Recent content by Ze Diglett

Sure, why not? This sounds fun. I'll roll with: Blooper Dry Bones Ninji Hammer Bro Pianta Petey Piranha Kamek Poochy Toadsworth (who I assume is dead until Nintendo proves otherwise) Foreman Spike E. Gadd M.C. Ballyhoo Prince Peasley Shroob Fawful Doopliss Dimentio Diddy Kong Dixie Kong Funky...

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but please, no crossover DLC this time around. I was already tired of seeing Link every race after a few weeks, and that was a decade ago. If we see the likes of Kirby and Captain Falcon in this game while Nintendo continues to pretend the RPGs never existed...

Well, yeah, that goes without saying. If anything, I think the sad reality is Nintendo knew ahead of time they had to save showstoppers like Diddy and Petey for post-launch since no one but die-hard completionists would put money down on Rocky Wrench, and they wanted this game's roster to be...

Well, that was a big nothingburger. If they really cut 200cc, that might be a dealbreaker for me. Rest of the game looks fine (though Free Roam looks kinda empty), but 200cc should just be there. They will do ANYTHING but add the cool characters to this game, bro. Least I can pretend to play as...

Call it a gut feeling motivated by Occam's razor. Safer to say we've seen all the playable characters between the demo and trailers than to assume they've been holding back E. Gadd or whoever for this Direct when they casually flashed half a billion new racers in the last trailer alone. Not the...

I'm outright expecting there to be zero new playable characters shown and, if anything, direct confirmation that aside from costumes, this is what we've got. Beyond that, an overview of Free Roam's a given, Battle Mode'll get an "it's there!" acknowledgement, and we'll likely get a more in-depth...

Sure, there are picks I like here too - I've gone on record saying Pianta and Cataquack are incredible choices - but that doesn't really change that there's a lot of objectively missed potential in ignoring anything that's not the mainline Mario platformers and maybe Donkey Kong.

If Nintendo feels the need to pad out a massive roster with static, recycled enemy models, maybe we should be asking "hey, why doesn't Nintendo acknowledge the extended Mario universe more often" instead of jumping straight to "Nintendo will never do this, so it's fine if it sucks actually."

Smash Crusade's implementation of Crash really sold me on him from a moveset standpoint. He has mostly frenetic and short-ranged normals befitting of typical Crash gameplay, but he can also place down boxes (wooden, TNT, or nitro) and shove them around with his Fruit Bazooka for a bit of variety...

My Steve-related "hot take" is that trying to make Steve a character in any context is a mistake. Steve (and Alex, and all the other default Minecraft skins) is definitionally a placeholder that exists for the sole purpose of being replaced by anyone else. Hyping him up as a gaming "icon" is...

Cool as that'd be, I sadly don't see them adding ROB back when even Tour forgot he exists. That's to say nothing of the elephantine honeybee in the room, who I think they know is better left as a one-time joke pick.

Frankly, if they're insisting upon padding out the roster with nameless mooks, there was one correct choice they would NEVER be cool enough to add. I would main the **** out of Shroob and that's not even a joke.

So far, not a big fan. Cataquack and Pianta are based, and picks like Pokey and Cheep Cheep are very funny, but man... I miss Petey and Dry Bowser. They were my GOATs in 8 Deluxe, and from the returning cast I'm left with... I dunno, Bowser Jr.? Not nice. Kamek being reduced to an item one game...

My Jigglypuff-related unpopular opinion is that their big-eyed design in Melee and Brawl is significantly better than the one we have now. It seems like a small change, but look at the two side-by-side and it's just uncanny.