Animal Crossing's Isabelle Joins The Fight In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

YES!

BOOM!

New Main.

I was ready to hate Nintendo with that cruel tease...until Nook chimed in.

Tom Nook was robbed

Isabelle is too pure for the harsh world of Smash. Do you really wanna hurt this face?

Love this. Is she an echo or her own character though? Seemed echoey.

I laughed until I cried....Nintendo nearly trolled the world.

What a surprise!! Didn't expected Isabelle in Smash.

This makes me reconsider Smash. I'm still not sure if I want it though.

This might be the time to get into Animal Crossing for the first time.

@justin233 new character... But has some similarities.

I just never got Animal Crossing... can't find the appeal. Which is weird, since it has become one of the biggest brands for Nintendo.

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Nintendo’s trolling game is strong, lol. While I was a bit excited for this announcement, I won’t lie and will admit I felt completely deflated when it wasn’t THE announcement. It’s why you should always stay till the end

@justin233 looks like a semi-clone.

On one hand, I'm happy for all the AC fans out there who get to enjoy a favorite character getting into Smash. On the other hand, her reveal was painfully sluggish and transparent. There's a full minute and 25 seconds before her title card pops up, and it's not even impressively animated like K. Rool's or Simon's trailers. Pretty disappointing to me personally.

I was hoping that after the lights flickered, Tom Nook would step outside and see a very angry moon crashing down, with the reveal of a more exciting fighter in tow.

WHY
WHY
ISABELLE!?
FRICK THAT! XDDDDDD

@NerdyBoutKirby It looks like they wanted to keep the reveals ambiguous by keeping the cutscenes rendered simple and seamless between them. They even skipped the Smash slash-in intro this time to keep us on our toes. I'd say it's a smart move.

Eeeerm... okaaay... but why Isabelle?

@NerdyBoutKirby Animal Crossing plays a bit like that at times. It did kind of fit. And it made the troll possible too. Couldn't have done it if they'd focused on the Smash reveal.

You haters are crazy - Isabelle is a great choice. And a magnitude better than any of the edgy picks we could have seen today.

thank god

The trailer was pretty lame, easily the weakest in a good while.

I don't mind Isabelle as a character though but I fear she will prove terrible gameplay wise since even though she isn't a Villager echo she still seems somewhat similar. Villager is a contender for the worst character gameplay wise in my books.

E: I'm happy they announced a new AC game too at the same time though, I think it would've been a painful direct for AC fans otherwise.

Dissapointed.

But I guess great for the people that wanted her in.

Looks like a better villager, (hence more annoying to fight against) as I've heard Villager was nerfed compared to the Wii U version.

I haven't played an Animal Crossing game myself and I don't know if I'll find appeal in the games-- Then again, I'm rather uninformed on them... Could be a rather delightful remedy to my significant case anxiety... Anyway! My heart literally sunk for those that have experienced and enjoyed Animal Crossing when Nintendo trolled with the new Smasher, but then I breathed a (stuffy... Stupid cold) sigh of relief when a rather cryptic announcement presented itself right after.

30th also I'm hyped for the animal crossing game and to play as isabelle

My girlfriend went against her preference for Fire and Dragon types when Generation VII rolled around, and Decidueye has become her favourite Pogey over former no. 1, Flygon.
At the same time, while playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, she's developed some sort of irrational hatred towards Isabelle (known as Fuffi - Foofie - in Italy): she loathes her guts.
You can do the math and guess how the reveal went down for her.

To me, heh, it's pretty harmless. I expected a better candidate for Ultimate, but then again Isabelle is becoming a mascot for Animal Crossing, and representing the whole "animal" angle of the series she gets a pass from me. Still, she's most likely an echo for the Villager, and I find it curious that an echo gets her own trailer. But I'm not complaining, contrary to... well... the wrong Wii U Mario port.

What I and she agreed on, though, was that the cross-referential announcement was an utter stroke of genius.

-sigh-

Great reveal but is she an echo or newcomer

@Arnold-Kage Shes a newcomer according to the smash site.

She might be my new main.

YAY! ❤

@MAntonioLimon

Wow nice still not a new stage so we still likely got six newcomers with new stages incoming

It's not only terrific news that she got in, but the fact she isn't a clone of Villager puts the cherry on top. I'm getting more and more excited for Smash which in turn makes me excited to see how much content and fan-service Sakurai and team will start cramming in all their other games!

She’s not an Echo! Holy crap she’s not an Echo!!

I was honestly ready to be really irked when they did this. Even though I think it is neat that she is gonna be in Smash, I am way more interested in a new Animal Crossing!

Then Tom Nook popped up and saved the day! Happy sounds

I’m happy to see them put in another female character. Smash is one of the few games where’s you have such good options to pick from you can have anyone over and even if it’s somebody who’s not into video game’s they can find a character that they feel like trying. I also remember thinking, “holy crap animal crossing people are gonna be pissed I’d they thought this was a new game”. And then there was the 2019 reveal and I was relieved. 2019 is looking like it’s gonna be packed!

Love the lead up to Isabella being playable in SSB and the AC announcement. Well played. I loved Villager and can't wait for her.

I liked the look of her moves in the video, they fit her perfectly.

