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you're married to sakurai?
I don't know for certain. I just think Banjo-Kazooie didn't get that much DLC spice in his moveset and I think that's because Sakurai didn't have as personal a connection to them. Watch the presents video for them. There's like a level of detachment you can kind fairly presume from him especially when he's amused calling them all poor souls. I think Crash would be in similar but maybe not because the first 3 Crash games did moderately well in Japan back in the day.
detachment or not b&k didn't really need any spice in their movesets. they play almost exactly how i thought they would funnily enough
This just is making a baseless assumption. Part of the reason that Banjo probably did not have as crazy of a moveset probably has more to with other factors. For starters, we know Sakurai purposefully designed Sora to be simple because he was such a popular request, so it would not be surprising if he went in with the same logic for Banjo. Furthermore, Banjo's games are pretty simple in terms of what he does at the end of the day. Sakurai focused far more on a simple interpretation of Banjo that calls back to his games with a vast amount of direct references. Heck, banjo and Kazooie are even some of the best animated characters in the game, came with a beautiful stage, and got a lot of love in the music department. Did he have the same emotional attachment to them as some of the other characters added as DLC? Probably not, but that does not mean they were half baked because Sakurai did not want to make them. The shortness of his Sakurai presents on them is probably moreso due to how simple they are as a whole rather than the fact that he does not care.
I think this is super interesting. I'll definitely look forward to see what kind of videos he will do!
He already has a few videos up. I posted one of them already.
Got his Silver Creator Award in less than a night.
Overcomplicated characters are one of the factors that's turning me off Smash 4 and on, and I actively hope characters like Ryu, Kazuya, Min Min, and Villager get simplified to earlier standards.
To be fair, Banjo is the kind of character I could expect to be something simple, considering how much stuff Banjo does in his game, but everything could be considered "basic", making him simple makes sense.
Part of the charm of their inclusion is their simpleness. It makes it all the easier to imagine how they'd work in earlier Smash games where they where at the peak of their popularity. I also don't think they're less "simple" than Sephiroth and Pyra/ Mythra actually.
Thank you. I've always felt like folks who think the Original 8/12 are too simple might be missing the appeal of their simplicity, especially for those who are new to Smash. Yeah, some of them could get some buffs, but otherwise...
Changing their movesets wouldn't necessarily make them anything less simple I feel. The changes I mostly want are making these characters more based around their canon abilities.
Why would D Air be Ground Pound and not Goomba Stomp? Would the latter still be kept on the "dumping ground" Dr. Mario?
This could definitely work, and would almost make him feel like one of the more restrained quirky newcomers circa Smash 4; somewhere between a Mega Man and Bowser Jr in terms of novelty.
If we were to make Mario’s down air be Goomba Stomp, Dr. Mario’s down air wouldn’t be very accurate to it at all. I think a more accurate take would be something similar to Jake’s down air in Multiversus, where Mario would ready himself into a stomping position, and he would automatically bounce off of and weakly spike anyone who touches his shoes while in that pose.
Of all the characters that could be considered complex...Min Min is where you draw the line? When she technically doesn't even have a full set of four core specials since her neutral and side special are the same thing? And said specials are also used for her forward tilt and forward air so she can alternate which arm she's hitting with?
Sure, specialized tutorial modes for each character could potentially be helpful for players trying to transition from total newbie to a more intermediate level, and they could maybe even be implemented in a decently fun way if they were, say, turned into some sort of event-match type of thing, idk.
It's an interesting approach, but I think the single stomp would be better for beginner shoto Mario.
Yeah, but it's still not very intuitive when she's built to be an ARMS character transplanted to Smash instead of a Smash character paying homage to her ARMS origin.
Dedicated tutorials ****ing suck because they're so disconnected from the game and railroad you, optional or not. Intuitive design doesn't need a tutorial.
Little Mac is more complex compared to Marth? I don't get that at all.
I think it completely depends on the character, personally. There’s plenty of room for both simple characters and more complex characters in Smash.
Honestly yeah to me he's definitely more difficult to use. Besides his horrible recovery his timing and super armor, speed and ground range are ridiculous and yet against most of the cast isn't enough because it takes a lot of concentration to avoid commiting at the wrong time. Roy, Marth, Mario, Kirby these characters can press buttons a bunch and avoid real punishment. Little Mac throws a mistimed haymaker and he's thrown to his death lol it's dumb.
The Jolt Haymaker is pretty risky move to be using anyway. You'd find it much safer to use his tilts, which also serve as good setups for some of his specials.
Tekken already has a rep...
Difficult to win with =/= Difficult to use.
