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I agree from an outsider’s perspective. He doesn’t really look much different visually and I have no idea if his powers differ enough to justify another Smash character. It’s just a bit odd that they skipped over the first protagonist. It would be like if we got Roy in Melee but never got Marth.
Just using his powers in the first place would make him unique from Ness and Lucas, who don't even do that outside of Ness having PK Flash
While that's true we all know how he's gonna end up anyway right ?Just using his powers in the first place would make him unique from Ness and Lucas, who don't even do that outside of Ness having PK Flash
Unfortunately so since he learns a grand total of ZERO offensive PSI. Even Ness and Lucas had least had something for dealing damage with PSI attacks while Ninten is entirely support-oriented.
If there's any project I expect would never just be cancelled by a dev studio it'd be Smash lol
Not to mention the only fighting game in existence to have outsold Street Fighter II.
Ah! Don't you think you're kind of too negative with your descriptions?
It may seem odd but that's just the history of the series. When the first Smash Bros game came out, Earthbound was the only game in the series that was localized, so Ness made more sense. Even today, with the third game still not being localized and the first game very much surpassed by its sequels, Earthbound is like THE game of the series.
being ironically in the "damsel in distress" role in the original DKC trilogy after the first title prior to the first Smash).
And while not the same kind of situation as JRPG protagonists, it should be noted that it took until Brawl for Pokémon to add starters into the roster.It's not really all that weird when you realize that those "protagonists of the first game in a series" are generally still part of said series down the line as protagonist or at least a major character (i.e.
With series of rotating casts (which is pretty much the RPGs), it's more inconsistent as to who is picked first.
Marth is the protagonist of the first Fire Emblem (and third) and was picked. Now, he was the most requested one for Melee, but Sakurai was already considering him for the first Smash.
Ninten is the protagonist of the first Mother, but Ness got in instead, the latest of the two protagonists (and was planned to be replaced in Melee with the following protagonist, but we know how that went).
Cloud didn't come from the first Final Fantasy. He's just the most popular character in the entire franchise and was the most requested addition from it on the Ballot. And even then, other characters Sakurai mentioned from the franchise (Terra, Bartz, etc.) didn't come from the first game either.
Joker didn't come from the first Persona, he came from the latest. Hell, anything before Persona 3 isn't acknowledged, which is more notable than Smash strictly featuring Final Fantasy VII.
None of the playable Heroes come from the first Dragon Quest, with the default being from the latest one, and the earliest among the alts being from III.
Shulk does come from the first Xenoblade.....but at the time it was the ONLY Xenoblade so it's not like we could have had another protagonist over him instead. Can't really say one way or the other for sure if he'd have been picked first if for example, Rex and the Aegis were direct competition.
And even an example from a Mii Costume, Tales of Symphonia was neither the first nor latest in the Tales of franchise and yet Sakurai made it a point that Lloyd was a priority for the Mii Costume role out of all protagonists.
Not just starters, but the actual player character.
I always think that's a weird take because yeah, they look alike but like...
I also think Porky would serve the function of representing across the franchise anyway because he has an inherent connection to Giygas through Earthbound, which connects back to Giegue, and then becomes the main antagonist of the third game, so like...I always think that's a weird take because yeah, they look alike but like...
You really want him to leave his little aquarium?
That would mean having to beat up the dog and that's cruel
I mean several people on here are advocating for a character who beat up said dogThat would mean having to beat up the dog and that's cruel
Nobody seems to mind doing that to the Duck Hunt dog.That would mean having to beat up the dog and that's cruel
He spent decades laughing at the player for missing. Beating him up is cathartic.
No cross-franchise Echoes.
Ooh then we could add Dan as his Echo Fighter!I really don't think there is, personally.
Ryo Sakazaki for Smash
Yeah, you get it LMAOOoh then we could add Dan as his Echo Fighter!
Because reasons!
There is!
I guess in theory there wouldn't, but there are very, very few cross-series clone ideas like that that would actually work. And most of the more common cross-series suggestions I've seen... aren't amongst those few. A lot of them make Falcondorf seem like Steve
Outside of Mewtwo/Giygas and maybe Piranha Plant/Deku Baba, who could even work as a cross series Echo? I mean, we could probably do Ice Climbers/Hammer Bros, but that's a massive stretch.
I genuinely think Blaziken should be added as Captain Falcon echo.
I think you could probably do a Hitmonchan echo of Little Mac. Balrog and Vi have similar moves too but they’d have to be sized up so they wouldn’t really be echoes at that point. Blaziken makes a pretty fitting Captain Falcon echo too.
