"The entire CV community!" That's vague. Any citations? In comparison, here's Sakurai's statement: "I'd imagine that there were a lot of people that went "huh?! Who's Richter?" too. I'd be happy if those people become more familiar with the character through Smash Ultimate."
https://nintendoeverything.com/sakurai-on-smash-bros-ultimate-newest-fighter-reveals-modes-and-more/
And in comparison:
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https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2016...ans-one-most-requested-smash-bros-characters/
Huge difference. Even talking about the characters, Sakurai addresses that Geno is old but popular while the main takeaway with his comments on Richter are not a lot of people know who he is in the grand scheme of things. Keep in mind that Sakurai is also a man with such a huge video game collection that he regularly comments on that he's kind of embarrassed about it.
http://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/shuno_sakurai
So what we have here is not only the director of Smash, who is constantly bombarded with character requests and knows who people are asking for more than anyone else, but also an avid video game collector make definitive statements on this topic. Again, very poor hill to die on.
Look dude. I get it. You really like Geno.
But doing the pissing contest of "My obscure Characters is less obscure than your Obscure Characters and here are the reasons." -Whenever they're good or not. I do agree that Sakurai at least aknowledged Geno and that he's a popular pick - is like pissing in the ocean and hoping you will flood the world and burry it under the sea with your contribution.
That's cool and dandy, but in the end, it doesn't change anything-
I like Geno a lot, but starting to downplay others Characters to show that yours have it's chance is basically Smash 4 cancer DLC era personality.
Richter IS in fact Famous, he's always battling between Alucard/Soma for First place in general during """major"" (aka more than 10 vote if you get what I mean) polls.
Now the point is here, Geno had Sakurai attention but he chose Cloud. There is another Square-Enix Rep and it's Maybe Geno.
But Saying that Richter doesn't have his cult celebrity is like saying that Geno doesn't have anything worth to be in smash beside Sakurai statement
Both are wrong. They're both beloved Characters in their community, or rather Smash community for Geno and CV for Richter and they both have their cult celibrity, while Richter Fame basically exploded x 100 thanks to his inclusion where a majority would rather play him than Simon and got to learn about Castlevania. (Oh yeah that's also a point about advertisement)
That's the dream for sure. Tails as unique, Shadow as echo, Knuckles is an assist trophy (duh), and Eggman as a boss in Spirits.
Idfk why we don't have another Sonic rep already whenever it's Shadow or Tails, even though my personal favorite would be Blaze tbvh.