Ridley and K. Rool aren't the same though for a number of reasons with the biggest being that Ridley has been around since the first game and has been in all the major outings and remakes except Prime: Echoes. K. Rool hasn't had a role in a non-spin off game since DK64 which is almost two decades now. Ridley has been a glaring omission since Melee while K. Rool's last peak of relevance was around the release of Brawl. I'm not saying it won't happen but if K. Rool gets in, it's overwhelmingly going to be because of fan demand because he hasn't been a DK series icon in a long, long time.
Fun fact actually! Prime 2 was rushed like hell and concept art and a slowed down Ridley theme for a Dark Meta Ridley exist but got scrapped, similarly to Meta Kraid in Prime 1. That ************ was at his largest in the Prime 2 artwork, so that would genuinely be considered too big for anything
The reason RiIdley got in was fan demand, not relevance. Despite his relevance Sakurai always denied him due to his size. He has said the reason he got him to work was due to the massive fan requests.
While that's true, that doesn't ignore how Ridley has always been relevant. There's also how Zero Suit Samus got a redesign that's clearly based off of her Samus Returns design due to a more realistic anatomy and muscle. There's also the Meta Ridley costume and Ridley appears in Samus Returns as Proteus Ridley, which is basically just Meta Ridley but a different name
Did somebody point that Nintendo and Xbox One now have crossplay on minecraft?
What may be the implications of it on the smash bros series?
And on the future of future titles and the likes of Banjo?
It means nothing for Banjo but it's yet again proof Nintendo and Microsoft are willing to cooperate with Minecraft. If they wanted to, Microsoft not only could have stopped the Switch version from happening but they could also demand Minecraft get removed from the Wii U and 3DS eshops
It's weird, since Other M leads into Fusion, which is also one of the most divisive Metroid games out there.
I guess Clone-Ridley kills whatever he's in.
Fusion's reception changed
over the years, similar to how Prime 1's reception changed after release. That being said Other M causes physical pain to me cause the dpad hurts my big thumbs in 3D spaces