I suppose I should post my full thoughts on the direct now that I have the time.
-Ken is a pretty cool addition, being the original Echo Fighter, even though he was all but confirmed to me anyway. Kind of cool that he has more that set's him apart from some of the other Echoes.
-While I personally don't care that much for Incineroar compared to the other Alolan Starters, I'm starting to warm up to him, as he's got quite a bit of personality to him. Not a huge fan of his voice though. Congrats to
@GoldenYuiitusin and his other fans as well. I was kind of hoping we'd have more than just these two, but I didn't expect that much more newcomers tbh. Turns out Vergeben and the Box Theory were right.
-I'm a little sad that trophies won't be returning, but I can sort of understand why they had to be cut. Makes me wonder what they reward for Classic and All Star will be though.
-Spirits seems like it could be an interesting mode, but it's a little to early to say at the moment.
-It's kind of nice that we can set our preferred rules for Online.
Also I wish that I actually knew where to get a wired LAN and how to use it.
-It does sort of feel like some of the stuff covered in the middle of the Direct was a little unnecessary.
-R.I.P. Shadow, Issac, and Spring Man. Shadow in particular was surprising, considering it would've been quite easy to make him a Sonic echo. Spring Man showing up at all was surprising, let alone being deconfirmed. Kind of cool that the Black Knight got his FE Heroes voice though. It's somewhat of a shame that FF didn't get Aerith or a Black Mage as an AT though.
-It's nice that you can actually buy music tracks in this game instead of waiting for Mew and Celebi to drop them (and I hope this means that the amount of songs we've seen in the menu section of previous Directs don't have ALL of the songs, meaning there are more than the ones that we know are in the game).
-Development of DLC is expected, but it's great to have confirmed. I'm guessing they aren't going to have Echoes as DLC. Cool how all of the DLC fighters will come with a stage and music. I'm personally hoping that Sora ends up being DLC, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
-"I wonder if I'll ever get to take a break." I wonder that too.
-A shame that Rex is only a Mii Swordfighter outfit, but I hope that he is able to be DLC. It's nice to have XC2 music in Smash, even if it's only 3 songs (that we know of).
-Piranha Plant was quite an unexpected reveal. It's entirely out of the blue and I love it. TBH, I like that it pretty much makes it so that Bandanna Dee fans don't have to deal with the whole "Goomba with a hat" argument anymore.
-It's kind of a shame that I don't think there are any events near me where I can play the game, but it's only a month till release, so I'll live.
-The cutscene for the new story mode is so cool, with there being voice acting this time around (Zelda in particular having voice acting is surprising).
-On that note, the story mode in general looks really cool. It's a little weird that Kirby is the first character to start with, but I'm not complaining. I don't like the lack of platforming segments, but it's cool that it's more like a RPG type mode. I assume at least a few bosses will be fought here (we see Galleom{I don't think I'm spelling that correctly} for a part of the trailer, so maybe will see Tabuu?). It's kind of cool that it has a Sphere Grid-esque progression system (as the Sphere Grid is one of my favorite parts of Final Fantasy X). And the vocal versoin of the main theme is amazing.
Overall, not quite as strong as the other Directs, but I still think it's still pretty good. I wish it didn't take me this long to write my thoughts since it's getting kind of late for me, but I digress. I'm still quite looking forward to the game, and it will be a Day One purchase for me, if possible.
How many of you will buy the Season Pass? I'm really not planning on it as I don't like paying for something I don't even know what is. The discount isn't really that worth it as I'm pretty sure there'll be a character I don't really care for so I might just save for one I actually want.
Since I want to have the full roster (and I could hardly stand to not have all of the characters on the roster), yes. While I potentially might not care about some of the DLC characters, I still would want to give them a shot anyway, and for all I know, one of my most wanted characters might end up being confirmed anyway.
Doesn't mean I dislike him, assumptions-man.
