With Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS rapidly approaching release in Japan, game director Masahiro Sakurai is running out of time to make any major reveals. As a result he's taken the opportunity to unveil another new fighter for the two titles, though this one is a little surprising.
The new character is Alph, who is essentially a clone of Olimar. He was one of the heroes of Pikmin 3, and Sakurai-san emphasized that he's a standalone character; you can see the details below.
Pic of the day. The hero from Pikmin 3, Alph joins the battle!! He has pretty much the same set skills as Olimar since he's basically just his variation. He can't use Rock Pikmin either.
They are different characters, so they each get their own title treatment on the character-selection screen. See? It says Alph.
So there you have it — this wasn't necessarily the new character reveal that we were expecting. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
[source miiverse.nintendo.net]
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Soooo... he's an actual straight clone character? That's kinda lame.
I have a feeling Sakurai is just trolling us all! My bets are that he is an alternate skin for Olimar.
Guys, he's an alternate skin. It was confirmed at the demo.
That's just lame. They could have at least changed the Pikmin he fights with. Like Olimar has Red, Blue and Yellow and Alph gets Rock, Purple and Pink
that's awesome I love olimar and alph will be fighting for his rubber ducky alongside him with me
He's an alt. That's been confirmed for awhile..
Meanwhile, everyone's watching Twitch streams of the full game.
He's not a new character, but an alternate costume for Olimar.
So if Alph is a skin, why couldn't the do the same for Daisy? No love.....
Dang, since the pic of the day doesn't confirm a demo like yesterday's, I take it there won't be one in the Thursday update. Disappointment. Instead we get... A clone? Or I guess a skin according to everyone else, I'm trying my best to avoid spoiler's (so tempting to look at the full roster but I want some surprises), but maybe I need to start avoiding comment sections, the Miiverse post acted like it's a clone character so I sorta feel it being a skin (and the very existence of skins with different names) feels like a spoiler, albeit a small one...
@MajinSoul nuff said
don't get me wrong, I love Alph, but I'm not a fan of clones. it would have been better if he had Brittany and Charlie with him instead of Pikmin and they work together in that sense but if not this should have just been a skin. the only difference is that he can't use rock Pikmin so in that case, as it is, Alph is looking to be the Pichu of this game.
It's an alt stop complaining. I don't know why Sakurai would describe it like this and even if it was a newcomer he would have had a trailer. I don't know why Sakurai would take today to reveal it when the japanese audience already showed us that. Clones still exist here though as the leak has been officially confirmed
I like this. I loved Pikmin 3, so seeing Alph as an alt. made me happy.
He´s not a clone. He´s a skin for Olimar. Famitsu confirmed that when showed the 8 colors of each character. Olimar page showed 4 colors as Olimar and 4 colors as Alph. Also if it was a new character would have their specific place in www.smashbros.com/us/#CharacterList what did not happen.
I'm glad he exists as an alt skin for Olimar! Alph is a pretty cool guy although part of me wishes it had been Brittany instead.
@Kaze_Memaryu He's actually an alt costume for Olimar, but as you can see he's able to have his own name when selected.
@Azooooz Oh thank you for saying that, I was about to write an angry post about how stupid this was. Heh!
@NL team, stop with the misleading titles.
Interesting....
Despite everything Sakurai says in that post, Alph is an alt skin for Olimar. Confirmed in the demos and whatnot.
Hurray! Finally a character whose name begins with the letter A!
Don't ask, I have OCD.
He maybe an alt skin, but he has his own identity. It's not like Peach physically changed into Daisy when you'd choose her costume.
Dose this mean the leak was a fake?
I really liked Alph so I'm happy he's in even if he's just an alt skin. Wonder if he has an extra ability to compensate the lack of rock pikmin
Edit: Wait, so Olimar won't use rock pikmin either... Woops, I misread that part
My guess is Alph is just a costume for Olimar since:
1.) He didn't get a trailer like all the other officially announced newcomers thus far.
2.) He doesn't have his own character tab on smashbros.com
Unless there are going to be hidden characters not shown on the Smash site.
Cool! Wasn't expecting that. Good job sakurai
He is just 4 of Olimar's alts. Sakurai said look it says Alph. Meaning the name changes, not that he has his own slot.
Alph is an alt if you go to the smash bros website you will se he has not been added as a new challenger.
Interesting, that means technically we may see more unbelievable alternative costumes.
This describes it pretty well:
"They are different characters, so they each get their own title treatment on the character-selection screen. See? It says Alph."
Alph is an alternate costume, but the game shows his name when you use his model instead of Olimar's.
I would rather play as Charlie or Louie. Or all three of the Pikmin 3 characters would have been a much cooler idea. Still, more Pikmin representation is cool in my book.
That's great! I love Alph! I hated the Pikmin series, but I loved Alph!
Aw, Alph is my favorite! 8D
@HunteROB But...this isn't really more representation, it's literally just Olimar in disguise.
@Sergio151 Not a clone. It is an alt skin. You are still playing as Olimar. I think it is a great way to give exposure to similar characters that would only serve as trophies otherwise. I hope that will be a way to get more FE lords into the series later on.
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