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Keep in mind though that Sakurai is choosing from characters that Nintendo had preselected. Unless Nintendo suggested KOS-MOS, it's not as simple as, "Namco, you've been so helpful with Smash. Let me add your character as thanks."
Honestly not very trapped considering Monolith and Namco maintain a good relationship and they are given permission to use Xenosaga content whenever they ask for it.
When has Sakurai ever apologize for a mii costume? Also, the XC series mainly suffered from the timing of smash content, Sakurai had legit problems with adding new XC content when it wasn’t even planned.
That's not evidence. There are other legit Copyright claims out there under the claimant of "Nintendo" (One was already posted). Also, Nintendo of America isn't the only branch of Nintendo.
Why do people keep forgetting this despite everything Monolith does with Kosmos?
You literally just made the argument that Nintendo would unsurprisingly had some preselected Namco characters, whether Sakurai wanted to or not.
Thank you! It was so damn annoying they base the thing under one company name, especially since they were addressed as the American branch of Nintendo just by the title.
It's Smash Bros. They can announce whoever, whenever, and it'll top trending on twitter the afternoon or night it happens.
How is Kos-Mos the mascot of Monolith if they don’t own her? How are you sure Sakurai is interested in xenoblade? Why does she make a good “rep” compared to Nightmare or a Tales of character? What connections??
Nono you see Sakurai absolutely wanted a Xenoblade character and cried himself to sleep when he couldn't because of a general PR statement
Nintendo prepared a list of characters they were interested in and asked Sakurai which ones he could make. Sakurai told them which ones he thought he could turn into a fighter, and then Nintendo handled the legalities.
So he’s like that? Why though?
I'd rather have this than having Edelgard in all honestly.
It's gotten to the point that I can't tell if he is either trolling or is ill-informed on such topics.
I'll encourage you all to not lose faith in the possibility of your favorites getting into Smash if it's the last thing I do, Prof. I have a moral obligation to do so since all my most-wanted picks got in, after all.
Especially cause in Three Houses she's Worst Lord. Byleth is a given, Claude isn't really all that workable being a pure bowman, or riding a wyvern, and has the least fleshed out route along with Edelgard.
*Opossum is typing*
Okay but you literally ranked them in the opposite order.
You're looking in a mirror. He got the order right.
They hated him because he told the truth
But that doesn't matter because of meaningless patterns I made up on the fly to justify a character I don't even want.
As much as it makes sense storywise for it not to happen in Smash
Regarding Edelgard, if she were to be playable in Smash, I think it would make much more sense for her Final Smash to stem from the route where she's playable in Three Houses, rather than the routes where she is not.
They wouldn't use this form anyway cause all attacks always keep missing LOLE
I'm more excited for BotW 2, but that's comparing apples to oranges. A brand new game that's a sequel to something I love versus a character who I don't have high expectations for from a game that's already out.
Doubt it'll happen even if we got a Gen 8 Pokemon as a fighter, but I might as well try.
What character hasn't been "leaked" yet?
Good point, was it just DMCV hype or something?
How's that even a hot take? You aren't even saying much about the game other than that it's not for you.
It seems like I’m the only one that feels that way about it. That is why I believe it was a hot take.
They shouldn't have Choice Scarfed Focus Miss.
Eh, while not as big of a spoiler, they did give Corrin their ultimate weapon the Omega Yato and focused on it during their reveal despite Fates only being out around half a year in Japan (and the Revelation DLC even less then that) and the game not even being released in the west at the time. I don't think they'd be against using spoiler content if it added to the gameplay, it's more a question of if they'd feel that element would fit the idea they'd have for the character and how they'd play.
