Do you think it'll be possible in the future for Sakurai or whoever is making the next game(s) to fit slightly different characters into one slot? This is assuming that the developers will be able to get the Ice Climbers to work on a handheld.
I'm surprised we haven't been given a leak right now. Just last night I read about the Nester hoax (I didn't follow much of Smash pre-release).
edited 1st Apr '15 6:59:24 AM by BurntMario
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby. Something in TV Tropes really drove me crazy.I kinda want to agree with everyone else that its a bad idea, but before this game I was against the idea of having alternate costumes be different characters, but then in practice it worked out fine (Koopaling alts FTW). So maybe alts with minor gameplay differences aren't a horrible idea.
But I still wouldn't do it with the ones we have now.
They wouldn't work as alts, but they could potentially work as sharing the same slot but switching to a different character entirely. It's not a costume in this case. Take a look at various other fighting games. Where the character icon turns and shows a new one. That type of stuff would be interesting.
It wasn't just the unique differences, but I'm pretty sure he also said that he couldn't get the alternate costumes like Dr. Mario to give different various stats/records from Mario, so separating them guaranteed this. If he can still make them share the same slot(like Zelda/Sheik did during Brawl) and have their own moves and make that work without screwing up the statistics, then cool. Otherwise, I prefer their own slots if that's the only way it works.
I wouldn't change anything right now though.
Shadow?I actually kinda like F.L.U.D.D. this time around- It's a little more punchy than in Brawl, and High-Pressure F.L.U.D.D. is even better.
I do sorta lean towards keeping Doc around for the long haul as he currently is, considering the unique situation with him and Mario's Melee moveset.
I sure said that!Lucina and Dark Pit started out as the same thing as the Koopalings and Alph, and Dr.Mario as well.
And I for one DEARLY miss the Mario Tornado as a special (you can't gain weight or move over the stage with a down air). FLUDD would had been better as a Final Smash functionally identical to the Mario Finale.
Dr. Mario I can see sticking around, what with having two game appearances now and not having the excuse that Ice Climbers have.
Lucina and Dark Pit I can see getting demoted to costume next time around. I kinda hope not, though, I like having them separately. If only they'd be Luigified.
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Like, as something similar to Kyogre? That could work. It'd actually be kind of hilarious if Mario's Final Smash was just pushing opponents away with water.
Even vanilla F.L.U.D.D. is a godsend against Little Mac. How ironic is it that one of a boxer's crippling weaknesses is water? It's also useful against moves that send you into a free-fall like Kirby's Final Cutter or Ike's Aether.
edited 1st Apr '15 8:54:15 AM by BurntMario
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby. Something in TV Tropes really drove me crazy.I feel like Lucina, at least, is too different a character in terms of her original story and personality to just be a Marth costume.
The Koopalings are pretty much personality-free and can be easily tacked on to Bowser Jr., and lots of the other alt costume characters are literally just alternate variations on the same character (Villagers, Trainers, Robins); Lucina, though she fights like Marth, is a completely different person with her own story, so it'd seem like a disservice to her character.
Then again, Alph. So what do I know? -shrug-
"We're home, Chewie."I guess what I mean is- With when Smash 4 came out, it's entirely reasonable for Awakening to get two characters, but that probably won't always be the case. I'd hate to see Lucy removed entirely, so I think being made a Marth alt would be her best shot at returning in a fifth Smash.
I sure said that!I'm personally not a fan of having Alph as an Olimar costume. Koopalings aside, I'm generally not fond of having a separate character as an alternate costume.
Dark Pit's literally a Pit clone, so having the same moves doesn't strike me as that odd narratively, but I would hope Lucina gets changed up a bit if she returns. She uses a much less elegant, more smashy swordplay style than Marth, having learned from her father, and is not quite as tall as Marth proportion-wise.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Less sense than him calling upon Palutena's army in Brawl?
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