Official Newcomer/DLC Speculation Discussion

[DrifloonEmpire]

Since everyone else is doing it, gonna go over my own top 10 and most wanted/least wanted newcomers, some are third party but a couple were pipe dreams until pretty recently.

Prince of All Cosmos (Pac Man's Up Taunt, Doesn't deconfirm judging by Chrom and speculation for Heihachi), The Last Dragonborn (MIA), Quote (MIA), Crash Bandicoot (MIA), Louie (Spirit), Dixie Kong (Spirit), King K. Rool (CONFIRMED), New Animal Crossing Rep (CONFIRMED, Isabelle), Banjo & Kazooie (CONFIRMED), Dr Robotnik/Eggman (Spirit)


Top 5 Most Wanted 3rd Party:

Prince of All Cosmos (Katamari)
The Last Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls)
Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)
Quote (Cave Story)
Dr Eggman/Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Honorable Mentions: Gex, Tails, Knuckles, Aiai, Chosen Undead, Phoenix Wright, Shantae, Gandhi, Spyro the Dragon, an Idolm@ster rep.


Top 5 Most Wanted 1st Party:

Louie (Pikmin)
Infernape (Pokemon)
Dixie Kong (Donkey Kong)
Waluigi (Mario)
Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby)

Honorable Mentions: BoTW Champions, Ruto, Skull Kid, Toad, Geno, Gothitelle, Krystal, Kiawe, Faba.


Top 5 I would rather not see:

Byleth/Edelgard (Fire Emblem)
2B (Nier Automata)
Heavy (Team Fortress)
Frisk (Undertale; Would rather see an indie with a longer legacy be the first indie rep)
Lloyd Irving (Tales of; I don't dislike the character and I know he has a lot of demand, it's mainly due to my lack of interest in JRPGs and he's major competition for my most wanted 3rd party).

 

[Mr. Game + Watch]

Geno fits this bill perfectly.

Especially as a free one.

There's also Waluigi.

Geno or waluigi would be cool but what i meant is a character that isn't a unique person just one of a multitude of itself like yoshi or pirhanna plant. (Goomba or a koopa troopa or a slime from dragon quest)

 

[KatKit]

One thing to note in the soul series is that Mitsurugi and Sophitia kind of share the role of posterboy and postergirl of the series. Remember than when VI was revealed, the first two reveals were them.

It's quite interesting, as when looking at it, there's not much consistency in regards to which Soul Calibur character appears in the crossovers. Taki and Mitsurugi appeared in Namco x Capcom, Natsu from V appears in Project X Zone, Sophitia like your video shows appeared in Warriors Orochi and Siegfried/Nightmare are kinda the leads in the spinoffs (Legends) or costumes (Little Big Planet).

Yeah, I remember the reveal trailer and gameplay showcase trailers. They also made them practice dummies for the Kilik, Nightmare, Groh, and Xianghua reveals, too. Aside from SC6, they also tend to use different Sophitia stage themes for trailers lol.

Being the wandering swordsman seeking strength type, I can see Mitsurugi getting in; dude is like Soul Calibur's equivalent to Ryu. Gameplay-wise, Sophitia fills that trope; throughout the series, we've had 4 different characters with movesets based off of her (Cass, Lizardman, Pat, and Pyrrha) and one that was planned but scrapped: Azola (who later made an appearance in SC4). Heck, even the Charades in Namco x Capcom had her moveset.

They also put Astaroth in a Namco equivalent of Mario Party lol.

 

[osby]

Geno or waluigi would be cool but what i meant is a character that isn't a unique person just one of a multitude of itself like yoshi or pirhanna plant. (Goomba or a koopa troopa or a slime from dragon quest)

Jack Frost is the only right answer.

 

[KatKit]

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

Anna.

Jack Frost is the only right answer.

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Loopholes, baby! (Yes, I know that's actually Ja'aku Frost, but let me have this)

 

[DrifloonEmpire]

They also put Astaroth in a Namco equivalent of Mario Party lol.

