

I wonder why people are saying it's a filler OR questioning why other people think this is a Balloon Fight mini-game.
From the wording I'm sure this is Sakurai showing a Balloon Fight min-game. Yes he likes to troll, but no point at all bringing this back up again, with this wording, if it wasn't an ACTUAL mini-game.

 

[TeenGirlSquad]

Well.

Banjo-Kazooie and maybe Mumbo Jumbo and Gruntilda would be playable. Conker and Joanna Dark might be playable, I mean Snake was from an M-rated game series, so why not. Dixie and King K. Rool would probably be playable by now.

 

[Pyra]

I wonder why people are saying it's a filler OR questioning why other people think this is a Balloon Fight mini-game.
From the wording I'm sure this is Sakurai showing a Balloon Fight min-game. Yes he likes to troll, but no point at all bringing this back up again, with this wording, if it wasn't an ACTUAL mini-game.

...Or, it's just filler and everyone is looking too much into it.

 

[IsmaR]

If it weren't all Villagers, and if Balloon Fight didn't appear to be a 3DS exclusive stage, THEN it might have meant something.

 

[ripa9]

Google Translate (J ap Miiverse):

One piece today.
Revived in the modern world, old classics "Balloon Fight".
4-player game also came possible.
This is not just a few of the game, by a varied anything.

- Detailed description are not made, but I would like a mini game, or new stage?

What's that question about?

Oh and it mentions "mini game", so that leans even more towards the possibility of the update being about that.

Maybe it means: "It has not been decided yet, but would you like this to be a mini game, or just a new stage?" ...3 months till release... it's propably not too late for the dev team to think about these? I have no idea.

No, no, no... "it hasn't been revealed yet, but which one would you like it to be?" THAT'S it.

Last edit: I don't know Japanese, but I'm intelligent,

Spoiler

**** you all

Needed one more, since for some reason, j.ap was censored.

 

[OctiVick]

Nothing like waking up and seeing them dig balloon fighter's grave even deeper =w=

 

[Cap'nChreest]

I don't think anyone is over-analyzing. The way its worded just makes it seem like there would be a balloon-fight mini game.

He is pretty much saying baloonfight returns and now you can play it with four people.(begin over analyzation) I think its more likely that its a mini-game than a repeat daily-pic since a repeat daily pic has never happened. He calls the game jam-packed right after too. Would he really call the game jam-packed if there weren't a lot of different modes? Nah bro.....

 

[ripa9]

I don't think anyone is over-analyzing. The way its worded just makes it seem like there would be a balloon-fight mini game.

He is pretty much saying baloonfight returns and now you can play it with four people.(begin over analyzation) I think its more likely that its a mini-game than a repeat daily-pic since a repeat daily pic has never happened. He calls the game jam-packed right after too. Would he really call the game jam-packed if there weren't a lot of different modes? Nah bro.....

Exactly. I wonder what else these mods misunderstand and misjudge.

 

[Staarih]

I feel like it could just be an event match as a throwback to the Balloon Fight game, instead of being an actual mini-game.

 

[Cap'nChreest]

Exactly. I wonder what else these mods misunderstand and misjudge.

I really didn't have to come up with all of that to see that he's talking about a mini-game.

Even if he's not talking about a mini-game its not out of the question that 4 people could even play Balloon fight in a sense and pretend to be happy.

 

[KokiriKory]

I immediately interpreted it as a bonus mini-game (which I would love, balloon fight was a fave growing up)

But now people got me doubtin'

 

[A Lucky Person]

This week's pics have all been pretty useless, as the only thing we've gotten in terms of new information is Link's silly palette swap. I'm not complaining though! Most devs don't do stuff like this for fans.

However, it seems pretty obvious to me that today's pic isn't a mini-game of any sort and is just the Villagers' collective recoveries being used on that stage.

 

[Kevandre]

It's very clearly a 4 player Balloon Fight. It's not just the stage again. Not filler whatsoever.

 

[ripa9]

Right, I got a warning for flaming, I wonder what Frostwraith got.

 

[Stenton]

I be happy if this ended up being an event of some sort. Be like "KO these Balloon Spamming Villagers"

 

[ripa9]

I be happy if this ended up being an event of some sort. Be like "KO these Balloon Spamming Villagers"

Lawl, it'd look kinda pathetic, Villagers spamming Up B and just helplessly falling down half of the time (unless they have a gliding ability of somesort with the balloons... I actually have never seen the move in action...)

 

[spader13]

I didn't even consider the possibility that it was a mini-game until I read this thread, and I'm still leaning towards it just being a "funny picture and caption". I could see there being an event match though where you play as Villager against 3 other Villagers on the stage though.

 

[Ryan.]

