Ah so Ridley is playable if it's a tokusatsu villain (a.k.a. man in rubbersuit, a.k.a. a power ranger villain)
Rodan for Brawl!
I really understand your point, but I firmly believe that if they really wanted to put X character in they would take the time implement them.
We may have to agree to disagree. I don't believe this at all.
If this had been the case, Ganondorf would have had his own fully unique moveset. For two games the choice was made to base his moveset off of Captain Falcon's... which in itself seems to be taken from Kamen Rider instead of being based on anything Captain Falcon actually
does.
Now that I think about it, maybe Captain was supposed to be Mach Rider at some point. I mean, Fox sort of has a made-up moveset too, but at least shooting and reflecting shots were things Star Fox does in his games. He just used his Arwing to do it.
Welcome to the small group of people who actually care about that vague-yet-IMPORTANT bit of info we got about Smash4!!! Good luck starting a decision about that, tried more than a few times myself but no bites. Apparently no one wants to speculate about that.
I'll bite.
Sakurai's comments about customization on the 3DS version and the Wii U being the area suggests to me that he'll be splitting up the focus on single-player and multiplayer content. They'll probably share most of the gameplay, but the Wii U will be where competitive players will want to play. Assuming no one decides to hook up their 3DS, that is. Custom characters will almost certainly be banned.
Having a fair amount of single-player content isn't new to Brawl, either. Melee had event stages, all-star mode, adventure mode, classic mode, so on. I think the 3DS will focus on that sort of thing, and customization fits into that - stickers were probably a precursor to the customization we'll see in SSB4.
Now, Sakurai's mentioned Monster Hunter in the Kid Icarus Uprising Iwata Asks. That's a predominantly portable game that lives and dies on its multiplayer. Kid Icarus Uprising didn't neglect multiplayer even though it was on a portable system. Obviously, he knows that multiplayer and portables don't have to be separate. But Monster Hunter focuses on
cooperative multiplayer and Kid Icarus' main multiplayer mode has a competitive side to it (Light vs Dark).
I suspect that the Wii U version will be a more traditional Smash title, while the 3DS version will be built to allow people to team up and play through the game content. Maybe not "team up" in the strictest sense, but play through the game with friends through local multiplayer. Coop events, perhaps a coop Superspace Emissary.
