For comparation, the other two "smash directs"
Super Smash Bros
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good lord it's already been four years since that first one
I feel old :(
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Smash for 3ds came out the weekend that I moved to spain. So, yeah.
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The April Direct of 2014 revealed:
A bunch of stages (focus on yellow devil and ridley)
Online overview (for fun, for glory and the global smash power)
A bunch of items
A bunch of Assists Trophies
The Masterball and the pokeball mons
Returning figthers (the troll of ZSamus and Sheik removed, changes on fighters, including the new Final Smashes) and for some reason they didn't reveal yoshi until this
A focused look at the newcomers anounced until this moment
Custom Moves teaser
Smash Run and it's enemies
A roll call on the already revealed fighters
Greeninja and Charizard trailerSo.. Considering that we already have an in deep look at Ridley and Inklings, Daisy isn't supposed to be much different to Peach, and had practically the whole E3 for the patch notes on the fighters.
Custom moves are mostly outThat leaves:
Content (Stages, Items and summons)
Modes (take note that the only mode talked was Smash Run, so..)
Online
Another patch note roll call (focus on Snake, The Miis and Palutena, and maybe the ones without a final smash revealed)
And RevealI doubt they will talk about the DLC strategy until after the launch, it would be un-sakurai to do it at this point in time, unless this time the characters are free (or come with the online subscription)
BTW, is there any reason for thinking that the Ridley reveal trailer is any different than the 6-8 reveal trailers for Smash 4? I mean is the exact same story flow, but with the dread vibe of Ridley. Gamexplain keeps thinking that it's a story mode cutscene, but they should know this as they are the ones that comb every frame of these things.
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The bayoneta/corin/TheEnd direct:
The reveals of Bayoneta and Corin, without their own cutscenes but the banter for it was there in script and spirit
In deept look at Corin, Cloud and Bayoneta
The final dream slayer costumes (Ashley, Knuckles, Tails, Geno)
The highcore of Smash 4:
58 Fighters!
84 Stages! (total)
99 costumes and 97 hats!
743 wii u trophies, 707 3ds trophies!
507 Music tracks!
His philosophy on DLC
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BTW, is there any reason for thinking that the Ridley reveal trailer is any different than the 6-8 reveal trailers for Smash 4? I mean is the exact same story flow, but with the dread vibe of Ridley. Gamexplain keeps thinking that it's a story mode cutscene, but they should know this as they are the ones that comb every frame of these things.
It's definitely a cutscene in the same vein as Greninja, Jr., Duck Hunt, etc. - a prerendered trailer to reveal the new face.
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The 50 facts extravaganza:
8 player smash
Focus on the differences with 3ds and what came back from past games (classic and all stars)
Smash Tour
Special Orders
2 Player minigames and stuff
The picture edit thing (someone used this?) on the wii u pad
Bowser Jr's Video
The Soundtrack cds
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It's definitely a cutscene in the same vein as Greninja, Jr., Duck Hunt, etc. - a prerendered trailer to reveal the new face.
It was still pretty unusual with Zero Suit Samus appearing at the end for no reason.
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tl;dwlots of returning themes (more of Brawl than Smash 4 proportionally), but there's new stuff - Mario has New Donk, while Donkey Kong, Luigi, Bowser, Roy, Young Link, Lucina, Diddy, Olimar, Toon Link, Villager, Mega Man, Wii Fit Trainer, Junior, Duck Hunt, Corrin, Inkling, and Ridley all have new music in their respective trailers.
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Brawl's biggest contribution to smash will always be it's gigantic (and good) music selection.
Most of 4's new themes are 2 minute long..
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to name some of my favorite tracks there: Fire Field, Dark World, X's Theme, Ice Climber, Mushroomy Kingdom…
Smash 4, my favorite will always be the tango Fortress Theme.
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Well, I was going to try and do that on saturday with DK's songs, but got distracted and ended buying and playing tropical freeze.
Better them than me, at least they share it with everyone.
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Friendly reminder of the characters who, as we cruelly say in my land "Swimmed a lot to die in the shore", the mii costumes:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/Alternate_costume_(SSB4)#Mii_Fighter
Some of them being nothing or just fashion (like the smash t-shirt or the business suit), or just a nod to an already stablished fighter (the infamous Metaknight mask, Samus's armor, Link's clasic clothes, and so forth), some are.. just mean:
The already decided:
Inklings are in, Knucles and Takamaru are Assissts.The ones in but…:
Dunban is still part of a final smash, as the super figthing robots (Protoman, X, Megaman.exe)
K.K. Slider is the main event of his stage, as the Flying men of Magicant, not that they have much of a chance, Viridi a little more just because she has a scythe and plant powers.
and Plain ol' toad still the royal bodyguard of the princess.The MIA:
Isabelle and Skull kid (even if it was just the Majora's mask), who's assist trophy was nowhere to be found in the demoThe Rest, the ones that haven't been featured in anything:
Zero (from Megaman X)
Akira and Jacky (from Virtua Fighter)
Heihachi (from Tekken)
Chrom and the Black Knight (Fire Emblem)
Lloyd (from Tales of Symphonia)
King K. Rool
2 Monster hunters (from Monster Hunter)
Chocobo
Geno
Ashley (from Wario Ware)
Tails
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Going to come out on a limb and say this is King K Rool trailer in this direct.
