MistressRemilia
Smash Journeyman
You forgot a main factor, which is the reason of why Sonic's & MM's friends ain't in Smashbros as charas.
Pac-Man was the dumbest choice for the namco guest spot. Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia has more relevance with Nintendo, he should've been the Namco guest character.
Tales of Symphonia was originally a gamecube exclusive title, with a sequel on the Wii. He has made multiple appearances in other GBA and Wii games. There's a new Tales game coming out on 3ds in which Lloyd makes another appearance in. Nintendo paid for the english voice actors of Tales of Symphonia. Tales games have similar controls to Smash Bros. He already has more than enough moves to cover both a default moveset and custom moves. He already has alternate costumes they could use. He would be unique from the other Swordsmen because we still have yet to see a character that uses two swords instead of one, and all of his moves are completely different from the other characters in Smash.
That and Pac-Man's entire inclusion was half-*****. The majority of his moveset was just cherry picking from other characters in smash bros with just an added 8-bit sprite just to try cash in on "teh nostalgia bruh". The only move I actually have fun messing with is the fire hydrant, and even that gets old after a while. His WiiU stage is......ok. His 3ds stage is awful. The "remixes" are just the same damn tune that plays in the beginning of a pacman stage repeated over and over and over and over AND OVER AND OVER GOD ITS SO BLAND. His alt costumes are lazy too. Seriously Namco? Just changing his wrists and Shoes? GEE THATS TOTALLY NOT GOING TO BE CONFUSING IN PACMAN MIRRORS. You could've made recolors based off the ghosts, or hell slap a pretty bow for Ms.Pac-Man. BUT NOPE YOU TOOK THE LAZY WAY.
and what has PacMan done for Nintendo? Nothing! Every other guest has done something for nintendo.
Sonic:
Sonic adventure 1 DX
Sonic adventure 2 battle
Sonic Advance 1-3
Sonic Rush and Rush adventure
Snake
Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes
MegaMan
MegaMan 1-10
MegaMan X1-3
so why does PacMan get a free pass?
These 3rd party characters are all revelant outside of VGs, and are part of pop culture.
In this case, PacMan is emblematic, and Lloyd is, no offense, a random RPG character from ( mainly ) a Gamecube Exclusive RPG that got in PS2 some months later. Not to mention, the Tales of series isn't really part of Nintendo's history. Sure the first one & Symphonia 1&2 were in, but there's way more version on Sony consoles. And Tales Of has like, lots of character to begin with,so he couldn't represent anything. Lastly, Shulk is basically a modern Lloyd and Xenoblade Chronicles is an actual exclusivity even if Shulk remains very random.