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[georly]

64: Link
Melee: Link
Brawl: Toon Link with a side of Lucas
Sm4sh:

Spoiler

Palutena or Robin

We're the same... except Link and/or toon link will be my mains in smash 4, regardless of how bad they are. Then i'll pick my '3rd' who I haven't decided yet, but it might be bowser jr.

 

[OricWindstar]

We're the same... except Link and/or toon link will be my mains in smash 4, regardless of how bad they are. Then i'll pick my '3rd' who I haven't decided yet, but it might be bowser jr.

Yeah, I dabbled with Link in all the previous games but always ended up sticking to Mario. I'm making it my mission to get good with him in Smash 4, regardless of how good he is.

 

[Beelzebufo]

Good news about Robin and Palutena, I wouldn't mind using them as high tier characters at all!

 

[Aaronrules380]

Weinhoffer has recapped the characters on his twitter. Not going to paste all of it here since it's split up between a bunch of tweets

 

[Azure J]

Palutena, Robin and Shulk are nigh universally considered the best of the expo impressions. It's so weird.

 

[munchie64]

That was well done.

Thanks man!

 

[Hero Prinny]

What has your main(s) been in each Smash game?

64- Pikachu
Melee- Pikachu & Mewtwo
Brawl- Pikachu & DDD and sometimes pkmn trainer

 

[Regiruler]

Still going to be a G&W main, might play palutena too.

 

[Toxi]

Palutena, Robin and Shulk are nigh universally considered the best of the expo impressions. It's so weird.

Those are also the characters that everybody was probably playing and had the most time with. Also, all three have long-ranged normals, which tend to dominate people who don't know the game yet (see: Ghost Rider in Marvel 3).

 

[Broritos]

Palutena, Robin and Shulk are nigh universally considered the best of the expo impressions. It's so weird.

Did people even try any of the older and less popular characters? With such a limited amount of time to play I feel like most people will try out the new characters first so it's not too surprising that there's more talk about the new characters than the older ones.

 

[J@hranimo]

I wish Ness was in this demo so we can hear how better he's gotten. Hopefully.

 

[Azure J]

Those are also the characters that everybody was probably playing and had the most time with. Also, all three have long-ranged normals, which tend to dominate people who don't know the game yet (see: Ghost Rider in Marvel 3).

Hmm, good point. I do remember the days of Ike being the best thing ever from E For All impressions.

 

[Immaculate]

Does Links Sword change in the Fierce Deity alt?

 

[Moonlight]

Gotta ask, was anyone here seriously gonna main Palutena since her reveal? I definitely was

Was never any doubt in my mind, but Robin's reveal shook me up a bit. I think I'll alternate.

 

[MiguelMexMIstery]

Palutena, Robin and Shulk are nigh universally considered the best of the expo impressions. It's so weird.

Smash is too animu confirmed

 

[MisterLuffy]

Rosalina impressions?

 

[Martylepiaf]

Sakurai is tweeting a bunch of stuff, somebody understand japanese here ? Google trad is not helping
https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai

 

[Dryk]

If the CCS forces you to go past the custom moves menu I can't see it not being used in tournaments. Sure some will end up banned but the extra menu time won't be much more than custom names, which are already used.

 

[Geminosity]

Gotta ask, was anyone here seriously gonna main Palutena since her reveal? I definitely was

Yup, though I'd pretty much been aiming to main her the minute her even possibly being playable came up. That said, when Robin and Lucina appeared, my list of potential mains increased again
I'm still not sure what to make of Rosalina yet but I'll definitely try her :3

 

[Makai]

What has your main(s) been in each Smash game?

I was pretty much Link exclusive before I got into competitive play. Then I branched out more.

64
Kirby
Falcon
Fox
Ness
Link

Melee
Falcon
Marth
Falco
Link
Ness

Brawl
Snake

 

[Hatchtag]

Sakurai is tweeting a bunch of stuff, somebody understand japanese here ? Google trad is not helping
https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai

He stopped at a demo event...but only watched from afar lol.
Then he made his 10000th tweet.

 

[random25]

Wow some new info and confirmation from Masked Man. Good job and thanks for the hard work!

 

[Tathanen]

la la la

okay I'll take this smashes brothers game now thanks

oh and theatrhythm gimme that too it's time for me to have it

 

[Masked Man]

So are you saying it appears between character selection and stage selection, or on the character select screen? If so where does it appear?

It appears over the character portraits while you're choosing a character.

1) turn customizations on
2) select a character
3) select your custom specials > window closes
4) press start > stage select time

Argh, I gotta know what the song is! I hope there's more than those three transitions, but at the very least we have a TTYD variant!

Yeah, I wish I knew off the top of my head :/

Great stuff. Thanks for the info!

Edit: Wouldn't mind your thoughts on Robin.

Just played as him in FFA! Thunder is tricky because you initiate the charge with B, then press again to release, so you basically have to double-tap to fire off quickly. Arcwind travels a good distance vertically. Animations are cool for the levin sword and his smashes have good knockback. Gigafire is basically Ness's PK Fire.

