Welcome to Smashboards, the world's largest Super Smash Brothers community! Over 250,000 Smash Bros. fans from around the world have come to discuss these great games in over 19 million posts!
You are currently viewing our boards as a visitor. Click here to sign up right now and start on your path in the Smash community!
I think this is effectively his way of letting you know early on that he's not going to be playable. In the instance of every new character reveal Sakurai has come straight out with it, no teasing, no showing the stages beforehand. I'm not saying he can't do what he likes but in terms of precedent, I think he likes jumping a newcomer on people without warning as opposed to showing the home stage first and sort of ruining the reveal in advance.
We don't talk to unpopular people in here
I did say new character reveal. Up until now, at least.Teasing?
Yeah, now that you mention it, Ridley's music making it onto the dojo without him being a character did hurt.
It's possible considering Nintendo is there with a bunch of demos.
The announcement of Olimar and I think WFT too. Luigi was of course not revealed a Friday because he was on the NIntendo Direct. Just grasping at straws with that really.
If he was refering to Ridley as a stage hazard then why wouldn't he just outright show him instead of holding him out? Yes, it's not like Sakurai to tease us like this, but he hasn't really had the opportunity to drop little hints like these before. The Brawl dojo was only about confirmations, here he just drops little texts, and this is obviously a hint towards something. Of course I'm ready to face giant dissapointment, it's happened once before, I've been open to taking it in the balls for quite a while now.
Doesn't have to be. Sakurai just quietly uploads that video and it'll find its way to becoming huge news. Would also be nice so Xbox One and PS4 don't hog all the spotlight tomorrow.
That's the thing, I'm almost certain that that would be more of a problem if he was a playable character than a stage hazard. If he was playable then he would want to come right out and show him, but teasing a neat extra feature of a stage doesn't seem too outrageous. It's already sort of happened with the gradual Pilotwings pics.
I can certainly agree with that. But there's no harm in making a few guesses as to how he might be going about things.
I honestly think the message could refer either way.It makes little sense to not just announce a stage hazard, one of the most prominent features of a stage, right away, they even did that with the Yellow Devil too (assuming he really is a stage hazard.) But on the other hand, what you say is also a possible situation. As of right now we can do nothing but wait really. Problem is that right now I can't take much more waiting
Well a stage hazard is a bigger role than a boss if you ask me, since multiplayer is obviously more prominent than the single player mode in Smash Bros.
Bosses aren't guaranteed to return, even if Sakurai loves his Boss Rush modes I have a hard time seeing them coming back without an SSE-like Adventure Mode, and even then I wouldn't count on seeing the same bosses again. To be fair, one of the only things Ridley hasn't been outside of a character in Smash Bros is a stage hazard, even if he's been in a stage before, only other thing is Assist Trophy, and Ridley really isn't the type that'd assist anyone but Mother Brain, though it was considered at one point of course.
I wouldn't give up hope yet, though this feels awfully familiar to Ridley's theme on the Brawl dojo.
If the stage is popular, at least you'll get to see him more often.
sakurai at gamescon: "ladies and gentlemen, introducing the newest smash character and metroid rep, ANTHONY HIGGS!"
"Also introducing, his stage, which includes Ridley as a hazard!"
And yes, I made an account just to post that. Hello.
Welcome!sakurai at gamescon: "ladies and gentlemen, introducing the newest smash character and metroid rep, ANTHONY HIGGS!"
"Also introducing, his stage, which includes Ridley as a hazard!"
And yes, I made an account just to post that. Hello.
Welcome! Gotta say, your post gave me the kind of laugh that I needed right now, thanks for thatsakurai at gamescon: "ladies and gentlemen, introducing the newest smash character and metroid rep, ANTHONY HIGGS!"
"Also introducing, his stage, which includes Ridley as a hazard!"
And yes, I made an account just to post that. Hello.
I remember people said something similar about a psychic boy with a red hat.
I would expect he would know Ridley's absence from Brawl was rather infamous. So then he would know exactly how to play us like this... But at the same time, this kind of thing would line up with him simply not knowing as well, lol.
Still there for me.