Wasn't Heihachi in that as well? Pac Man Fever was a weird game. xP

 

[Evil Trapezium]

It was grouped with the playable character logos, not the stages. The cut Brain Age logo, however, was grouped with the stages.

The Chorus Kids were absolutely going to be playable at some point, between the logo, Gematsu, and the Sneaky Spirits.

Where can I find these? I've looked them up on the cutting room floor and I couldn't find anything related to the picture of the logos.

 

[DarthEnderX]

You're kidding me? I've got an empty spot on my spirit board collection and you're telling me there is no way to fix it because I didn't play a demo of a game that I had no interest in playing? That is pretty messed up Nintendo.

I'm sure it'll be added into the regular Spirit Board rotation in a couple months the way the Pokemon Let's Go spirits and the Labo spirits were.

This really sucks, I greatly enjoyed the Mario & Luigi games.. so filled with potential. Their way of portraying the Mario cast was better than 90% of Nintendo's own work. It's a shame it had to be this way....

I was really hoping that, now that their console and portable systems were the same console, that the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series would get made into one series.

Not a crossover game like Paper Jam. But a game that was just Mario & Luigi gameplay/writing, combined with Paper Mario's art style.

I mean, Nightmare also wields the Soul Calibur, the thing the series is called.

Nightmare wields the Soul Edge, not the Soul Calibur. They're two different, opposite, magic swords.

 

[Opossum]

Where can I find these? I've looked them up on the cutting room floor and I couldn't find anything related to the picture of the logos.

Sadly the logos themselves never got included. Instead what were found were text strings relating to them. This probably isn't the correct format, but it was things like logo_mario.png, logo_dk.png, etc. Logo_rhythmparadise.png or the equivalent was listed, but because the logo was never made, the file was empty.

 

[SpectreJordan]

Ive ben doing some thinking about the Ryu Hayabusa claim from iamshifty

I’m starting to think he was right all along

Because remember back in smash 4 a guy was on a hot streak in smash 4 and he claimed shulk was next but ended up being robin instead we’ll later down the line despite that he was still right about shulk in smash as a matter of fact all of his claims were right some were just cut

Ryu Hayabusa might be the same case which is he may have gotten the character 4 wrong but ryu could be character 5 of wave 1 or part of wave 2 (the info was right just not on him being next)

Either way, I think he’s very likely. I think Sakurai wants to represent every major Japanese company, Koei Tecmo is next up.

 

[yeet123]

Its been locked before, dude, as did the ones before this along with the ones for Smash Wii U/3DS before them..if a thread goes off-topic, it is at risk to be locked..at the very least, a moderator would hop in to tell everyone to get back on topic..
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scared of the boogie man ass boi

That guy was the gematsu leaker, he was more credible though, he leaked villager and wii fit before the first E3 reveal and other things, and someone else later on heard that Shulk was playable along with B jr. on a kart. Unlike the Gematsu dude'claim and Vergeben's leak about SQ dlc only Shifty has heard about Ryu being the dlc character. I'd wouldn't consider Ryu the next character just yet unless someone like VR, sabi, or Vergeben say it's him, there's too many characters that are still eligible.

Another factor is that Ryu recently got added to a game with Ultimate in the title. This was in a PapaGenos vid, but I cant remember the title. There's a possibility that Shifty misinterpreted his info

EDIT: Ryu was added to Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate

 

[Rie Sonomura]

scared of the boogie man *** boi


Another factor is that Ryu recently got added to a game with Ultimate in the title. This was in a PapaGenos vid, but I cant remember the title. There's a possibility that Shifty misinterpreted his info

EDIT: Ryu was added to Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate

Ironically, Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate is a PlayStation 4 game. Not that it will bar him or anything but something interesting to point out

 

[YoshiandToad]

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

My pick would be a knight from zelda series based mainly on the knights enemies in link to the past

The obvious answer for me is, rather predictably; Toad. There's a couple of things I think he has going for him:

• His assets are already in the game with dynamic facial animations and a few varied attacks ready made saving Sakurai some time. Perfect for a bonus character.
• Seeing him alongside other members of his species is nothing new so it's not as weird as double Chrom
• He can bring a bunch of bonus BONUS characters with a Toadette, a Captain Toad alt, Blue and Yellow Toad and even a Toadsworth alt. Decent amount of alt options with even regular recolours counting as characters in New Super Mario Bros.
• He's a character even non fans have agreed finding it odd he hasn't appeared as a playable fighter yet being the most universally recognised character Nintendo has that isn't playable in Smash.

