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Definitely the Chosen Undead from Dark Souls. Like when talking about Namco reps, the Tales of series is always brought up, KOS MOS usually has one or two people mention them, Digimon usually gets a mention and Nightmare is probably the second most brought up now a days, yet I have seen literally no one include the Chosen Undead in discussion. For me this is mind blowing, just because of how influential Dark Souls as a whole has been on the gaming industry and how famous the series is. If I were to put bets on a Namco rep, I think it would probably be between a Tales rep and Dark Souls.
I believe that would make her not a sleeper pick rather than a dark horse. At least, I think that's the definition.
Depending on that definition, yeah I’d say she’s a dark horse
Saber from Fate. she is from one of the largest franchises in japan and it even has decent popularity in the west.
I've heard her name tossed around a couple times. I also hear the series is somewhat screwy and hard to keep track of, but I could be misinterpreting some things. Could someone give me a quick rundown of the whole thing?
Agumon, Doom Slayer(only cause there's two interviews, and it's unclear the exact details of what the second interview is referring to when talking about "talks that Doom Slayer isn't happening", which could be either the original interview only referring to Pass 1 in context, or a later one we don't know about. I treat him as a gray area of disconfirmation with the two interviews existing), Sakura(I forget her last name, from Sakura Wars), anybody Microsoft that isn't Steve or Master Chief, Klonoa, The Prince(Katamari Darmacy), Prince of Persia, any Resident Evil character.
Fate/Stay night was the first to release and it was a visual novel, The anime came out and gave it a big boost in popularity and that has many spin offs like Fate/Zero. Games continued to release culminating with the release of Fate/Grand Order which continues to be one of the biggest mobile games of all time. and games are still being made and even localized
I guess Arle and Ezio are sleeper picks to my mind so far.
However, if a character can be talked about outside NDA, that creates the assumption that there's no NDA around that character.
Not that the franchise has ever huge in the States, nor is it necessarily on the hottest streak now, but I always thought someone from Yo-kai Watch like Jibanyan had a decent chance. At the very least its the kind of plausible (albeit likely underwhelming to many) release I could see happening.
It's amazing that there's people at all that deny the Prime series is a FPS.
Oh boy... Alright, here's a bit of a rundown:
I have a lot of dark horse pick for this Pass, but I feel like I am going to be repeating myself often, if I mention them again. So I limit my choice with the one that sort of caught my interest right now.
They could've, but we also have to take into consideration that they aren't lying. While it is true that we had a case like Grant Kirkhope where he gave a pretty cheeky answer with his 'I wouldn't hold your breath' comment, we also have cases like Erica Lindbeck (Celica), Skye Bennett (Pyra), and Hideo Kojima (Snake in Smash 4), Kosube Yabuki (ARMs with base Ultimate) and Kenji Inafune (Mega Man with Brawl) where they're being completely genuine when they say that they haven't heard anything. So if the developers in that interview are saying 'we tried, but it didn't work out', then it's something that should be kept in mind when speculating about the character as they can be telling the truth about them.
also cristina vee had to shut down speculation for her new voice role cause people thought it was Shantae for smash. surprise it was actually fortnite
There were also people who thought it'd be Edelgard. This is before knowing the final game would replace her with Tara Platt, in case you're wondering.
Washington Post reported on Waluigi's disconfirmation - with the article comparing him to Daisy's inclusion:
And WaPo's one of the most famous newspapers / sites around, so that article got at least some attention / spread.
He's 50 now! What a career.
Agumon, Scorpion or Sub-Zero, a Bravely Default character.
Sol badguy
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Sol's indeed a ****ing fantastic choice but a darkhorse is a character who's unexpected or surprising, Sol gets frequent discussion on this thread to the point all the regulars here who never touched an ArcSys game at least know who Sol is, I personally don't think darkhorse would be the right term for him anymoreSol badguy
seriously y’all are sleeping on a big deal here when it comes to moveset & content
there’s even a 2 part thread somewhere in this site which has stuff he could bring to smash
am I right
Isaac's outcry was still pretty big, maybe not news worthy because Isaac isn't a meme. I think the worst part was leaving it to the very last direct to tell us he was an assist trophy, after all the incorrect speculation had been built up. It hurt.
Dante would be cool, the Monster Hunter costume looks like Sin Devil Trigger Dante anyway and it'd go with a Capcom rep.
James Bond.
this is... an actual line
I don't know about the dark horse thing. If I'm remembering right, the entire idea behind the term is that nobody knows the entity, and so betting on it (in actual horse racing) could go either way. The horse could have the best or the worst shot at winning. Nobody knows. In Smash, we'd be talking about an IP nobody knows about: either something new or an old obscure property that we don't know is going to get a big push. The other way to define it would be that an existing character's chances of happening are incredibly ambiguous, but that covers just about every character under the sun.
Layton and Sora
