07-23-2015, 10:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-23-2015, 12:17 PM by Jermungandr.)
"Shouldn't have these powers to start with" always gets me. People forget that when he made his first appearance in Melee, the ONLY version of him that existed at the time was from Ocarina of Time; a game in which he relied completely on dark magic and intimidation and NEVER ONCE held a single weapon (until he transformed into Ganon of course).
Not to mention one of the official artwork pieces from OoT is literally of Ganny Falcon-Punching the shit out of Link:
![[Image: LinkVsGanonOoT.png]](/image.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jermungandr.net%2Fjunk_drawer%2FLinkVsGanonOoT.png&hash=7356a6439da994123be68345a8e70a2a)
His clone moveset made perfect sense at the time. We had no reason to believe he was any sort of adept swordsman. The only things we knew about him were "Darkness" and "Power", two concepts that the Falcondorf identity covered perfectly.
Sure, maybe if they had waited until Brawl to include him things would be different, but I disagree with the notion that his moveset was inappropriate for him in Melee.
Not to mention one of the official artwork pieces from OoT is literally of Ganny Falcon-Punching the shit out of Link:
His clone moveset made perfect sense at the time. We had no reason to believe he was any sort of adept swordsman. The only things we knew about him were "Darkness" and "Power", two concepts that the Falcondorf identity covered perfectly.
Sure, maybe if they had waited until Brawl to include him things would be different, but I disagree with the notion that his moveset was inappropriate for him in Melee.