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[Jawmuncher]

I really would love for there to be a few more characters we don't know about.

 

[DecoReturns]

sakurai is the leaker?

 

[KHlover]

Pic of the day. This time, you can challenge every fighter in All-Star Mode from the moment you turn on the game!! This is a survival battle with limited recovery items and no option to continue. However, this mode will be incomplete until you've unlocked every fighter... Until then, you can only play against characters that are already available. This is a picture of the bottom-screen menu, with a padlock indicating that the mode is still incomplete.

"DO YOU HEAR THAT? DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE'S CHEERS? THEY ARE CELEBRATING THE RETURN OF THEIR GODDESS PALUTENA UNKNOWN CHARACTER HYPE!!!"

 

[DICKS AHOY]

WAIT HOLD UP the lock was on the leak right?

WE STILL HAVE MORE LEFT

UNDO DOG

SWANKY KONG

THAT ONE MR. T LOOKING NPC FROM EARTHBOUND

EVERYBODY IS FAIR GAME NOW

 

[Benzychenz]

There's no way the extra screen and explanation for the padlock wasn't done solely to build excitement after the leak.

 

[Mariolee]

game is cut

Wolf is cut.

 

[CriterionDog]

SAKURAIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HawthorneKitty]

I like Ike.

 

[Richie]

HOLY HELL SAKURAI KEEPS THE GAME GOIN' ON

 

[Vampirolol]

We still can't be sure that the ESRB video was showing a unique savefile. The roster might be complete.

 

[Omzz]

yeah well i never believed esrb to be the real final roster because of the way the css was arranged. rearranges itself by franchise once it's complete

also could this be the starting roster? looks like it may be

 

[SenorArdilla]

Our God is an awesome God!

 

[Icelandic_Jazz]

Oooh shit this is actually good news. Ice Climbers come home (please).

 

[SkullHydra]

Sakurai senpai noticed our distress!

 

[GiantBreadbug]

Our God is an awesome God!

He reigns from Nintendo above

 

[Immaculate]

HE KNOWS

 

[Thorakai]

Guys how is this a megaton when the leak screenshot could have shown exactly what we are seeing in the POTD right now. It was an E3 video so the screenshot could have just been taken before the whole roster was unlocked, then the next part of the video just shows the full character roster. Two screenshots in two time periods. No guarantee of secret unlockables we don't know about.

 

[SuperSah]

There's no way the extra screen and explanation for the padlock wasn't done solely to build excitement after the leak.

Sakurai did it on purpose.

Question is, will we discover these new fighters before or after JP release?

 

[emb]

inb4

"yeah well the all star pic in the leak still could've been taken separately from that CSS so it could still be complete"

FUCK THAT WE HYPE NOW

Why are we hype now? Nothing has changed.

Though it is cool to have All Star from the start. :3

 

[random25]

Pic of the day. This time, you can challenge every fighter in All-Star Mode from the moment you turn on the game!! This is a survival battle with limited recovery items and no option to continue. However, this mode will be incomplete until you've unlocked every fighter... Until then, you can only play against characters that are already available. This is a picture of the bottom-screen menu, with a padlock indicating that the mode is still incomplete.

yoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

More characters to come here we go!!!

 

[OricWindstar]

Welp, here we go!

 

[johnbone]

inb4

"yeah well the all star pic in the leak still could've been taken separately from that CSS so it could still be complete"

The pics aren't all from the same save, judging by trophy numbers, so not necessarily.

lol

 

[WonderRade]

#teamstillunknownchars

 

[Pikma]

Man, the plot remains as thick as always
and Shulk looks so awesome on the 3DS

:3

Thank you, I love you

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

Reaching.

Disregard what I said there, Sakurai proved me wrong right away.

 

[BGBW]

So all-Star mode gets longer the more you unlock?

May be worth playing it before you have everyone then.

 

[SmithnCo]

Guys how is this a megaton when the leak screenshot could have shown exactly what we are seeing in the POTD right now. It was an E3 video so the screenshot could have just been taken before the whole roster was unlocked, then the next part of the video just shows the full character roster. Two screenshots in two time periods. No guarantee of secret unlockables we don't know about.

True.

But people will hype themselves up anyway...

 

[SkullHydra]

SmashGAF hype is back full swing after finally coming to accept that as the final roster. Woohoo!

 

[solomon]

Samurai what have you done! But now I hope that nintendo direct is real and we get some smash news. (Release dates I want some release dates)
Btw what is this im reading on reddit that this game has a L cancel like mechanic. (Please lord let it be true)

 

[Xane]

Pic of the day. This time, you can challenge every fighter in All-Star Mode from the moment you turn on the game!! This is a survival battle with limited recovery items and no option to continue. However, this mode will be incomplete until you've unlocked every fighter... Until then, you can only play against characters that are already available. This is a picture of the bottom-screen menu, with a padlock indicating that the mode is still incomplete.

yoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I thought that was obvious.. oh well, finally NeoGAF's eyes opened!

