Ffs, I can't wait any longer for the next Direct.
I want to stop suffering by waiting like this.
I had way more hype a month ago. With later developments, while I don't put all of my eggs on the Erdrick basket (really think that if not him, they will go for Sephiroth, yes, the one character that has lost hype around here, or Sora), I think that character makes a ton of sense to be in the game. Really wishing that they could add more than one from that list. Sad that we see Capcom and Konami have 3 characters, while we're here praying for a second to even show up.
I may be biased, but I lived the SNES era, and I love Nintendo to this day. And alongside them, the one third-party company that I think has the largest number of "Nintendo-essence" series is S-E. Back in my time, S-E was almost like a second-party studio. Everything they did was nearly for Nintendo. FF exists with the Western impact it has today because of some help that Nintendo gave them as support back in the day as well. They made classic stories, with classic characters and villains. And while they did jump to the PSX bc of Nintendo messing up, it took some time before S-E lost that very thing that defined them. But by then, some major stories and characters were already established. And all of them are part of this list. From Sephiroth's position as their most impactful villain, to Sora's timeless appeal to generations. From DQ's characters that defined JRPGs to Crono and Geno's mark that was left to a good portion of the Nintendo fanbase back then due to their own games that defined the end of the SNES-era of classics.
I don't know why I decided to write so much (specially considering how I'm now just watching the show rather than giving my opinions), but this wait is killing me. Every single day I wake up, go to Nintendo Everything hoping for that groundbreaking article that Nintendo announced a ND, and I get disappointed. We've waited for a Direct for way too long, and considering PP's launch is coming very soon, you can bet that Smash will appear in it. So a trailer of a new character is not off the book.
On a side note, the fact that Nintendo and S-E held off the launch date for FFVII and IX fills me with hope for Sephiroth. That is a premise for a Direct showing that would make sense. It's either that moment or never. Unless they hold off the S-E character again, and they somehow announce the Remake is coming to the Switch at a later date, alongside a Seph reveal to Smash. These are the only two possibilities for such thing to happen.
And yes, I'm assuming that what we got as info is still circumstancial evidence and we shouldn't take it all for granted. The Brave code isn't final, the info we got from leakers could be wrong (I still find it extremely fishy that to this day Verge hasn't gone full Erdrick yet, even if he expressed that he is the one "he most heard").