Hello everyone,
I have been a lurker of this thread since Smash Ultimate were announced, but have not created an account until now.
I decided to change that, because, even if it's too late for us to get recognition in the base game, there is no way it should make lose hope. Seeing some of you abdicate hurts me. A game die when its fanbase let it die, and Golden Sun fanbase has never been more active than now. We must capitalize on this and push further.
I'm not going to dwell on my opinion about the last Direct we got, but more on the future. I see Isaac's chance in the first wave of DLC very slim, but I have good faith for a second wave if there's one.
However, Isaac in Smash is not the only thing we are looking for as a fanbase, the other one being a new game, most probably a reboot/remake of the initial duology. You may have lose hope for Isaac in Smash, but a new game still is perfectly possible: Camelot doesn't work on Aces anymore, JRPG did well on Switch recently, and Isaac gained recognition thanks to Smash speculation. Nintendo should strike the iron while it's hot, and we shall too.
I saw several people wanting to make an campaign soon. I agree with that and I'll participate. However, a Twitter campaign have the default only being a one-shot, and to not be a single-entry point of an operation like "Golden Sun Revival".
We need to organize a strong and long-term operation.
Several of you already said something I'm backing: we need to get behind a few faces and channels that will become more or less the "official" faces of the operation.
What we need is:
- A common objective. It has not been stated yet if the goal is to bring Golden Sun back, or to bring Isaac in Smash.
- An easy and clear name for that operation.
Last but not least, like I said previously, we need a single-entry point of the whole operation. We currently have two Twitter accounts, some Youtubers, some Discord, several artists, this board and more. That will not be easy to understand from an outside point of view, and even worse if you don't know who is Isaac and what is Golden Sun.
What I propose is to create a single website.
This website will be the face of the operation. It must be concise, explain what is Golden Sun, who we are, what we want, and reference a few of the actions we are trying to do. It must have a good
search engine optimization to get visible in Google.
I want to be active in this operation, but I have no skills in arts, I'm not a Youtuber, nor I intend to participate in Smash competition. What I have, however, is web development skills (but no web design skills). I may try to work on that.
My thoughts on all of that.
On the subject of the objective of the operation. I think everyone here mostly want Golden Sun to not be forgotten. People here will be happy with either Isaac in Smash or a new Golden Sun game. The former is even an objective to get the later achieved.
What I think on that is, even if a new Golden Sun game is your final objective, we should try to focus on
getting Isaac in Smash.
Why I say that? It's because Smash Bros Ultimate is hot topic. Setting the goal for "Isaac in Smash Bros" may bring people from outside the fandom to join us, like K Rool and Ridley fans. It also have the bonus to make us more visible on Google researches with some keywords like "potential DLC". Focusing on getting a new Golden Sun will not bring these two wonderful advantages.
On the subject of the website, what I currently see is a single page with 5 chapters:
- Who's Isaac?
- What could he bring to Smash?
- Who we are?
- Links to community contents (Twitter, Billy Youtube...)
- "They are supporting us" (with some words coming from highly renowned people. I believe Zero is an Isaac fan for example, that would be nice to have him backing us)
There's only one last element on which I don't have a fixed position: if we need to try to get a single website merging all fanbase, or not.
On one hand, if we have a big website with a page for 6 or 7 characters in it, Isaac will get drowned within other contenders.
On the other hand, it will bring way more people to the site, more people will discover Isaac, and we will have more visibility overall.
I would like to get your input on all of that.
tl;dr: we have to stay positive, push further, organize and officialize a campaign. I believe we need a single-entry point like a website summarizing who we are and what we want.