Yo everyone! Listen up:
This guy here is speaking the truth.
No he’s not.
First off, you can’t just say “Byleth is the perfect way to end the pass” that’s just as baseless, opinionated, and triggering a statement as “he’s the worst character you could pick”.
And I’m sorry but just laying back and letting the game go to town on me is NOT how I want Smash to go. I admit I overreacted to Byleth and he’s not that bad a choice. But not having any sorts of hopes or expectations is boring. Yes, you will be disappointed if you didn’t get what you wanted. But that’s not a bad thing. It’s human nature.
And I will throw this out here. Yes, people who do g want fire emblem characters are overreacting, but that’s partly because a lot Fire Emblem fans are just such sore winners. “I got the character I want and anyone who does like them is a Winey man child, lol” is NOT a good look, and that kind of sentiment is why Smash fans get so extreme. Both sides are responsible for this controversy. Yes. Non-FE fans shouldn’t overreact like they are, but Fire Emblem fans shouldn’t be such... asses about it.
And finally, I just don’t like the wording of “you get your Ridley’s and K. Rools and Banjos, play with them for a week, and then go back to Samus and Fox”. That’s just uncalled for. It implies that adding those highly requested characters was somehow a
BAD thing. Which leads people to fill in the gaps of who would have been “better” picks. And it’s treating Sakurai like some starving artist that we physically beat until he gives us everything we want.
And I have no shame in not liking the idea of including a character who will be completely forgotten about when the next installment comes out. And it’s not just Fire Emblem that has this problem. It applies to all sorts of characters from Rosalina to Pokémon to even Joker. There’s nothing wrong with wanting the roster to be evergreen.
My finger hurts now.
Shroob
makes an interesting point on the echos actually.
We already have e evidence they wanted to make Kasumi an alt or echo.
Whose to say that data was scrapped? Perhaps it was moved to work on as an echo alongside some other choices to as Shroob said meet five characters a year.
would make a lot of sense.
My bets for echo fighters if they happen:
octolings, kasumi, edgeworth, Funky Kong
I love how everyone’s echo fighter predictions also subtly include one of their most wanted character that hasn’t yet been confirmed.
And I still think that Kasumi was planned because Sakurai didn’t know she wasn’t just a female protagonist option. And when he found out he scrapped it.
Either that or it was just leftover Zero Suit Samus data like how they built Hero off of Link and Banjo off of Duck Hunt.