With the disagreements and disparagement about whether to have "anime swordsman" or "cereal box mascots", the only way to heal the divide is to have a animal platformer character who wields a sword.
So, I have though of another Unexpected Character that can show up, and it's related to my "I want Neptunia characters in Smash" thing...
Noire.
Why? She's actually my favorite character in the series, but the reason she'd be unexpected is because she's essentially a Play Station.
Speaking of Play Station, I've got a few characters from that brand I'd like to see, even if it's very unlikely:
- Jak and Daxter
- Sly Cooper
- Ratchet
- Nathan Drake
- Kat from Gravity Rush
I would have preferred if they made Hero into a character and an echo and split the command selection in half between the two of them. Have default hero be Erdrick with Eight as his alt and Eleven is the echo with Four as his alt.
And anime swordsman is a weak complaint as the bulk of fantasy protagonists use swords, so having a bunch of characters with swords is hard to avoid, like the first Dissidia with the heros side. That complaint mostly started from the FE characters since there's alot of them and that they are represented using swords despite the series having many other weapon options. That complaint will never go away in discussion, though, and will only get worse if they keep adding FE characters to Smash.
-Witty line-Corrin feels like the more expendable one. Uniqueness aside, not many people really like them so if someone of the non-semiclones/echoes were on the chopping block, Corrin is the most likely to go.
That said, please don't devolve into cut talk. That is the worst topic and i should have said anything ![]()
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Even if that wasn't a terrible idea (it is), it's not possible.
It's a terrible idea because the roster is already going to be over 80 characters. Balance is so important in a game like this, and while they seem to be doing ok at it (from my thoroughly non-educated standpoint, at least), if the roster size kept creeping up toward/over 100, there'd be issues.
This is beside the fact that eventually, the selection of Assists, Items, and Pokemon would be stale and outdated.
But the reason it's impossible is that eventually, the Switch will be obsolete. It's already a three year old system. Once something new comes out, Nintendo's going to want to put Super Smash Bros. on it, and you can't just port over Ultimate and keep building off it. That's a new game, and characters would need to be relicensed for it, which is the barrier to the series ever reaching this kind of roster again in the first place.
Given Melee's continued popularity I would think it would be easy for people to sill have Ultimate to go back to no matter what direction Smash 6 goes in.
Fighting game franchises in general have that a lot, one need only look at the continued communities around Marvel vs Capcom 2 in spite of the numerous fighting game releases from the latter company since.
Edited by BorneAgain on Jun 3rd 2020 at 12:06:49 PM
Funnily enough, Sly’s developers, Sucker Punch Productions actually had their first game be Rocket: Robot on Wheels which was a Nintendo 64 game.
I’d personally want either Sly or Kat in.
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I think the "anime swordsman" thing ignores that while there are a lot of humanoid pretty boys with big impractical swords, they also come from varying visual styles and play radically differently for the most part. I guess Shulk and Cloud have a bit of a ven diagram going on but that doesn't apply much to Link, Hero, Joker, and Pit.
Dunking on FE is always okay because it's a classic American tradition, and if you hate tradition that means you hate Freedom.
Edited by RodimusMinor on Jun 2nd 2020 at 2:31:50 PM