Topic: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - OT

Unless this angle change was integrated recently Olimar will be an exception:

(Pay attention to the buttons on his suit)

The attention of detail in this game...

Marth seems to be an exception as well:

Also Link (since he's left-handed in canon):

I think this is pretty cool, but I hope they have the option in the settings to have characters face away; as I'm not sure if I will like it in-game.

And Pit:

(Note that he always uses the Upperdash Arm with his left hand).

I don't know if those are really exceptions, maybe when Sakurai posted those pics the mechanic wasn't in the game at that point. After all, apparently he hasn't figured out yet if the characters will attack with their tails with the Super Leaf.

Basically, any character that uses a weapon will most likely not have this change; like Link, Samus (duh) and Marth. Same probably goes for moves.

That's really cool. Despite playing Brawl for a long time, I forgot, or didn't notice until he pointed out they were not mirrored in the previous versions.

Actually I can prove that the mechanic was there from the beginning - or at least from when we first saw the game.

This is from the developer direct at E3 last year:

I don't remember when exactly this pic was taken, but I think it was shortly after Marth was revealed and long before Rosalina was:

Notice how Bowser's pose is mirrored just like in today's pic?

Additionally, Sakurai mentioned that he mirrored some characters' arm positions so that for example Mario's chest would always be in the foreground, 'cause when he threw his fireball to the left in Brawl it went like this:

There his chest is obscured since he extends his left arm and his back turns towards the screen.

But in this pic from the new game (shown last year) he throws his fireball in the same direction with his right arm, and with his chest fully visible, as Sakurai wanted:

Dudes, he said it was tedious because they didn't just mirror the character models, just their position.

Like Greninja's tongue in the pic exemplifies.

That means that all Olimar, Link, Marth, etc could be still "mirrored".

Since the NFP reciever for 3DS won't be available until next year I don't really see how it would work until then.

This might have been mentioned, but I'm not going through 435 pages of comments.

What are Lloyd Irving's chances? I think a fact that a lot of people overlook is that the Director of Tales of Symphonia, Yoshito Higuchi, is also co-directing Smash Bros with Sakurai. I honestly think that boosts Lloyd's chances quite a bit.

A Tales character could possibly be in the game if Namco actually gave the Wii U any Tales games. The 3DS has only seen Tales of the Abyss.

I don't believe the Wii ever saw any Metal Gear games. Anyway, there are no Tales games at all announced for any current gen home consoles, so it's a weak criteria to go by. The 3DS have the new Tales of the World and Tales of the Abyss.

Smash bros games tend to represent the previous generation.

Metal Gear was a highlight during the Game Cube era, so his inclusion in Brawl was justified.

In case you don't know yet, Nintendo announced a contest called Super Smash Bros. People's Challenger. Here's a picture of it and how to enter:

Marketing and advertising

Ice Climbers and Solid Snake disagree with you. The Wii U will probably get a Tales game, at some point, anyways. Just not yet. Besides, if it's going to be anyone that's not Pac-man, it'll be Lloyd. (That is assuming we get a Namco rep at all.) He was in three games on Nintendo platforms, and IIRC, the PS3 title is just a collection of both ToS games, isn't it? There's no reason at all that they can't fit Lloyd into this game, and he'd be an awesome addition.