Honestly, it's just a smart thing to do, making use of fan support. We all want her in smash, and why wouldn't wayforward? Is it wrong to be true to what you want, especially if it aligns with what others want?
She'd be a great addition, she's an indie character that made it to the hearts of some people, both as a game and a character. Did she partly make it cuz she's a cute design? maybe. Though I think the game speaks for itself too. I like platformers, you like platformers, what's not to like when there's a neat adventure of one, leaning on metroidvania?
You like games, you like smash, you can like shantae, it's simple, I mean you can like shovel knight too, haha nothing wrong with that. Is there really need to hate on a character that others like just as much as you like that armored neatoguy, I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate that your character be disliked because it threatened, or didn't, something about the ones others like. If we can accept that someone likes a character, we don't have to be mean just because we can think everyone should like the same thing I like.
And then when you're going to talk about chances, there's ways to talk about those without pointing out everything going against a character as if we don't already know that, we're sensitive to what people say about her, so it's not gonna help to rub it in, and most of us want to be real about her chances anyway, and it's what also lets us know that she has real chances, because we look at everything, and we want to believe, just like we don't want to be too disappointed, especially some people, so that's why we can be both real and when we're not despairing we're hopeful for her, knowing some stuff is pointing in a good direction. We don't know exactly what that direction is, but we can guess and we're a bit torn cuz we don't trully know, but we feel she deserves a spot, and others want spots for their characters so there's tension and they don't know how to go about it but play down the chances and look at what could go against her (and other characters they feel threatened by) in order to justify why their character deserves a spot (instead of the otheres).
And it's that 'instead' that doesn't have to be there, especially in a world of dlc, and looking at it more generously, we wouldn't have to bear as well as deliver the aggression around. I'm pretty sensitive and that's why I notice it quite a bit, even if I dish out sometimes too. I've downplayed some other characters, and sometimes it's just about being realistic but other times it's unnecessary.
I know it's silly to get bent over this stuff, but at the same time I think other people here are putting some part of themselves in here, we all have some reason for being into this, and meaning something or other to us. So I hope this doesn't sounds too weird, I'm just speaking my mind, venting a bit, and I'm tired, but I'm optimistic too, and also kind of passing the time, like a lot of people are doing, talkin'
If you read through all that, congrats, if it makes sense, good. if not, oh well.
catch ya laters.
