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But Black Knight was released one year after Brawl. >.>
There's a Sonic arcade fighting game? What's it called? EDIT: never mind, I found it, it's Sonic the Fighters.
There is no character actually called Megaman Zero, it's just Zero, in another body, with a different look.
He has never said that. He designed the original Smash as a fighting game with an easier entry gate than other fighters at the time which is a rather good intention as fighters were getting technical at the time.
Actually, Sonic's moveset might be a case of Fridge Brilliance on Sakurai's part. The two similar looking spin dashes may have been on purpose. By having similar looking moves, it makes it difficult for the opponent to see what Sonic is going to do. Basically, Sonic's two spinning attacks are mind game attacks. I admit, though, that the whole thing could've been handled better by leaving the spin dash mixups to Down B where from there you have certain options and limited inputs for a followup (similar to El Fuerte's command dash, Taokaka's dash, Vega's wall jumps, etc.).
This came up before and is easily fixable by having only his cannon arm change colour.
Has it not been stated repeteadly that he doesn't want to use mechanics from other games? IIRC there's been a lot about him wanting to keep Smash different from other fighters, which certainly suggests that he might not want to use the same characters as them either.
The only thing I can recall is that he wanted it to have an easier entry barrier. I don't recall him saying that he doesn't want to use different mechanics from other games. If he were to do that, he pretty much couldn't use anything that's in Smash.
Which is why he has references to Joy Mech Fight, Punch Out, and Custom Robo in Brawl. >_>
Just ONE fast smash attack would've been nice? Cough Sonic Battle Heavy Attack Cough
Post Srteet Fighter II, Yes.
Someone didn't play Sonic Battle for the Game Boy Advance.
Eww. More flight specials?
All of sonics moves should have come from Sonic Battle, U smash should have been that one back-flip upwards kick, D smash should have been a spinnaroony a~la sheik.
Never heard of it, not even the History of Fighting Games article I read a few years back. Or maybe I just can't remember. *shrugs* It's not like it matters or not whether she gets in game.
It's called "Sonic Updraft" and I totally agree, with the possible exception of specials.
I think Geno was a really popular choice during Brawl's development, and placed highly on the polls. I think the reason he didn't get in was either Square out right wouldn't let Nintendo use anything from Mario RPG, or they wanted too much money.
Eh, I still doubt that whoever creates the next title would bother with One-Shot Characters. The Ice Climbers might still stay because their the only unique gimmick around.
Don't know wave/storm and either that or homing should be sideways. Sonic Wind and Spin Dash should be swapped as Spin Dash has always been down and A in sonic games.
Getting those in 64 would have meant them all returning in Melee, which would likely have a knockon effect.
I'm pretty sure Sonic was voted as the most wanted character, at least in Japan.
Well when Sakurai once before put out a poll for Melee and a certain transformation of Zelda got a high voting percentage we saw her in the game. So it IS safe to assume that the Smash Polls hold importance. I THINK Wolf made it high in the polls, has anyone ever found these polls? Or translaed them? They could be VERY interesting. It's sad to know that Sakurai isn't well versed in Nintendo characters. He didn't even know who Krystal was. -.-
Zelda is not a third party character like Sonic. She's Nintendo so it's probably within his power. If everyone wants a certain Nintendo Character, he'll probably put them in. If it's someone like Sonic, however, he (probably) needs permission from Sega and other stuff like that first. I suppose you're right in saying Smash Polls are important though.
What do you expect. You bringing up that we are going in circles isn't new. You know everything has been said at least once by someone, you shouldn't expect the rest to keep quiet until an update.
A lot of rumors got thrown around about the first game. As far as evidence we have, we only know that Bowser, Mewtwo and King Dedede were planned for the game, but likely no one else.
Geno's "popularity" has virtually vanished on Smash forums. He is less requested now than Bowser Jr., Toad, and Paper Mario. Geno was a fad. He only become a popularly requested character from 2006 to 2007. After Brawl's release, the Geno cult enjoyed a gradual collapse. Several other characters have also seen a collapse in popularity since Brawl's release (Krystal, Samurai Goroh, Micaiah, Midna, Ray of Custom Robo), while others have actually since some surprising growth (such as Black Shadow, Starfy, and Toad). Geno is both less popular and less important than Toad and Bowser Jr. Heck, Toad alone is among the popular video game characters in Japan.
The other really annoying "rumor" is that Sigurd from Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu was Sakurai's favorite Fire Emblem character and that he was intended to be placed into Melee. It turned out that someone actually bothered to translate Sakurai's comments on Fire Emblem and his favorite character is actually a swordmaster named Nabarl from FE1/FE3.
Ready for this?
Sorta relevant to this, I think a lot of people get hung up on the distinction between "planned for" (dropped in development) and "considered for" (dropped in planning). That easily leads to some inaccuracies when word spreads about such and such.
If you recall, I have already asked for this list in the past few days, plus the Sheik thing is the only example I knew of. So unless you're asking me to recite some unkown list then I suggest you take what I said for what it was intended to mean. The polls are Important. I don't need reprimand for knowling less then someone who has been around lots longer than me.
Remember that not a lot of people are talking about the next Smash Brothers game. The reason certain characters, like Bowser Jr, are popular is because
Oh yeah, I remember that one.
Even so, most of the top characters did make it into Melee, if not Brawl. Also, The Legend of Zelda, at that time, wasn't very popular in Japan, so it's votes are going to be lower than other series.
