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I dunno. I think Minecraft having it's software icon is extremely fitting. I suppose the creeper face would be more interesting to look at, but I do like it better than some of the other decisions they've made...This is a really minor and inconsequential thing but I really wish Minecraft's series symbol was the Creeper face. It's iconic (as overused as the word is) and has a much more distinct and recognizable shape than... a block.
...OK mostly I just don't like Mega Man's. I know it makes sense if you're Japanese, but it's just kind of generic if you aren't familiar with the branding.
I think part of this has to do with it being hard to conceptualize Super Smash Bros. without these legacy picks, and there are too many of them to also include most picks that don't have that argument.Yeah, like I'm not advocating for any of the Original 12 to be removed myself but I'm increasingly becoming frustrated with the general sentiment of older = safer. Smash needs to move forward. The most underwhelming thing the series could do, and what a lot of people seem to believe would happen, is that we pretty much lose a bunch of Smash 4 and Ultimate newcomers and everyone who was added before that is a legacy pick... so what, does that just continue forever? Do we keep adding new characters just to do away with them the next time?
And I'm not talking about Ness and Captain Falcon, or anything. But a take like "Zero Suit Samus would get precedent over Ridley because-" is gonna make me tear my hair out. Every character is someone's favorite, but that includes the new blood. It infuriates me, quite frankly, when people treat Little Mac as expendable but will rightfully die on the hill that Ness or Pit should continue to be a mainstay. If we got Little Mac in Melee this would not be a question whatsoever. Is that fair?? Does the simple act of being here first outweigh every other thing that makes a character's addition valuable?
There are only a few characters who seem to unanimously break this cycle. Villager, Shulk and Inkling. Sometimes Ridley and Isabelle, maybe Robin or Greninja, but not always. Everyone else can go screw themselves apparently, because whenever we talk hypothetical """reboot""" rosters the first move is to go scorched earth on anything newer to Smash than 2008. Surefire way to guarantee the series becomes repetitive and stale.
In reality, we probably will see some pretty darn heavy cuts. Jigglypuff for example causes quite a lot of problems, and will probably only skirt by if they have enough time, and if she's easy enough to make to justify having such an unbalanced Pokémon roster out of the surviving members.
From what I've seen ArcSystem Works's games, and other anime styled games, only don't have alternate costumes because they hand animate their characters, which probably won't ever happen for Super Smash Bros. There are games with distinct art styles that do have costumes though. UMvC3 is probably the only example that I have off the top of my head, but there are probably others.Meh. In my experience, having a bunch of alt costumes means you also have to have a mediocre 3D rendered art style.
That said, that's probably what they'll do. Because Smash doesn't really DO artistic art styles anyway.
And to be fair, "mediocrity" is fairly subjective. I know you don't like Street Fighter 6's artstyle, but I think it mostly looks pretty darn good. In fact, I'm surprised Terry looks so sickly when you look at his face up close. If the other characters didn't look like that I'd wonder if it wasn't a design choice for Ed.