honestly... my whole reaction to this is... really, though? Why? I'm far from angry like I was at Fire Emblem because it's still a new franchise getting in. And I suppose that I did have one spot reserved in my predictions for a surprise. But like..... this is the second time in a row this has happened with this pass, I had pretty much the same reaction to the Arms Announcement. And I'm kind of worried at the tone this sets.
Also, of course he had to mention that Minecraft is "the best selling game in the world" which, while not his fault at all (especially since we already have Banjo), it does open old wounds from the great Bear and Block wars. Since that was frequently used as ammunition against Banjo.
Also. Am I the only one that thinks they look kind of... off? Like, it really looks like they just plunked the Minecraft models into Smash without messing with the textures like they do for ever other fighter. Like... people complained about PSASBR for that (among many other things).
And finally, it is a bit of a letdown that all the serendipity around Crash really was just a coincidence. Though, Steve's simplicity could be proof of characters with relative simplicity being moved ahead thanks to the pandemic, pushing the more relatively simple ones up front, a I mean, Min-Min already had ready made assets from Arms and Steve is... Steve. Sure, the programing for all his gimmicks might be a challenge. But animating all of it (the second most complicated part of designing a character) is so much simpler then other characters because of their limited movement and their complete lack of dialogue. Plus there's the fact that you probably could have built the stage IN Minecraft and then just exported the models with help from Mojang.