That said kudos to the person who suggested Anna. She'd probably be my second choice depending on which weapons she uses even if it feels weird refering to her as a regular ally like Yoshi, Toad or a Pokémon.

 

[DrifloonEmpire]

scared of the boogie man *** boi


Another factor is that Ryu recently got added to a game with Ultimate in the title. This was in a PapaGenos vid, but I cant remember the title. There's a possibility that Shifty misinterpreted his info

EDIT: Ryu was added to Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate

When I first saw the Ryu reveal tweet for Warriors of Orochi 4 I had the same thoughts. Likely Shifty's source heard a combination of Ryu Hayabusa and Ultimate, put two and two together, and made an incorrect assumption.

 

[RealLuigisWearPink]

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

My pick would be a knight from zelda series based mainly on the knights enemies in link to the past

Fighting Polygon would be bizarre but also hilarious call back

 

[TheCJBrine]

I'll fess up, I'm certainly punchy at times with my jokes. Most of the time I make fun of points more so than people. While I acknowledge that can still hurt, it really is nothing personal. I acknowledge this could be seen as a fault though and I'm working on finding a good balance between joking and being serious.

Oh, I meant speculation in general; I thought that was what you were talking about. No need to apologize for anything.

Like: “no, your character sucks and they’ll never be in MY big boy Smashing Fighters game!” / people who treat their opinions as facts.

 

[Impa4Smash]

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

My pick would be a knight from zelda series based mainly on the knights enemies in link to the past

I’d have to go with Kamek. It’s hard to distinguish him from any old magikoopa so it could work. It would be fun to have a mage/caster character, and Sakurai could get creative with it like with PP.

Plus, the Yoshi series would get another character, and another OG 64 character would get their villain playable.

 

[SirCamp]

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

My pick would be a knight from zelda series based mainly on the knights enemies in link to the past

I don’t particularly want this since I’d rather have specific characters for the most part, but it’s an interesting question. And I feel like there are quite a few I’d be okay with.

Personally I would go with one of these:

Shy Guy
Kamek/Magikoopa
Slime
Moblin
Black Mage
Mochi or Suezo

 

[Deleted member]

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

My pick would be a knight from zelda series based mainly on the knights enemies in link to the past

The Baby Metroid from Super Metroid.

 

[SNEKeater]

Jack Frost is the only right answer.

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He should have appeared with Joker, at least as a spirit.

 

[Aetheri]

Since everyone else is doing it, gonna go over my own top 10 and most wanted/least wanted newcomers, some are third party but a couple were pipe dreams until pretty recently.

Prince of All Cosmos (Pac Man's Up Taunt, Doesn't deconfirm judging by Chrom and speculation for Heihachi), The Last Dragonborn (MIA), Quote (MIA), Crash Bandicoot (MIA), Louie (Spirit), Dixie Kong (Spirit), King K. Rool (CONFIRMED), New Animal Crossing Rep (CONFIRMED, Isabelle), Banjo & Kazooie (CONFIRMED), Dr Robotnik/Eggman (Spirit)


Top 5 Most Wanted 3rd Party:

Prince of All Cosmos (Katamari)
The Last Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls)
Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)
Quote (Cave Story)
Dr Eggman/Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Honorable Mentions: Gex, Tails, Knuckles, Aiai, Chosen Undead, Phoenix Wright, Shantae, Gandhi, Spyro the Dragon, an Idolm@ster rep.


