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Koei-Tecmo is the biggest Japanese third party not yet in Smash and has worked with Nintendo on many occasions, Hayabusa is a classic character with a legacy going back to the NES that appears in all their crossovers, and just as a point of curiosity, they have just posted this to celebrate the anniversary of their modern reboot:
Did I need more adjectives to show the tongue-in-cheek nature of the post or what?
he's likely to be in last character for fighters pass 1 but it's not 100% conformed.
Well, not really, but if he was, he's in a good position where a good amount of people wouldn't really throw a huge fit over him being 1 of the last characters in Smash because of the announcement of more DLC characters after the Fighter Pass. Of course, that won't stop those ******** about it anyways, but it will get a lot of people to warm up on it and like his inclusion to Smash at least.
Yoshimitsu is a mainstay veteran in both Tekken and Soul Calibur
You can argue that there was a similar pre-reveal reception to a Dragon Quest rep prior to the Hero being fully unveiled. For better or worse, the RNG and Command Selection really shut down a lot of naysayers regarding the implementation of a potential moveset.
I hope Ryu Hayabusa is the next DLC fighter he would be another pleasing to me. If that's the case, then I the final results of pleasings to heartbreakers in the first fighters pass would be 4-1.
While I do admit people who say Hayabusa will just be like Greninja or Sheik are extremely ignorant, Hero and Joker had great trailers and people still complain saying they're clones of other characters, or how niche they are.
Hah! I'm sure they would!
I mean...he does.
You weren't. Technos owned it. But ArcSys bought Technos a few years ago.
Kunio is still the better pick. While Double Dragon was bigger in NA, Kunio has a much more varied and fun moveset, he has WAY more games(though, a lot of them didn't get NA releases), and the River City games are also just better than the Double Dragon games.
You can still get that with Kunio, as that theme regularly shows up in the River City games.
They are identical in almost all of their games, so an Alt would seem more likely.
It's funny, because the original Smash Bros. had the proximity mine from GoldenEye in it. But the mine was redesigned in later games to remove the reference.
In the West. It's definitely not the more popular one in Japan.
Well, Kunio and Riki traditionally play the same in a lot of their games, so I could see him as an alt/echo. But Kyoko and Misako have completely different moves than Kunio and Riki, so I'm not sure they'd do that.
That would be fun, but you know they go protags first.
I think it comes down to who Nintendo wants more. And River City has a much bigger history with Nintendo, stretching from the NES, to today.
Just for context to those who haven't seen it, that was for DoA 6 with Momiji being announced for DLC.
Oh yeah it can definitely work. A good enough trailer can make people get behind a character. He's got a lot of sick looking moves that'd work well in Smash, and if the Izuna Drop, Art of the Inferno, Flying Swallow, and Obliteration Technique are in his moveset, they'd have to show off how sick they look in Smash.
If history with Nintendo was a major factor, we would have most likely gotten a mainline SMT rep instead of a Persona rep. And Sol is basically the face of ArcSys like Terry is to SNK; if we're getting an ArcSys rep, Sol is getting in first.
No. A lot more lines up with the Doom Slayer/Doom Guy over Hayabusa in terms of the events happening this year. That's not to say Hayabusa doesn't have a chance, but I am much, much more confident in Doom getting a rep over Hayabusa.
You say that, but at the point Mega Man got into Smash, he was at, like, his lowest point in Capcom's history.
and... still the mascot character of Capcom.
This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life.
Doesn't matter. Sonic 06 and Sonic Unleashed didn't stop Sonic from being the face of Sega, and even if his series ain't doing well now, Sega will still keep him as the face of the company.
Look dude. I read the post, took it at face value, and responded as such. Internet text is bad at conveying tone. Multiple other people took the post at face value, so I don't understand why you singled me out but whatever. No hard feelings here.
I just wanted to make sure it was clear since I know how seriously you take this stuff!
DQXI was soft announced for Switch back in 2015 (First Switch game announced in fact). It was formerly announced sometime before the February direct (Not sure when). Hero was Announced in June and released at the end of July. DQXIS will be released near the end of this month. Note that none of these dates line up with each other, which is my point. Yes, DQXI info was given immediately following his Smash announcement, but besides a date, it really had no new info (besides a release date) as it was a re-airing of the trailer SE aired the night before.
To be honest I don't take any of this all that seriously. At the end of the day we're speculating which characters will get into funny fighting party game. Compared to many things in my life, this isn't serious at all.
That honestly sounds like my worst nightmare. A manifesto on how to speculate properly? No thank you.
I feel like jumping on this too..
I’m just down for more of your essays in whatever form we can get them lol.
Because Hero's was uploaded as a video and not a stream and if i'm correct we don't usually get videos leaked ahead of time right? Still though Banjo's case was curious since it was technically apart of the direct.
PizzaDudeManGuy made a fantastic moveset video for The Prince that translates the Katamari gameplay very nicely and makes for a very unique gimmick as well! His Katamari would always be in front of him as well, making for a very interesting hitbox. It seems like the kind of unusual character design that Sakurai would love to tackle.
Richter, Chrom, Dark Samus didn't get leaked. Though allegedly K. Rool was floating around, just from unreliable sources.
I'll check it out then!
Wasn't the rough draft to K. Rool's trailer leaked? Something about a "heroes vs. villains" theme.
Heroes vs Villains was around for a while. First cropping up from a cryptic imgur leak. loz18 also mentioned something about Heroes vs Villains. It's too vague to really say it was leaked, imo.
I disagree. One can enjoy debating for the sake of it, even if it doesn't change anything.
It's characters like The Prince that kinda make me miss the more Wild West days of base roster speculation haha. Because you're right, a Katamari Damacy rep would be such a Sakurai pick. Something so out of left field, not necessarily a character that anyone was clamoring for, but would end up being a completely unique and fun character anyway.
He's probably the easiest to place a bet on right now, given history with Nintendo/rumors, but is nowhere near definite. If IamShifty wasn't still adamant after the SNK leak + Verg initially claiming Hero as CP1, there wouldn't be much steam in the bubble that is the Smash community.
Only after the SNK Leak happened, though before anything was confirmed at that point.
