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Just came across this starter pack image thing I just found.
You guys think some of these are kind of true?
Alright, I'm bored enough to go through some of these and weigh their subjective validity. Just assume I agree with the ones I don't touch upon.
Sonic observation is unfortunately true; we're either getting one of the three shown there next game, if at all. Way too many of us are treating a second Sonic rep as a given tbh
Meowscarada is less a wishlist character and more "the pokemon pick placeholder" for now, I'd say. It does have its fans (including me) but Gen X is getting shortlisted for that nice, round number.
Any roster that cuts characters but not Corrin would make me the big sadge, but you know this by now.
There's always the problem of how some of these irrelevant characters have unique playstyles that at the very least are the clear progenitors of certain archetypes within smash. Not saying you can't, but I dunno I think Shiek, Lucas, and IC's absences will be felt.
BWD is a fine pick for a fourth Kirby rep, but he's admittedly not my first pick.
This is an aside but it's insane to me that I'm still seeing people describe Steve and Banjo's chances as "up in the air" despite Xbox becoming more willing to put their stuff on other consoles by the day.
Noah and Mio are in a weird place because they're right in that it's not how XB3 combat works. Weapon switching is also something that can't be done mid-combat, and people try to work that into potential movesets a lot. I'm not saying they couldn't pull a Shulk again and do some creative libertying, but the more I play XB3 myself it feels like Noah and Mio are too important together not to have at the same time, yet too different to be able to put them in one fighter slot without serious compromise. At least we know what their alternate costumes would obviously be.
This image really starts fighting a losing battle with the last few lines. I do think we'll focus on first parties at least halfway through the base game of the next smash, but we've been soldiering towards caring more about the third party side of things more and more as the series goes on, especially since all the heavy hitters of Nintendo's legacy series are... pretty much in for the most part, even before Ultimate if we want to split hairs. Obviously the new Nintendo characters like Oatchi, Noah, etc. are ripe for the pickings, but in terms of "oh wow, they did that" moments, they're gonna have to look towards other companies for true all-stars.
And honestly, I still feel like none of the third-parties in Smash have a reason to be cut beyond liscening issues, and even that would only be limited to the FF and Sora. Like yes, you could cut Sephiroth and Sora instead of dealing with them again, but like dang who would really fill those gaps when they're gone? Obviously the dam has to burst at some point but I wouldn't be surprised if we started cutting some nintendo characters in favor of keeping more third-parties.
Of course, watch me say this and then Snake or whoever just gets uncermoniously cut again.
