Four New ARMS Fighters Were 'Leaked' in Yesterday's Nintendo Direct

ARMS looks like a lot of fun and is one of those games I can let my 4 year old play with me without worry. I just wish they'd give us more details on the game. What are they hiding it for?

I picked up on that earlier from someone in the Youtube comments.That takes it up to 10 which is a nice round number but 12 sounds better.Maybe 10 normal fighters and a couple of boss fighters with more arriving as DLC.Each character has their own unique style and with all the combinations of Arms,12 to 16 finely tuned fighters is more than enough.As much as I can't wait to play Mario,ARMS is the game I'm most looking forward to.It's giving me Soul Calibur vibes,pure arcade fun fighting but now with motion controls.Asteroth was my guy on SC so Master Mummy will be my guy on ARMS.

It's strange what some of the people do. As there really is usually no point to watching both the English and Japanese version trailers. You can see the Blue Goggle Robot guy at the very edge of the second strip in the video above. And maybe more is seen in the Japanese trailer, which I not going to bother to see.

Who is thay guy behind that White Masquerade and Purple eyes ?

@Drummertist I think they'll take the Splatoon approach with it and announce new details every week or 2 in the build up to release.It works for Smash and it was a great way to build up hype for a new IP with Splatoon.Expect to see a lot more of Biff in the coming weeks.

I'm pretty content with a small roster considering how many glove options there are - for the early days anyway.
Hope they trickle these fighters out weekly or bi-weekly, Splatoon style.

These characters will prob make for some great Amiibo.

I'm super pumped for ARMS. I was already, but yesterday's Direct with ol' Ramen Girl, definitely rubber stamped my hype. Roll on June, I say!

I'm ready for this game. I've got slight concerns about how well I can track everything but from a gaming standpoint I'm sold. Can't wait to test all the different arms matchups. I think I'm going to try for some electricity and maybe the curved blades first.

My biggest concern for this was lack of characters. Hopefully these aren't locked behind a paywall. Pre-ordered a while back anyways.

I think the human female type character might turn out to be some sort of overblown pirate. She appears to be wearing an eyepatch. That's really all I'm going on.

Here's a slightly better picture of the female character

I was kind of surprised that they only revealed 1 new character during the Direct yesterday, but I'm glad to see 4 more are coming

Judging by Character Select screen, I think the Maximum characters will be between 12 - 16 characters.

@Zeargo You find it strange when someone goes through trouble to do something useful that helps many other people? How sad. My advice is to surround yourself with better people if you get the chance!

@Anti-Matter 12-16? Awesome! Was the sad face an accident?

@aaronsullivan
Oopsie, I think I put wrong emoji.
12 - 16 kinda Awesome.

this game just isnt hitting it for me

Thanks for highlighting this! I've been very happy with the character designs (and for that matter, everything else) in ARMS so far, and it's heartening to know that a few more will be revealed. I don't think the game needs any more than ten fighters, and indeed too many characters might dilute its impact. Glad to see that there are more than just the six revealed, in any case.

@xxAcesHighxx Something about the genuine kookiness of Ramen Girl really sealed the deal for me as well - I was already anticipating this game, but yesterday's Direct will have me buying it Day One (which is not as far away as I'd feared!).

i guarantee the ir sensor on the joy-con is used to play rock,paper,scissors vs biff in this game. you see him do the paper (or could be a waving gesture) and he holds the stone gesture throughout the video.

@Anti-Matter Haha. It's hard to judge how much a ton of characters will matter in a game like this, but I guess I'm just used to fighters from way back when having that many characters was plenty impressive. How many were in original Street Fighter II?

@xxAcesHighxx @singingbrakeman Ramen Girl might be the first character I try if she's unlocked from the start. Just the audacity of Ramen noodle arms is awesome. lol.

I'm curious to see how far they go to make the arms match up with something that "makes sense". So far, I'm impressed.

There's hidden lore here. I think they're all robots except Mechanica, because they all have swirly eyes and no actual arms. Mechanica has normal eyes and is in a bulky suit so she must be human.

@aaronsullivan I messed that part up in my message. Thanks for noticing it.

Okay, I will try to guess what their looks like.
First, the Guy with White Mask, Purple Eye, probably much like Cyborg with Big body.

Next, The Green looking with Robotic eyes and Pink lips, probably Weird looking Green Robo like Konzento on Dance Dance Revolution.

Third, the Female fighter with identical face like Ribbon Girl, I imagine Elena from Street Fighter III 3rd Strike wear Masquerade and with White long hair.

Last, the Guy with Yellow Google, I think he is a DJ look alike fighter with Yellow Google, Headphone on his ears and Human face.

Well, it just only my guess. Better wait for E3 2017 for further information.

Well they looks interesting

@stevenw45 No, definitely not! I love that Nintendo are looking outside their tried and tested character roster! And Kirby's arms would be useless!

Getting pumped for this game!! I actually loved Wii Boxing, as I used it to work out and ended up being quite good at it. I hope this fixes the many control flaws of that game, as I want something deeper than Wii Boxing.

The green one has me the most interested. I feel like he's going to be the character who's most different from the rest.

@stevenw45 That wouldn't make sense at all.

Great to hear that we are getting 10 fighters at least. Ws hoping for a 12-15 roster tho. Still, this game has been on my radar since they announced it. I'm just hoping for Cable Guy and Spaghetti Sap to make their appearance.

I don't have a Switch but planning on buying one, specially if a bundle comes around Black Friday or something. Already bought a pro controller and a Zelda case!

I honestly did not expect more characters than what they first showed so I'm really pleasantly surprised by all this. I was already going to buy it but I was set on it being like Splatoon, low on content but a great initial proof of concept with hopefully DLC later. But the more they show the more excited i get, it seems t9 be full of stuff! If there's a story mode I'll be 100% satisfied.

White head/purple eye looks cool. I could really get behind the heavy characers, as their curse of slow attacks are balanced by super armor.

Everything I see about this game makes me want it more and more. I do believe that these are real characters, and I am happy about it!

People keep saying it needs more fighters, yet they kindof forget the game isn't really about the fighters themselves. It's all about the ARMS, A.K.A the gloves they fight with. The fighters only come second to the large variety and combination of the different kind of gloves to wear.

@stevenw45 Still doesn't make sense what you said.

First, this is an stylized, real fighter (heavily anchored on teh fantasy realm, of course). Mario and the other just wouldn't fit with the aesthetics on display.

Second, these are all anthropomorphic characters. Kirby and the others wouldn't fit.

Also, Nintendo has never bundled hardware with their consoles. Ever (well , not since the Gamecube); also, Nintendo accessories rarely go down in price: you have to wait like 3-4 years for that, by looking at the controls for both the wii and the wii U. Also, the case could disappear soon from retailers and the pro controller has been absent for most US retailers so I jumped at it (thinking about buying an extra pro controller) because Amazon received new stock.

EDIT: having said this, I wouldn't mind a Bayonetta DLC, since her hair could double as arms in the game.

@stevenw45 Somehow I missed that bundle in the US (I bought more than 30 Wii units -supplied a shop with them- and never caught a glimpse of a Wii console bundled with hardware or a pro controller. Ever).

The only console bundled with hardware that I've seen is the Wii U bundled with Mario Maker that included an amiibo. 'Nuff said.

So is that 10 fighters in total? Niiiiice. I really liked the look of this on Nintendo Direct.