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After close examination, the model doesn’t appear to be from Pokken, but rather it’s completely original.
Never played ARMS, so pardon my ignorance, but can they attack backwards? Could be a nod to how they are better when facing the opponent?
Matches always have you facing the front, so you can never attack from behind at any point. This is also the case for your opponent.
Arms is played from a behind the back perspective, and the camera is always locked so that your opponent is already directly in front of you, and even if the opponent moves fast enough to get out of that lock, the camera will just immediately readjust itself.
You never turn away from your opponent in ARMS, so I suppose in that regard it would make sense. Bit of a stretch of logic in my own opinion though.
It's ARMS. Everything in it is a stretch.
There's no backwards attacks, mainly because the camera is always fixed onto the opponent. The closest you can do is change your targeted opponent during a 3 or 4 player match, and strike them when they're behind you.
Except its not from Pokken though
I personally subscribe to the theory that Spring Man was added really late into this Smash's development due to the timeframe of ARMS' release, so that's why his animations look choppy.It's ARMS. Everything in it is a stretch.
Anyway, duly noted on the localization stuff. I know we've had last minute additions before. My only theory otherwise is Spring Man is a Wolf-style clone(moveset-wise) of Little Mac, which would explain the back air.
Mine went hand in hand with that. As that's how Wolf got in.
This I can agree with.
But now they have the luxury of DLC, and Spring-Man seems a desired enough character to make sense as standalone content. Doubt it’ll be an issue.
I think his design is cool, but yes the arms cast is full of characters that would fit right in smash
I tried to refute that point but any other example was so bland that I can't find enough features about them to retrieve from my brain.
This very well could be Smashified. They haven't made a character in a while it possible this is their work. If theres one thing I'm certain of, its that these models are not direct rips and are made from the ground up (or at least modified.) These were not just slapped together using wii u skin ripping software and called a day. The animations are completely original too. A LOT of effort and attention to detail was put into that video if you did into it.
He's a character for starters who's design is meant to represent the most basic concept of the game. Characters with arms like springs.
The worst that could get cut due to Spring Man's addition is clones. I think most unique newcomers, minus maybe Mewtwo or Jigglypuff, will return for Smash Switch.
Compared to those guys, Spring Man's design is actually pretty good.
I think there are many more generic and uninspired designs than spring man in the video game industry.
To be fair a sizable amount of these men may look the same but some of them have some very fleshed out personalities that make them very very interesting. Like Nathan Drake especially being on this image is a ****ing crime. He's got one of the most lively personalities in gaming.
I think there are many more generic and uninspired designs than spring man in the video game industry.
He's basically a hot blooded jock.
I actually agree with this as well, but every new series always adds its main character before any others. The exceptions being some of the series that don't have a standard "main character".
I still a little miffed that we never got a character with accordions for arms. I would have loved that.
Out of curiosity, why do people always say that Jigglypuff is going to be cut?
One important thing I would like to point out about that b-air that Spring Man does has no key framing obviously. The animation has no indication of weight or power behind it cause he is literally swinging his body all the way through without and wind up or clear end point. It's not professional at all and is really quite amateur.
Compared to those guys, Spring Man's design is actually pretty good.
However, compared to these guys:
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I can't help but feel like Spring Man's design falls a bit short.
To be clear, we're under the impression she's been nearly cut more than once due to datamines of the games and such. So people think she could be cut. I don't know why people think it's likely to happen, though. It's a possibility, but doesn't seem that high. Especially when you consider how easy she is to remake and how popular she is. There's little reason to do so.
While I do work on games, I haven't gotten far into programming. Interesting to note.
