Chrom's sword having life-leeching abilities was something minor to him and healing abilities was something Marth and Ike were already abe to do. The thing about Chrom was that every single notable ability he had were not just minor part of his fighting style but something that Marth and Ike were also able to do in their game. The only exception was using lances and even then it wasn't particularly important or unique to Chrom in general. That's what Sakurai meant when he said Chrom would have just been another plain sword-user like Marth and Ike and that in comparison to others he lacked any unique characteristics that he could bring to the table. That's where my argument about the properties of his sword came into play.
Ike's sword helped lend himself to the concept of him being a powerhouse sword user in order to contrast against Marth. Because even if Marth and Ike were blue-haired, male, anime-looking Fire Emblem protagonists with a cape and a heroic attitude, the properties of their sword and the overtly obvious gameplay style it helped bring them made them different enough mechanically even if flavour-wise they had similarities. Heck, they make the difference between Mario and Luigi look like the difference between Pit and Dark Pit in comparison. If Chrom had something like that in terms of uniqueness, like the example I brought up, he would have been deemed unique enough and he would have brought something different to the table from a gameplay point of view, even if he was another blue-haired, male, anime-looking Fire Emblem protagonist with a cape and a heroic attitude.
That is what I see uniqueness being- A matter of whether or not a character has something inherent about them, even if they are similar to others from an character archetype and design point-of-view, that helps to translate to something different within the context of Smash.
On the topic of Isaac, I reckon it'd be a nice touch if he could use the Catch Psynergy
as his grab animation, and also as a tether recovery.
edited 9th Apr '15 7:27:09 AM by TheHeroHartmut
Switch FC code: SW-4420-1809-1805@72228: I'm surprised there hasn't been much buzz about update 1.0.6, which calls for, among other things, character balancing.
The "hoo-hah" has had a good run.
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby. Something in TV Tropes really drove me crazy.Watching the tweak scavenger hunt again should be fun, at least.
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guyIs it just me, or does anyone else find it odd when folks want a guy in who they aren't familiar with, but want in on principle?
Like, I think before Awakening got big, a lot of folks wanted a third FE rep without having played an FE game, or folks wanting a Golden Sun rep or even a third MOTHER rep.
Shrug.
Don't PM me. We don't like being PMed.Although he is filthy degenerate Ridley scum, the fact he's an indie dev who ISN'T begging fans for votes means he's a hero in my book.

Djinn are slightly different. You can equip multiple of them, and they come in four different elements, which can be used to change your class or in summons.
Simplest way would be to give Isaac 4 Venus(Earth) Djinn.
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