@AlexSora89 Yep. Vergeben continues to bat 1.000, which means no Decidueye. Until DLC, at least...

Interesting that she's actually #68. Looks like a Luigified clone, in the same vein as Lucas (and Luigi himself).

They could have brought Isaac, Garrett, or Mia (or maybe all three). But nope, let's bring another unlikely character instead. Thanks for nothing, Nintendo.....

Hats off to Nintendo on their trailers lately...they are becoming trolling masters.

Hats off to Nintendo on their trailers lately...they are trolling masters.

Those leaked rumors from before E3 keep on looking more real as Nintendo Directs go by. It they continue like this, we should be seeing the Star Fox racing game, Pikmin, and Metroid trilogy in the next Direct.

The logic thought is that they'll debut the starfox one after the release of Starlink in order to avoid a clash.

Yeah, I’ve been expecting this announcement.
Glad she’s unique and not just an Echo Fighter.
Anyone else here waiting for Shadow the Hedgehog tho?

Yes, this reveal didn't have the heart pumping feel of the last few reveals but that it is keeping with the character and the game she appeared in. Animal Crossing is a serene game and her reveal trailer reflected that. They were also trolling everyone into thinking it was a new Animal Crossing game. That wouldn't have happened if it was action packed. Then they double trolled with Tom Nook at the end. I'm so happy she is in and she isn't an echo.

Yes I love her! Easily one of my favorite characters, she has been the icon for my Switch profile since I bought it!

@vanYth @ThatNyteDaez The question is... Why not Isabelle? She looks like a lot of fun and might actually get me to buy Smash just to play her (all the other fighters haven't appealed to me, and Villager has a garbage design so despite some similarities it doesn't appeal either), and I'm not even an Animal Crossing fan - heck, I've never played a single AC game.

Why is it so hard to appreciate a new fighter joining the frey? You could argue that there are candidates you'd rather want, but the fact is, Sakurai thinks Isabelle is better than those candidates, or on par (as in maybe they'll be revealed closer to launch).

@Trikeboy Must say, I didn't have the "heart pumping" feel during the last reveals. They were pretty tame really. This one was a bit more relaxing, sure, but also much more interesting because it was an official troll by Nintendo which made it that much more fun.

@AlexSora89 Isabelle is not an echo fighter btw. She's fighter #68, as listed on the official website

@Heavyarms55 Same here haha. I am not an AC fan, or a Smash fan, but I was so happy for AC fans when we saw Isabelle, then when it was a bloody Smash reveal I felt so bad for them... But good ol' Nook took to the big screen to calmly and inCREDIBLY SLOWLY tell us that he had to prepare for the return of the Village People (pun intended), before finally I was relieved to see "Welcome to Animal Crossing - 2019".

AC fans have been waiting quite long, while Smash fans have had their confirmation of a new game for quite a while, so it was nice that they got that confirmation now, despite the evil but quite genius troll

@Euler
Vergeben? Who or what is that?

@Blizzia
I kind of noticed that afterwards.

@justin233 She's not an Echo Fighter. Her Fighter page on the website treats her as a new character

@AlexSora89 He's a guy that's made several predictions about the new Super Smash Bros. game, many of which were far from obvious.

May 2018:

Ice Climbers return.

It's a new game, not a deluxe port of Smash 4.

All Smash 4 characters are in the game.

Ridley to be revealed at E3.

Simon Belmont in the game.

He later said that Isabelle would be a playable fighter, and that a gen 7 Pokemon would be playable but it wouldn't be Decidueye, Lycanroc, or Mimikyu. He has also predicted Ken as an echo fighter of Ryu (seems pretty reasonable), that Minecraft will somehow be represented in the game, and that there will be a Square Enix newcomer. More details:

https://www.ssbwiki.com/list_of_rumors#Vergeben_leaks

@Euler
The Square newcomer got me to fangasm for a second for how well the dual third-party representation thing (Sonic and Bayonetta for SEGA, Ryu and Mega Man for Capcom, Simon and Snake for Konami, only Square and Namco are missing from the picture by now) has worked so far and for how feasible this seems to be.
Although either Terra as a female rep/Ninty-era rep/Sakurai-wanted character would seem reasonable, or maybe Noctis what with the Pocket Edition being a thing, I posted my reasons for a certain key-slinger to join the fray.
And yes, Ken as a character kind of develops himself. Echo characters, ever since they've been given a more flattering name than "clones", have been nothing but a blessing for the Smash community.

@AlexSora89 Funny how everyone likes them now that they're clearly labelled as echoes. All about expectations management, I guess.

For the Square character, my money is on Geno. Sakurai wanted to put him in Brawl because he thought he could have an interesting moveset, but it didn't work out. He's popular with the fans and would have done well on the ballot. Main liabilities are irrelevance (one-hit wonder from a 22 year-old game) and third-party status. But those aren't necessarily dealbreakers, and the SNES Classic edition probably gave new life to Super Mario RPG with younger gamers.

@Euler
Indeed it is, my Ashley-avatar-wearing friend. Indeed it is - labels help a lot in that regard.

And yeah, I forgot about Geno. Translation: crap, @AlexOlney might be right.

Nice for all the fans I suppose. As for me: I didn't need her but she might still be a fun addition. Easily the most boring smash reveal-trailer so far...