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This was a well put together video but I felt his choices seemed a bit too... Safe?
I can kinda see it, 2 Sakura's with their regular clothes having 2 colors and their combat suits having 2 colors.
This is exactly what I had in mind.
Seems easy to me, honestly. She can also be represented better with moveset changes aesthetically. So I can see it happening pretty easily.
I don't know enough about Splatoon and my best of knowledge is that they look extremely similar, but then Dark Pit exists, so.
This is a really well done video and I agree with some of the points he makes. The two picks I disagree with however are Akira and Ring Fit Trainee, their spirits were released after the announcement of season 2 which probably means the team has no plans on making them a playable fighter, timing isn't in their favor. Gen 8 might also fall in this line but the fact that it was released as promotional spirits for the release of the game makes it a unique situation compared to Astral Chain and Ring Fit adventure, whose spirits released months after their games released.
Probably a Hero situation.
Most likely to promote the new game, I'd personally prefer her as the main alt though
Have the American team play Mario bros 3 because they are both from New york.
To be fair, "safe" is another way of saying "easy to see". If we're discussing characters who we think have the best chance of being added, we probably wouldn't start with characters who aren't considered "safe".
She was literally coded as a Costume in the first place. That was her plan in the game, to play identically to him.
I skipped through it, and I don't get why post-release spirits would be on the table but ATs get ignored.
Who else could it be honestly, I struggle to think of who it could be that's THAT similar to Joker.
No, I'm sure it was her, don't get me wrong.
It was never confirmed. I do remember something about data for hair being found in the files, but that was likely for Ann during Joker's final Smash.
Specifically, it was a bone for a ponytail for Jane, and Kasumi was shown to have one.
Actually, Vaanrose pointed it out it strictly in the costume data for Joker's alts. So it was costume or nothing.
Here's the thing, we don't know if JANE is her.
That's missing the entire point. If(key term being if) Jane was Kasumi, that means she's entirely believable as an Echo. That's literally all it means. Not that an Echo is coming for sure. That'd be one way to reuse the costume data, yes. You could also use it for a Kasumi Hat as a Mii costume too.
Weird. I actually thought it was because they didn't want Kasumi to debut outside of their own series so renegotiated instead, and then put it as an Echo or Mii Costume so they can reuse the costume data that they already approved of. Or even a later semi-clone/clone.
You mean why Red and Eleven specifically were chosen? Pokémon Trainer and Hero are the protagonist of literally every main entry in the series, so I don't think the most recent games would effect them as character choices.*
Well, no. You could have costumes of any trainer as long as Red's costume was the base and it'd work fine. It's just important that the first one is a Gen 1-type costume to get the idea down. Besides, you can get Gen 1 Pokemon in every game up to PT's original debut, so you could have proper ones of Gold, Silver, Crystal, Leaf, etc. It's more that it required a lot more model work to do that, so purely textures is easier. All PT got was a Leaf model change but nothing else beyond texture changes again. Little changed besides technically costume cuts.
My disclaimer statement was assuming that Red (or Leaf) wasn't the trainer chosen in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I believe we'd still have a Pokémon Trainer in that scenario. Same thing with Hero even if Dragon Quest XI wasn't a thing yet.
Oh, sorry, I missed that part. Yeah, Red's design was a given if they used Gen 1 Pokemon. No contest. If they used, say, Gen 3 Pokemon, then Ruby and Sapphire would be the defaults, or just Ruby(I think that's the Male?). I think we'd have seen other models, maybe, like in Ultimate, but who knows. Though at the time, Red was the only canon Gen 1 protagonist as well. Leaf was retcon'd in, but worth noting that it's possible they didn't decide FR/LG was a new canon yet. Maybe TPC just didn't think it was a good idea at the time.
If anything crow would work much better as an echo fighter (although he would need a ton of changes like Ken.)
Gen III's protagonists aren't named after the games. Its protagonists' names are Brendan (male) and May (female).
Unless you read the superior Pokemon Adventures manga that is.
Actually, they are in some Mangas. The colored names also exist from what I remember as an official thing. So that's not entirely true.
The manga seem to play fast and loose with the protagonist names, such as with Lucas being called Diamond and Hereta in two different series. I don't think these names are cannon in regards to the games.
Pokemon generally went with some colored names at first. It makes some sense for Mangas to work with that.
I like the explanation for this in the BW2 manga, where the game name was just a codename for the male protagonist.
Yeah, the Pokémon Adventures manga is a serialized thing, so it would make sense that they would go into production before the characters' official names are picked.
Yep. It's insane.
To Answer your Question, I think in terms of what characters have more factors going in their favor, I would say
While such port/remakes are available in the general time frame, I feel like Charizard/Squirtle being added and Dragon Quest being added to Smash didn't exactly require those entries to exist. I don't think the character began with the existence of those ports, and hell, Dragon Quest was the idea generally speaking and not Eleven himself, they just settled on Eleven as the first alt with the stage.
I'm just gonna shill Protoman for a potential Echo. Cause he's pretty cool, and has a handful of gimmicks from MM9 and MM10 to reference in establishing differences between him and Mega Man.
