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They pretty heavily implied that there's more DLC characters coming beyond these four. (unless this is a situation like "Ness has been in Smash Bros. until now" from the Smash Bros. Brawl blog, where everyone took that wording to mean that Ness was cut when it turned out that he wasn't)
It's a shame Zuko is getting the reception he's getting. Unlike with the TMNT reps where I think they are trying to troll people who want all four turtles, I think they were legitimately trying to cater to fan demand by adding Zuko. They just didn't notice the fine print on not wanting three firebenders in the game. But to be fair, how could they when people were going "I want Zuko", not "I want one, and only one, firebender"?
You know what, one last word on Lincoln before I never want to talk about him again.
Nope. I think this way because of GameMill’s involvement, especially after all the news came out about the development of Skull Island: Rise of Kong.
Well to me it seems obvious that if you're going to add more characters aside from zuko, people would like an earth or water bender for more feel of avatar (or, the series). People liking toph is something easy to go with, imagine if they had brought her back in dlc, that would've felt nice. I just.. really wonder who was behind the final decision for add both zuko and iroh.
good to know
GameMill. Is. Just. The. Publisher.
I don't really see Rocksteady as a WTF pick tbh. I mean, He's pretty much TMNT most iconic vilains aside from Shredder and Krang.
It's more like people wanted a different Turtles selection than "two turtles, April, villain" this time.
You'd think it'd be more obvious that this game isn't made by the same people who made various bits of GameMill trash from how SpongeBob can't run backwards at 400MPH while clipping through everything
I don't think people wanting Zuko also came with the caveat "we only want one firebender", NASBcord just seems generally unpleasable.
I'd argue having Zuko in is equally obvious, not a "didn't read the fine print" moment. Zuko has been one of the most beloved characters in fiction for almost two decades at this point. The problem, imo, is that the devs are under the impression that prioritizing safe picks is bad for their roster when it's clearly not. It's okay to go with the picks people want, and when you're sidelining main character so frequently it becomes a massive criticism, those weird special cases lose their luster when they become the norm.
Youre doing the "Arnold's Grandma is here" thing.
That we know of. It's possible Bebop could be part of his special or summoned in assist moves.
Replace April with Leonardo, Rocksteady with Michelangelo, and Gertie with Helga or Arnold.
Au contraire my friend I actually think Gertie is a great pick and I also don't think Arnold would be a good pick. My issue solely revolves around their issues with the Turtles, if I didn't explain that properly that's my bad.
I mean, I really don't think it's being done out of malice? They just prioritized other characters over two more turtles because it's what they had the time and money for. I'm sure in a perfect world they'd happily add in all four.
I don't know maybe I'm just jaded with the way the world works but when I see that I just assume it's intended to troll and piss people off. This is the internet after all.
I will say, I do think the same argument against "too many Firebenders" could be made against "too many Turtles". Like I get WHY they want to have more variety in their TMNT picks. I don't know if I agree with it persay, but I get it.
Well yeah, all you have to do is recolor Raph or Don's bandannas and change the R/D on their belt buckles to L/M and bam, you got your '87 Leo and Mikey models.
I get what you mean but with firebenders there's only so many ways you can blast fire at each other whereas the turtles all have different weapon types that function very differently, so the only way I could see that being the case is visual variety but I still don't think that's a good excuse for not grabbing the characters who are known for being a team who never go anywhere without each other.
I wish they had at least given the four of them different skin colors by default instead of as alts to differentiate them more.
Yeah, definitely don't think we're getting anymore Firebenders after this, but I'm pretty confident they aren't going to all play the same. Even in the show it was obvious that Zuko, Iroh and Azula all had their own fighting styles outside of the fire part.
Someone in question being me lol, also this list is missing some revisions:
Finally Sees Krabs
Yeah. It was a weird move to just replace Leo and Mikey with Raph and Donnie, especially considering that many people straight up refused to buy the first game only because they didn't have all four. Although "skipping the protagonist" is fine if the protagonist won't work as a fighter like in Rugrats or Hey Arnold's cases or if a supporting character is more iconic like in the case of the Wild Thornberrys.
Bruh, you gave me something I never knew I wanted.
Oddly spiteful hill to die on, but you do you.
This is why I hate when a game's roster consumes that game's discourse. People willfully blind themselves to all the cool things about it because they can't play as CatDog or transfer their Doduo or whatever.
Alright, now I gotta know if this is real.
Even then, you know people would find a way to complain that Tommy and Eliza aren't here. (That's to say nothing of Timmy, and lord knows we're not hearing the end of that mess.)
I mean... in this game, they did that precisely four times with Gertie, Gerald, April, and Rocksteady. (You could argue Nigel and Reptar, but that case would be tenuous at best since those two had very good reasons to be chosen over the literal main characters of their shows.) In a game with 29+ characters, that's really not a lot. I do still think calling the choice to ditch the other two Turtles "trolling" is a pretty gross mischaracterization when it was likely a mix of preference, time constraints, and visual variety that kept them out. I dunno what to say other than that I advise against taking the representation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a children's fighting game personally.
now that's just uncalled for
And you're free to call it boring, but I and many others would actually LIKE to see all of the big names clash before going into secondary and tertiary characters. It's not because it's what Smash did, it's because that's what I'd like to see. I don't want them prioritizing April or Hugh before the titular characters. You can call it boring, I call it logical - the main character, generally speaking, is who the most people are going to relate to or like. Every one of the four turtles is beloved for a different reason, but generally most people like all four. If you want to sell someone on a secondary character, they need to have the charm and wit to warrant it - and I'm sorry that's not something that 80s April or Rocksteady has (I will give points to Hugh for it, though - despite the fact that in terms of moveset potential, Jimmy absolutely should've come first since he has so much of it; they had to give Hugh some of Jimmy's inventions just to fill out his kit).
