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Inb4 Youtube dislikes
That's for the best tbh
it's not politics, it's about how Konami treats its employees ridiculously horribly
Well looks I will not hear the end of it but again, it's fine not to support their product if you don't want to but I do remembered reading a comment from Spazzy_D "...Love the IP, but not the company..."
I don't think that'd blow over well, people already complain about "too much anime characters" without an actual Mine Yoshizaki girl being involved.
Plus Richter is already anime, I mean sure not moe anime but you know bishie.
People are fine with him, since they only ever complained about "CV anime" when Ayami Kojima was dropped between Aria of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia. I guess that if it's 90s anime, it's okay.
Isabelle and Dark Samus were promoted to clones. Glorified alts. Bomberman could never be one of those so he's in a rather different position.
There's also Little Mac, who was promoted from an assist trophy to a unique character, and Charizard, who was promoted from a Poke Ball summon.
Ok, you've got me there. I guess being an assist really does mean that Nintendo have their eye on you.
This is why I think Akira might have hope someday. Very slim hope, but hope nonetheless. Before anyone asks, he did appear in Virtua Quest and the Project X Zone series, and both were on Nintendo hardware.
Nintendo has had characters who have been an assist for a long time so even then Nintendo having there eye on you ain't much
Would you consider Cardcaptor Sakura the progenitor of cardgame anime? I wouldn't personally say that it was a genre until YuGiOh, which actually did get a starring role, but the argument could certainly be made. Bomberman and the clones thereof, though, they're undeniable. Leaving him out seems like a worse offense to me and I like Sakura.
I agree, it was a bit evil to make Bomberman an assist. But on the bright side, he still has a high chance of being promoted to playable in Smash 6.
Well the base roster is always set in pre production, and DLC is chosen afterwards. So only if they didn't make bomberman an assist trophy, they would've been able to release him as a DLC fighter in the 2nd fighter's pass. Now we have to wait several years just to get bomberman.
That's just a fan rule. Nothing prevents Sakurai from promoting an AT, especially because DLC is chosen afterwards.
Assist trophies and 4th party characters are the only characters that can't be released as DLC. Until the next game.
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Already joined.
To bring up something new. So Bomberman is an assist trophy because Richter is playable as a trade off, if Bomberman wasn't an assist trophy, he still would've been able to be a DLC fighter later. Here's what they could've done instead, Konami should've had Yusaku as an assist trophy in the base game instead of Bomberman.
Bomberman being an assist trophy and Richter being playable have nothing to do with each other. Richter's playable because he's an easy echo to make (he's nearly identical to Simon in every way but appearance) and he represents a major turning point in the franchise (Symphony of the Night). If Richter wasn't playable, it wouldn't mean that they'd suddenly have enough time to make Bomberman playable instead.
Especially if the lootbox crackdown keeps going, videogame companies might have no choice but to actually make videogames for a living.
Afterwards I got hooked with the N64 games (Bomberman 64, Hero, and 64 The 2nd Attack). The 2nd Attack's lore was pretty cool, and the elemental bombs were also a nice new feature in the series. I also played the GBA one, GC, Wii, and the latest I've played is Super Bomberman R which was a nice return to form. That being said, count me as a Bomberman supporter! 
(Speaking of which, imagine Kirby's Bomberman costume! A-DO-RA-BLE)