Hmm... as hyped as I am for this, it's kind of a weird way to reveal a stage. "Here's a stage, except I'm not actually specifically confirming it as a stage!" Has he done this before with other stages?
It's just strange; hopefully I'm not reading too much into it. I'm super hyped about this being the new Star Fox stage, and it looks
gorgeous. I'm also glad it's based on Assault and not on 64 yet again! (Not that 64 isn't awesome, but it's nice that Sakurai is acknowledging the most recent console-based entry in the series.)
This is actually quite a relief IMO; I've long been having a strange feeling about the stages, like we might not actually be getting as many new ones this time around as we've gotten used to in the past with Melee and especially Brawl, especially because they've got to come up with and develop a whole set of new stages for two games simultaneously this time around. As such, I've been worried for awhile that some of Nintendo's long-on-hiatus/dead series such as Star Fox, F-Zero, and Mother might not be getting a new stage for Smash 4, but this makes me feel a little less concerned about that (though I still don't think we're getting a new Mother stage).
Now I just want to see the new F-Zero stage and the new Kirby console stage, which I hope is based on Return to Dream Land! (That's assuming, of course, that there even are new F-Zero and Kirby stages coming. There must be... right?)
My friend asked me this today and I thought it was a fun question
For you, what's the best part of Smash 4 so far?
You're looking at him:
He's literally my ultimate Smash Bros. dream/"in a perfect world" character. I always thought about how amazing it would be to have him in Smash even in the Smash 64 and Melee days (even though I knew for sure it'd never happen because he's a third-party character), and then when Sonic and Snake were included in Brawl, I wanted Mega Man to be in too so badly it hurt. I held onto hope until the very end even in the face of quickly-diminishing likelihood as Brawl's release approached, and then when Sal Romano's accurate Brawl roster leaked, I wasn't surprised... but I was still crushed.
Then as we all know, Capcom has unceremoniously murdered the character and series in recent years with all the cancellations, leaving Mega Man (and even more insultingly, X, even though Zero is there) out of MvC 3, etc... it's been a really hard few years to be a Mega Man fan.
Then finally, out of nowhere, with there having been literally
nothing for Mega Man fans to feel even the slightest bit good about for years, he was revealed as one of the first new Smash characters day and date with the first Smash Bros. 4 trailer and fans around the world (including myself) literally lost their shit. (Just look at some of the Mega Man reaction videos on YouTube!)
Not fucking Zero, but Mega Man. Finally, Sakurai and Nintendo were confirming what fans like myself have known for a long time, even if Capcom seems to have forgotten: that Mega Man is one of the few true icons of classic gaming, right up there with Mario, Sonic, and Pac-Man. Even now, more than a year after his reveal, I
still get giddy when I think about the fact that
Mega Man is actually fucking in the new Smash Bros. I couldn't have asked for a better, more faithful implementation of him either (though I do still wish he had his Japanese voice, but hey, everything else is perfect).
All of the above might have sounded a bit dramatic, and maybe it is, but Mega Man fans get it. I still can't watch his reveal trailer without getting goosebumps, recalling how I felt when I realized what I was seeing for the first time, and playing as him at E3 was unreal!
For me, it's all been gravy since his reveal... a nice, downhill coast where literally everything else revealed since Mega Man is just a nice bonus on top of already getting everything I wanted. It's nice to be on this side of things for once after hoping so long during Brawl's pre-release hype and ultimately (but expectedly) being let down!
GAH THE HYPE
