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It would require:
Not a nintendo.com email, but presumably a nintendo.co.jp email given the formatting of the recovery email. Semantics, but important nonetheless.
Nate claiming he hasn't heard of GS (just like he didn't hear of the direct first, nor pokemon snap, etc) + him saying in the past apparently tha F-Zero isn't the miracle game, really makes me wonder what the hell could be a miracle at this point… lol
A game & watch collection? lol
Star Tropics would probably need one hell of a miracle to see the light of day again.
Nate hasn't heard about Golden Sun returning so it already isn't his miracle game. Regardless he doesn't hear everything that's in the works and even admitted that Pokémon Snap was completely off his radar. Golden Sun returning already has a lot going for it so it isn't a cause for concern
I mean, Nintendo is full of dormant franchises that would be shocking to see return. Some probably deserve it more than others (Golden Sun, F-Zero, and Advance Wars are my go-to examples), but honestly, the list of franchises Nintendo could bring back is huge. Can you imagine them announcing a new 1080 Snowboarding game? Or Custom Robo? Heck, how about that international Mother 3 release that people have been asking for forever? There are plenty of revivals that need a small miracle to become reality, and just because it's apparently not Golden Sun or F-Zero doesn't make that rumor false, nor de-confirm those two fan-favorites.
I think most of the stuff on this list has been shot down by Nate, particularly Mother 3
technically not impossible, but I do very much doubt the latter happens. I am thinking there could be something Sin and Punishment coming, since Treasure's not done anything since the Ikaruga port
Honestly if I were expecting Isaac (which I'm not, not really) something tells me he'd be like the 5th or 6th character on the pass. I know a lot of people wouldn't consider him an "explosive" end to the fighters pass but the final characters rarely end up being explosive anyway.
If Isaac is in Smash and a new Golden Sun is coming, I could definitely see them doing consecutive announcements as an E3-level surprise. In particular, I could see TBS/TLA remake trailer that seamlessly transitions into a Smash trailer, probably pretending to be an in-engine cutscene like Isabelle's. It seems Sakurai is actively talking with each character's developers (see Min Min), so doing a coordinated marketing push feels very plausible.
If it helps, nothing at all that has happened community wise in the last year matters in regards to who the last five fighters are,
I think it is worth remembering that Isaac was one of the most fan-demanded characters in the ballot era and his fan demand isn't by any means small now. People have turned discussion to third parties in general, but it's not like that makes Isaac's legacy of fan demand evaporate or anything. The last pass just had Nintendo flex their licensing deal prowess a lot and people generally tend to vocally support characters they consider feasible.
I certainly understand that, but I do think watching the ongoing community opinions is a useful gut-check. Past the initial disappointment of Isaac not being playable, it feels like there hasn't been that much sustained interest in and/or expection of Isaac DLC in the wider Smash fandom. That may well signal that support for Isaac was never as strong as we like to believe it was, hence my current doubts. Still, we knew what we were doing at the time: we had to trust that those reactions to Isaac (both his AT reveal and that fake Grinch line-up), in conjunction with community efforts like Golden Sundays, were enough to make that DLC happen. Unfortunately, at this point all we've got is waiting, and waiting upwards of another full year with no promise of success and a long history of disappointment Smash-wise sucks.
To be fair, that's largely because Isaac became an assist trophy and in the eyes of many became impossible or at least extremely unlikely. I don't think the support he has now can be compared to the support he had before being revealed as an assist trophy for Ultimate.
I'm more likely seeing Waluigi in the last spot.
Depends. I don't see him happening in the pass itself, but I could see him happening as a Piranha Plant-type bonus character.
Honestly, this is what I hope happens, and not because I've got anything against Waluigi being in the pass. Like, what do you do for his spirits, music, and stage? A bunch of Mario Sports stuff? That just feels like a wasted opportunity. Feels far better to make him a relatively low-effort, bare-bones DLC like the Plant, drop him as a freebie for a month after a major Direct ("thanks to the fans" and all that), and maybe get some extra Smash sales in the process that then buy FP1/2.
I think Felix without Isaac would be more proof that ATs can't be DLC than Min Min. She has kicks, a different set of default ARMS, and her dragon arm ability, while Felix has...not being an AT.
And again, Assists were never mentioned as to why Spring Man wasn't chosen. Sakurai just said he went to Yabuki to see who was the main character, and Yabuki said everyone was the protagonist. Sakurai then asked who Yabuki wanted, Yabuki said he wanted Min Min, and so Yabuki got Min Min. If he had wanted Spring Man, he most likely would've gotten Spring Man. Simple as that.
Exactly this! If ATs do deconfirm, that would have been the perfect opportunity for Sakurai to address it, but he didn’t. Nothing in that presentation said otherwise. Spring Man had a chance. Just that the creator of ARMS wanted Min Min specifically.
Yeah it's understandable. Isaac is an assist trophy (popular fan rule), his series hasn't seen a new game in a decade, and the first pass was dominated by third parties. And the community tends to talk about what's relevant. I'd be very shocked to see Isaac brought up frequently in current community speculation when the top 10 lists seems to change with the tides lol.
If you expect even a fraction of that from a single Direct, you're going to leave disappointed.
I'm just repeating what people are saying in the various threads and forums of these internets. I don't expect ALL of what I said to be in this direct, but those are the main candidates of what to expect from what I gather.
I don't think a new Golden Sun is really that relevant to Isaac's Smash chances. I mean, by that logic, Geno shouldn't even be in consideration, and his community is arguably the most confident out of any character right now. If Isaac's in, it's because of the community demand, not due to Nintendo trying to cross-promote or whatever else. (Of course, both could be happening, in which case sharing marketing is plausible, but I sincerely doubt one would be happening because of the other. Just a happy coincidence!)
