The days are very slowly creeping by as I wait for the release of the newest Smash Bros games. Of course, the wait is made all the worse by it actually being two waits: one to the 3DS version on October 3rd, and the other to some undetermined time in December for the Wii U version. Truth be told, I’m not totally keen on playing Smash on my 3DS, but I’m sure my mind will change once the game is in my hands.
Information has been trickling out bit by bit through Nintendo Directs and via Masahiro Sakurai’s Miiverse posts. Much like Brawl’s Dojo website, each weekday, a new screenshot is posted on Miiverse, showing off a game element such as moves, items, or stages. Sometimes it’s just a little thing like a certain stage hazard, but on occasion, entire characters have been revealed through Miiverse.
Just yesterday, three characters were revealed in this fashion: Lucina and Robin from Fire Emblem: Awakening, along with the return of Captain Falcon. Now, I don’t know anything about the Fire Emblem series, but Ike managed to quickly become one of my favourite fighters in Brawl, so I’m not going to write these two off even though they’re not immediately interesting to me. Lucina seems to be a clone of Marth, which is ho-hum, but Robin is both a mage and a swordsman, and looks like he (or she, as the character can be gender-flipped) could be a really neat character to play.
All of that is besides the point though. What I want to do here is come up with a bunch of characters that I’d like to see introduced in this edition of Smash Bros. Partly because I’m a giddy fanboy, and partly because it’ll help me pass the time until I can actually play the game and learn the complete character roster.
I don’t have quite enough solid ideas to make up a weekly feature that’ll last until the game’s release, so I won’t promise to post regular updates (because I’m sure you care so much), but I am going to try to make this the new weekly feature. Starting tomorrow. I don’t quite have my ducks in a row even for my first post yet, so check back tomorrow, and every following Wednesday until September 24th if you want to see the depths of my insanity as reflected through Super Smash Bros.
(Keeping in mind that the game releases on Sept 13th in Japan, so any “speculation” made after that is pretty moot, but I’ll be avoiding spoilers until I actually have the game.)