tbuster766
Smash Journeyman
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At least she was shown off. Skull Kid and Prince Sable (along with a few others like Phosphora) were just added onto the site right after the direct. I get your point all things considered seeing how she is very popular in Japan, so it sucks for her fans. I really hope they went with the mentality that assist trophies do not disconfirm characters, but the way they went about presenting Piranha plant as a fighter was like "Lol nah bruh he's not an assist, but a fighter for real!" and raises my doubts a bit. Still keeping out hope for assist trophies being upgraded. I just wish they handled this a lot better though to maintain damage control. At the very least, if Polar's source is to be believed then it does raise the prospects that Nintendo higher ups were taken back by the reactions to Isaac's assist, so it may not be all too bad in the long run either.Things like this make me think that they don't put too much stock in the order of the Assist reveals. It seemed like they just divided them up into somewhat balanced groups so that each group had a few surprises and a few popular characters. This would suggest that they don't see Assists as "disconfirmations" like fans do.
But then again, it was extremely weird to just throw Ashley in at the end of a segment with only NEW Assists (IIRC) and not even announce her properly. Moreover, she was the only one shown in this manner (again, IIRC).
So maybe they know that we're carefully looking at Assist reveals to narrow down the list of potential PCs, or maybe they just try to spread out the notable ones (likely the latter). It's also possible that they do know about us AT hunting in the DIrects, but don't really care about it.
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