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I am less hopeful than I was last direct lol.
Which I do really hope. I still think we could have had way more Echoes than this. Even if Ken and Shadow make it, I still don’t think that’s enough. There’s a lot of reasonable Echoes out there, and Impa is easily Top 5 most worthy Echo material. She can also be made with using assets of other move sets like that of Ike, Cloud, Sheik or Greninja or even Link and Zelda (Link’s bombs and Zelda’s magic). So there’s a lot that’s possible. If she only had a good role in BotW, she wouldn’t face all this jeopardy...
Yes same here!! Ten more minutes... can hardly wait. I still think a Zelda newcomer is just about obligationary at this given point, and Impa would make the perfect Sheik Echo now that her Final Smash has changed. If nothing else, am hopeful for DLC. Therefore I hope there’s no flat out deconfirmation in this Direct.
Diddy Kong
’s IMPAct. 
Well honestly, Diddy is Sakurai’s favorite punching bag in just about any instance. It’s almost always Diddy who gets hit by basically anyone in most official Smash presentations. It’s been irritating me since a while, so I didn’t even notice.So... didn’t anyone see the Yiga Clan Mii battling Diddy Kong in the Direct?
In my head canon, it’s Sakurai acknowledging
Can you just imagine if Impa is a DLC fighter?! Her biggest competition, Skull Kid, is disconfirmed along with Midna and Ghirahim... and Tingle is no longer an Assist Trophy but is now on the Great Bay stage again.
She had one... Breath of the Wild... but that was the original elderly Impa and not the new youthful Impa.
trouble is it looks like sakurai doesnt like zelda anymore, maybe im being paranoid but in all 3 kirby character videos one of the links gets attacked by them
Zelda may not have a lot of fighters but it is very well represented in stages and ATs.
I could also see possibly free echo characters somewhere down the line. Maybe...
it does feel like he give preferential treatment to other series like fire emblem but like i said maybe im just being paranoid
No, only Ocarina of Time Impa is a spirit so far
This is an amazing stage idea. I'd love to see the rainbow bridge or Gaurds from Oot, the courtyard and resistance fighters from TP, and the Gaurdians, Lynels, and Malice. Although, Hyrule castle is represented quite frequently already. We have 2 stages for it and it appears in Sheikah Tower as well as Bridge of Elden.
I would of thought so, with the quality of Breath of the Wild.. Fingers crossed
yeah i think nintendo might have gone for fan favourites
Yes but I can't really picture them adressing characters that are already ATs, like Spring Man for ARMS, or Mii Costumes. So what is really left? I also don't see them opting much for second party newcomers, as Fire Emblem or Pokemon newcomers for example. Bandana Dee might also be excluded because of this. It seems way more likely Nintendo wants to have more imput in who goes into Smash, and that is a very good thing I think. Not specifically for Impa, but for first party newcomers in general. King K.Rool and Ridley only really got in because of insane fan demand. But now we can finally see who Nintendo themselves would want to put into Smash Bros., and that might mean Impa gets considered.
and are what was innitially shown in the trailer. Since we got semi-clone DLC characters last time () and a lot of characters who where build up from assets from excistant fighters (; . ; . ; ) that could mean that Impa was pushed back into DLC territory? Same with Dixie Kong. All of young Impa's excisting builds are different than Sheik's. We already figured that part out. If Isabelle's slight height difference and lack of a potbelly mean she's more than a Echo, that means Impa would probably fall in the same category.well we cant really know who nintendo would have chose, all we can be sure of is sakurai's bias will be little less all we can do is hope impa was on the listYes but I can't really picture them adressing characters that are already ATs, like Spring Man for ARMS, or Mii Costumes. So what is really left? I also don't see them opting much for second party newcomers, as Fire Emblem or Pokemon newcomers for example. Bandana Dee might also be excluded because of this. It seems way more likely Nintendo wants to have more imput in who goes into Smash, and that is a very good thing I think. Not specifically for Impa, but for first party newcomers in general. King K.Rool and Ridley only really got in because of insane fan demand. But now we can finally see who Nintendo themselves would want to put into Smash Bros., and that might mean Impa gets considered.
Also, I posted the same thing in the Dixie Kong thread, but what if Impa was considered to be added as a Echo, but decided to differenciate her more? Much like Isabelle really. Who still seems VERY clonish! I analysed her moveset a lot, and it seems that all the differences between the movesets of
Am not saying it's extremely likely, just a possibility. If anything, our chances probably sky rocket once again if there will be Echo DLC characters. But somehow, I doubt that... Which is bad cause I don't think Impa is far less popular than the likes of Daisy and Dark Samus at the very least. If anything, she was always consistantly popular like Chrom.
I kind of think that Impa missed the boat this time because the designs of both the original game of Link and Zelda have a elder Impa in that respective game. ALBW has Impa as the princess's nursemaid, but definitely isn't a guardian fit for protecting her, even if she's a Sage. And BotW Impa was once a respective warrior close to Link, Zelda and the Champions, but that was literally a 100 years prior.Despite the lack of a Zelda newcomer since Brawl being a obvious point that needs to be addressed, as Zelda is easily one of Nintendo's most succesful gaming franchises and Breath of the Wild was phenominal, I'll try and keep it character-related. Zelda really doesn't have many consistant characters that return to each game, outside of Link and Zelda. Ganon is also up there, but GanonDORF definitely isn't for example. And let me just compare Impa with Ganondorf here.
Impa might not always have a role in the Zelda franchise as a fitting Smash character, being a elder lady in her most recent incarnations (ALBW
It might not be all that much, but she's the most prominent Zelda character aside from incarnations of Link, Zelda and Ganon, whom all have their most popular and prominent versions of their character featured in Smash. At the very least she could've been a Sheik Echo, but I believe she can have way more.
Since Breath of the Wild is HEAVILY Sheikah-themed, and BotW being a "template" for future Zelda games, Impa could easily borrow the moves of Link's Sheikah Slate to create a character around. Master Khoga, the Yiga Leader, also uses a few Sheikah Slate magical attacks as Magnesis. If the Yiga Leader could do so, so could the Sheikah Leader. Since Breath of the Wild is bascially the end of the Zelda timeline, and Skyward Sword is the beginning, it's likely a next Zelda game will be in the past of BotW, and since BotW features a Old Impa, a prequel would feature a Young Impa. She has fought against the Calamity in her younger years, and was implied to be a strong warrior close to both Link and Zelda as well as the Champions. She would be the IDEAL candidate for a Zelda newcomer that's added down the line of Smash development, when news of a next Zelda game will probably reach us before they reveal Impa as one of the DLC characters. That's good foreshadowing.
Older Impa could work, or even one that transformed between young and old, but I think Nintendo would choose Young Impa for DLC because she’d be more profitable
i agree younger impa would be far more likely but i dont think whether or not its been established or not that a character can fight would be a problem for smash, i dont think we saw the dog or the duck from the duo fighting before hand
im glad im not the only one who had that idea
Hey I didn't even think of that yet! Other M and Hyrule Warriors sharing the same developer. We might have some luck after all! Especially if there's gonna be a Hyrule Warriors 2, which I think is very likely. It might even be the prequel to BotW? Since BotW was quite inspired by Hyrule Warriors, especially the cutscenes and a few story segments, it could be very possible.
