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

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I’ve been snooping around on Japanese Twitter and found scans of all of Sakurai’s Famitsu columns dating back to the game’s reveal! They contain quite a few never before seen screens (including what looks to be Pac-Man’s neutral air, a body splash). I’m sure there’s a lot of interesting developmental insight, too, but there’s a way too much text to parse through. Maybe someone with a lot of time on their hands would be willing to translate some of it. Three or four of the columns were summarized by Kotaku, but none of them have been translated in their entirety.

(Interestingly enough, in the first column after last year’s E3, Sakurai talks about non-fighters like Wii Fit Trainer and compares them to Fox and Falcon in the original game.)
I don't have a ton of time to kill, but I would be happy to go through the articles and look for any interesting tidbits if you would be so kind as to send those articles my way. :)
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There are seven F-Zero games and an anime. Even though the series is effectively "dead," I think Falcon could have been included at any point on account of F-Zero being one of those homegrown EAD IPs that Nintendo likes to whore out (Nintendo Land, Virtual Console, StreetPass Mii Plaza hat, et cetera).

See, I'm not sure all of that would necessarily have occurred without Falcon already being in Smash, though. I mean, F-Zero GX is the only non-anime game to be released since Smash Bros. and the anime itself is "F-Zero: Legend of Falcon" in Japan. The Nintendo Land game doesn't even mention the series - it's "Captain Falcon's Twister Race."

I mean it's all speculation of course since we can't determine what led directly to what, but I think Captain Falcon as a character is SIGNIFICANTLY bigger for Nintendo than the F-Zero series itself.
 
Time to make this happen.
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If Lucina and Robin confuse the mainstream game press and get them to frustratedly complain that Nintendo is running out of characters so they're pulling from poorly-received series like Fire Emblem, I can't imagine what sort of reaction characters from Metroid Prime Hunters would cause.
 
If Lucina and Robin confuse the mainstream game press and get them to frustratedly complain that Nintendo is running out of characters so they're pulling from poorly-received series like Fire Emblem, I can't imagine what sort of reaction characters from Metroid Prime Hunters would cause.

Wait, who is saying that?
 
If Lucina and Robin confuse the mainstream game press and get them to frustratedly complain that Nintendo is running out of characters so they're pulling from poorly-received series like Fire Emblem, I can't imagine what sort of reaction characters from Metroid Prime Hunters would cause.

Really? Did people have those complaints when say, the Ice Climbers, or Wolf was revealed?
 
So far, the only (known) franchises that haven't had any stages revealed at all are Kirby, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and F-Zero.

I want to see those stages.
 
Let's talk about stages. Especially this rumor that's been up since a month ago.

http://ssb4dojo.com/post/88984765921/rumor-mill-crashandcortexs-leak

Regardless of fake/real, that's a nice stage list for the 3DS. And would confirm that 3DS version will be the only one to get Melee stages. Plus, it has Vegas Palace from F-Zero GX. This must happen!
Oh man, a Face Raiders stage on the 3DS version that incorporates your face just reeks of Sakurai

If it's a fake, it's a good one
 
If Lucina and Robin confuse the mainstream game press and get them to frustratedly complain that Nintendo is running out of characters so they're pulling from poorly-received series like Fire Emblem, I can't imagine what sort of reaction characters from Metroid Prime Hunters would cause.

I laughed reading this and plan to look it up. It is one thing to be salty about a particular character, but now they're just acting like brats. Since when was Fire Emblem (particularly Awakening) poorly received?
 
So far, the only (known) franchises that haven't had any stages revealed at all are Kirby, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and F-Zero.

I want to see those stages.
Well we technically got Halberd for Kirby and Kongo Jungle for DK, but those are classic stages.

I really want to see a new DK stage based on Returns and/or Tropical Freeze.

Is there a Yoshi stage yet?
 
So far, the only (known) franchises that haven't had any stages revealed at all are Kirby, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and F-Zero.

I want to see those stages.

Hoping for two new Kirby stages on WiiU, one for Return and one for Yarn Kirby because that art style is so good.
 
Let's talk about stages. Especially this rumor that's been up since a month ago.

http://ssb4dojo.com/post/88984765921/rumor-mill-crashandcortexs-leak

Regardless of fake/real, that's a nice stage list for the 3DS. And would confirm that 3DS version will be the only one to get Melee stages. Plus, it has Vegas Palace from F-Zero GX. This must happen!

Not a bad list - a stage based on Taxi from Game & Wario would be cool, though I'd rather see a stage from a Wario Land game - but Zoness makes me suspicious. Too many people on gaf want Zoness for it to actually be real lol
 
I laughed reading this. It isn't just people being salty that characters got in from series they don't particularly enjoy, its just flat out bullshit in the smelliest sense. Fire Emblem Awakening was one of the most positively received 3DS games last year, I have no idea what planet these people are from.

To clarify, they didn't think FE:A was bad, just that it was unsuccessful, thus pulling from it doesn't make sense.

They are also of the belief that Lucina is the daughter of Marth and Robin.
 
Let's talk about stages. Especially this rumor that's been up since a month ago.

http://ssb4dojo.com/post/88984765921/rumor-mill-crashandcortexs-leak

Regardless of fake/real, that's a nice stage list for the 3DS. And would confirm that 3DS version will be the only one to get Melee stages. Plus, it has Vegas Palace from F-Zero GX. This must happen!



Ahhh why haven't I seen that yet? I love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHW2NYu-ZE ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
To clarify, they didn't think FE:A was bad, just that it was unsuccessful, thus pulling from it doesn't make sense.

They are also of the belief that Lucina is the daughter of Marth and Robin.

But it sold the most copies of the entire franchise. I mean, unsuccessful how? Narrative wise? Financial wise? Support from Nintendo?
 
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