Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U Thread 10: Against the Odds, We Choose to Hype!

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I want to meet these Miiverse posters in real-life

I want to observe them while wearing a hazmat suit from behind a one-way mirror
Get ready to meet average 5-10 year olds that normally know better than to share their misinformed and poorly thought out opinions in person. :)

At least, that's how I always imagine it is. I know I would have said some dumb stuff if I had a platform like Miiverse at that age. Heck, I probably said some things dumb enough to rival some of the Miiverse stuff even when I was a teenager on GameFAQs.

 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

High chance would be Chrom, but it doesn't make sense as they can just make Chrom as Marth's clone instead of Lucina. Probably some other character *cough* Shulk *cough*
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

Interesting info. How credible are these bulletin boards (or were these just lifted from Famitsu)?
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.
That's all pretty interesting. I wonder what all of this Lucina business means for Dark Pit, if anything. I could see him being a proper alt, but I really don't see him being repurposed into a full character, especially if it took a character being cut for Lucina (a much more visually distinct character) to be included on her own.
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

So it sounds like Lucina is the only clone and is only a clone because Chrom got cut last minute. And also that Marth won't have any alt skins because his became a character.
 
Ah Kirby is soooo cute with that mask. >_<;

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Urm last time I have checked Mega Man was in the game... otherwise who's the hell is this guy?

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STOP TALKING ABOUT NEW SMASH CHARCTERS

START TALKING ABOUT OLD SMASH CHARACTERS

Yeah stop talking about things I don't like and things I do like.

Honestly I kinda feel sorry for Sakurai since he's going be unable to please everybody.
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

That's ominous, and weird: why would they do that?
 
I saw as well. Kind of weird for Kirby to get the mask but not her hair. I mean, what if people didn't know the mask belonged to Lucina? Not that it matters all that much, really.



Seems like really specific and weird things for Famitsu to talk about. Doesn't sound like Nintendo to just come out to famitsu and say "Hey, you know we had another brand new character that we cut and replaced with a clone! PEACE"

It's probably a situation like Zelda Kirby's headdress. A more obfuscated reference, which looks better when implemented.
 
Link to post with scans
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/633202-super-smash-bros-for-wii-u/69658047#21

Can someone verify this translation from famitsu

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. &#8220;A certain character&#8221; was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn&#8217;t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn&#8217;t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

If so, this is STRONGLY in favor of the gematsu leak
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

Wow. that's pretty specific.
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

So if #2 is true and it was Chrom the one that was cut, does this mean that the Gematsu might still be true? For all we know the emails given to Sal Romano were based off an early design doc or something simialr, which would explain the "Pokemon from X/Y" mention and now Chrom.
 
Curse my desire to mostly want to hang out in the grey area when posting so I don't step on people's toes. I actually do agree that Wolf is very different, but to people thinking in a least common denominator way I can see why it isn't 100%.



Just imagine:

Trailer begins without that slashing intro and we shift to a sumi-e ink scene (think Okami) of a bamboo field at night and hear nothing but footsteps on the ground as three figures dart in and out of hiding. Camera switches focus and we see Greninja leaping up into the light of the full moon firing a volley of water shuriken and Sheik tossing needles at some figure darting through the area. Finally, Sheik goes all in and deploys a Burst Grenade that is then struck and deflected with a bolt of lightning, detonating off target. The camera refocuses on the wall of flames with Shiek and Greninja in full alert expecting something. Suddenly:

http://zippy.gfycat.com/ScaredHandmadeGlobefish.webm

The flame wall dissipates as someone from behind it cuts in the two directions of the Smash logo. The sword is sheathed as the character gets into stance again and as he lunges forward in full view:

"TAKAMARU soars again!"
"TAKAMARU draws once more!"
"TAKAMARU heard Heath and Azure's pleas!"

That would be so awesome! :)

I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

Lucina was originally included as Marth Skin? Oh wow. I'm curious with which character that got cut. Is it sound like DLC characters are out of the question.
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. &#8220;A certain character&#8221; was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn&#8217;t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn&#8217;t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

It would be strange for them to cut Chrom, move him into Robin's FS, and stick in a Marth clone in his place. I'd bet Chrom was planned for Robin's FS from the very beginning, and that "certain character" is someone totally different. Who knows - depending on how old the Gematsu leak's information is, it could have been Shulk or Chorus Men.

Oh, and Lucina was a Marth skin? Somewhere, Beelzebufo is laughing right now.
 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bsp5iI2CUAA478W.jpg

Can someone verify this translation from famitsu

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. “A certain character” was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn’t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn’t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.

If so, this is STRONGLY in favor of the gematsu leak

what is this from?
 
Because the realities of making a fighting game with a huge roster like Smash Bros means that you can't include everyone.

Sure, but they say they planned him and I assume started working on him, especially if it's Chrom (see the very detailed model), then abruptly they cut him? Weird.
 
If so, this is STRONGLY in favor of the gematsu leak

Don't post scans

But anyway, it's kind of funny, every time the leak runs into a bump in the road, there's Sakurai out of no where dropping tidbits of development that explain the bumps.

First "Pokemon from X/Y" being vague, was used as a reason to doubt the leak, until we learned later that was Greninja's development name

Now with Chrom not being in and Lucina and Robin instead, we find out Chrom was likely cut very late and replaced with Lucina as a clone. Either the leaker had no idea about Robin, or didn't mention him/her like he didn't Rosalina.

I think the leak is entirely true and there's now a good excuse for the Fire Emblem misstep.
 
Working on parsing through it. Seems like the translation is right, first line says that Lucina was originally a color variation for Marth.

