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Yeah. Spyro isn't that well received outside of America, but he'd be fun to play as for sure.
Uh oh. I see "projectile, forwards dash, downwards slam"... I take it back.
oh that’s just them being unadventurous, a bit more creative liberty and pulling from a few more things out to do it
Welp. Some of your ideology posts kinda went out the window with this one. There's clearly more to it. That's just a beginner run down. And it's far from a guarantee notion how Sakurai would handle the character.
New Smash game is open world and the only stage is Big Hyrule Temple
If it ever happens then it’s probably the equivalent to a story mode or something with regular gameplay being relatively the same.
Only tangentially related to this concept, but I think you could get an interesting idea out of the evil force in the next story mode being one that starts corrupting various game lands and this playing out in the form of old Smash stages themselves being changed/mutated. We see Saffron City with half destroyed buildings, Fountain of Dreams with poisoned water, Hyrule Castle overgrown with plant life and so forth. Then you have the original and corrupted versions as options in standard Smash matches.
I'm only OK with this if the inverse also exists. Something like, I dunno, a happy Brinstar Depths in a warm yellow with Kraid acting like Barney; or a peace-pacted Castle Siege under a blue sky. I'm tired of Smash being edgy, and if it wants to continue doing that, actively contrasting it with exaggerated cutesy joy is the best way to go.
That could absolutely work. A daytime Midgar option with really tacky billboards the background and some in universe company blimp flying by with a cheesy commercial slogan attached could only improve the Smash experience.
To add to this, I kinda would like to hear Smash remixes of Space Harrier, AfterBurner and Rent-A-Hero.
Maybe this is stupid, but I’m imagining a feature where you could unlock like, skins for the title screen.
that’s quite a good idea
I could literally write a Poke Rap or Animaniacs geography song-type thing about the side-over-protags I prefer - even just sticking to unrepresented series and not say, "Lloyd over Ninten" or "Vivian over Paper Mario".
I think for fighting games in general, I don’t think it’s as necessary to include the main character or mascot character. Same with series where the main character isn’t that important in general.
I think Smash's obsession with main characters is a huge reason why its roster tends to skew against itself in various ways. I'm not even listing an example, since you can probably fill in the blanks on your own; it's that recurring a problem!
What do you mean by “skew against itself”?
Can't speak for Among, but I'd say that Smash's roster does tend to feel non-diverse - not in the "Dr. Baby Metal Fire Mario Jr." sense or even the sense of black/LGBT/female/e.t.c rep (though that's also a major issue), but rather that a lot of characters are the same simple character archetype; concept; or personality, and might fail to stand out to those who have not played the original game and don't know the original story. FE is the obvious example and probably what Among is alluding to, but it exists in almost every series with plural Smash characters and interchanging protagonists, and many with just one character or a single main protag, regardless of their original tone or aesthetic. People just tend to pin it on "anime with swords" and not a wider systemic issue with Smash's roster mentality that can be felt throughout the whole roster if you turn off your familiarity with the source materials.
You know what? At this point, I'd take any change for DK if it also meant changing his design and his voice. Like, for God's sake, stop using the generic movie monster sound effects and just get Takashi Nagasako as DK. That also goes for Bowser but with Kenny James.Getting dabbing into Donkey Kong's smash moveset is probably the highest priority change for him and I'm not being ironic.
It's probably the most memorable character animation in what is already the best selling Mario game of all time, and it's coming back for World, with somewhat of a mild highlight in promotional screenshot releases. I think we can safely say that that is just DK's thing now - at least in cultural conciousness if not in DK games themselves - and not just a "new game thing" that could go at any moment. Also helps that it translates very well to a taunt, and a move would give DK extra distance options without sacrificing his playstyle, so it's a win win however you put it in. Plus it's extra DK rep originating from Mario games, which I want quite a bit.
i can see this being the new finisher for spinning kong pretty easily , like ducking into his arm to halt his rotational momentumGetting dabbing into Donkey Kong's smash moveset is probably the highest priority change for him and I'm not being ironic.
It's probably the most memorable character animation in what is already the best selling Mario game of all time, and it's coming back for World, with somewhat of a mild highlight in promotional screenshot releases. I think we can safely say that that is just DK's thing now - at least in cultural conciousness if not in DK games themselves - and not just a "new game thing" that could go at any moment. Also helps that it translates very well to a taunt, and a move would give DK extra distance options without sacrificing his playstyle, so it's a win win however you put it in. Plus it's extra DK rep originating from Mario games, which I want quite a bit.
I feel like less people would complain about Fire Emblem if Marth didn't have three clones.
you should think that like Bridget can join in Smash than Sol Badguy,right?
Scorpion and by extension Sub-Zero are probably the more likely examples where the more well known characters will theoretically make it in before the protagonist. Mortal Kombat being fighting game means that it’s less important for the protagonist to join.
I was thinking of Nagoriyuki when I made that post but I'd gladly take Bridget
I can legit see a case made for either Bridget or Baiken getting first dibs over Sol, tbh. The latter of course probably getting wrappings to censor cleavage.
What happened to Kenny James?
Probably just a recast like with Charles and the Princesses
There's still a clip of his in there to be fair, but it would seem they're going in a new direction for Bowser's voice for this era.
Smash 64's place in history is honestly interesting for this kinda reason, because if you think about it, there's probably a decent argument that it helped cement Pikachu's role as the de-facto mascot? It's early enough that, if they'd gone for a Pokémon like Charizard or Blastoise due to game familiarity/wider move pool, Pikachu might ultimately just have been seen as "the Pokémon that Ash had" rather than "the Pokémon"... which would be a fascinating turn of events. Unlikely, but fun to think about.
To me the clones are by far the least offensive because you know they're taking the least amount of devtime and are just being added as extras because they slot in easily over Marth. The continuous new characters that could have presumably been anything else by allocating that time to a different new character are definitely more disappointing.
