Arcanir
An old friend evolved
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Pleasantly surprised at Sigurd's, mostly because it's still depressingly fitting for him. Ephraim's, Arthur's and Celica's were great too.I'll link it because some of the lyrics might offend the mods, but this is basically ****post Emblem: The Musical. :p
Basically every character there gets a theme song, and dammit all I lost it at Celica's, especially right after Alm's. Ike, Ryoma, Virion, Ephraim, and Lyn/Eliwood/Hector's were also notably great.
Yep, played too much SMTIV apparently.Isabeau? you mean Isabelle the doggo? Only Isabeau I know is the SMT one
Sorry for being a bit late on this.Lotta people didn't think she'd appear outside of Galaxy. Not sure why. In retrospect it seems obvious that every notable Mario character will get milked to some extent. Unless Square owns you.
But to be fair, Nintendo started pushing her right after Galaxy. Just because it's a spin-off doesn't mean it's exempt from constituting being pushed. People thought her appearance in MKWii undermined her as a character. Maybe because she had actually received more characterization than most Mario characters. Maybe because people would now know her from her imminent dozens of spin-off appearances over her actual important one. I didn't really care, but once I saw her in MK Wii it was pretty easy to tell the writing would be on the wall and she was now spin-off bound.
I guess people might call her a Lightning because they didn't much call for her appearance in spin-off Mario games, but that happened anyway. Seemed pretty much to be expected. And to their point she doesn't often seem super requested to turn up in things she does turn up in, despite the fact that she is a popular Mario character. Though personally I hadn't heard her being called that til now.
The thing with the spinoffs is that while it can constitute as pushing the character, it really doesn't push her anymore then it does the typical spinoff crowd. She's only 'pushed' in the same sense characters like Dry Bones are pushed, she's another character you can race/golf/tennis/whatever Nintendo comes up with, but not one that has a high level of presence among the cast there. It's definitely more appearances for her to be seen in, but it isn't necessarily to the level of being a "Lightning" I'd say.
As for the 'it undermines her character' bit, that I can kind of see the argument for if you're attached to her character in Galaxy. At the same time though, that depends on your viewpoint of spinoffs as usually they incorporate characters regardless of importance or role, and as you sad Mario tends to fall into that the most so her being in them is pretty much par the course anyway.
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