Things do seem to add up to Chrom being the removed character though, huh? The trailer kinda hints towards it, Chrom has a model that appears in the game, and the Gematsu leak information. Hm.
 
I've been reading through some of the Japanese bulletin boards in light of the latest Famitsu, and I found some new info.

1. Lucina was originally included as a Marth skin.
2. &#8220;A certain character&#8221; was cut during development. (Chrom? Who knows. It's not clarified.)
3. Sakurai didn&#8217;t want to reduce the total number of characters.
4. It wasn&#8217;t possible to make a brand new character on short notice.
5. Lucina was repurposed into her own character slot to fill the void.
Eh, I wouldn't believe anything like that unless the devs themselves actually came out and said that.

EDIT: Oh its from the scans?
 
So are they selling the 3ds version first because they know most would buy the WiiU version only if they launched at the same time? Does not really make sense to me to not release them together.
 
Curse my desire to mostly want to hang out in the grey area when posting so I don't step on people's toes. I actually do agree that Wolf is very different, but to people thinking in a least common denominator way I can see why it isn't 100%.

I don't think of Wolf as a clone because through 64, Melee and Brawl, Wolf was the first time I actually found a spacie enjoyable to play. But clearly that's a personal thing since people apparently play Fox and Falco all the time.
 
At some point Mega Man came up and "Mega Man Zero" was a notable exclusion from the representation. Zero is a Mega Man because it says so in the title.

That was basically the extent of it, but like most things it went on too long.
The really weird thing was that some developer had at some point mistakenly called Zero "Mega Man Zero" like it was the name of the character, and this was treated as irrefutable proof. When some dialog from one of the games suggested otherwise, that was dismissed as a mistake.
 
So again, I ask--does anyone have translations for Lucina's Famitsu page? I'm really curious if there is any new information on how she differs from Marth.
 
Obviously Ridley was cut. Sakurai couldn't make it work because he was just too big, so he said hell, I'll just make another Marth Clone, it worked in Melee.

So again, I ask--does anyone have translations for Lucina's Famitsu page? I'm really curious if there is any new information on how she differs from Marth.

On a more serious note, this would be nice. Odd that they have all those details about her attacks if they are the same as Marth's minus tippers.
 
Sure, but they say they planned him and I assume started working on him, especially if it's Chrom (see the very detailed model), then abruptly they cut him? Weird.
It doesn't say they started working on him. It says he was planned and then cut. That happens frequently, especially in Smash Bros. There were seven characters that were cut for time in Brawl, and the same was undoubtedly the case for Melee as well. . Maybe time constraints were an issue. Maybe it was something else.

Maybe Sakurai just realized that Chrom would never be interesting to play as, so they cut him because he's boring and terrible.

But seriously, clones are much quicker and faster to make than unique characters, so Lucina was probably a 'consolation prize' to fatten up the FE representation again without taking too much time off the rest of the development pipeline.
 
Okay fixed, but can anyone verify the translation?
Can only verify the Lucina was originally Marth's alt (colour variation), but not others. Need someone with better Japanese language skills :lol
Well in this case I think it's alright? No images or other stuff. Just a bunch of words, if he rewrote them instead of posting a pic the result would be the same, no?
I dunno, just better be safe.
 
I'm still curious with certain character being cut. I have a strange feeling that it's not Chrom, so it has to be someone else. Since Sakurai want to fill out the void with Lucina, so I would imagine that DLC characters might not happens?
 
Curse my desire to mostly want to hang out in the grey area when posting so I don't step on people's toes. I actually do agree that Wolf is very different, but to people thinking in a least common denominator way I can see why it isn't 100%.



Just imagine:

Trailer begins without that slashing intro and we shift to a sumi-e ink scene (think Okami) of a bamboo field at night and hear nothing but footsteps on the ground as three figures dart in and out of hiding. Camera switches focus and we see Greninja leaping up into the light of the full moon firing a volley of water shuriken and Sheik tossing needles at some figure darting through the area. Finally, Sheik goes all in and deploys a Burst Grenade that is then struck and deflected with a bolt of lightning, detonating off target. The camera refocuses on the wall of flames with Shiek and Greninja in full alert expecting something. Suddenly:

http://zippy.gfycat.com/ScaredHandmadeGlobefish.webm

The flame wall dissipates as someone from behind it cuts in the two directions of the Smash logo. The sword is sheathed as the character gets into stance again and as he lunges forward in full view:

"TAKAMARU soars again!"
"TAKAMARU draws once more!"
"TAKAMARU heard Heath and Azure's pleas!"

The watermark on that GIF was making me think "Amaterasu rises to the challenge!"
 
If Chrom was planned and then cut, as suggested in that Famitsu scan, this could explain why the Gematsu leaker thought Chrom was in -- he must've got his information in the early stages of development.
 
I do find it quite weird that devs would say outright "Yeah we cut a character and replaced it with this clone" before the game is even released.

Or maybe I'm too used to Western Devs BS and that outright honesty now looks weird to me.

Dear god what have I become.

Anyhow, we can't say for certain who was cut and I think it'd be dumb to automatically assume it's Chrom. Could've been someone totally different. Could've been Snake until Konami refused to port Ground Zeroes to WiiU. Could've been Simon Belmont. Hell maybe Lucas IS cut in the end but he was initially there (RIP Lucas). Let's not assume that Lucina must have gotten in because the cut character's franchise was Fire Emblem.
 
If Chrom was planned and then cut, as suggested in that Famitsu scan, this could explain why the Gematsu leaker thought Chrom was in -- he must've got his information in the early stages of development.

Sakurai admitted that Lucina was last minutes addition to the update but what about Robin? He wasn't mentioned in the leak.
 
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