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It's entirely possible. As we draw closer to release, the dev team is releasing more and more info about the game. New Assist Trophies, items, and stages are becoming essentially a weekly thing now. The odds are stacked against us, but anything can happen at this point!
Yep. We gotta hope that Lip does not show up on Monday or gets deconfirmed.
If the "Retro Character Assist Trophy Monday" pattern happens next monday, there is a slight chance we might see something related to Lip or Panel De Pon. Especially since the pattern have been about "Japan-Only" characters so far.
Yeah, that is what I am afraid of.
Well this could be leading up to a retro reveal trailer instead. Maybe Lip takes centre stage with all the other retro assists helping out. (a girl can dream)
That would be nice.
Puzzle League has a good 5+ games to it, and has had entries from the SNES to the DS so it's a fairly big for a Nintendo series, particularly with most of the bigger ones represented by playable characters at this point (off the top of my head, Advance Wars, and The Legendary Starfy are the only 5 or more Nintendo game series left without playable representation, though if there are others feel free to point them out). Furthermore the puzzle genre is a pretty key genre within video games, and it lacks any pure playable representative in SSB so I'd say Puzzle League being Nintendo's biggest puzzle series makes it fairly important.
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There's a good point there, at least in more current times. Utilising the Pokémon franchise to further strengthen it's promotion, as well as the original usage of naming it 'Tetris Attack' were things done to push it into more focus. Furthermore, as I did previously noted, Lip did herself receive some strong cameos, though almost entirely restricted to Japan (still, that is where Nintendo is based and tend to focus on).
I'd say the franchises are about even in size since they have the same amount of releases (roughly 8), usually get new releases around the same time, and are frequently bundled together. The only thing the Dr. Mario franchise has over Panel de Pon is the recent release of Dr. Luigi, but it probably won't be too long until we see a new Wii U/3DS Panel de Pon entry since we usually get 2 entries per console generation.
I'd argue that Bubbles is on a higher level than Ice Climbers (who I'm very glad are in SSB), having had plenty of cameos, a playable role in DK: King of Swing (which from what I heard, was originally going to be a Clu Clu Land game), and is Nintendo's first female protagonist.
I certainly haven't given up on Lip, and neither has quite a lot of the supporters within this thread. It just happens to be that a lot us would feel okay if Lip ends up an Assist Trophy, we'd prefer her playable, but if not then the 2nd best thing is naturally appreciated.
Dr. Mario is automatically going to get more recognition than Panel de Pon/Lip by virtue of having Mr. More Recognizable Than Mickey Mouse himself in the title role. Despite its being fun, it would probably be written off as "just another Tetris clone" if it used original characters (in fact, the game Tetris 2/Tetris Flash uses basically the same mechanics with tetrominoes instead of pills). Being part of an established franchise really helps visibility.
Lip's Stick was confirmed ages ago in a presskit leak. I think that killed a lot of enthusiasm down here, but there's always some hope that she'll show up, even if not as a fighter. Especially as of late.
True, that would be a huge thing, though the extent to which Nintendo has rights to Tetris has always been a confusing thing to me. An as you yourself point out, it's still not a playable character.
Except there's no playable characters who could ever fill that niche, and Nintendo doesn't own Tetris. They just had a license to publish a few Tetris games a while back and use the Tetris name, and I don't think they can even use the Tetris name anymore (which is why they can't re-release Tetris Attack at this point).
I haven't given up on Lip, but I think she's incredibly unlikely at this point. I'd be shocked if she made it, though, and I'd absolutely love it.
Lip can use the stick for a variety of different attacks, but its still available as a regular item as well which only does one thing.
It's unbloomed, it stays that way for the most part in the game and it opens whenever she uses her magic. This is why i think Lip's Stick returning as an item isn't a complete strike against her being playable, it wouldn't look out of placeLips wand looks like a stick of corn
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Oh my god, can people please stop doing these faulty comparisons.
Olimars final smash is an item
Samus literally has Screw Attack as her uppercut and it functions exactly the same as the item. It's also Samus' most iconic move from her series; and it's obtained once in each Metroid game so it is "the" Screw Attack by the way, no multiple.
This too is a reason an item should never deconfirm a character, or at least the moveset of that said character.
TBH, If no one minds me bringing this up, this is also why I personally think a playable Pilot Wings rep is not out of the possibility.
The main problem with a Pilot Wings rep is there really are no characters... Panel de Pon has Lip as a mascot (even if she's not being used nowadays), Pilot Wings doesn't have anyone really.
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Haven't been here in a long time, but I figured I'd stop by to show some support for Lip! Though I still think here chances of being playable are super slim (especially considering the current "japanese retro deconfirmation mondays) it can't hurt too much to hope. Assist Trophy Lip would be pretty rad, too.
Ness' bat had the same model of the home run bat in past games.
Model yes, texture no. There are so many ways to model a baseball bat after all. But no, Ness' bat isn't the same. Even the trophies attribute the home-run bats to Smash and not Earthound.
But the textures were the same, except in the smash 64, it had a different kind of colour, look up ness portrait in the melee page.
