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May want to keep an eye out for Detective Famicom Club. Supposedly, there was someone who predicted the Princess Peach Showtime trailer correctly and they also mentioned a spiritual sequal to Famicom Detective Club.
Yeah, I totally understand that. My hope for the future is that once the majority of work is automated and AI advances, there won’t be any need for these giant corporations. I can see a world that rather than hoping Hollywood eventually makes a movie about a theme you love, people will just be able to do it themselves. They can put as much or as little personal input as they like such as their own characters, world, and story. The more personal input the more rewarding the final output would be. I think there’s actually a chance that this leads to even more people being able to express themselves and create their own art since they will ideally have much more free time to pursue their passions. Maybe I’m just a hopeless optimist but that’s what I’m holding out hope for in the future. Things could easily go much worse and we end up in some kind of cyberpunk dystopia but I prefer to stay optimistic.
Maybe taking inspiration from Pocket Fighter, where some of the things she can do in her costumes show up as attacks?
That sounds excellent! I do love that there would not be any need for big corporations with this idea.
For her neutral special, she lacks a gun.
No. A character in Smash should represent the character in their entirety, and Showtime is just one small part of Peach's history. Throwing in Showtime references in moves for the sake of references like having her pull a rapier out of nowhere would make her kit feel disconnected (which is funny because Showtime as a game looks to be a jumble of disconnected ideas itself).
I agree with that. Being too specific to the most recent game is a good way to make a character feel outdated later on. Just look at Mario and FLUDD.
Yeah, I would give characters something they mainly use rather than from a one time game, too. I’d bet if Mario did use Cappy from Odyssey aside from a taunt, that would probably become outdated eventually, too.
Sonic has a lot of costumes in the mobile games of his, like the recent Dragonfire costume of his. I would love to see those costumes for him in Smash. I love the N64 costumes idea, too.
I’ve mentioned it before, but I do find Cappy to be a bit of a different situation since Mario’s cap will always be a fixture of his design. FLUDD or Peach’s costumes are not visually cohesive with what we have right now, the “standard”. Meanwhile Mario tossing his hat around does follow the typical Smash philosophy of drawing moveset potential from a character’s design.
Yeah, I see what you mean. Still…Cappy, so far was from one game. I am still not sure about his case.
I would agree if we were talking about a move where Mario could possess his opponents (which would be a bad idea). Simply throwing his cap out and letting it spin for a bit is something that really, he could have feasibly done at any point and is not drawing that much attention to the fact that there’s a hat ghost controlling it to anyone who doesn’t already know. Vs pulling out FLUDD out of hammerspace and so forth.
Overhauling Link probably wouldn’t sit so well with me if there weren’t two other characters holding onto the old traditional stuff. If neither of them return (I assume one of them will) then I’d rather make adult Link more of a composite.
Maybe, but Mario has not used his hat as a weapon before much, if at all. Even without Cappy, unless Mario uses his hat as a weapon in a future game, I don’t see that using the hat as a weapon could be unlike FLUDD for Mario in Smash.
I think the million dollar question with Advance Wars is if any future developments in the series are coming out in Japan, because if they're not, I think it's safe to say we're not seeing it
I'm sorry but this is possibly the worst way to go about decloning Daisy. Making her "archival Peach" is not at all what Daisy is as a character, it'd just be another Falcondorf situation.
Man, people trying to shoehorn the Capture mechanic into a Mario moveset after Odyssey's release was painfully tone-deaf for what Mario is supposed to be in Smash, a straightforward all-rounder. I would not mind a simple Cap Throw move like you said though; in fact, I think it could really serve to extend his character and options, since he is the platforming character after all, and having him be able to bounce off a temporary pseudo-platform he can toss out for extra movement options is very-in line with the character.
I don't really care if he only ended up using his hat as a weapon in one game, because his hat is a part of his innate character design; someone who doesn't even know Odyssey exists could still easily accept a cap throw move at face value if they just picked up a Smash game for the first time. It's more natural for him to use than having FLUDD materialize out of nowhere.
It's...not? Why would it be. That's not the point. The point is that technology replacing a thing doesn't mean that all skill of that thing passes from human knowledge. It just transitions into being something people do purely for passion, instead of something they do for money.
Yeah, but that is just the hat that is part of his character, not the attack. There is a difference. You don’t see Mario use it much for, well, anything other than the Mario 64 power ups and maybe other things. Plus, Mario probably used his cap in Odyssey because his hat was, well, Cappy. How could he use his hat if it were not Cappy? Also, I don’t see him using his hat in Smash, anyway.
Especially if Cappy is replacing FLUDD. Because they're both single game references. The difference is...people love Cappy, people hate FLUDD.
Cappy's eyes don't show all the time when he's in hat form. He can simply keep them hidden. Even then, Smash doesn't really care about canon "pre-requisites", as I'll call them. "How could he use his hat if it were not Cappy?" is like saying "how can Olimar pluck Pikmin in Smash when there aren't any sprouts in sight?"
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I did not say forget now, did I? Plus, some people want to do art as a job, or both passion and a job, but they can't do it if they are being replaced by technology? Not everyone is doing art in their spare time you know, and in fact, some people might use technology/AI to do art for them. In fact, some people draw on computers rather than old methods done by hand, which can be dying out like extinct languages. There are some hand based methods of art that have been replaced. What if we do not have access to technology in the future?
That is not what I meant (I was trying to type on the phone). Let me say that a hat is still a hat no matter what or who it is, Mario has still hardly used it as a weapon, and using it, whether as Cappy or just a hat, in one game does not change that. And keeping Cappy's eyes hidden is just a cosmetic argument to me, not that it matters because it was more of a hat itself that I was talking about. Why should it be used in Smash Bros. as a weapon when it has not been used much as a weapon outside of Odyssey? A hat being part of Mario's design and character does only so much.
Or maybe the Spin from Galaxy, which would also act as a spiritual successor to the Cape as a reflector.
Bowser had never used his shell to attack until Melee. It’s really not a big deal, and Smash intentionally takes liberties involving these prominent design elements. Sakurai has said as much several times, so only doing “so much” often means being the basis for like four or five attacks.
I never found Bowser's shell to be iconic the same way as Mario's hat is anyway.
But Mario still spin-jumps in his 2D outings (some 3D stuff too), and the Galaxy spin isn't an egregious prop reference like FLUDD is. Galaxy Spin is the best contender for a new up-special because you can't argue that it's not something that Mario just doesn't do on a semi-frequent basis. Because he literally does.
His regular spin is already his down air though.
It dawned on me only recently, but now I'm pretty confident Bowser's up B has been a reference to the Koopalings' attacks in Bros. 3/World all along.
You can have multiple moves referencing the same thing, and they can be used in different ways. If you're that passionate about it needing to be unique though, you can just... change his down air.
Sure would be strange if Mario could throw fireballs in Smash without first acquiring a Fire Flower.
