PadWarrior
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Super Smash Bros. for 3DS |OT3| Little Mac and Cheese
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SuperBowser
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When you look at all the newcomers that entered brawl, nearly all had a "gimmick" of some sort and brought something new into smash. I think that was a huge factor for which characters made it past the drawing board. Like, there's no way Bowser jr. would have entered smash without the koopa clown car.
Rosalina + luma - double character
Little mac - one hit ko, ground based character
Shulk - monado arts
Robin - resource system, smash aerials
Bowser jr - vehicle
Duck hunt duo - those specials
Megaman - he never left his megaman games
Mii fighters - based on miis and customisable
I don't think WFT, Villager or Greninja aren't as unique as the others but I guess Sakurai wanted to represent these franchises. Villager is unique in his own right and WFT was unique in concept at least.
Rosalina + luma - double character
Little mac - one hit ko, ground based character
Shulk - monado arts
Robin - resource system, smash aerials
Bowser jr - vehicle
Duck hunt duo - those specials
Megaman - he never left his megaman games
Mii fighters - based on miis and customisable
I don't think WFT, Villager or Greninja aren't as unique as the others but I guess Sakurai wanted to represent these franchises. Villager is unique in his own right and WFT was unique in concept at least.
HypnoDarkrai
Member
Hmmmm.
Works as a shield with a projectile, just another camp utility.
Spinosaurus
Member
It's annoying to me because it could shield attacks.
SenorArdilla
Member
That basically says that Sakurai does what he wants.
Not75Drops
Member
Mother?
Although, Kotaku may be just taking the quote out of content and Sakurai is just referring to newcomers. Although, he did get rid of Lucas.
ErrorMacro
Member
Ohh, that's cool. I didn't do For Fun, and did only a few With Friends, so it will be quite easy to estimate it. Thanks.
PadWarrior
Member
lol I said the same thing. I love sakurai but that line doesn't make sense.
entremet
Member
Mother has a huge following in Japan.
Also Duck Hunt and ROB have no future either. But they're iconic in their own ways.
MetalGuardian
Banned
I've clocked a little over 30 hours so far -- which is pretty good (or sad?) considering I've been away on vacation all week.
Has a quicker/more efficient way of unlocking customs been figured out yet other than marathon playing smash run? I know you can suspend the game to the home menu during the prize roulette during classic too, but the customs I get via that method don't seem to be as character-specific as frequently as the drops in smash run. Maybe I need to play at a higher difficulty or something.
Except wait, fuck master core and crazy hand. I haven't had this much trouble in any prior classic modes in the smash series, no matter the difficulty. No matter how much I roll and try to dodge I always get my ass handed to me. The highest difficulty I've been able to clear on Classic is 6.5, despite me being much better at the game now than when I first attempted a higher difficulty Classic run.
Has a quicker/more efficient way of unlocking customs been figured out yet other than marathon playing smash run? I know you can suspend the game to the home menu during the prize roulette during classic too, but the customs I get via that method don't seem to be as character-specific as frequently as the drops in smash run. Maybe I need to play at a higher difficulty or something.
Except wait, fuck master core and crazy hand. I haven't had this much trouble in any prior classic modes in the smash series, no matter the difficulty. No matter how much I roll and try to dodge I always get my ass handed to me. The highest difficulty I've been able to clear on Classic is 6.5, despite me being much better at the game now than when I first attempted a higher difficulty Classic run.
User 73706
Banned
I think after Brawl, the Smash team had the humility to acknowledge Ganondorf needed some additional buffs or at least more options if he wasn't getting substantially revised from a gameplay perspective.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
SoldnerKei
Member
he got rid of wolf, squirtle and ivy too, they were reps thou, their series is still there... the IC on the other hand... :'c
Not75Drops
Member
I'm pretty sure that they fill the retro or "unexpected" choices that Sakurai referred to in Melee.
Well I don't know what the story with Wolf is but transformations were removed because of the 3DS and having 8 separate Pokemon characters may have been overkill.
User 73706
Banned
I don't have a 3DS or a Wii U (planning on getting a Wii U black friday), so can someone explain to me how the Mii "costumes" work? One thing that keeps catching my attention is the Power Loader costume for the Miis, so I'm thinking about either making an Ellen Ripley Mii or a Master Chief one if I can find a suitable helmet. Samus's, maybe. Are helmets independent of the "body suit" think the Power Loader costume slot occupies? I'm only familiar with the clothing system of Xbox Live Avatars.
entremet
Member
Well Ness is legacy choice.
Remember when Smash 64 came out, Mother 3 was in development as a N64 game before getting cancelled and turned into a GBA project.
Spinosaurus
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Basically while I don't use Duck Hunt I feel like there really isn't any reason for you to NOT use it. It forces the opponent to shield or jump to avoid it so it misses up their positioning and it's pretty safe from a distance because it can serve as a shield. I don't think you'd want to use it to actually hit with it.
Helmets are independent. And it does look like the power loader.
PreyingShark
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...You realize that Yoshi can just slide across the stage while throwing an egg if you try that, right?
Poltergust
Member
That actually requires a bit of set-up to do.
Either way, his mobility is good enough to close the gap on any zoner, and his eggs are good projectiles, too.
TheSlySoul
Member
Yeah, I can confirm that indeed 99 stock is the best way to waste Smash time. 1.0 is a bit slow though, so you may want 1.2-1.5x damage sessions. Almost at 7 hours now...
PreyingShark
Member
You usually have enough space to get off the needed whiffed pivot grab, actually. Then you have the egg as a shield.
But yeah, Yoshi is really really fast so what I do is actually just run up and kick zoner's asses. Like, he's so mobile you can often just shortup and fair or nair into the opponent. I also sometimes zone myself using eggs, of course.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Think I asked this before, but is anyone planning a thread tournament at all? I swear I saw Sah had some plans.
You can cheese them by sucking them in with Kirby and dropping them off halfway below the stage
I think his is planned for the end of the month?
spam counter with Palutena was my best strategy. Managed to get 6 as well.
I can play if you want, I am starting to use some characters that I'm not too great with either.
0989-1784-8978
I started off trying to lure the AI off with Jigglypuff, didn't work that well. I only managed one or two kills at best.
Then I read about the strategy to just use any character with a counter. Works wonder. Got 4 KOs with Shulk after a try or two. Eventually got it to 5. His up B is also decent-ish at killing them.
Awesome! Just ordered a complete set after seeing a few of the phase 1 amiibos go out of stock.
Hot Coldman
Banned
because they had enough spare time and resources
this is the answer
Oh cool. Though that's close enough for the skill gap to really go nuts. I need practice D:
TheSlySoul
Member
Because Sakurai bias trumps everything else. Next Smash game will have 5 Kid Icarus characters!
WFT is very unique. She has very strange hitboxes.
alright, just added you.
PadWarrior
Member
Nice!
Dr. Buni
Member
I wish there was a way to share replays. If the Wii U version has this feature, I am so moving on to that version.
I can see Smash 4 getting two new Kid Icarus characters as DLCs.
Coming soon: Hades as a new Captain Falcon clone!
PadWarrior
Member
Viridi finally getting her dues.
