No demand for him in brawl. There was no demand for marth or roy in brawl, and they're the most popular characters in my neighborhood. so is Mr. Game & Watch.
Actually, there was
plenty of demand for Marth in Brawl. And Roy isn't in Brawl.
If you meant Melee, then I would suspect that Marth was probably in pretty high demand in Japan (he wasn't over in the States just because we didn't know who the **** he was). And Roy has an excuse. He was included as an advertisement. Is ROB's inclusion justified by a future video game centered around him? I doubt it.
And you people are such purists if you are hating him because he wasn't in his own game. My god.
I'm a purist for disapproving of a non-video game character being included in a video game
centered around the inclusion of all-star video game characters?
Am I then also a purist for not wanting a professional baseball player included on my football team?
And personality? He was probably the only majorly depressed character in the SSE. G&W has no emotion at all. A mouth, a nose, and beeping. No emotion.
G&W is just about the
only character on the roster with less personality than ROB, so bringing him up doesn't help much. Proving that another character is not interesting does not prove that ROB
is interesting.
Sure, ROB was sad for his fellow ROBs and all, but I think you're selling the rest of the characters short if you're
only focused on SSE. The charm to the rest of the cast is that they have built-in personalities from their own series that stick with them in Brawl (whether they were showcased in the SSE effectively or not). So people love the characters long before they even see them in the SSE. Literally, the only nugget of character we get from ROB is that he gets sad when his friends blow up (as most characters would).
My main beef with ROB is that there just isn't
enough personality there to grab a hold of and start to like. I can't connect to ROB. Almost every other character has SOMETHING to offer in terms of attitude and character, and it often exudes from them even in the middle of battle—I don't
have to fire up the SSE to see it.
That, and I find his character design ugly. Which is a big deal for me, though I understand that it's not for other people.
All that said (and I know there's a lot of it), I don't
hate ROB. I'm just answering the question: If you had to remove one character from the roster in order to keep the game running, who would you get rid of? My answer is, resoundingly, ROB.
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