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They referenced Day of crisis, Baten Kaitos and even Project X Zone but not the Super robot wars games they made.Monolith has a 25th anniversary site up
Not much new info but there are some wallpapers
If you want to stretch it could also be a decent indicator of what characters could be considered for smash? or some **** like that IDK
This is a really good moveset concept. Consider me sold lol
If he doesn’t have a glow pikmin, can his bark still be a hitbox like Luigi’s taunt please and thank you
This is literally just a fully developed version of what I was thinking for Oatchi complete with adorable artwork. I love this.
This is genuinely one of the most inventive fan concepts I’ve ever seen and directly addresses the key hangup I had with the character - the inevitable overlap with Olimar, and how to make Oatchi or another Captain feel unique without well… making it feel forced, I guess.
I’ve never played a Pikmin game so I can’t speak to its accuracy but this moveset does look fun. I love the little pictures to help illustrate the attacks. Great work!
Normally I'd understand this logic, as I've said it in the past towards Banjo Kazooie with Halo and Minecraft
Yeah, some of that is probably hopeful thinking on my end. I like Crash well enough but I’ve never played any of his games for more than 5 minutes. I have a much stronger personal connection to many other Microsoft characters so I’m probably projecting my personal biases a bit in all fairness. I still think Crash isn’t as big a series as it’s made out to be but fan demand is important and could really help him like it did for Banjo. My personal most wanted Microsoft owned characters are the Battletoads, Fulgore, Illidan, Kerrigan, and Joanna Dark. I’ll admit that Crash probably has the edge over all of them thanks to more fan support but I don’t think it’s set in stone.
Yeah, I feel like Crash miiiight have a slight edge because it feels like Microsoft understands they're adding characters to a Japanese game, so they need to use their characters that are popular in the country. Banjo was number 2 on the Ballot, Minecraft is huge including in Japan, and I dunno how other Microsoft franchises stack up over there, but Crash has a pretty decent presence and was pretty big at least during the original trilogy's run (Fake Crash was added to the games because of a hilarious bootleg Japanese plushie, and the Crash Dance was created in a Japanese commercial for the first game).
I'm actually shocked at how well this translates as an actual Smash moveset. This actually feels like something Sakurai and the devs would actually make.
My first thought would be to have the blast zones cull any Lumiknolls that cross it, playing an animation, and giving Oatchi a single Glow Pikmin as if he had destroyed it. The mechanic seems to be designed for Oatchi to be able to make a bunch of Lumiknolls throughout the match, even if it's better for him if he keeps them up, so stages that can take them away from him should be fine. The extra animation and Glow Pikmin spawn is mainly there to make sure players know when their Lumiknoll is gone and they can make a new one.
I'd say if the Lumiknoll ever gets to the blast zones it despawns, since the Lumiknoll can be attacked (and by extension also absorb attacks sort of like Villager's tree.) Oatchi would need to continually dig up new ones, which does require a rather short digging animation that could potentially leave you vulnerable but is fast enough that if you have some space it can be easily executed.
do we know B&K were given priority? always sounded like the negotiations for both must have over lapped
Yeah Steve was in talks for SSB4. Banjo & Kazooie just didn't take as long to negotiate for so they came out first.
That’s what I thought
Yeah, Microsoft seems to work differently compared to other third parties. I'm not sure it's because of popularity in Japan, or just popularity in Smash circles
Do we know anything really?
LOL I remember seeing the Lumiknolls in Pikmin 4 and thinking "hmmm those sort of look concerningly like a Zerg Hatchery in shape"
I’m not sure the two are entirely comparable other than fan demand. I feel like part of why Banjo joined is due to RARE’s close association with Nintendo from back then. That made Banjo feel like an honorary Nintendo character (at least to me). Like you said though, we don’t really know anything and I could be way off. That’s just how I personally saw things.
I mean we know Steve was in talks for 5 years, so talks probably started around 2013/2014 (since he came out in 2020 and you can't just start making a character until you get the okay, and I figure he took a while because of all the reprogramming and stuff for the blocks).
well we know steve took 5 years to get into smash and B&K was an easy deal to make
You could've stopped right there, pal.
No, no it really doesn't.
It... really doesn't.
Well you see, Steve got in because Bowser was in. So we should expect our first non-gaming guest to be Po, obviously.
You say that as a joke but I would 100% be down for Po even though there's no chance in hell of that happening
Is being the honorary Nintendo character the reason he got into Smash, because Nintendo reminisces of RARE? Or is that why he saw so much demand through nostalgia that Microsoft or Nintendo themselves couldn't ignore it?
Nah, we're going to see either Rayman or Spyro fans go stir crazy
Fantastic job, this really sells the concept of how a Pikmin character that's not just a slight variation on Olimar could work.
No. The reason he got in Smash was explicitly stated in one of Sakurai's Famitsu columns to be because he was second place in the Ballot, right behind Sora. Fan demand got him in, not Nintendo getting a sudden nostalgia vibe for a company they should've but never bought.
That's probably why Banjo got so many votes though
I am now sold on Oatchi. Let the Oatchi Sweep begin
