I definitely, definitely hear that. Knowing Mewtwo could've been apart of the original 64 roster, thus boosting his chances of him being a more remarkable Melee character and returner in Brawl (good chance Pkmn Trainer would've been unfortunatley unmade, as it would've had Pika, Jiggs, Mew2 and Lucario), never ceases to piss me off.
Who were the characters that were going to be in 64... King Dedede, Bowser, Mewtwo and Marth (or was it Sigurd)? Knowing King Dedede, Bowser and Marth are more than likely staying, Mewtwo's the ONLY one that would've been with the "original 16" and been cut out just because Sakurai wants to appeal to the n00blet Pokemon scene. Bull. Who cares if there were 5 Pokemon reps in Brawl? Mario got 5 reps in Melee (one more than each major franchise), and no one was complaining.
Of course this is Mario were talking about who is going to complain about Mario who is the most reconized Game character of all time.
Why not Pokemon, an equally-popular franchise that will soon be topping out the Mario games in terms of sales in the near future anyway?
Pokemon already has roughly the same amount of characters and again if the forbidden seven weren't cut Pokemon would have had the most reps by far.That sounds like one hell of a feat to me.
Not really, In a way we got six pokemon characters and if Pichu, Plusim and Minum, and Mewtwo weren't scrapped we would have had roughly 11 or so reps. ..so of course that isn't fair so many of them got shafted. Still we already have more than enough reps for pokemon.
I'm tired of people pulling this bloody media effect by saying that "Mewtwo's not popular anymore; he's a washed-up has-been like Sonic", and everyone buying it.
It kinda shows though, many old school fans left after 3rd gen and weren't interested in pokemon anymore sure Pokemon is huge but it's mainly kids of today that are keeping it alive many old fans aren't interested anymore. Sonic hate was because Sega took away things what made Sonic..well Sonic,w hich is why Many people didn't want him in Brawl
People are beginning to say that of Geno, too. Let's get something straight: Mewtwo was GOING to be part of Brawl.
So were Doc,pichu, and Roy but they got the cut. Which is sad but that's how things are they were ideas to be characters but got shifted for ideas..that's how it are during development.
His data found in the game signifies he still held something to Sakurai, and the outcry of Mewtwo fanatics with their petitions should be saying something as well.
Thing is Majority of Mewtwo fans want Lucario and Jiggy out and still live in a their little world thinking that he's the god of all pokemon and refuse to accept that theirs a new generation. Your petition is a example which I quoted earlier "Mewtwo is the god of all pokemon next to Arecus." That's the main reason why I get annoyed with Mewtwo fans majority of them refuse to accept the fact that he has stepped down or constantly bash the other generations.
As for Geno, he was one of the top requested characters for Brawl, despite the fact he hadn't been seen in a major role for years (cameo in Superstar Saga doesn't count).Thing is Geno hype was more like "WTF?" I mean noone erally cared about Geno until last year when the polls showed up.
Mewtwo is still a popular character. Lucario? Is also a popular character. Mewtwo represents the old-school generation of people, the ones who actually grew up with Pokemon when it was first concieved (he is a significant character of this gen)
We already have Pika, Jigg, Squirtle,Ivy, and Charzard for the old school fans. I mean think about it more than half of the pokemon reps are old school we don't even have a 2nd or 3rd gen rep. .
Lucario represents this present day generation of people, just being introduced into what Pokemon has become (he is a significant character in THIS gen). Both sound really significant to me. I just can't see why both could've been in. I just can't.
Again a lot of the Mewtwo fans don't want BOTH a lot of them want Lucario gone, and we already have TONS of pokemon that represents the generation that started it all we can't have THAT many pokemon in one game even though it's the 2nd best selling series.