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Hope you're all having a fantastic day!
Yeah it’s mega fake. The distortion is there to try to hide how they’re just using Ness’s trophy from Brawl and Giygas’s sprites from EB.
Real picture leaks are almost never distorted, and for Smash the real ones were never like that. The Ken leak and the ESRB ones were pretty clear.
Reminds me of this Skull Kid leak that went around that was just a clip from a video someone edited. I guess someone got really bored lulz. I know that feel. I made a crappy riddle leak once but it didn’t get anywhere.
It is fake, specially if we go by the logic of Nintendo hiding and not including spoilers. And let's not mention the quality, it's probably someone else' animation or the guy is an animator of sorts. Not to mention this doesn't look like Smash and much less does it look like a Smash character announcement.
Still really cool looking, the person who made it deserves some recognition for making it look cool.
I do love the feeling of this leak, though. The fanbase is still strong, still hopeful. If I was Ninten and the others, my heart would be warmed by the fact my fans still remember me for so long afterwards. You are all great fans, and are exactly the kind of people all gamers should be. Excited and thrilled for your character, but eternally patient. You make me glad to have found this amazing fanbase and to join it. This leak may not be right, but I hope something that makes Mother fans happy comes this E3 that will make us all cry as Nintendo does it again with something we never saw coming but always wanted.
It's so nice to find more awesome people like you joining this thread. Like you, I am also glad that I found this thread and saw that the people were so cool that I just had to join!
Seeing some of your previous posts, I would find it cool that Nintendo not only made a MOTHER remake and/or add Ninten in Smash, but also seeing a new F-Zero for the switch with online features.
After all, Nintendo has proven that they can make a not very popular game something awesome and appealing. Fire Emblem was not doing so great until Awakening is an example, and let's not forget Kid Icarus and how it's one of the 3D's masterpieces for some people.
Not to mention that for being an NES game, MOTHER 1 / Earthbound Beginnings has a really epic story, in my opinion. Some cutscenes would probably be just as emotional as Wind Waker with that goodbye scene early game with the grandma, for example. (god, that scene breaks my heart every time).
One last thing to notice is that it's not impossible for Ninten redesigned to appear before his game is announced, as that has been done with Roy in Melee and Greninja in Smash 4. Where they gave Sakurai concept art and he used the design and ideas to make a moveset, pretty sure that could also be done for Ninten. It's never too impossible for any realizable character to appear in Smash.