Topic: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - OT

Cloud, Shulk, and the main character from Kingdom Heats (I do not know his name) all look like almost the same character with slightly different features. I have never been invested in these games that they're from and don't know much about them but that's just the perspective of someone who's casually familiar with those series.

@Rexcalibr: Sora's design was very likely inspired by Cloud's, but it's different enough to be pretty obviously different, as he has more of the large-eyed little kids' anime style about him and Cloud has more of the adults' anime style to him. Any similarities to Shulk are 100% coincidental and likely derive from him being a tall, skinny swordsman with an overkill sword of some sort, and using the aforementioned anime style. It's typical to see anime characters as looking the same, if you're on the outside looking in. At many points, they really do just start changing the hair and eyes and stopping there.

@UGXwolf: Except that one is british while the other is brown haired.

I think Sora is popular enough, relevant enough and unique enough to be a character in Smash. If he doesn't get in as DLC this time around, I would be quite surprised if he doesn't show up as a newcomer in the next Smash.

@TeeJay: I agree, as far as newcomers are I feel like he fits the criteria, in fact when Megaman had his reveal trailer I originally thought it was Sora in front of the moon

I'll just say it again. If Square gets a rep, Sora seems the most likely.followed by Neku Sakuraba. That's assuming whoever is organizing the rest next time thinks Square deserves a rep. Sora won't be DLC most likely as there's too many other characters with more demand than him.

Krystal for Smash!!!

I want Older Sora for Smash. Not Young Sora.

Gotta say... the MiiVerse stage is disappointing. I love the Tomodochi Life theme but it's so bland looking and the pictures that appear don't seem to be based on how many "Yeah!"'s or points that viewers rated them on. It seems completely random, meaning that lot of the images are just scribbles or nonsense... and the same sets of images come up over and over again.

The biggest hit is it does not even work online. I thought that was the entire point.

@Rexcalibr: The Miiverse posts are not based on popularity due to conflict opinions and people feelings. In simpler terms, EVERY Miiverse post deserves to be on there. Just showing popular posts makes people think that their post is not good enough to be on there or Nintendo dislikes their post. Or example, imagine you have a friend. He been drawing for days to show support for his main. He been working day and night, wasting his precious time, for his drawing to make a tiny appearance in one stage. When he finally post the picture, he checks the miiverse stage for his drawing. Sadly it nevers appears. Even after a week, it never shows up. Just popular drawings where Sakurai is with Master hand, or some female fighter in Samus zero suit. He's very upset. He wasted all that time for a drawing that never appear in SSB4 or even popular on Miiverse. You would be upset if that happen to him. Exactly the same thing with other people. Just because their post is not good, doesn't mean that they can't draw for SSB4. Just like with Youtube. You can't be popular due to your videos. While Egoraptor makes a crappy a** video which everyone loves for some reason. We don't need that in this world. Or any world.

@NightmareEater: Mostly agreed, but come on. Egoraptor puts a lot of time and effort into the scripts of his videos and even more into the animation. Just because others deserve recognition, too, doesn't mean Arin isn't making good videos. (Mind you, I'm talking on a relatively objective level--relative because you can't really separate opinions and still have a point to make--if you don't like his videos, then there's really no arguing with that.)

The Nintendo Life Instagram page liked the photo of my Pac-Man amiibo last night. That was pretty cool.

I thought the 1977 filter looked really cool for this photo.

That is how the Video Game Industry is able to sell new games. If people continued to be satisfied by 1 product, there would be no need to create another. I don't really see how this is a problem though. People get bored of things that they are over exposed to and once the over exposure stops, they can revisit it when they want. (nostalgia) If you want to hold off on the over exposure then you have to force yourself to play other games. Instead of only playing that 1 game for a week, play a different game each day, or play a game for only a hour or two then switch to something else. That might help you enjoy a game longer.

Snake, Bayonetta, Isaac and Sora for Smash. I REALLY want Bayonetta and Sora for Smash.

In the future DLC, do you ever think they'll ever remove characters from the roster, like DHD, Dr. Mario or Lucina say? Just so they can make more room for better variety of characters that will make a better impact for smash. Example: replace Lucina with FE:Fates Kamui in the future.

They already have, Young Link-Toon Link.

@arronishere: K, but. Check my Edit again.

In this instance, it's possible but unlikely to me. I can understand what you mean with Dr. Mario and Lucina; though the latter could get Luigi-fied, but DHD is probably a mainstay as he's in the same category and G&W and R.O.B as retro fighters. Removing him (them) wouldn't make much sense due to having a completely unique moveset.

For that scenario there's no chance, if DLC remove characters people will be yellow liquid!

@KO-Cub: Absolutely zero chance that'll happen. First off, the roster isn't in the slightest bit limited by file size. Even on 3DS, Smash is using roughly 3/4 of the existing space, if memory serves, and not even remotely that much on Wii U. Considering how many characters are already in the game, I'd be shocked if they were gonna come anywhere near running out of room. Besides that, if they DID have to remove a character to "make room" for another character, it won't be Lucina or Dark Pit. Being that the animation data already existed, I wouldn't be surprised to find that their files were smaller than the average character. The advantage of clone characters is to save on dev time and memory without hurting the roster size. They wouldn't remove those two because they wouldn't even likely free up enough space to add a new character.