One day, Sakurai's just gonna do it. He's gonna post a bunch of screenshots and videos with certain features and all the hints he added are gonna add up to the reveal of Goku* or something.
And we will never know peace again.
*From Yūyūki
Aside from me wanting Goku on his own merits, I sincerely pray that if Goku does get into Smash... that Sakurai (or whoever ends up directing Smash Bros. in the future) goes utterly INSANE on making us think that Dragon Ball!Goku is actually coming to Smash Bros..
Like, I'd love for them to go whole-hog on that.
So, the MvC discussion from a couple of days ago had me thinking.
How would you all feel about character endings for Classic Mode?
And I don't mean the gameplay clip shows that you'd get in games prior to Ultimate. I mean actually unique, fully animated endings like you see in other fighting games.
It'd probably be a lot of work if it's a bigger roster, but I think it'd add some nice personality to a mode that just... kinda ends on an abrupt note as it currently stands.
With how Smash Ultimate's Classic Mode was developed? I WISH that 'character endings' were a thing. To me, it would have made that mode more wotrh it.
Otherwise, I'm still bummed out that, for as big as Ultimate's roster was, they chose NOW to be the time to not use Melee/3DS's Classic Mode style.
A lot of this goes back to Brawl for the former reason, especially. Most of the big support bases that existed for the Smash fandom got their start in the Brawl to post-Brawl/pre-4 speculation period, and one of the big things we had to go off of back then was Sakurai's reason for dismissing Villager as a potential Brawl newcomer. As a result of that, a lot of the miscellaneous series without immediately-obvious fighter potential failed to take off in the general speculation sphere. Other factors took hold as well, such as general apprehension toward Japan-only character choices. Pretty much only Takamaru and, to a lesser extent, Sukapon had significant fanbases back then (well, and the Masked Man, but we're talking about new franchises).
And then in the more modern eras of base game and DLC Smash 4, and then Ultimate's entire cycle, a lot of those existing fanbases gave in to what they thought was the reality of it all: that it wasn't worth supporting these characters when Nintendo clearly wanted to push more "relevant" characters, be they first or third party. And that's an absolute shame, since it's now at the point where Isaac is pretty much the only one to keep a lot of fanbase retention when there are so many smaller Nintendo franchises that could offer cool fighters for Smash.
Kind of nutty to me how Nintendo was suddenly going all-out on creating new IPs during the Gamecube/GBA era, yet Brawl was more focused on adding characters who probably seemed like notable omissions from Melee.
Had it gone with more of a 'Smash 4-style' of selecting characters, Brawl probably would have been filled with folks like (for example) Kururin, Isaac, Andy, Ray MK III, Starfy, Mona, Chibi-Robo, Saki Amemiya, Barbara the Bat, Alexandra Roivas, Jonathan Raimi, and/or maybe even someone from Odama or something.
Wait no, even better idea.
We get Bowser's Brother back in the flesh.
Ngl, I still believe Bowser's brother has a place in the Mario canon. Specifically, you all know how the 'current story' is that the Koopalings aren't Bowser's blood children anymore?
Well... Bowser's brother =
Morton Koopa Sr., anyone?