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I think his only attack in the anime was Pepper Breath so probably not. The Digimon games change super often as well so I wouldn't be surprised if he had a bunch of made up attacks.If Agumon did get in Smash, wouldn't he take moves exclusively from the anime though?Not arguing against Agumon, it's a serious question.
But Banjo, Crash, and Mametchi are all very humanoid characters though.
Compared to like... quadrupeds, yeah. Compared to Joker, Hero, and the other characters normally tossed around (Doom Slayer, Heihachi, Lloyd, Jill/Leon/Chris, Monster Hunter, Ryu Hayabusa, Phoenix Wright, etc.) not really.
Just out of curiosity I looked up the definition of humanoid and found that there are multiple of them; one that means that they look like a human (which is what I assume you're using, and another (that I hear more often) that just refers to the body type. *shrugs*
Interestingly, despite being the most boring, humans are usually still the most played race in MMOs.
That’s a thought I hadn’t considered. Guilty Gear and BlazeBlue have both had ports on the Switch and are pretty popular within the fighting game scene, even if they aren’t as recognizable outside that sphere. I’m not sure who publishes Guilty Gear now but it was Sega at one point so they may be out. Acksys publishes Blazblue so it may be possible, if still not extremely likely. If Ragna makes it I expect groaning from sword haters.
Both Sol and Ragna would fall victim to that.
Okay good. Guilty Gear has had some rocky rights issues several years ago, so I couldn’t remember who owned what.
Personally, between the two, I'd like Sol better - both because of him as a character and because I feel like Guilty Gear has more interesting "passive mechanics" that could be implemented in Smash. Plus, I'm biased towards GG and its aesthetic, though I like Arcsys games in general.
I generally trust Sakurai's team in the artistic department. They did an excellent job translating Toriyama's artstyle with the Dragon Quest characters, so I think they could do Sol or Ragna justice. I haven't played much of Guilty Gear or Blazblue, but it'd be interesting to see how an Arksys character would be implemented from a gameplay standpoint
I thought this meant there were Pokémon in Mario Kart. Now I'm sad. Mario Kart 8 X Pokémon: Team Turbo would have been one of the greatest crossovers ever.
Probably due to relateability.
I totally forgot about the music. Yeah Guilty Gear music is awesome! I really want Sol Badguy now.
Actually it's very relevant. How a character's series got started is how you define whether or not someone is a video game character. Otherwise you could say Goku is a video game character since Dragonball is also a video game property.
Whatever you say chief.
To be fair, the mechanics of Pokemon are very, very different from other RPGs where you don't catch your party members. For the record, I'd put Shin Megami Tensei in the same category as Pokemon.
Pokemon has more in common with Dragon Quest Monsters and SMT than Digimon. As the Digimon games tend to be pretty much monster rising sims mixed with RPGs mechanics.
Nonetheless, Pokémon games are still JRPGs, while Neopets and Tamagotchi aren't. Some Digimon and Monster Rancher games do have RPG mechanics but they aren't JRPGs first and foremost the way Pokémon games are. Ergo, boxing Pokémon in with those series bothers me, though I hold nothing against any of those other games.
I didn't read that part. Do people group Pokemon, Digimon and Monster Rancher with stuff like Tamagotchi? I haven't seen that.
Tried Digimon Cyber Sleuth?
Some people do, I've seen it in lots of "RPG fan" circles that leave Pokémon out. I know there are plenty of Pokémon fans here who are like me and compare it to other RPGs, but a lot of my current close internet friends look down on Pokémon and group it in with those other series.
I meeeeean that's literally the reason Sonic got in.
That still has the same issues I mentioned, grind for evolutions tends to be annoying due to the times required to devolve and evolve again just to upgrade a stat required to evolve further. Plus a few of the cooler evos tend to be story locked. Dropped it halfway since I got bored.
Still made a landmark in history, that's what people argue about in deservedness anyway like it's an actual important trait to have.
Pretty sure most of those groans would turn to woahs once they realize that Ragna's sword can morph into a freaking scythe.
That's a pretty reductive view of Sonic's huge mark on gaming history.
Tamagotchi maybe. That was a pretty quintessential 90s thing, like beanie babies and furbies. Even though it's not what it used to be, its impact on the culture was a bit more indelible. Digimon was more just a popular property around the turn of the century. There's nothing that remarkable about what it achieved, and its reputation kinda just tapered away. It's not totally gone, but like twenty years post-peak it lacks any edge to set itself apart from a myriad of other candidates.
blessed post of the day
finally some good takes
Reductive view or not that was LITERALLY why people wanted him in the game. People wanted to be able to fight Sonic with Mario and vice versa BECAUSE of the rivalry.
Digimon is iconic, Digimon is not iconic in gaming. Every single 3rd party character we've had so far is a critical darling from a series with a long history or an interesting relationship to Nintendo (Banjo and Bayonetta). Digimon doesn't really have that.
But the Sonic/Mario rivalry is a hell of a lot of deeper than just those two characters. It was the defining trait of marketing for a console generation. Sega vs Nintendo is the historic console rivalry that has never been replicated, even during the 00s console wars (this makes them seem more epic than they were...)
