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Good to know. (well, not good to know that he has no personality, but good to know that it's not a spoiler - I was concerned that there'd be some dramatic moment involving a door, or he becomes fused to a door, or something like that)
Yeah right...right when they just extended quarantine in my place for the THIRD TIME.
I don't take jokes. I take them seriously.
One idea I just thought of is that some of their special attacks would make their staff weapon separate from them (with the actual attacks being dependent on your custom special choices.) The separated, levitating staff could act as a stage control trap until it is recalled, and the state of being separated would change Mii Mage’s normals (mainly to have less range, since they’d cast magic from their bare hands rather than from the tip of the staff, which would change their spacing game significantly since it’d allow them to fight at point-blank more efficiently.) The attacks would have very similar animations, but the magical explosions or whatever would occur closer to their body.
About as functionally identical as swords are to fists.
It's because there's about a million wizards in video games, which could get representation as a Mii costume.
Depends on the spell.
Rex. Xenoblade 2 is far more recent so it give it a leg up. Also, easier to upgrade a costume than an assist trophy.
Waluigi's popularity was something that arose after the roster was decided, so he was never in the running, per say. Now it's a different story as these characters were chosen after Ultimate's release.
Cosmic77
said it well already. Geno, to me, feels like a Sans situation. They know he's popular but they would never add him as a full fledged character likely due to his limited exposure. Also, Sakurai talked a big game about wanting Geno but that really hasn't come to pass. Geno fans bring this up but despite Sakurai saying he'd like to add him, he didn't when given the chance. I think Geno is something Sakurai has passed by.
For now, Rex. Dude really benefits from Sakurai apparently going back on ideas he couldn't get into basegame, he's highly popular worldwide, Xenoblade 2 can still benefit from a late promotion and apparently they're adding links to it in Xenoblade DE.
Good to see some things never change.
Waluigi was popular long before 2015, what are you on about?Rex. Xenoblade 2 is far more recent so it give it a leg up. Also, easier to upgrade a costume than an assist trophy.
Waluigi's popularity was something that arose after the roster was decided, so he was never in the running, per say. Now it's a different story as these characters were chosen after Ultimate's release.
I think
All great points.
Rex, he's pretty much the only upgrade I see as plausible aside from Geno or Waluigi. I'm only really expecting 2 upgrades, maaaybe 3, and I'm expecting all of them to front end the pass. It just makes the most sense, the first party characters are easiest to work with rights wise and even for someone like Geno he's already in the game and Square is already onboard with Smash so he'd come sooner rather than later. It's a question of whether Nintendo sees value in promoting Xenoblade 2, it seems like they've already chosen to attempt to revitalize ARMS as a franchise and it DID sell better, so I'm not really sure. With Sakurai I would be all in on it no doubt, with Nintendo? It's a coinflip.
Rex simply on grounds from being a franchise that is actually showing signs of life and feels like its only or two more games away from being in the same tier Fire Emblem terms of Nintendo's major franchises
Well first off, current Mii Swordfighter costumes for Ashley, Lip, Veronica and Viridi would almost certainly be shifted over to the Mage.
You can say the exact same thing about Banjo, Microsoft owns more popular and relevant characters like Chief or Steve, and its remarkably clear Microsoft really has no interest in doing anything related to Banjo as a franchise. And yet, they still chose to put him in over them solely because of how requested he was.
That's an interesting take... I wonder if theyd actually shift them over.
No need to be rude, they clearly didn't know you don't like jokes and didn't mean it in a harmful way. All you had to do was just tell them you don't appreciate the joke, and move on.
Difference is that Banjo is a main character in several high profile games most of which sold pretty well worldwide with a cult following that is still pretty strong to this day. While Geno is mainly just a party member from a franchise that already has loads of representation in Smash and a bunch of more well known characters that aren't playable in Smash like Waluigi, Pauline, King Boo, Toadette, Kamek. Not to mention already has 1 DLC character which could make Nintendo less incline to purpose another Mario character especially one who they don't even own the rights to while the company who does owns multiple major series that have had more games on Nintendo hardware then games Geno has been in general.
Toadette but not Toad? Curious.
I don't see why it has to be one or the other considering we got two (debatably three) "anime swordsman" characters in the last fighters pass, and they're very different characters outside of both being a part of that archetype.
Actually, the fact they continue to advertise him via Rare Replay is doing something.
That's not even a major difference like it matters.
It's a decent moveset that combines Axel's moveset with other characters in the game but I'm not a big fan of that since it just misrepresents the character. Axel isn't acrobatic like Skate or Blaze so him doing backflips wouldn't make sense for him. While I'd prefer Axel to use his own moves, I understand that would cause him to lose half of his moveset from this and there would be no other moves to take inspiration from since Axel does have a limited amount of moves to use in the games.
I gotta disagree. Sakurai has clearly had Geno on his mind recently. He's mentioned him by name several times and has expressed interest in the character. Geno even got a Mii Costume in Smash 4 that is eerily missing (similar to the Bandai-Namco Mii Costumes possibly hinting at
Mario RPG has always seemed more like a 50/50 in rights to me? I don't know, its weird. Square for whatever reason never released any of their Wii U virtual console games outside of Japan, save for Super Mario RPG, Tactics Advance, and Ogre Battle 64, all games in which Nintendo had some role in publishing. So they atleast have some control over what gets done with it.
The last one was actually Rex, so that doesn't really support your argument. Unless they still add him in this pass.
I doubt that. There's too much unique stuff that SE created themselves. More than half of it is clearly original characters. It has homages to Nintendo characters too, of course. The moles, for instance, are obviously based upon Monty Mole, but still unique. Chained Kong is a more obvious knock-off design in comparison to that.
A lot of people are making the mistake of attributing Geno's chances of getting in to Sakurai mentioning his popularity, but that wrong. Sakurai isn't calling the shots anymore; Nintendo is. Despite the Mii costume and all the good things Sakurai said about Geno, he failed to include him in the base roster.
For an unknown reason. Sakurai never spoke on it either. Hero was possibly higher priority for him.
Is he though? Mario RPG didn't release in Europe until 2008, I am not even sure if its the best selling Mario RPG or even the best selling game Square made during the SNES era (granted its kind of hard to say if its or not since reliable sales data on SNES/Genesis era games is very hard to find) Even then the only kind of data I could find on its sales numbers puts it around 2.14 million which while great does put behind titles like FF5 (2.45 million) and FF6 (3.42 million) if VGChartz sales is even remotely reliable.
Pretty sure Nintendo is still keeping an eye on the Ballot even this late in the game.
I actually think they aren't looking at it anymore, when you consider the following.
Yes, yes he did. Super Mario RPG is one of the biggest games in gaming history. ...You know, Europe aside. But it completely influenced every Mario RPG to come. Though you can be a big game but still not have the great sales ever or be the most known. Killer Instinct is a very important game in gaming history, creating the idea of combo breaker, actually being the first game where Combos are a mechanic, not a glitch, but few care about the combo breaker, and people still think Street Fighter defined combos. A lot of games don't actually get the proper credit either way.
So pretty much most of Banjo's support too for Smash. It was only pretty much within the Smash fandom. People also wanted it remade... just like SMRPG, but those include non-Smash fans too.
You make it sound like Banjo-Kazooie wasn't in the same boat. Almost all of it was from N64 fans, not people who enjoyed more of the franchise. It's all about "Nintendo roots" in the Smash fandom. SMRPG isn't any different.
