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Was gonna make an "OVER NINE-THOUSAAAAAND" joke but at our current rate and assuming the next Smash is revealed in 2026/27 that genuinely might not be a far-off estimate
The thread's already ramping up. For reference...
Though, as I kind of alluded to, thinking of her as a true "recurring" character is a bit overblown. She appears in the 2 games with Marth, like a lot of other characters that appear in FE games that have a sequel/prequel (or whatever Thracia is), and it just so happens that those two games are both among the few old enough to have been remade. Then there is Awakening, where she is there to help tie in the whole concept of that game's world being a distant future of Marth's. So in terms of fully original mainline games, it's just one more than the 2 that a lot of characters get. Which she absolutely gets credit for, but in any case, it's definitely a different situation than Anna, who just gets wedged in everywhere as one of gaming's least surprising Easter eggs. I know I said myself they're similar but maybe not quite so much lol.
But if you haven't benched her in favor of Bantu you haven't really lived /j
It'd work if the Social Threads weren't locked before they reached 6000 pages.
Yeah, I think it's the Manakete archetype that really helps her shine through. Playing through a Fire Emblem game, each Lord is usually given a distinct class, but you'll still get multiple Cavaliers, multiple Mercenaries, multiple Pegasus Knights, etc., and depending on the game you might be able to reclass everyone to your heart's content.
-Kevin Afghani has taken over for Charles Martinet-Giselle Fernandez has taken over for Deanna Mustard-Laura Faye Smith took over for Kerri Kane before Rosalina was even added to Smash-With the exception of Roy, all the Koopalings received new voice actors with Mario Kart 8, but Smash Bros samples the voices from New Super Mario Bros-Never had their regular voice in Smash to begin with, just computer noises essentially-unsure who does the voice of the regular plants, Toru Minegishi does Petey Piranha. But in Smash both are mute
There are surreal odds next game that Mario, Luigi, Wario
Of all the Mario characters in Smash Bros, the talk of voice made me realise that these four characters are the only characters who are voiced by their current voice actors
It's kinda wild just how mandatory a total Mario voice redo is becoming. Almost none of them sound what they do in current games anymore
I think Impa‘s Smash popularity is also born from a type of need for more Zelda characters. The one-off breakouts have all been AT’d despite relevant timing and popularity, so people figured that a new Zelda character must be a recurring character. Skull Kid fans are going the way of the K. Rool by translating his general popularity into concrete Smash demand, so we’’ll see which tactic works.
Do keep in mind that the Choose Your Legends poll is heavily influenced by what is happening in Fire Emblem Heroes (outside of the first one, which was held before FEH’s launch). Tiki’s win, for example, was influenced by the fact that Awakening Tiki had received no alternate Hero form since the very first Summer summoning event five/six years prior, while Young Tiki (aka how she features in Marth’s games) got a continous stream of alternates throoughout the years. Tiki’s CYL win was pretty much a push to guarantee an Awakening Tiki alt (as the winners of the poll receive a Brave alternate form) and actually a pushback against Young Tiki, instead of being a result of the overall popularity of the character.
Also, agreed with this. CYL is in no way a good indicator of anything but a certain part of the community's leanings during that year and it is highly susceptible to recency bias and rallying. I mean for ****'s sake, we Morbius-ed our way into getting both Gatekeeper and a plot character we hadn't even seen yet into winning.
Given how big Mario is for Nintendo and that he's changed a voice actor, I'd imagine they'd force them to stop reusing Brawl voice clips and record new ones for Mario, Luigi, and Wario at least. Other than that, I imagine the rest will either go untouched, or sample their new portrayals. I'd be willing to bet that older portrayals are chosen due to the fact that the sound library is bigger, and are thus more likely to get the clips needed.
Of all the Mario characters in Smash Bros, the talk of voice made me realise that these four characters are the only characters who are voiced by their current voice actors
It's kinda wild just how mandatory a total Mario voice redo is becoming. Almost none of them sound what they do in current games anymore
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You make some good points here, and sure, the manakete angle definitely makes her stand out, which I mentioned in brief myself. And again, I don't argue she's a plenty popular character, and her status as a manakete being a big component of that doesn't seem like any stretch. Though I also don't think it would ever boil down to "we need to represent the manaketes with a character," it's just a representative niche for her, which is of course important to have. But besides, the other item hanging over this conversation about manaketes is, well, the IMO likelier possibility of simply returning Corrin, who technically already brings some of that dragonforming angle into Smash; not that Tiki and Corrin couldn't coexist, and I think they would be way, way different, I'm just saying it cuts into the idea of "we should add Tiki explicitly because we're looking for someone to represent the manaketes / transforming characters," at least in a basic form.
There are even things like Samantha Kelly having different Voice direction in Princess Peach Showtime compared to her other appearances (although I think time will tell if that direction appears outside of that game.)
We know that's not true. The internet seems to think she's very Smash-popular. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I mean, the Hero's Shade would be a cool alternate costume for Link. Heck, I'm surprised he didn't get an armor set for Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom when we got Dark Link and somehow Phantom Ganon as armor sets.
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It would probably make the CSS load even slower, but it would've been cool to have some alt sets as DLC or update content. Stuff like Hero's Shade, or Samus' different suit designs, or maybe some of the Heroes alt costumes. It wouldn't matter much in the grand scheme of things but it'd be a nice little bonus.
It'd probably help the CSS a bit if they bring back the 3D models on the CSS like Smash 64. It'd also give them less work on making a 3D Art Render for all of the costumes, with some exceptions like alternate characters like the Koopalings, Alph, the DQ Heroes, Alex/Zombie/Enderman, the characters with genderswaps and whatnot.
I never understood this saying. Exceptions prove that something isn't a rule.
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Sakurai said it himself. Plant was chosen because it's not a hero or a villain. The fact that it's a character you wouldn't come to expect based on previous picks is what made him go for it.
I have to ask, when did Sakurai establish this first? The only time I recall him stating this was with Min-Min and the "main character of ARMS" topic, and even back then it was a confusing justification.
When used correctly, it means that 1, the exception is so unlikely to happen again that it implies that the rule is in place, or 2, the explanation for the exception implies that the rule exists (Ex. a rule about acquiring special permission to do something implies that you're normally not allowed).
And what about Wolf? He's not THE main antagonist of Star Fox, he's just the most prominent one that has a full body instead of being a giant head with floating hands.
I believe the answer is noRemind me if Wolf was planned for SSB Melee, because I see him in the intro but i don't see Falco:
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Honestly, it wouldn't really.
He never was planned, that's a myth.Remind me if Wolf was planned for SSB Melee, because I see him in the intro but i don't see Falco:
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I've said it before. We're either very unlucky or very lucky that Nintendo didn't do DLC Costumes for non-Miis. Because there are so many characters with so much costume potential, and we'd be probably sucked dry if Nintendo went the full mile.
Luckily it's only an extremely small percentage of people who bought/downloaded a game who buy all th...
I still think a good compromise would be to keep Mii Costumes as DLC and add costumes for non-Mii characters in the base game.
I feel like if they did that Sakurai would still adhere to the 8 costume limit, which as any Fire Mario fans know already has issues.
It really bugs me that so many characters get ridiculous the attention to detail, yet iconic Nintendo staples like Bowser & DK can't have their regular voices for some reason.
I will continue to hold out hope that one day Smash will adopt modern standard costume and color selections.
The reason is a Sakurai-ism.
Bowser and DK were like that in the 64/Melee era.