I'm guessing the 4th player was K.O.'d as I can only see 3 Villagers.

 

[Frostwraith]

Having reading the caption again (and glanced at the original caption in Japanese), I can see why some people might think it may be a mini-game. I admit it could be a neat throwback to the original game.

Anyway, I apologize for my harsh response earlier.

 

[Substitution]

I'm tellin' ya.
He only did this to taunt Balloon Fighter supporters. It's the only way I see this making any sense.

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

Huh ? Why would it be a mini-game ? It's just villagers on the stage using the ballons move, with one of theim being eaten.
I really think there is nothing special with this pic, same as Link ; it's just basically the same outfit with different colors.
We really have a week of filler, but well, after E3, no bog surprise here.

Except... maybe... Falco ?

What did we have before Ike's reveal ?

 

[spader13]

Huh ? Why would it be a mini-game ? It's just villagers on the stage using the ballons move, with one of theim being eaten.
I really think there is nothing special with this pic, same as Link ; it's just basically the same outfit with different colors.
We really have a week of filler, but well, after E3, no bog surprise here.

Except... maybe... Falco ?

What did we have before Ike's reveal ?

Captain's Log style entry of Big Mac
Picture of the new AT model
Mirroring (and Alternate Color Schemes)
Outline, not character color shows team.
Ike

 

[ripa9]

Huh ? Why would it be a mini-game ?

The Nes/Snes/N64 demos in Brawl came to my mind right when I saw the update.

 

[BluePikmin11]

Only a small part of the stage?

Balloon Fight stage confirmed to have the GB version of Balloon Kid too?

 

[Curious Villager]

Only a small part of the stage?

Balloon Fight stage confirmed to have the GB version of Balloon Kid too?

Oh speaking of Balloon Kid....

Spoiler

Villager confirmed to be Sakurai's excuse to include both Balloon Fighter and Balloon Kid Alice in Smash?

Well.... at least their hairstyles are sort of similar..... :T

Probably a coincidence though....

 

[BluePikmin11]

Oh speaking of Balloon Kid....

Spoiler

Villager confirmed to be Sakurai's excuse to include both Balloon Fighter and Balloon Kid Alice in Smash?

Well.... at least their hairstyles are sort of similar..... :T

Probably a coincidence though....

Wow, now I seriously want a Alice alternate even if it canonically doesn't make sense.

 

[Thunderfang747]

Why are people thinking this is a new mini-game based on Balloon Fight when it's been confirmed on the Smash Bros. Direct back in April that there's a retro styled Balloon Fight stage?

Hope you are aware that Villager's Up Special is based on Balloon Fight.

Therefore, all that's happening on this picture is nothing more than Villagers using their Up Special (and one of them being the fish's dinner) on the Balloon Fight stage.

Why are people thinking this is a new mini-game or anything like that?

Anyway, I'll just laugh.

No offense, but I find it funny when people start over-thinking things and making absurd conclusions that are far away from reality, but at the same time, it is disappointing.


"Sakurai" and "being explicit" is like an oxymoron. For every explicit comment Sakurai makes, there's probably two or three or four vague comments and/or teases from him.

Well it's only a theory, I definitely see this being just a filler pic on the balloon fight stage as a possibility. That said, there are a couple of reasons I thought that the Balloon Fight game being in might actually be the case. First off, while you're right that Sakurai likes to tease, he generally does only regarding "good news" so to speak. Palutena for example was teased during the Nintendo Direct with that Pseudo-Palutena thing and she ended up playable. Things that weren't teased however were any NPC character Sakurai wanted to show off, Wauigi etc., and Smash Run not being an adventure mode. The only questionable tease that potentially could lead to disappointment I can think of is Ridley, and unless he is confirmed as a boss later my point stands. Anyway, the way Sakurai writes "The all-time classic Balloon Fight returns to the modern age, now playable with four players" definitely could be read as him bringing back the actual game, and I really don't think Sakurai would leave it questionable if people possibly would be disappointed in the long run. I think Sakurai would have added a "isn't this stage interesting?" or something at the end to make it clear had that been the case. The other, and in my opinion more convincing reason is the snippet at the end. "This is only a small piece of this jam-packed game." This statement doesn't make a lot of sense if this is really showing off a stage and nothing more. If you are trying to convince someone a fighting game is "jam packed", you don't show them a stage, those are required in even the most bare-bones of fighting games. You show them extra modes or features. The fact that they are Villagers makes sense too. Since the Villager has the Balloon Trip up-special, it is very easy to simply reuse what is already in the game for a mode like this rather than porting or creating a Balloon Fight character model. Again, I'll give you that there is a possibility this ends up nothing, the picture certainly looks like the stage afterall, but I think it is more likely based on context that it is something more.