Can you describe this more? I'm just curious how it all looks, since FD Link has armor on. How does it implement that onto the outfit, does it look awkward?

I didn't get a close look from the CSS, but I can play as him next. The top of his shield looked purple.

Tell me about Impa Sheik Masked Man.

Will check!

Fierce Deity Link in MM has the usual Link hat or am I misunderstanding something?

Yep, same hat, just darker iirc.

Good stuff. I'm wondering though, were you able to try any of my suggestions?

I didn't see any of them, lol. Will check!

Also:
• FD has a nice epic mix of the Smash 4/5 theme.
• Palutena really does say all her moves...
• Pit's Dash Uppercut has awesome knockback and travels a huge horizontal distance both on land and in air. Great for recovery while protecting against edge guarders who come after you. His smashes seem to have better knockback, too. Overall felt good! (Also, no Black Pit palette swap for obvious reasons, lol.)

 

[Martylepiaf]

He stopped at a demo event...but only watched from afar lol.
Then he made his 10000th tweet.

Well, thanks. I'm glad I didn't miss that.

 

[Speedwagon]

Gotta ask, was anyone here seriously gonna main Palutena since her reveal? I definitely was

Uprising is my favorite game ever, so there's no doubt I'll be using her - along with Pit and Dark Pit. However, I'm still set on primarily using Wii Fit Trainer.

 

[Tan]

It appears over the character portraits while you're choosing a character.

1) turn customizations on
2) select a character
3) select your custom specials > window closes
4) press start > stage select time

Also:
• FD has a nice epic mix of the Smash 4/5 theme.
• Palutena really does say all her moves...

All of this sounds awesome. Thanks Masked man.

 

[Revven]

Masked Man, if you're going to be there until the event closes here's some general things to check out:

Captain Falcon's colors -- is the only new color the gold one? Does the red (Blood Falcon) have any notable differences compared to the previous games?

Is it true that Diddy Kong can only pull one banana? What are his newly animated Up Smash and tilts like, do they possess more range as indicated by the new animations? Does Diddy's Up B still hit walls and cause him to explode off of them and basically die? Can you still determine how far Diddy goes with his Side B by smashing it vs tilting the direction? Also, can you still jump off of people's heads and/or attack them when you've grabbed them with Side B? Anything different about the peanuts?

Is Samus' Up Smash better (as in does it keep opponents in it and can you get people while they are on the ground with it)? How is Samus' new neutral air? How strong is down tilt? Can you try her charge shot and see if anything is noticeably different about it? What about her Up B, is it still strong like the Treehouse people kept talking up about? Is her down air any faster? What about forward air? Also, does she have any new taunts? How far away can she tether to the ledge?

Does DDD's grab still have crazy range or no? How is his Ftilt and Dtilt? Is his back air any different? What about neutral air (the sort of 'belly flop' in the air thing)? Is his neutral B any better or is it the same? How about his Uair and Dair (up air and down air)? Any differences for those? Basically, is anything different about DDD (he's like the least known veteran, I think, in terms of what we know about him) and also, what are DDD's colors? Any new ones?

Some people have noted that Sonic's Side B spindash ends in a kick, is this true? How does the kick work, does it pop people up and away or...? Is Sonic's new Dsmash strong? Or is it more like a get off me Dsmash like Sheik's?

Speaking of Sheik, can you try to shoot her needles in the air close to the ground and see if there's any landing lag for them? In the E3 build she had zero landing lag, practically like Melee where she can shoot needles in the air and land with no lag -- I want to know if they kept this. How about her grenade? Does it still pull in as strongly as it did in the E3 build? OH! How strong is forward air? Is it more like Brawl where it's a weak slap? Also, what are Sheik's colors? Same as Zelda's?

I think that's all I have right now off the top of my head.

Requoting for new page, can you check some of this stuff Masked Man? I know it looks like a lot but I wanna know! So pleaaase. Thanks.

 

[k_Reign]

Gotta ask, was anyone here seriously gonna main Palutena since her reveal? I definitely was

Oh without a doubt. I love that she's looking to be pretty solid. I will main her and Dark Pit/Pit and then try to be at least not awful with most characters.

 

[BuggyDClown]

MASKED MAN

PLEASE Check the following for me!

-Does Samus charge beam change color with her different alts. The wiki page says this, haven't been able to get a confirm anywhere.

This question is eating at me. The hype is real.

 

[Stoof]

What has your main(s) been in each Smash game?

Kirby is my main main in all the games. I liked Snake and Toon Link in Brawl too.

 

[munchie64]

It appears over the character portraits while you're choosing a character.

1) turn customizations on
2) select a character
3) select your custom specials > window closes
4) press start > stage select time

Ah ok, thanks for that. It sounds good and simple.
Will be easy to do in the Wii U version too and can easily work with tournaments

 

[Moonlight]

Requoting for new page, can you check some of this stuff Masked Man? I know it looks like a lot but I wanna know! So pleaaase. Thanks.

Gonna second this. The people demand to know!

