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One more reason for the rule to get broken honestly. It dulls speculation.
Admittedly, I don't really know a ton about Fatal Frame. However, to my understanding, the series is somewhere between Resident Evil's B-movie monsters made by comic book villains and Silent Hill's horrific killers born from the psychological fears of its characters in terms of horror. As such, I think it could work, where Smash just sort of skims over the darker elements of the locations and ghosts. I would say it's on the verge of being too dark to fit Smash and could either pass that line or step away from it based on which elements are emphasized.
Speculation is always going to create nonsense rules. It's our job to not propagate that they are rules at all. Just stupidity.
I would also throw Waluigi and Lloyd up there too. Also I'd replace geno with Waluigi.
I'd replace Geno with Waluigi otherwise I agree
You know, thay could feasibly work for the base game. I was thinking in that case, he'd be based off his Gaiden counterpart.
Dr. Wily or riot
A obvious win for Waluigi.
I'm putting all my chips on my boy Alucard
At AT promotion would be pretty cool. I think it would be the last "fan rule" to be "broken." The top two in my mind is Waluigi and Isaac, just personal choice. Waluigi because he's been shafted so much, especially since Daisy has been included on the roster and Waluigi is the last "humanoid" of the Mario series and just feels about time for him. Isaac on the other hand, albeit Golden Sun in general, needs some love. Critically acclaimed game and would be nice to add an additional series to the rooster. I'm rooting for either or both of those two.
Adding Elma at this point in time would be like adding a Gen 6 Pokémon as Ultimate DLC. Franchises like Pokémon and Fire Emblem always base their character on the most recent stars from the most recent entries. I COULD have seen Elma back in the base game since Smash's Ult Development started around 2015/2016, but now that we know that Sakurai went Straight to Rex (as in, he actually seems to have consider him for the base roster) makes me believe that Elma simply got skipped entirely. She is in the same position as Gen 3 and 5 Pokémon now (too early for Smash Base roster, too late and too much of old news for DLC or Next entry). I firmly believe it's more likely that we get no Xenoblade newcomer in Smash than Elma joining in. and no, i don't think an hypothetical Xeno X port would help at all. We didn't get Alm/Celica despite the Echoes remake, we didn't get Skull Kid despite the MM remake on 3DS (which was released and was in development close to Smash Ult's beggining of development) etc.
"Waluigi can't fill out a challenger pack without scraping the bottom of the barrel" vs. "It has to be Waluigi because of his demand" will be the new "It can't be Spring Man because of his AT" vs. "It has to be Spring Man because he's the face".
Do you think all series are likely to follow that pattern, or do you think Xenoblade is similar to them in some relevant way?
Xenoblade has a revolving cast like Pokemon and Fire Emblem.
Except that the chances that Elma is gonna get the starring role in a future Xenoblade game is pretty good. X ended on a cliffhanger and with many open questions, so that a direct sequel has good chances of happening eventually. Picking her would be a future-proof choice. Contrast that with Fire Emblem and Pokémon games, which pretty much never get direct sequels, and only have past characters return to prominence via remakes.
In my eyes, Waluigi is one of the most likely characters. He'd fill the role Banjo did (a popular request added to appeal to the core fanbase).
If ya'll weren't cowards we could have gotten Alolan Exeggutor.
Dont worry- as soon as one fan rule is broken, two more emerge to take their place.
this is how staryu wins.
Only video game characters are allowed. No movie/anime/cartoon/comic characters.
Team Eevee!!!
Nah fam. A guessing game of the next character but doesn't tell what series it is. The ****storm that would stir.
Xenoblade only has three games.
No, they would be able to reach the ledge from anywhere.
“Fan rules” does make these concepts that merely affect probability seem more black-and-white, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that some people do genuinely think that certain aspects of a character are hard limits, or diminish chance to such a scale they are seen as unviable options. I don’t think changing the term for it changes that mindset.
I like you.
Lora & Jin is the best Xenoblade option we could get but people aren't prepared for that conversation.
I think horror games could and should have more representation. I won't deny that a playable character could be somewhat problematic, specially for IPs beyond Resident Evil.
Right, but tbf the evidence for that concept has lead to no reason to doubt it so far, until ARMS came in with its uniquely ensemble cast.