 

[GiantBreadbug]

Why are we hype now? Nothing has changed.

Though it is cool to have All Star from the start. :3

The hype is because this is more fuel on the "some characters left" fire.

lol

Yeah that's why inb4

 

[Sponge]

UNDO DOG

SWANKY KONG

THAT ONE MR. T LOOKING NPC FROM EARTHBOUND

EVERYBODY IS FAIR GAME NOW

STILL HAVE HOPE FOR MY BUDDY DIX

 

[JoeM86]

So, using this, the last characters you're likely to face are Shulk, Lucina, Robin and Greninja.

 

[J@hranimo]

I believe a reposting of the Smash Hype Train is necessary!

 

[Hours Left]

New topic for new news.

 

[oreomunsta]

WOLF MAY STILL BE IN!!

I'm so happy =3

 

[linko9]

WOAH WHUT. The 4chan leak with the final roster had the lock on it!! So there are more characters left?!

Can you post the leaked pic you're referencing? Don't remember the lock off the top of my head; great catch.

 

[Mysterious]

I knew the roster UI on 3DS didn't make sense with all those random grey spaces.

 

[rekameohs]

Leak isn't the final roster! I love it! Sakurai still manages to bring the hype even amidst the leakage.

 

[Red Arremer]

Pic of the day. This time, you can challenge every fighter in All-Star Mode from the moment you turn on the game!! This is a survival battle with limited recovery items and no option to continue. However, this mode will be incomplete until you've unlocked every fighter... Until then, you can only play against characters that are already available. This is a picture of the bottom-screen menu, with a padlock indicating that the mode is still incomplete.

yoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:O!

 

[Azure J]

I still don't get how even without the Sal leak Shulk was such an outlandish possiblity. Monolith Soft is a major 1st party for Nintendo which (for admittedly obvious reasons) had zero presence in Smash so far, often helped out with grunt work on major games like Skyward Sword, Xenoblade was a critical darling, a surprise success in the west after a big fan-campaign and Sakurai had made it clear long ago he was a big fan of both the game and the developers.

Shulk wasn't guaranteed, but I felt pretty comfortable about his chances.

EDIT: god damn it sakurai you devilish bastard

It's one part "lol bottom of the barrel" criticisms because ("apparently") no other franchise has the star power to contend with the series already present in Smash and one part "BTFO" culture where everyone wants to get high off the schadenfreude.

What I don't get is how people constantly criticize Nintendo saying they only do Mario/Zelda/Pokemon but then the times when they do highlight (or attempt to highlight) something newer and/or contrary to this exaggerated criticism, an equally loud chorus of "not fitting enough/not 'muh nostalgia' enough/not A-list enough" rings out. Funnier (sadder) still is the idea that these comments/feelings stunt the potential of other series because if it isn't Mario or Zelda tier from the jump, it apparently isn't worth it.

 

[DICKS AHOY]

Jokes aside, I dig that you fight each character by the year they came out, and not each franchise the year it debuted. You can see that when Peach and Bowser come after Mac, or Zero Suit Samus or Ike/Robin not being next to Samus/Marth in the 'defeated characters' screen. Makes All-Star's mode less repetitive than it got in Brawl, if even by a little bit.

 

[Mariolee]

STILL HAVE HOPE FOR MY BUDDY DIX

 

[foxuzamaki]

foxuzamaki, let's fight to death for it, and then somebody steps in and photoshops it for us

I have the stronger tentacles

 

[786110]

It's show time

 

[GiantBreadbug]

Guys how is this a megaton when the leak screenshot could have shown exactly what we are seeing in the POTD right now. It was an E3 video so the screenshot could have just been taken before the whole roster was unlocked, then the next part of the video just shows the full character roster. Two screenshots in two time periods. No guarantee of secret unlockables we don't know about.

Yeah but there's also no guarantee of no more secret characters, contrary to so many saying exactly that

 

[Dimitri LH]

Hype growing again....but who would be missing? Heres hoping for no cuts!

 

[KHlover]

So, using this, the last characters you're likely to face are Shulk, Lucina, Robin and Greninja.

Spoiler

Inb4 Inkling girl as promo for Splatoon

 

[Pikma]

Thank you God

#TeamNotTheFinalRosterYet

 

[oreomunsta]

STILL HAVE HOPE FOR MY BUDDY DIX

I... I don't think DIX is a good nickname... At all hahaha