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My money is on Tetris block for the new challenger. We deserve to pit Tetris against Pac Man.
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I'd be happy with any "weird" character. It's been a great tradition since Mr.G&W.
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It's going to be Game Boy and Simon Belmont.
The dream is real.
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Well the weird character will benin the surprise character we will see on release date.
King K Rool will have the game hype.
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Was there a character poll for ultimate? at least an official one? Rex and Springman didn't exist for the last one.
If not official, then is meaningless, we could make a poll here and churn out Goku for all it means.
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It was from a Japanese Website and it was pretty much made shortly after E3, so it's just there to give a general idea.
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I think they've already decided who will be the newcomers for Ultimate, so I don't think this poll will have any impact.
That said, Japan voting so much for Bandana Dee proves they have good taste.
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Karate Joe and Raiden I will accept.
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I don't understand why Ashley is such a popular choice.
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My dream pick for Character reveals is and always will be Geno followed by Dixie Kong, then Crono from Chrono Trigger.
Dixie is the only of them that's even slightly realistic and even then she'll probably be an Echo of Diddy, Peanut Popgun and all.
So I'm thinking for characters who are actually likely to be revealed tomorrow:
1: Rex
2: Simon Belmont*
3: Springman and/or Ribbon Girl
4: Pokemon Gen 7 Rep (My guess would be Decidueye)
5: Edelgard, Dimitri, or ClaudeThinking we're going to get at least one new character and maybe a new Echo Fighter. If it's an Echo, it'll be some popular request that's easier for them to do as an Echo like Dixie, Dark Samus, Black Shadow or… Shadow the Hedgehog.... Wow, lot of edgelords here with poor bright happy Dixie lol.
*That leak was just too right in every other way… I'm positive that one is real. Rex is over him because I'm not sure if they'll save him for a later reveal or not.
Hoping we get some stage reveals. PLEASE bring back Fountain of Dreams. I know it's just prettier Battlefield but… I love the look and the music.
Proper reveal of Mario Odyssey/New Donk City stage is needed too as well as something from Alola. Maybe a traveling level like Prism Tower? It should involve the Ultra Wormhole in some way.
Also, I want an HD version of the Paper Mario Stage from Sm4sh 3DS... like, that needs to happen. The best thing about Color Splash was the graphics and art direction, so that needs to be carried over to a stage here.Also want Brinstar Depths back. I always liked the rotating stage gimmick and I don't think we have an equivalent in Sm4sh.
Last thing I really want here is single player modes. E3 focussed entirely on the overall engine and basic multiplayer. We now absolutely NOTHING about any other game modes. No Special multiplayer modes, and absolutely none of the single player specific content for the game.
Bring back Some form of Adventure Mode. Doesn't have to be full SSE, but some kind of adventure mode would be nice. Bring back Break the Targets with specific stages for each character (as hard as that would be it'd be so cool...)
For other Multiplayer modes: Smash Run needs to come back but enhanced. Split Screen should be a thing and you should all be collecting stuff in the same main world area.Also, GameXplain is right, there needs to be a mode where you can pick multiple characters to be your individual stocks. That WAS the one good thing about Smash Tour... which otherwise needs to be kept as far from this game as possible... I don't even want it there as a mode because then we know they'll make Challenges based around it and you'll be forced to play it if you want to complete them. They locked a stage (Pac Land) behind one of them in Sm4sh.
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I don't understand why Ashley is such a popular choice.
Cute "goth" witch girl. She's actually pretty popular to the point where she has tons of Badge Arcade stuff.
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About anything Switch that it's not what we have already seen, don't get your hopes up on that for the base game.
I mean, a song can be easily put in, a trophy as well, an alteration to an existing character, but a stage or a full fledged character? I think that the crunch time for that was used on Champion Link.
DLC? You can count on Rex and someone with slinky arms on them, and maybe the ultra worlds of US&UM, but base game? We would be very lucky if we get one more thing.
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Here somethings i hope to see in the Nintendo Direct
More New Characters
Adventure/Story Mode
The Return of Smash Run
Daisy’s Final Smash
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If Daisy works like the other Echo Fighters then her FS is the same as Peach.
Pit FS was changed for a reason.
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Agree with maxter, I think it's more likely that newcomer choices are based on the popularity poll rather than on Switch stuff that mostly wasn't finalized when this game was being made.
Even on the topic of Arms characters Mr. Yabuki kind of hinted at the fact that his game is too recent to have mattered for Smash, and I'm inclined to believe he was being honest. As for pokemon though, there IS a precedent for them including a at-the-time next-gen pokemon expected to be popular ahead of time: Greninja. With this in mind it's not unlikely some pokemon from Gen 7 was prematurely chosen for smash. Though it's hard to say if they'll go with that or with fan requests for other pokemon. Personally, now that Pokemon Trainer is back I'm more than happy to not have more pokemon for a while.
