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They were "able to" because the Kojima "weirdness" was already long over. The weirdness is what kept Snake out of Smash 4.
So Nintendo was just avoiding controversy?
Konami refused to allow Snake to be Smash 4 DLC.
The argument we use is that he hardly uses his sword not that he doesn't use it at all. Pretty much he shouldn't rely on it as much as other characters but using it for a leap attack like in the games or a psynergy/djinn attack that utilises the sword in a different enough way would be fine with me. And Smash may just make up sword attacks for the sake of it. As long as psynergy is the main focus and could diversify enough for him for me I'd be good with that
I'm sure he'd use his sword for some normals and aerials, but not for everything. I figured Ragnarok would be neutral special and side special would be Move. I'd want Up Special to be Teleport, but since those don't work in this game (see: Zelda, Palutena) Scoop or Spire could work. He could do something like Kragg from Rivals of Aether where he summons a rock or something to leap off of. I once had a moveset where hid Down Special was Mind Read and it basically functioned like Shulk's counter. Now, I think something like switching/setting Djinn should be his Down-B, knowing how important they are in Golden Sun's combat. They could improve/reduce his stats and give him powerful summons to use. Judgement is an easy Final Smash. For his costumes, I think each should take from the party members of the original two Golden Sun games. I'd rather only have a Matthew alt if it means that Felix is an Echo (which he should be).
I like the mixing of Djinn thing. Maybe switching them up would change a side special from an earth base attack to a fire or whatever elemental Djinni you change to.
I'm not really a fan of changing his side special, I did think of that at first but I felt like there was a better way to use the djinn. I feel like the side special should take full advantage of what an earthbender could do and making it interchangeable would make them not live up to it's potential as much as it should. The way djinns work in my moveset is that you can select one of the four elemental djinn which each has their own attack and they give you a specific nerf until it recharges. So the more you use while the other one is still charging the more disadvantaged Isaac gets
Hearing stuff like this makes me really confident in how well a Switch Golden Sun is going to do. With how much the influence and power of social media has increased since the era where Dark Dawn was released word of mouth is going to help a new potential game big time. I've seen plenty of big names mention Golden Sun before and once an official announcement is hopefully/inevitably made, the buzz around it is going to be crazy seeing all these big personalities expressing their hype around it and exposing their audience to the series.
What playing The Lost Age really feels like. pic.twitter.com/vJkZkcZCtb
— Golden Sun Shitposts (@GS_Shitposts) November 10, 2019
It could, but I think the Switch is the perfect console for it. They should at the very least release the first two games as a bundle and see what that sells. I’d be willing to bet they’d sell a ton as long as Nintendo didn’t overprice them.
Yes, but Astral Chain is a brand new IP while Golden Sun has a very well established fanbase. There is more anticipation and, thus, more market and desire for a new Golden Sun then a brand new IP.
There are so many factors that go into something like this that it's hardly so black and white. By this own logic, Golden Sun should always increase in sales, but when it was a new IP is when it sold the most. Which probably was, in part, due to a factor like timing.
Just to be clear though, a game not hitting a million units doesn't mean it wasn't necessarily successful. It all depends on how closely the commercial reception aligns to the expectations of the company. Each game will be different.
Maybe, but it takes them awhile. Only recently did they finally notice K. Rool has been wanted by fans forever. And according to Sabi’s NoA source they didn’t realize there was a GS/Isaac fanbase as big as it was until Isaac’s fate as an AT was revealed.
If NoA does see, they better know how much we desire Isaac in the Smash Roster via DLC and get Golden Sun back. I will keep pushing for both! A GS Remake will definitely help for sure. Here’s hoping Camelot is at work with one for next year!
Back during the WiiU, it was stated that for a console Fire Emblem game to be considered a success, it would need to sell 700K. And it's fair to say that bar was probably a bit higher for a switch game too. In any case, that's more then double the 3DS game estimate. And it's suffice to say that Golden Sun is probably a significantly more complicated game to develop then a tactics game with a social sim element.
Not to impugn your estimate, but that really is just throwing out a number. I don't think anyone unfamiliar with budgeting a video game would be able to say, really. But I doubt it's as high as a million. Xenoblade got three cracks at it before pushing past a million, and those games are huge in scope.
I don't get this. Tactics games can be pretty elaborate.
Yeah, this is the overexaggeration of the century.
Wasn't there some interview somewhere where someone at IS said they'd be very interested in doing a new Advance Wars? I mean obviously FE:3H was a big deal and nothing could get in the way of that, but now that's out of the way and a good success, so they've got time and money to play around.
Two thoughts:
The only problem is that Nintendo may believe that the only these characters are selling so well is because they're third-party, and they don't think first-party characters would sell for whatever reason. You could add literally any character to Smash and turn a massive profit and hopefully Nintendo understands that, but if they don't, we could stuck in third-party DLC hell for the foreseeable future.
Lots of IntSys devs are eager to return to the franchise including a key Nintendo producer. Of course it never happened in the 3DS era given FE only hit it's stride there and of course the design challenge (i.e. relationship mechanics) that was stated in 2017. There's also the issue with development resources and whatnot which has hurt AW quite a bit in the past decade.
Counterpoint: that thinking makes it MORE likely they try a first-party character to test the waters before they go for more of them.
A lot of this pass seems to be testing the waters. We got:
And who's at the front of the line? Isaac. I like this way of thinking.
Not to be overly negative, but I have concerns.
Yeah I always felt like Rex was a certainty, given that Sakurai went out of his way to explain why he wasn't in the base game. That's basically setting him up to be next. I know he's a popular pick but I hope Nintendo has some restraint given that Xenoblade got a rep last time. Astral chain would be a new IP rep and could come with an interesting move set at least.
Golden Sun protagonists be like... pic.twitter.com/dFgSjlJaVi
— Golden Sun Shitposts (@GS_Shitposts) November 11, 2019
Or maybe that's because he prefers to add Elma as future DLC. Outside of the blade system, Rex would be very similar to existing characters, including Shulk. Elma, at least, is a dual-blade and dual-gun wielder. I wish.
This would be very good news potentially for Isaac if they're talking specifically about assist trophies. Since Waluigi and Isaac are arguably the characters most in demand for assist trophy promotion.
Late to the party I guess, but happy 18th Golden Sun! Now, remember GS, I realize how much you probably want to smoke right now considering your issues, but just because you can now doesn't mean you should.
This is good, but also unsurprising. Knowing that Nintendo is aware of the huge blowback from Isaac's confirmation as an assist trophy, this should mean that it puts him at the top of the list for promotions. I'm not worried about Waluigi and Geno, in fact the opposite. Them getting in would be BENEFICIAL to us as they are really the only other characters in that upper echelon of longstanding community wants
