Third Party characters. As you may know, I am not a fan. Nooooope. No how, no way. I am, however, into ONE way of including them. And that way is this. Five. No more. No less. FIVE of them. The five being, from the BIG FIVE (I'm coining this term). SEGA, Konami, Square Enix, Namco, and Capcom. And this is what the roster would look like:
Sonic (No one else. SEGA has no one else who can trump him)
Snake / Bomberman (Bombs is by ALL LOGIC a smarter addition to a Nintendo game than Snake, but Snake made it in, so... I'm just giving pointing out this option)
Megaman / Ryu (Someone is going to cry if we don't get Megaman, and I don't care. Ryu is a great choice. Don't make me goes salesy on your ***. We would get Chris or Jill if I did. Anyways, Ryu is a good choice, and so is Megaman, either would be dandy)
Black Mage / Slime (No Sora, and screw Cloud. We could go with Chocobo, but I think BMage is much more iconic, as is FF in general)
Pac-Man (I wanna put Nightmare on here, but I know better. Let it be known though, I love me some SC)
Boom. That's how I wanna see third parties done. No Ubisoft, no Level-5 none of dem. I want my big five, and that's it.
And I edited it Yani