So, it's official: Dragon Quest's The Hero is arriving in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate later today - unless you're reading this in the future, in which case he's already here!
As such, we thought it was worth taking a good look at The Hero's alternate costumes, which work in a slightly different way to most characters, and also all of the Dragon Quest Mii Fighter outfits you can expect to pick up with your hard-earned cash. Let's get stuck in.
The Hero Alternate Costumes
We'll start with those alternate costumes. As you may already know, The Hero actually comes in four flavours, with each variant being based on The Hero's appearance in a different game from the series. Thanks to this, each of the four has been treated to one costume change, making for a grand total of eight, just like the norm. You can see the ordinary costumes above, and the alternate designs below.
Dragon Quest Mii Fighter Outfits
Moving on to the Mii Fighter outfits, we have Veronica and Erdrick for the Swordfighter, Martial Artist for the Brawler, and an adorable Slime Hat for everyone. It wobbles around on your head. These outfits are not included in the Fighters Pass, and instead can be purchased for $0.75 each. You can see them all below.
Plenty more details on how the character plays, the DLC's new stage and more were revealed in today's Super Smash Bros. video presentation. Make sure to check that out if you haven't already.
Which version of The Hero do you like the best? Will you grab any of these Mii Fighter outfits? Tell us below.
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Can't wait for the Eshop battle royal later. 1 Million people will simultaneously log into the Eshop at once, but only 1 will get the Hero before it crashes. Let the games begin -_-
So Tien got in too, huh? (Brawler)
The Angelo and Terry alternate colors are inspired.
Too bad they didn't make a recolor based on the DQ9 protagonist, seeing how it's nintendo exclusive and stuff.
Does anyone actually buy the Mii fighter outfits?
And that's where I begin to really need this DLC. But I'll have to wait until I see if I'm interested in at least 4 of the 5 fighters, otherwise I could be wasting my money.
It's funny: they used the alternate outfits for palette swaps, but they could have taken the chance to sneak another 4 heroes from the series. Too bad.
Actually, the first time this character(s) was revealed we could see other Dragon Quest protagonists of the saga. Maybe they were NPCs?
@N1ntendodo I wish Sakurai gave Erdrick Alt colors based on Goku. I know it was probably better to have his alt color be based on Dragonquest original characters, but I don't think anyone would have minded. Sakurai is a fan of DBZ and even mentioned that he based Heros fast-paced movement on Toriyama's style. Also, it would have given people another way of saying Goku got in the game.
Now I've watched the video with all the details. Damn, they SHOULD have made heroes from III and IV females in the color swap, because those games let you choose gender.
About the other heroes I had seen, they do appear, but in Final Smash.
@Moroboshi876 paying four voice actors was probably enough
@Bunkerneath
.....me. I like making Mii fighters.
@Bunkerneath I do!
I love this though the inclusion of Veronica as a "Swordfighter" Mii is now really starting to make me wishes there was really a fourth "Wizard" Mii class because the Swordfighter/Gunner/Brawler is really starting to show it's limits.
And with characters such as Palutena, Robin, Zelda and now even the hero's spellcasting.... there's a LOT of examples that could finally be drawn upon for that fourth Mii fighter for a lot of those skills that just don't mesh all that well with either the Swordfighter or Gunner.
@Bunkerneath My kids set up our Mii fighter amiibo as One Punch Man (Saitama?) and the new squid amiibo as Cthulu, I watched them and of their friends go 4 on 2 and the amiibo did fairly well. And that Vero I a outfit is adorable to anyone who played the game.
But we're not paying for anything else after paying $25 for a 5 fighter sason pass. They should be included in that. I'm OK with selling them individually as well for people who can't spend the $25 on the pass.
Though I may buy Veronica if I can use some of my going to waste 800+ gold coins. Gold coins aren't like real money. 😉
@Moroboshi876 I'm disapointed about that as well, re: Female heroes.
But then to easily cover all 8 costumes and still feature recolors they would have to either make 3 and 4 the only heroes showcased(so that both heroes and both displayed genders could get the appropriate recolors) or skip give recolors only to the 8/11 heroes since 4 costume slots would already be taken by DQ3/DQ4 and their male/female variations.
Though an issue there might be just how similar DQ3's female hero is to her male counterpart which might make them both hard to differentiate.
And the "nix 8 & 11's heroes" would have been unlikely since they're the only ones the west had any chances of recognizing at first.
I'm frustrated honestly but I think I know where they came from. The only alternative might have been echo fighters but then I imagines people who aren't Dragon Quest fans would have called foul and decried "japanese favoritism". And I've seen some already claiming the character is "broken" due to the many skills available to him(without regard to how it's set behind a very telegraphed and randomized spell menu ontop of an MP system).
@Ludovsky Yeah, I know. I'm slightly disappointed but just because I think colors could have been replaced by completely different skins.
So these 4 heroes aren't echo fighters? I thought they were. Do they take 4 slots in the roster then?
I'm satisfied enough with the other heroes at least appearing in the Final Smash though.
@Moroboshi876 they're all alternate costumes for a single character, with different voices.
Kinda like the koopalings.
@Morpheel I'm not a Smash Bros expert as you can see, so why then does it matter so much if a character is en echo fighter if you just can use them?
@Moroboshi876 I'm not sure what do you mean.
Echo characters are kinda like advanced alternate costumes, they're in a separate character slot because their attacks or animations could differ from the original character, the four heroes are traditional costumes for the same character.
@Morpheel OK, I always thought people didn't quite like echo fighters because they weren't full characters.
@Moroboshi876 ooh, I'm sure there's many who don't like them, some might even think them being there means someone else was cut (which is silly if you think about it).
Though I think people are more accepting of them now.
Anyway, just to reiterate, the four heroes are a single character in a single slot.
i really wish we'd get more original mii costumes. having ones based on characters are cool but limits its uses for other mii fighters
i love using miis but also wish more costumes werent locked behind the fighter types, or we had more color options. i cant make my phoenix wright mii anymore since suit colors are gone
@Bunkerneath I'll buy the slime for the jiggle physics
I wonder if Banjo-Kazooie gets also some Mii costumes. I could see costumes based on Gruntilda, Mumbo Jumbo, Bottles, a Jinjo and maybe... Klungo, why not?
@patbacknitro18 The alt for Solo (Fishboy) has black hair and is dressed in Orange and Navy Blue like Goku. It’s a stretch but still
is the sub title line a hannah montana reference? 😂
You'd think though if they can do all the Koopa kids plus Bowser JR as costumes, they could have done more than 4 for Hero.
@ItalianBaptist it’s just the color scheme of the original DQ1 protagonist.
@Morpheel Still a better representation of Goku than Dragonball Evolution
@Eddiezus Sure was
I've stayed away from Mii fighters this time around (unlike Smash 4), but I may pick up a few of these.
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