Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (launches on January 28th for $5.99) [SEE STAFF POST]

[jack_package_200]

Your nerd tears give me life

I wonder what the Mii hats are

 

[Xavi]

Mommy Rhea

 

[RailWays]

Wtf they do to my boy Claude?

 

[DWarriorSN]

I'm glad this isn't the final character, this character is beyond disappointing.

Oh and the female design looks stupid as hell.

 

[Psychonaut]

How DARE they relegate Claude, Hilda, and Petra to the background.

 

[Danzflor]

I love three houses so I'm in!!

"Launches on January 28th for $5.99, free if you already own the pass."
Wait, what does this mean? Free if you already own the pass? Is this not the 5th fighter from the pass?

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It means that if you bought the pass previously, you get it automatically when released since you already paid for it.

 

[RingoGaSuki]

Byleth looks fucking fantastic. I'm very happy with this - the stage looks great too.

 

[Deleted member 37233]

I love three houses so I'm in!!

"Launches on January 28th for $5.99, free if you already own the pass."
Wait, what does this mean? Free if you already own the pass? Is this not the 5th fighter from the pass?

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This is the 5th figher, therefore - if you already bought the pass - you don't need to pay 5,99.

 

[chezzymann]

You would think fire emblem is a 20M+ seller with the amount of reps it gets

It would be better if they all didn't look the same

 

[Camjo-Z]

The funny thing is that I remember when this dlc pack was first announced everyone just kind of assumed this (FE three houses rep) would happen and now everyone is mad when it actually did

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The rest of the pass was so solid that everyone assumed our worst fears were unfounded. This really should have been the first DLC character so we could rip the band-aid off quicker.

 

[Deleted member 17207]

So disappointing in so many ways.

- another FE character (if it was a third party issue, there's tons of first party IPs to choose from)
- moveset is similar to a Monster Hunter character
- ending a season pass with big expectations on this
- 35minutes wasted on just explaining Fire Emblem

Come on now. How could they think this wouldn't disappoint people?
It's the same as when WWE made Rey Mysterio enter the Royal Rumble at #30 while people were expecting Daniel Bryan or someone else to win. Cool guy, but really not the time for this kind of decision.

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Or when Blizzard announced a Diablo mobile game last year haha.

 

[Keyser S]

T H E B R I D G E I S R E A L L Y W I D E

 

[LavitzSlambert]

From best to worst:

Banjo
Joker
Hero
Byleth
Terry

 

[Fanuilos]

Little disappointed, but kinda want to pick Three Houses back up for that second playthrough.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Flayn is precious!

 

[Avis]

Lmao that was literally a huge spoiler

 

[hammurabi]

Never played a fire emblem game, so I don't have really any attachment to the character, but the moveset looks good. Should be pretty fun to use.

 

[DantesLink]

 

[Sensei]

lmfao

 

[eseqko]

Sakurai is a madman. He knows FE is the new "troll"character. I love it.

 

[Deleted member 43084]

wow Sakurai just did a legit FE:TH spoiler. the mad lad

 

[Dee Dee]

Seteth is in the background, all is forgiven. Good DLC, take my money.

 

[Thorn]

Sakurai spoiling the hell out of 3 Houses lmao

 

[Poodlestrike]

She's in as a alt colour for Byleth. There's something at least.

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Here's your Edelgard rep LMAO

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Is it something, though?

Is it *really*?

 

[MasterYoshi]

Bracing for the bonus announcement at the end.

 

[Gutsfree]

If it was going to be a new Nintendo character, I can be happy with this. I don't like any of the new Pokemon starter final evos and Rex and pyra suck. Pyra is such a trash anime design that I'm happy not to see more of those characters.

 

[airbagged_]

No Bernie :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

 

[MatrixMan.exe]

Holy fuck they white washed Claude

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Eh, I'd argue he was never that dark to begin with. Slightly tanned at best.

 

[Hero Prinny]

Closed video when I saw Fire Emblem.

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Same

 

[WestEgg]

Nah, Flayn's terrible at keeping secrets.

 

[HK-47]

The most boring possible choice they could make

 

[Deleted member 35048]

at least anime swordsmen are fun to play

 

[AlexFlame116]

The tag team lol

 

[HardRojo]

The great thing about this is that people will now appreciate Hero and Terry more.

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With this reveal, Terry is basically the only reason I bought the pass lol. I feel so conflicted right now between my OCD for having a full roster in my fighting games and the fact that I really dislike Fire Emblem.

 

[mutantmagnet]

LOL

 

[Argus]

Hearing that not only was it a Fire Emblem character, not only another sword user, but Byleth instead of Edelgard... Petra... Claude.... etc etc, actually made me snort out loud with how bad a choice this is.

 

[Philippo]

This is basically Super Smash Fire Emblem Ultimate.

 

[Xion_Stellar]

Whyyyyyy do they keep adding Fire Emblem Characters? Stop it!

 

[Bonejack]

Can we at least get the House Lords as Assist Trophies?

Is he wrong?

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Yes. How about you play one of these games?

 

[Deleted member 28386]

As salty as I am about Byleth, it's more than made up for knowing Reimu and Arle didn't happen.

 

[Illusion]

- moveset is similar to a Monster Hunter character

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Honestly this was my biggest takeaway with his moveset right now.

He's literally just what Monster Hunter could had been minus the chain sword.

 

[Alexhex]

I think Byleth looks like an interesting character. I'd say all the people whining are embarrassing themselves. Like they did with Terry and Joker. Seems if anything is remotely "anime", people throw a fit.

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It is pedfectly okay to like byleth but it's not hard to show a lil empathy and see why people would be disappointed

 

[nachum00]

Wow that's lame as hell.
Another freaking Fire Emblem character?

 

[FarSight XR-20]

Another Fire Emblem character... There are so many characters and interesting IPs that deserve to be in Smash. The game has way enough FE characters.

 

[Ekid]

I'm guessing the problem is less of the critically acclaimed and successful Fire Emblem Three House getting a rep and more the fact that Awakening had no business getting three fighters and Corrin being here at all.
Franchise fatigue basically.

 

[Meg Cherry]

This feels like a joke. Like... This feels like a parody. Literally anything would have been better than this. Any other 1st party franchise getting something new would be markedly better than this. Honestly it's unreal.

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I honestly feel like at any point in the first ten minutes of the direct, Dante could've walked up, slapped Sakurai, and announced he was joining the fight instead of yet another FE character. Like, it plays as a parody of underwhelming character reveals.

 

[Phendrana]

If it HAD to be another Fire Emblem character, it should have been Edelgard, Dimitri and Claude. Especially given he gave Byleth a bunch of other weapons anyway.

And then we could have had those three as Amiibo as well. Fuck getting a Byleth one.

 

[mute]

Just...lol.

 

[Misuta]

Sakurai what are you doing!? lol

 

[henlo_birb]

They probably did this outside of a regular direct because they knew it would sour the whole direct. This was just clearing way for the direct this weekend.

Team January, baby.