So, Joker, and rumors about a Square character, and maybe Steve.
So my fear that the DLC characters are all third party may become real.
I was so happy when Sakurai said that Nintendo was in charge of selecting the characters because I thought that we finally were getting some Nintendo characters. Instead... we're getting more third parties.
I'm sorry but I don't like this direction, this game is really starting to feel like Playstation All Stars Battle Royale to me (not because of Playstation character in specific, but because it's beoming the celebration of many third party franchises which I absolutely don't care about).
I'm happy for the fans, and for those people who like the Persona games, I know it has a lot of fans... and it makes sense from a marketing point of view, a character from a popular series with many fans.
But it's starting to not feel like Smash Bros anymore.
So far, the only newcomers I like are Inkling and Incineroar, and even Incineroar has a couple of moves I don't like, such as summoning the ropes out of nowhere and the counter (because I hate counters); I was also interested in Ridley but after they revealed him and his moveset, I thought his gameplay is uninteresting.
So I'm sorry but I think I'm not going to get this Smash game...
No, it's not just the characters, there are many factors involved:
-I bought Brawl, and Smash 4 in both versions. I played it with my friends for about a month and then we returned to Melee; I had the feel that I wasted my money both times, especially with Smash 4 where I spent A LOT of money (both versions + limited with the gamecube adapter).
-I don't really want to buy a Switch. I don't like the console and I think it's overpriced. I didn't like Breath of the Wild on WiiU and I'm not interested in Mario Odyssey because I see some common elements with the Zelda title, those elements that I disliked (collecting moons-korok seeds). The only game that I'm interested in is Kirby Star Allies and not even for the game itself (more because they finally put a character I like in it after 18 years of neglecting her and the games she appeared in as if they never existed), the game even looks boring for most of its content.
-I don't like the direction of the Smash series from Brawl onward. Gameplay-wise. I don't like how laggy the gameplay is, how unresponsive it is, how the game stores your input and does the moves separately from the moment of the input.
I don't like how items are grabbed when you perform dash moves and aerial attacks, it feels like a glitch and most of the time I unintentionally grab unwanted items; I don't like the gambling elements, the rare collectables you have to play for several months in order to get them all and rely on some horrible random value without any management, that theorically could go for years without giving you the item you need to finish the game.
Instead of improving the physics, they keep using the same formula again and again; stuff like the fact that jumps have a fixed height are still in the game, along with the unresponsiveness and lag, and other stuff, making the platforming elements of the game a terrible experience (instead of improving them, let's just remove them!).
I don't like the selection of characters and stages, especially I don't like how the stages are made from Brawl onward (it would be too long to explain, but I think only Melee did the stages right).
I don't like how instead of using popular environments from the franchises represented in Smash, they continue using generic Smash-exclusive environments; this for single player modes, story modes and so. And so on.
-Sakurai continues to ignore the content that comes from the games I like. Stuff like Warioland or the Dark Matter Trilogy (Kirby Series) are constantly ignored, and the icing on the cake is that he excluded my most wanted character from the list of spirits, and there's a high chance that it's not because of DLC but because of being neglected (in the meanwhile, HAL is doing the opposite, giving her a lot of spotlight and making her playable). This is a very minor thing but it's annoying, and added to the above list, it just makes the situation way worse.
So, I'm sorry but the only thing that could have saved the game for me (the characters) seems to be going in a direction that I don't like, so, it's very possible that I will skip this game completely.
And since the Switch has very few games that I like, it's very possible that, without Smash Bros, I won't even buy the console completely, at all.
Unless Metroid Prime 4 is a masterpiece and a new F-Zero game that doesn't suck is announced, or something.
An hypotetical announcement of Adeleine as DLC may change the things a bit, I may decide to buy the game even just so I can main my favorite character, but this won't change my overall opinion on the series and on the Swithc as a console.
But that's not happening.