 

[Kyzon]

I'll miss this hilarious stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA6PJVxK2rM

Spoiler

3DS pls

 

[Captain Rage Quit 69]

Also:
• FD has a nice epic mix of the Smash 4/5 theme.
• Palutena really does say all her moves...

Yoooo you gotta tell us, in what style is the FD mix like? Is it some weird rock epic like Brawl's FD, or what? I gotta know, FD's music is always one of the high points of each game for me.



And does she really? So we're gonna be hearing a lot of "Reflect Barrier" and "Autoreticle?" Speaking of, does Robin announce his magic attacks too?

 

[k_Reign]

Yoooo you gotta tell us, in what style is the FD mix like? Is it some weird rock epic like Brawl's FD, or what? I gotta know, FD's music is always one of the high points of each game for me.



And does she really? So we're gonna be hearing a lot of "Reflect Barrier" and "Autoreticle?" Speaking of, does Robin announce his magic attacks too?

It's funny he says that since Zip said she did not say her moves and someone else said she did but not as much as the trailer made it out to be

 

[random25]

Also:
• FD has a nice epic mix of the Smash 4/5 theme.
• Palutena really does say all her moves...
• Pit's Dash Uppercut has awesome knockback and travels a huge horizontal distance both on land and in air. Great for recovery while protecting against edge guarders who come after you. His smashes seem to have better knockback, too. Overall felt good! (Also, no Black Pit palette swap for obvious reasons, lol.)

Does Shulk also shout out his moves? Thanks!

 

[A Link to the Past]

I'm a little sad that we didn't get Bowser's Castle from Paper Mario 1, or the Boo Manor. That would have been cool.

 

[georly]

It appears over the character portraits while you're choosing a character.

1) turn customizations on
2) select a character
3) select your custom specials > window closes
4) press start > stage select time

Yeah, I wish I knew off the top of my head :/

Just played as him in FFA! Thunder is tricky because you initiate the charge with B, then press again to release, so you basically have to double-tap to fire off quickly. Arcwind travels a good distance vertically. Animations are cool for the levin sword and his smashes have good knockback. Gigafire is basically Ness's PK Fire.

I didn't get a close look from the CSS, but I can play as him next. The top of his shield looked purple.

Will check!

Yep, same hat, just darker iirc.

I didn't see any of them, lol. Will check!

Also:
• FD has a nice epic mix of the Smash 4/5 theme.
• Palutena really does say all her moves...
• Pit's Dash Uppercut has awesome knockback and travels a huge horizontal distance both on land and in air. Great for recovery while protecting against edge guarders who come after you. His smashes seem to have better knockback, too. Overall felt good! (Also, no Black Pit palette swap for obvious reasons, lol.)

Does Wii Fit Trainer give pep talks while she fights? That was disabled in the e3 demo.

Does spirit tracks have link/alfonzo as a conductor? Also disabled in e3 demo

 

[Josephl64]

I'm a little sad that we didn't get Bowser's Castle from Paper Mario 1, or the Boo Manor. That would have been cool.

Paper Mario can make for so many great stages

 

[Troubled Bat]

I didn't get a close look from the CSS, but I can play as him next. The top of his shield looked purple.

Thanks a whole lot, Masked Man! Really appreciate it.

For refrence:

 

[Kyzon]

I'm a little sad that we didn't get Bowser's Castle from Paper Mario 1, or the Boo Manor. That would have been cool.

I'm sad but not surprised. Other than that terrible DK stage and Samus picking up all slack we've never gotten a villain's domain as a stage.


Luigi's Mansion is Luigi's so I'm not counting that.

 

[Crocodile]

I'm SO HAPPY the Customization on CSS is confirmed

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

What has your main(s) been in each Smash game?
.

64- Samus
Melee- Samus
Brawl- Meta Knight / Olimar
Sm4sh- SAMUS! /Paluntena / LUCINA! / Bowser / Little Mac / idk! I havent played it yet!

But definitely hoping Samus is at least close to melee.


Edit: at work but will be asking for smash info when i get my lunch break!

 

[Cse]

I've heard almost nothing regarding Wii Fit Trainer...

 

[MiguelMexMIstery]

64- Samus
Melee- Samus
Brawl- Meta Knight / Olimar
Sm4sh- SAMUS! /Paluntena / LUCINA! / Bowser / Little Mac / idk! I havent played it yet!

But definitely hoping Samus is at least close to melee.

get it

because you used caps

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

get it

because you used caps

Harharhar

 

[Loco4Coco]

What has your main(s) been in each Smash game?

N64- Fox
Melee- Random
Brawl- Random
Smash4- Random

 

[Toxi]

MASKED MAN

PLEASE Check the following for me!

-Does Samus charge beam change color with her different alts. The wiki page says this, haven't been able to get a confirm anywhere.

This question is eating at me. The hype is real.

If it's not sourced, don't expect it.

 

[Revven]

OH! I DID FORGET SOMETHING WITH SAMUS THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

Masked Man, can you check if her Down B bombs explode on contact instead of a timer? That was something that happened in Melee but not Brawl (they made it purely timer based). So, try to Down B near someone and see if the bomb explodes asap or if it just explodes after a certain period of time.