Top 5 Most Wanted 1st Party:

Louie (Pikmin)
Infernape (Pokemon)
Dixie Kong (Donkey Kong)
Waluigi (Mario)
Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby)

Honorable Mentions: BoTW Champions, Ruto, Skull Kid, Toad, Geno, Gothitelle, Krystal, Kiawe, Faba.


Top 5 I would rather not see:

Byleth/Edelgard (Fire Emblem)
2B (Nier Automata)
Heavy (Team Fortress)
Frisk (Undertale; Would rather see an indie with a longer legacy be the first indie rep)
Lloyd Irving (Tales of; I don't dislike the character and I know he has a lot of demand, it's mainly due to my lack of interest in JRPGs and he's major competition for my most wanted 3rd party).

3rd Party
1-Crash Bandicoot
2-Tifa Lockhart
3-Lara Croft
4-Jill Valentine
5-Doomslayer

1st Party
1-Midna
2-Elma
3-Skull Kid
4-Weavile
5-Impa

Rather Not Party
1-Any non-video game characters
No one else I'm really opposed to in such an extreme way considering Smash is basically in "Everything's a Bonus" mode with how big the roster is at the moment.

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

My pick would be a knight from zelda series based mainly on the knights enemies in link to the past

The Space Pirate/Zebesian from Metroid would be a fun fighter incorporating moves and abilities from all the various forms of Space Pirate. Would be decently fast and mobile with some good projectile spacing.

Also Twilight Princess Darknut, a degrading armour mechanic would be cool where he starts off super slow but hits very hard, to super fast and major combo abilities as the character takes damage. Think like a heavy hitter like a slower Ganondorf, to a speedier Lucina

 

[Cutie Gwen]

If there is another bonus dlc character and it was a regular allie/enemie/npc like pirhanna plant who would you want it to be?

My pick would be a knight from zelda series based mainly on the knights enemies in link to the past

How about a Spear Waddle Dee? Maybe even give them a cute little bandana?

 

[RaintheCriminalWhirlwind]

This is interesting sight, considering she was a part of the hype previously

https://gonintendo.com/stories/3459...do-can-have-any-overwatch-character-they-want

 

[yeet123]

There was a problem fetching the tweet

Well now we can confirm that theres no overwatch in the cards FOR NOW

 

[SNEKeater]

This is interesting sight, considering she was a part of the hype previously

https://gonintendo.com/stories/3459...do-can-have-any-overwatch-character-they-want

For me this sounds like Nintendo don't have any plans for an OW character in Smash. At least for now.

Honestly I don't think Sakurai would go with Overwatch if we're gonna get a Blizzard rep, knowing him he would pick a rep from some of the franchises that made Blizzard what it is. And I'm not a hater of Tracer or anything, in fact Overwatch is the only Blizzard game I've played in my life.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

There was a problem fetching the tweet

Well now we can confirm that theres no overwatch in the cards FOR NOW

Yeah and Grant Kirkhope said Banjo isn't happening, Alexa play Despacito

 

[yeet123]

Yeah and Grant Kirkhope said Banjo isn't happening, Alexa play Despacito

imagine comparing a composer to a director...

 

[Cutie Gwen]

imagine comparing a composer to a director...

Point is they can be bull****ting as Kirkhope already knew at that point, don't have any faith in an Overwatch character at all but statements are bull, like Matt Mercer saying he wasn't approached for Smash a little while before Robin was confirmed, which had new lines from Matt.

TLDR: People saying this don't mean ****

 

[osby]

This is interesting sight, considering she was a part of the hype previously

https://gonintendo.com/stories/3459...do-can-have-any-overwatch-character-they-want

It's funny how all the comments are "ew new game bad".

 

[yeet123]

Point is they can be bull****ting as Kirkhope already knew at that point, don't have any faith in an Overwatch character at all but statements are bull, like Matt Mercer saying he wasn't approached for Smash a little while before Robin was confirmed, which had new lines from Matt.

