@MetaMario:
I hate to think negatively but…..I feel like it was a perfect chance for her to appear during the K. Rool trailer, either as an actual splash or a cameo at the end a la Dark Pit in Palutena's trailer. She'd distract K. Rool before he gets to pound DK and Diddy or something.
She was/is my most wanted newcomer, too.....but hey, still got four months to go, so who knows?
I was also disappointed she wasn't thrown in there, but there's so many reasons why this could have happened
- Her addition by the end would have distracted from the villain rhetoric of K. Rool's reveal, and if you wanted to keep the tone of K. Rool winning then Dixie would have distracted from it
- Maybe Dixie is a much less anticipated inclusion than K. Rool, so from the video production side it might have been easier to just proceed with already worked-on K. Rool cinematics and do Dixie separately
- They want Dixie's inclusion to be part of a completely different rhetoric. We've gotten a lot of badass evil fighters, maybe they want to have Dixie appear later having a tea party with Isabelle to appeal to girls? who knows man
Point is, within the logic of what an echo fighter can be and the logic of changes Diddy has received that we know so far, it's possible. Then again, maybe later on we see more of Diddy and find out he still has the Dixie skin. But maybe not, we'll see.
@Demon:
I wonder if you use the Moon on Termina Great Bay, will the Moon that's actually part of the background already be the thing that crashes in? That'd be a neat touch.
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Also, Mimikyu!!!!! Best Pokemon is in the game! That’s amazing! I'm also surprised Noqanky didn't say anything about Alolan Vulpix
It was in the E3 demo already so it wasn't a surprise. The surprise was that we're going to have BOTH vulpixes, which is just adorable.
@Count:
I can see three all-new characters left for a solid 80 roster. Two at least, four at most. Same for echo fighters, which will hopefully include Dixie Kong and Shadow.
I think you meant to say 70, since even with Echo Fighters included we are currently at 73.
@MetaMario:
See I'm a third wheel on this.
I like Geno but it feels like the height of his popularity has….passed? like in the pre-Brawl days, sure, but now there's a lot more faces people keep their eyes out for. He did have a mii costume so that is arguably popular enough, but.....ehh. How soon we forget about poor Mallow.
As for Paper Mario, I have always been against that idea. "But there's three Links", you might say. Yes, but....I dunno, I feel like the Mario series is perfectly represented as is, and I'm a guy that always picked the original over Doc too.
Geno is still fairly popular. It calmed down post-brawl and took a backseat to Mewtwo, Ridley and King K. Rool, but the Geno hype has been consistent since Melee.
@KageKageKing:
Forget Dixie. Put Lanky Kong instead.
Lanky Kong died in the explosion of DK Isle