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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Cat Knows Where It's At
#42701: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:14:11 PM

"Bankruptdo’s final hope"

Hey! It looks like some of the Japanese know just as much about Nintendo's financial status as a lot of people in other parts of the world do!

But seriously, I do love how their reactions are pretty much exactly the same as ours. It really says a lot about the world we live in.

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Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#42702: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:16:31 PM

Between Mario Kart 8 and Smash for, Nintendo will have a very solid 2014.

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CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#42703: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:35:54 PM

It would be neat if Smash added vehicles as a new kind of item.

Otherarrow Since: Jul, 2010
#42704: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:38:14 PM

I noticed that Japanese fans are really fond of going "oh, X just got in because they are popular with foreigners".

While that was probably true for Little Mac (most of the translated comments I've seen there had folks openly admitting they had no clue what Punch Out was or who Little Mac was, so the game probably doesn't have the same level of popularity there), but compared to how we didn't expect Greninja either, yeah.

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#42705: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:44:33 PM

It's funny. Here, we have people on about how Smash is most likely going to aim at Japanese players first, hence Jigglypuff and the low hopes for Metroid representation.

And over in Japan, it's apparently an accepted fact that Smash is catering to Westwrn audiences.

Nothing is different anywhere, it appears.

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Randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#42706: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:46:42 PM

[up][up]I for some reason thougt you were talking about Mega Man X for a second...I don't know why.

edited 25th Apr '14 1:47:05 PM by Randomness4

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SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#42707: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:49:27 PM

I guess "Grass is greener on other side of the fence" is general thing people do <_< That or Japanese consider it to be an insult to say that character is catering to westerners...*shrugs*

Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#42708: Apr 25th 2014 at 1:51:02 PM

To be fair, Nintendo has a relatively more firmly entrenched fanbase in the West, since the NES pulled us out of a crash that never really happened in Japan.

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beorc Ridley and Ridley from hither and yon Since: Sep, 2009 Relationship Status: I know
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#42709: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:09:33 PM

Well, it seems like the people there just assumed that Greninja must've been highly requested by westerners in order to explain why he was added, since he seemingly wasn't highly requested in Japan.

edited 25th Apr '14 2:12:20 PM by beorc

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CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#42710: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:20:16 PM

Well, Greninja's a pretty popular Pokemon regardless.

ultimatepheer Since: Mar, 2011
#42711: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:28:19 PM

But did anyone really request him?

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NesClassic Meh-meh!? from Flyover Country Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: In another castle
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#42713: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:32:15 PM

Nope! (Okay, a few people did.) The fact that he was completely out of the blue and already one of the most popular Kalos Pokémon is probably why he's so well-recieved.

Here in the West, at least. From the "he must've been requested in 'murica" comments he's getting in Japan, I'm not sure if he's well-received over there too.

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paperbritt Since: Apr, 2013
#42714: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:33:10 PM

Every character is requested by somebody. I've seen serious requests for Bubsy. (granted that was during the Brawl days, not recently)

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#42715: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:38:49 PM

Every character is requested by somebody.

Dunsparce. evil grinevil grin

Best part is I just looked it up and apparently people have asked for Dunsparce (jokingly, but I'm pretending there's a silent movement to add it in just for the funny).

CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#42716: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:39:29 PM

Samus should be able to switch between her beams. So she could use her Plasma Beam and Ice Beam.

Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#42717: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:40:09 PM

Dunsparce should totally be a Poke Ball Pokemon, though. It'd Headbutt opponents and leave them stunned 60% of the time!evil grin

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Nap1100 Since: Mar, 2012
paperbritt Since: Apr, 2013
#42719: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:43:42 PM

No transformations! They just have to make different Samus's for every beam type. Only way to resolve this issue!

Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#42720: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:43:43 PM

I kinda hope her Down Special is expanded, though- Maybe, after laying the first bomb, Samus will stay Morphed and can jump, lay more bombs with B and charge a Boost Ball dash with A? Down B would revert her, and maybe there'd even be a "tap B to just lay a bomb, hold B to morph and stay morphed" element?

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NesClassic Meh-meh!? from Flyover Country Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: In another castle
Meh-meh!?
#42721: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:47:42 PM

Give her the bomb-scatter thing from Super and Other M. (Charge the Charge Beam, then while holding the full charge drop a Bomb- it instead scatters five bombs around you.)

And maybe let the normal Morph Ball be a crawl? Except Metroid can't crawl

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Hashil Since: Aug, 2010
#42722: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:51:15 PM

I'm only seeing the 'foreigners wanted him' comments once every six or seven comments. It's about on par with the number of people happy with him.

And either way, that few dozen comments is just a really small sampling of the Japanese fans, anyway.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#42723: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:57:53 PM

Yeah, the "he's only in because foreigners like him" bit isn't as strong here as it was with, say, Little Mac. To most of the commenters there, ol' Mac he was downright obscure.

edited 25th Apr '14 2:58:12 PM by KnownUnknown

Sterok Since: Apr, 2012
#42724: Apr 25th 2014 at 2:57:54 PM

I'm sure plenty of people requested Greninja. As part of a Kalos Trainer. I'm pretty sure most of us thought the starters would all get in together. Then Sakurai decided no more transformations. Now, they have to keep Charizard of course, and they need something from gen 6. So Delphox is out, and Chesnaught looks harder to make a moveset for. Thus, Greninja. I wouldn't be shocked if Greninja being the most popular was a coincidence.

CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#42725: Apr 25th 2014 at 3:20:17 PM

Mallo from Pushmo would be awesome for a playable character. X3 He'd be first cat character, AND a sumo wrestler/puzzle thinger.


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