I'm handwaving Marth's "alternate interpretation" as him not wanting to even be in the game in the first place, but being forced to anyways.
(Although his taunt quote seems more like it's asking for protection and less "HEY LOOK AT ME GUYS")
@Namdai: Bandai and Nintendo co-published Meteos, a game developed by Mr. Sakurai himself. Maybe we could get a Meteos stage? (Geolyte, Metamo Ark, or Meteos itself would work.)
I can't think of what a Geolytian could do to be a viable fighter.
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse AlberiaActually, I did a direct comparison (I was bored) and no, he looks like three times more masculine than he did in Brawl and twice as masculine than in Melee.
Or something.
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To me it looks like they just took his design from the DLC for Fire Emblem Awakening with Melee and Brawl they still had to use designs based on the official artwork from 1994's Mystery of the Emblem.
...He doesn't use his Awakening DLC design in Smash Bros.
It's probably closest to his New Mystery design, but it's not exactly that either.
Don't PM me. We don't like being PMed.Nes... Meteos wasn't by Sakurai. It was by the guy who made Lumines and Every Extend Extra.
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Masahiro Sakurai was one of the designers of the game with Tetsuya Mizuguchi as the executive producer.
He has a different collar and the armor nits are brown instead blue.
Otherwise, yes.
Don't PM me. We don't like being PMed.The collar, yes. The colors? Nah, I think the color differences would stick out more.
But yeah, it's 90% New Mystery design.
Don't PM me. We don't like being PMed.You are splitting hairs. The point is that it's mostly the New Mystery design. The exact percent number doesn't matter.
Don't PM me. We don't like being PMed.It's funny. That picture of Marth and Link leaping at each other - I took that exact same picture way back when, in the Melee days - except it was from the other side (Link was facing the camera). I also took a picture of their swords colliding.
Seeing that pic brought me back for a moment - that made me smile.
But any case, this reveal was so utterly unsurprising that I was actually more surprised to realize that he hadn't been revealed yet.
You know, I'm hoping that secret characters are still around (like everyone else).
Although I wouldn't mind Marth being promoted to a default character.
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse AlberiaMarth? Ike? Mike! Mike? Wario Ware? Wario? I think I've got it...
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@ Customer: Actually, you're right. Klonoa did have some Nintendo-exclusive games, but they were mostly for the Game Boy Advance. And the majority of them either took a few years to show up in America after being in Japan or didn't show up to America at all.
And yes, he did have a game for the Wii which was released on 2008 (in Japan) and 2009 (in USA) was basically a remake of his first game albeit with newer graphics and controls.
edited 7th Nov '13 4:01:15 PM by TargetmasterJoe