I don't think he's traditionally included Echo Fighters with unique fighters when talking about "new characters." With the exception of Richter, the echo fighter announcements have been quick and informal, and the exception of Richter was only because he and Simon arguably echo each other. He only ever said "we have one more fighter to announce" when talking about Richter because of that.
I thought there was a user named Sakurai in era for a sec lolBecause, let's be honest, gender representation has never been part of Sakurai's decision making for selecting newcomers. We know how he selects characters:
Sakurai selects character based on many different criteria, but mainly based on their moveset potential and if he can envision them working in his head. Obviously i'm not saying that characters like Dixie, Isabelle, Elma, Medusa, etc can't fulfil this criteria, but maybe Sakurai feels otherwise.
Well he said after the echoes "we have a few more to announce" it makes it sound he meant echoes too.
"Distribution among the franchises is also taken into consideration"
Or so they say....
needs more Chrom"Distribution among the franchises is also taken into consideration"
Or so they say....
It's ok, you clearly like the character so that wouldn't affect you. But for people that me that are not exactly dying for getting Dixie/Geno/Skull Kid, the excessive discussion just becomes obnoxious and kills any surprise in their eventual reveal (If it happens of course)
"Distribution among the franchises is also taken into consideration"
Or so they say....
Where do you make these assumptions from in the video? Absolutely nothing dictates that.
He said he had a few to choose from for new games for dlc. That probably meant corrin, inkling, elma, and maybe a pokemon like sceptile, or captain toad or something. Skipping inkling was a good move in hindsight, but elma should have been the one.
How do you know Elma was even in consideration?
Chrom and Dark Samus have tons of different/altered animations for moves.
I mean sakurau said there are a few new ones left, before k.rool
Well said. Smash has quite a lot and way more than most other games available. It's a shame that some are picking a fight over something that they've shown to actually care about and actually consider.
I mean sakurai put ridley in, and killed two birds with one stone by then also making dark samus a cool looking echo. Metroid representation problem gone.
Can you move on to something else? You've derailed more than half of this thread. We don't know what the roster is, stop acting like there won't be any new female characters. We don't know yet. Save your bitching for if the final roster doesn't please you, and we should be able to speculate about Geno/Skull Kid/Isaac without you making the topic about female representation.
We don't even know if he's even passing on characters like Elma. That's what makes this entire conversation frustrating because this is all entirely hypothetical. You're gearing yourself over a possibility that's set in stone and even having it color your perception of the game. Yes Smash Ultimate has a newcomer pool that's more geared towards fans and it's making the representation a bit skewed especially with speculation claiming that characters like Geno and Skull Kid are playable that could leave making the gender ratio even more out of balance but Sakurai's memo has been to fill his games up with as much content as possible. That's why characters like Dixie, Isabelle, Medusa, and Impa would most likely be Echoes because they would be better fit as Echoes to save the resources needed to put in as many characters in the game. If Skull Kid, Geno, and Issac could be echoes and the other 4 are unique fighters is something that is possible. However the four I mentioned would absolutely fit as Echoes anyway and the other 3 would probably not fit as Echoes as they have more unique properties that it's not likely to begin with.
But its not dictated if he refers to both newcomers amd Echo fighters. Who knows with Sakurai, he's a known troll.
That's fine, it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be more than just literally diddy with a ponytail.
I've wondered this and been too embarrassed to ask.
Yes, but you're doing the reverse of that as well. If you feel frustrated that people are doing that to you, can you see how others are frustrated when you do it to them?
You have done the same thing for the past 2 days, but about other characters
Unfortunately the majority of Nintendo characters are male.
