"WHAAAA NOT THE CHARACTER I WANT" is most of it alongside Smash fans going "I'm not racist but **** what Japan does for it's RPGs"
Eh I don’t get it. But I’m pretty happy to be pleased so maybe it’s just that. I am happy to get a bag of potato chips for my birthday. Which I did get. And I was happy.
(And my triad against Bethesda withstanding, I still like the studio and excited about their games.)
But that mentality you described does boil down to most of the community.
Aside from that, I totally forgot to talk about my experience yesterday. I was chatting at lunch with some of my 9th grade students about Smash DLC (a bit of English but mostly in Japanese) and who they want to see. Of the five boys, two said a DQ character, another said a Fortnite character, and the other didn’t know.
I asked if they wanted Steve but they were a bit aloof about it. One boy thought Steve sounded fun though. I asked about Banjo and it was a literal “Who?” So I showed some gameplay videos and they were still a bit like “Maybe he would be fun but we have no idea who he is.”
Mind you this is ritual Japan and five 9th graders so it probably doesn’t represent the Japanese Smash mindset fully.