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Super Smash Bros Wii U & 3DS Thread 4: New Year, Old Arguments
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Well a Capcom artist did a promotional image for Mega Man so I could see a similar piece happening for Simon.
Troubled Bat
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This is a good post. <3 Kojima's art for Order of Ecclesia so much.
The Bankslammer
Member
I could be wrong, but didn't she not do any work on Castlevania between DXC and HoD? I thought OoE was just by an artist that was more similar in style to Kojima.
Really? I seem to remember one of the big deals about OoE's stuff (at the time) was Kojima handling most of the art for it. Either way, I liked that style and would love to see more of that style used in Castlevania in the future.
The Bankslammer
Member
Just checked, OoE's art is credited to Masaki Hirooka. Here's his website with more work, if you're curious.
MannyToons
Member
Fixed that for ya, bud.
ok, this made me laugh for a bit
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
Is there any precedent for anniversaries having an influence on updates? As far as I can recall only new releases have been tied to character reveals.
Peach was revealed for the anniversary of Super Mario Bros.
Peach was announced a day before the Super Mario Bros. anniversary (her first game).
Fun idea.
If I may riff on it, how about Andy, Sami and Max launch the vehicle sprites for their specials, as per the Assist Trophy in Brawl, I.E. summoning plane sprites, tank sprites, etc. They could of course have their own unique CO powers and other defining features like Andy's wrench, etc.
kunonabi
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all this cv talk got me listening to some cv tunes. VK and BT are obvious inclusions but I would love to get some wicked child in there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUL34RlKqqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUL34RlKqqo
StreetsAhead
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In my opinion, I'd rather have someone like King Boo, Monita, Captain Rainbow, Birdo, or heck even Stork and the Babies before we got someone like Simon. But then again, I have always been partial to including those sort of not well known/requested characters, anyway.
Completely disagree on that. Simon Belmont would draw more attention than all of those characters combined. As far as character choices that weren't highly requested / popular, I think the roster is doing that well enough with a lot of the newcomers. The only character like that to get in so far has been Mega Man. There wasn't a soul who asked for Wii Fit Trainer, and the Mario and Animal Crossing fan bases were very split on who they wanted to see show up. (With the latter giving up hope to even get a fighter post-Brawl)
So I have some legitimate
news. I met up with a friend today who works at Nintendo, who has gotten to play smash bros. builds at various stages. They said they knew about "a ton" of unrevealed stuff, but they also said that there were "even a couple characters they didn't show [at E3]", which makes me think that there are more like 1 or 2 unannounced newcomers rather than 5 or 6.
I was completely stonewalled trying to get any information or specifics. I did find out something interesting though, that they were never allowed to play as Kirby, as that would spoil/reveal something.
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I was completely stonewalled trying to get any information or specifics. I did find out something interesting though, that they were never allowed to play as Kirby, as that would spoil/reveal something.
Time to comb through Kirby screenshots. Which moves haven't we seen yet?
StreetsAhead
Member
Kirbys Final Smash will be the Hyper Kirby thing from Triple Deluxe, surely.
So your "friend" is allowed to play as unannounced newcomers, but using Kirby is where Nintendo draws the line? That doesn't make any sense.
I don't know, it looks like his full moveset is back, unless it's something to do with his hats.
It seemed to me like actually getting to play smash and knowing unrevealed stuff were separate things, like they had possibly heard about the roster or whatever through corporate chatter, whilst on the other hand the build they played only had e3 characters, or something like that.
No, I didn't get the impression that they had played unrevealed characters.
I think it could well be something as mundane as, "we want to save the WFT/MM hats for a daily picture" rather than something revelatory about kirby. Who knows.
EDIT: That list doesn't have smash attacks though.
Probably hats, since they haven't shown the WFT, Villager, etc. ones I would guess.
Ah, I see. Your friend played as the E3 characters and only heard about the others? (You've managed to last five years at GAF, so I think I trust you.)
Yeah I wasn't really able to get any new information, sorry smash-bros
They did say that the target was a spring release though, which seems to confirm what the NoE dude let slip a few weeks back.
The person I was talking to is also not a "hardcore" gamer, so it's possible the they don't know that Rosalina has been revealed publicly, for example. We mostly talked about Nintendo corporate stuff.
Oh man, come on Lucina and Palutena reveal. That's all I want/need.
Yea, I imagine it is the hats for Kirby that prevents people from playing it.
Ahh, that makes more sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Miku comfirmed! Commence celebration every one!
Why would there only be 1-2 unrevealed characters left?
That's just my own interpretation. I meant unannounced newcomers specifically. I'll edit the original post.
I'm guessing it was Little Mac, Pac-Man and Mii since they were in that post along with WFT, Villager and Mega Man before E3.
That list is seeming more and more legit. I still don't know about PacMan though... I feel like snake would be back before pacman would be in.
Meaning?
Just skeptical.
That's probably the smartest stance to take. I'll just point out though that I've been here for over 5 years without a ban, and have never posted "insider" bullshit before.
No Problem. It just made me want some real news too
I thought I would go ahead and post what little I was able to scrape anyway.Gonzo The Great
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Why even bother teasing people if you have nothing new to reveal? Kidnap your friend and force him to spill the beans.
RealDeadOne
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New rumor for the tumblr
Yeah. The information was innocuous enough though that I thought it would be worthwhile to post anyway. It's someone I've known for ~20 years, so I'm inclined to believe them even if I don't think they're up on all the latest gaming news.
