TSR's Super Smash Bros Thread|SWITCH HYPE TRAIN NOW BOARDING

[Kosheh]

yeah, I feel like Roy is basically in the same boat as Jigglypuff now. Both characters have little to no presence in their respective franchises, but live on because they were included in Smash Bros.

Excuse me, Jigglypuff was added in the original Smash because she was the second most popular Pokemon in Japan at the time (first is Pikachu, obvs)

(the rest are just whatever the hell Sakurai feels like I guess)

But yeah, she's been included in each following entry because of her underdog status, but at this point she's like a running joke

Samurai clearly doesn't give two hoots about DK and loves the fuck out of Fire Emblem.

If Sakurai didn't give two hoots about DK, then why was he and Diddy buffed so massively to the point where Diddy was one of the best in the game until a patch came along?
(DK now has like a million meteor opportunities)

Well, considering half the series is in a weird legal tossup and the older entries are barely relevant and most of the assets now belong to a companny that now belogns to one of the world's computer software giants, it's hard to just toss in characters like K.Rool all willy-nilly. Meanwhile, Fire Emblem is a widely-recognized franchise in Japan and the success of the newer titles just mean more exposure (and thus more characters)


But Microsoft is usually cool about stuff apparently so it might not be that bad (it also seems impossible for them for some reason to interface with an American company, because Nintendo)