On the topic of Arms, I don't get why so many people want Spring-Man and Ribbon Girl. Feels like people "want" them because they're the most obvious faces from Arms. But personality-wise? Give us Yabuki's favorite, Min Min, or the one that set the fandom ablaze: Twintelle. Design-wise they have much more personality, even in their fighting style and movement.
As for Xenoblade, I'm hoping Rex/Pyra was indeed too late to make the cut, if anything because I'd much much rather see Xenoblade X content instead.
If Daisy works like the other Echo Fighters then her FS is the same as Peach.
But then what's Peach's final smash? There's no confirmation of it yet and chances are they changed it given it doesn't fit the "quick, to the punch" criteria
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Stray thoughts before the direct:
-If we get a Gen 7 Pokemon rep, I hope it's Incineroar. A pro-wrestler character is just too perfect for Smash (Pika-Libre isn't enough).
-I don't think we're going to get a character from the upcoming Fire Emblem. I think Sakurai is aware that some people think the series has too many FE reps. The only thing we might get from the series is Chrom as an Echo of Ike, which still isn't too likely.
-Most of the popular guesses for Echo fighters (Dixie, Shadow, Octoling, Ken, probably a few others I forgot) I can see happening, except for Dark Samus, which sounds impossible to me. Metroid isn't particularly popular in Japan, so I get the feeling Japanese fans would complain about the series being over-represented if we suddenly got two new characters (one of which hasn't even been relevant in a decade).
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Heads up: I got news that the direct has been leaked, so for all of those wanting to not be spoiled, now's the time to be careful if you weren't before.
As for those interested in the info leaked, please please PLEASE don't spoil stuff until the actual direct happens if you want to talk about it.
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Wish I would have read that post before going on Twitter.
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Had to see the leak. It was a bad on nintendo's side. the direct itself hasn't leaked, what did was the next blog update.
Full nature of the leak, but not the leak itself:
! So, it was the next song update, it is from a game not represented in smash yet, I thought that it was an unlisted video, but aparently someone replaced galaga medley place on the list with the leaked song.
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Yeah it COULD just be music. You don't see the Snipperclips playable do you?
I did spoil myself, though, by watching the GX video on it. They didn't put the character in the thumbnail. Curiosity killed tje cat.
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An intern at Nintendo got fired apparently.
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Again leak nature, not leak content:
! So, this morning I thought that they had posted the song unlisted (and was kind of down because it didn't had a franchise icon in it), turns out:
! The nature of the leak was that they changed the name of Galaga Medley into the spoiler song title!! So the song itself wasn't leaked, the "unlisted video" was a fake news of my drowzy imagination/early morning understanding.
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I love how people don't want spoilers for what amounts to a powerpoint presentation. But, Nintendo fans gonna Nintendo.
Also, I always love the smash directs, cause the fanbase just loses its mind with unrealistic expectations.
Either way, I hope for a new char or two.
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Not wanting spoilers for gaming reveals isn't just a Nintendo thing though.
The way companies and marketing slowly reveal information that can be considered exciting to fans is all about following certain pacing and beats to boost excitement and investment. So it just winds up intrinsically more exciting to follow those beats of when developers/publishers want stuff revealed rather than just have some asshole somewhere just tell you.
This applies to pretty much any gaming company. The struggle to keep stuff confident and unspoiled is a constant one in gaming, and when it works the payoff is fantastic. As someone who works in the game industry, it's super exciting to get to see the communities actually being surprised and blindsided by release of information, which is significantly less impactful when info gets leaked and people have an idea of what to expect.It's much like how it's more of an experience to go to the movies and experience the shock of endings like the one in Avengers Infinity War, as opposed to having someone outside the theater just tell you how it ends. It's true that not everyone is into games or game reveals or w.e., but it shouldn't be that hard to understand the principle.
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A Belmont in Smash?!
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If isn't my loyal employer DETH!
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Shovel Knight has a chance maybe?
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FS meter? Yes plz!
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Yeah, crocodile. Oh yeah.
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KING K ROOL!!!!!!!!!
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Stray thoughts before the direct:
-I don't think we're going to get a character from the upcoming Fire Emblem. I think Sakurai is aware that some people think the series has too many FE reps. The only thing we might get from the series is Chrom as an Echo of Ike, which still isn't too likely.-Most of the popular guesses for Echo fighters (Dixie, Shadow, Octoling, Ken, probably a few others I forgot) I can see happening, except for Dark Samus, which sounds impossible to me. Metroid isn't particularly popular in Japan, so I get the feeling Japanese fans would complain about the series being over-represented if we suddenly got two new characters (one of which hasn't even been relevant in a decade).
16 characters of WHELP
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I saw tourney mode. I buy it.
Also, Phazon Samus and K Rool. Cool
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wait hang on
! simon + k rool
chrom + dark samus + ritcher
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the character trailers for the new fighters have been uploaded.
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King K.Rool, Dark Samus, Siman Belmont, and Chrom
One hell of a fucking direct
Calm the fuck down Sakurai
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