You don't see this in the games. You see NPC's. Monsters aren't about appearing randomly in stages. They're summons. AT's I could see make some sense to represent them correctly. But they're awful as Stage Hazards alone. Not actual main series bosses make sense like Dragonlord. Or Dragon showing up if it's a Dungeon-place.
That's not plenty of ways. That's one way that doesn't really represent the fact that they strictly face the heroes. AT's are way better than stage hazards, though. Only bosses actually are on the stages.
No, it's not flawed. Here's the problem with that. We got the mooks before anyone else in Pokemon. Yes, Pikachu is just as much of a mook as a mascot. You can't say they don't work. I don't see any reason to believe that Erdrick works magically better than Slime at all. They're still equal in representation. You can have the Heroes just as equally show up on the stages too. It makes even more sense since they actually have on-screen sprites and show up outside of battle. They also actually fit super well as Spirits. Which all of them should be bar maybe the playable one(if they don't choose Slime, which has a strong chance of happening. It's 50/50 at this point)
When Erdrick is a literal who across seas to quite a few people, I'd say they're at least 50/50 for sure. The mascot VS the hero.
...And so was Slime.
And that's why I asked. Though it doesn't change at all what I said that you need to represent as many aspects to properly show what DQ is. Spirits, AT's, the playable character, spells, items, equipment. Lore and Equipment are the least necessary. Everything else is extremely key to the series and why it's important.
Also, you're going to need to explain that one a bit. I get they're in a few crossovers. But has any Hero had their own specific spin-off? As in a game starring themselves? Slime and Chocobo do. Hell, Cloud kind of does since FFVII is one of the few FF games to even have spin-offs. That's what I mean. Their own non-mainline story. Does any Hero have that too?
Assume my media player is broken for a moment. What am I seeing? Just give me a quick summary, please. Every time I try to watch a video, they always give a very inaccurate impression of the point. I'd rather have it explained, since you're honestly good at giving that information.
You're exhausting me, my dude.
1: I wasn't necessarily suggesting that the monsters be stage hazards, but rather background elements you see walking around and whatnot. Sure, some of them could hop out and attack you, but the point is that you face these monsters along your journey, so having them represented within DQ's stage just makes the most sense for their roles in actual DQ games. They're monsters that roam dungeons and overworlds, so seeing them in the stage would actually be pretty cool.
2: There
are plenty of ways. The monsters could be spirits, Slime could be DQ's symbol, they can appear in the stage, maybe Slime could appear in Erdrick's moveset in someway
(I don't like this idea, but whatever), maybe Slime could be in one of Erdrick's victories or taunts, etc. They don't
have to be playable to be represented.
3: Are you seriously telling me that Link is not the best choice to represent the Zelda series with? If we could only get
one Zelda character in Smash, would Link not be the one best suited for the role? The heroes of DQ are like what Link is to the Zelda series; the main heroes that we play as in every game. Erdrick represents the heroes the best, so he should be the one to represent DQ in terms of being a playable character, in my opinion. Especially since we can only get
one playable rep at this time.
4: As for the rest, you literally claimed that the heroes are never used in spin-offs. I was just showing you that they were.
The heroes don't need their own spin-offs, their games are the main series games.
The video was just showing the hero of DQ1 making an appearance in a spin-off game called "Dragon Quest Rivals". That was all.