TLDR: People saying this don't mean ****

False. a developer speaking about wanting their IP in Smash has pretty much always been a deconfirm. Halo, Cuphead, Minecraft, Kingdom Hearts, etc

EDIT: when a dev speaks about their IP during prerelease hype or DLC season*

 

[Cutie Gwen]

It's funny how all the comments are "ew new game bad".

I mean, Smash fans always do that. This site's news page about Terry being confirmed even has a guy going "Fire Emblem bad"

 

[SNEKeater]

Kirkhope isn't involved with Rare, if Microsoft wants they could make a new Banjo game without him as the composer. Kaplan, as yeet123 said, is the director of Overwatch and he obviously would know something if an OW character in Smash happens.

If Kirkhope knew about Banjo was because Sakurai (I guess it was him) decided to contact him to make a song.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Kirkhope isn't involved with Rare, if Microsoft didn't want they could make a new Banjo game without him. Kaplan, as yeet123 said, is the director of Overwatch and he obviously would know something if an OW character in Smash happens.

If Kirkhope knew about Banjo was because Sakurai (I guess it was him) decided to contact him to make a song.

Which he did. And making contracts takes time. So does composing a song.

False. a developer speaking about wanting their IP in Smash has pretty much always been a deconfirm. Halo, Cuphead, Minecraft, Kingdom Hearts, etc

EDIT: when a dev speaks about their IP during prerelease hype or DLC season*

I don't believe anyone's in but again, it can be used for PR as seen with DMC. They're blanket statements to get people to talk about the game

 

[Wunderwaft]

Hmm...

Do any of you imagine the possibility that we might get an entire Smash direct in November that talks about Terry while also revealing who fighter five is? We talked about the Game Awards being an event where a reveal might happen. But what if fighter five is revealed in a November direct while the first fighter of the second wave of DLC is revealed at the Game Awards?

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Hmm...

Do any of you imagine the possibility that we might get an entire Smash direct in November that talks about Terry while also revealing who fighter five is? We talked about the Game Awards being an event where a reveal might happen. But what if fighter five is revealed in a November direct while the first fighter of the second wave of DLC is revealed at the Game Awards?

On one hand I see it happening, on the other hand we didn't see ANY gameplay outside of 2 moves and Sakurai does hold KoF in high regard seeing as how much he took from it for Smash since 64

 

[Untouch]

False. a developer speaking about wanting their IP in Smash has pretty much always been a deconfirm. Halo, Cuphead, Minecraft, Kingdom Hearts, etc

EDIT: when a dev speaks about their IP during prerelease hype or DLC season*

SNK said they'd like a character in Smash.

 

[Impa4Smash]

Hmm...

Do any of you imagine the possibility that we might get an entire Smash direct in November that talks about Terry while also revealing who fighter five is? We talked about the Game Awards being an event where a reveal might happen. But what if fighter five is revealed in a November direct while the first fighter of the second wave of DLC is revealed at the Game Awards?

I’m not sure we’d get a whole Smash direct just for a character reveal. And Sakurai seems to be doing the demonstration thing to show off the characters at release

 

[SNEKeater]

If we get a Smash Direct we will have fighter 5 announced, if it's only a Sakurai presentation like he did with Banjo or Hero but for Terry it will probably be just that, a presentation for Terry.

 

[yeet123]

SNK said they'd like a character in Smash.

when?

my point is if a company says they want their character in smash in the middle of dlc season, or the few months before an initial release, then its always been a deconfirm.

I don't believe anyone's in but again, it can be used for PR as seen with DMC. They're blanket statements to get people to talk about the game

i feel like youre not even following the argument but do you, boo

 

[Untouch]

when?

my point is if a company says they want their character in smash in the middle of dlc season, or the few months before an initial release, then its always been a deconfirm.

https://www.dualshockers.com/snk-in...-gender-bent-terry-rebooting-old-series-much/

Of course, I also asked about the possibility of an SNK character in Smash Bros. The answer was not unexpected: “I’d love that, please Nintendo-san!”