Fire Emblem does not need "less" or "more" representation. It needs the rep spots that it already has to be more diverse. Marth needs to go full Bowser Jr. and have
,
,
, Lyn, and a few others as alternate appearances for "Marth." With the freshly opened spots we can put in Spear Users, Axe Users, and Magic Users. No, not "A spear user." Spear Users. Ephraim, Jeigan, Cordelia, and idk who else all available in one fighter. No, not "an axe user." Axe Users. Hector, Camilla, Frederick, Lissa, and idk who else all available in one fighter. I don't actually play Fire Emblem (aside from Fire Emblem Warriors), and the fact that I can name a whole bunch of Sword-users without even trying
(plus two or two characters I like for dumb reasons), but struggle to come up with people to pick for those short lists I just made
angers me.
Oh, and while we're at it, the Down-B thing is getting
really tiring. How about we take away Mario's F.L.U.D.D. and give it to Corrin instead? Marth and Ike should be the only ones keeping theirs tbh.
I'm not going to be diplomatic with Zelda reps. After Ultimate,
and
need to be cut, and Link needs to be a lot more light on his feet to compensate. They need to be replaced with a lot of Zelda characters; we're talking Impa, Tetra, Lana, Linkle*, Midna, Urbosa, Skull Kid, Tingle, and whoever the hell else we can cram into Smash to justify having so many Fire Emblem reps.
Before I move on from Zelda, I think Ganondorf's moveset should've been changed completely and have his old moveset donated to Black Shadow or some other F-Zero Echo Fighter. Everyone is here, but their movesets sure as heck ain't!
*= (speaking of which, IDC what the **** Linkle ends up being: Alt. Costume, Echo, Unique Moveset. Literally any of those would be fine with me, because I like Linkle for dumb reasons, okay?)
Don't think I don't notice your under-representation in smash back there, Kirby. This series has no excuse not to be over-represented out the ***. Banana Dee? Marx?
Mogisthelioma
, I like you. You're going places with this. Unfortunately, you haven't gone far enough yet. Maybe it's just that I recently watched some youtubers I like play Star Allies, but why is Kirby's animal friends not in the game as some gimmicky "land, air and sea" joke character like Duck Hunt? Gooey should've been put in as a character
yesterday, and can we please talk about how the painter person isn't present in smash? I'd like to talk about how the painter person isn't present in smash. Sakurai, you're in charge of Super Smash Bros. Surely, you can find more excuses to put in Kirby characters. I would've lambasted you for doing it in brawl,
but that was ten years ago, so...
The Mario franchise has no excuse not to be over-represented as hell, either. Mario reps are basically the hard limit for how many reps it's acceptable for any other franchise to have (aside from Pokemon, but we'll
get to that). So far, that hard limit is at 8 (7 if we're excluding echoes). Just to remind you, Fire Emblem is at 7 (5 if we're excluding echoes). You want Lyn? Cecila? Hector? Tiki? I want Camilla and/or Tharja. None of us are getting Fire Emblem Newcomers until we get that Mario ceiling up first, or you're never hearing the end of it from FE haters. So let's talk Mario Newcomers: You've got Robbie Rotten, nervous caucasian slimer from ghostbusters, somewhere-between-cute-and-annoying sentient fungal parasites, LGBT+ representation gone horribly awry, Mayor Hillary Rodham Clinton except brunette and has a thing for wearing red clothing idk why maybe it's a metaphor, and whatever Kamek is supposed to be. Ironic, Waluigi is supposed to be the guy who never gets the spotlight.
Unfortunately, I'm a weirdo who will never be happy with Pokemon's representation in Smash. What we have is both too much
and too little for me. There isn't a "top 10 most iconic pokemon that could work in a Smash game." There's either a quick top 5 (
,
,
,
, and
) that I can blurt out that I think it's recognizable, consistant and rounded out, or a top 50 that allows an entire array of notable ensemble darkhorses across every generation to make the cut while still not leaving out anything that would cause my OCD to go nuts. The remaining 45 are too close to eachother in terms of how much they'd deserve to be in Smash.
and
were inevitable, and the latter's exclusion from Brawl was tantamount to sacrilege.
is random, but carries no "baggage" beyond not being Wigglytuff, but it's Wigglytuff so no one cares, and the ones that do like Jigglypuff just fine anyway.
is an awful clone who has no right to be playable, but is adorable and also a completely harmless addition.
was just a flat-out great pick. But because we have
, where the **** are Venusaur and Blastoise? Because we have
, where the **** are Delphox and Chesnaught? People are asking for Sceptile? Great, but where's Blaziken and Swampert? People are asking for Decidueye and Incineroar? Great, but show Primarina some love too, damn it. I don't even like Primarina (at all), and yet the character's exclusion would just make me regret having the other two to begin with.
And I know what you're thinking...
if you want equal representation for starters so much, why not just have that in Pokken so that Smash can focus on the absolute most popular ones?
Two problems with that:
- I tried Pokken. It was a legit terrible experience for me. First off, I only recently learned from Dragonball Xenoverse that I ****ing hate RPG elements in my fighting games (even though RPGs and Fighting Games are my two favorite genres). Additonally, the story mode is complete ******** with AI that's simultaneously ****ing unpredictable and doesn't give me enough time to react, because like with many other primarily multiplayer games, there's way too much ****ing hitstun, and that's just not acceptable in singleplayer games. (no. no excuses. any game that pulls that crap deserves to be hit in the head with a rolled-up newspaper for pulling that crap). And ya'll ain't gonna wanna hear this, but the character creation system is an utter joke next to Battle Revolution's and Gen 6/7's. aH yEs, AlLoW mE tO sPeNd My HaRd-EaRnEd MoNoPoLy DoLlArS oN aDjUsTmEnTs To A 2D sPrItE. tRuLy, ThIs Is ThE fUtUrE wOkE lEfTiStS sUcH aS mYsElF wAnT. [badly performed Deus Ex music plays disrespectfully in the background as my Wii U ejects the pokken disk from my console and sets it on fire, declaring war on its human oppressors]
- Ya'll think that just because it's a Spin-off that's not Smash Bros, it's gonna be like Hyrule Warriors where all the cool people get to be playable characters. Surely, by having one fully-evolved starter, they'd be able to fit in the other fully-evolved starters from that region, right? ha ha ha... NO, IN FACT, IT'S WORSE. Not only are Venusaur, Swampert, Torterra, Infernape, Chesnaught, Greninja, Incineroar, and Primarina all MIA, but we're never getting Delphox because instead we got Braxien, we got Suicune but no Entei or Raikou, A second Pikachu and a second Mewtwo, and worst of all, many pokemon, among which is ****ING EEVEE, A POKEMON WITH A MASSIVE FANBASE, are locked out of the roster because they've been demoted to glorified Assist Trophies that have no thematic consistency among them, and...
[anguished whimper because it's very late and I don't want to wake the neighbors by verbalizing my asinine rants about the representation of fictional animals in an electronic video game]
I love Pokemon, but my OCD makes it impossible for me to enjoy any of its spinoffs besides Battle Revolution. It frustrates me just thinking about it, and I don't like that.
I spent over an hour on this rant. whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
If it's true that some stages (Jungle Hijinxs seeming most likely) "had to be" sacrificed for Stage Morph I will be livid.
Not having every stage in the "Ultimate" game just because of one new flimsy gimmick is a possibility that petrifies me
Oh crap, I never considered that.
Yeah, that
would royally suck!
