Don't rule out him popping up somewhere in World of Light. All that campaigning Wayforward and Shantae's fans did got her to be a Spirit in the end. If anything now I'm confident a Travis Spirit is somewhere in this game
Not a chance they didn't know that they were going to develop DLC for it.
They probably did but they almost certainly didn't go "No don't put that .jpeg of that character in the game because we might make them DLC. Maybe."
The new stage elements were definitely designed to be multi-purpose, so I'd hesitate to call it recycled. Giga Bowser and Galleom both got significant touch-ups from what we can tell, so that's nice at least.
Just the Banner, we're just hoping he's in. If my theory about Stage hazards or backgrounds become boss fights. Hoping we see, Death, Kraid and a Metal Gear.
If they did they did it near the end of development like this summer and it was purely done to put in the skeleton for DLC. So the character slots and missing 5 stage slots in the stage select screen. If anything I have a feeling that if people were to datamine these slots they would absolutely nothing. Adding to Sakurai saying they didn't start working on the DLC during development and it was just Piranha Plant
Yeah, still, they are in the background in the stage. I'm getting my hopes up for nothing lol
They knew they were making DLC, but likely didn't have a concrete list while developing spirits, since there seems to be a decent amount of work fine tuning each one, it's not something they just threw in last minute like a Mii Costume.
It's probably a lot easier to tailor Spirits than it is to tailor DLC, and with Nintendo handpicking the characters this time around, a large majority of characters that are spirits likely aren't up for the running because they're just not enough of a promotional draw at the moment (Bandanna Dee, Elma, and - unfortunately - Dixie, spring to mind here). Characters that likely wouldn't be a spirit would be characters from titles that are too recent or in development, or third party characters. That's why I think a Three Houses rep and maybe even a Torna rep might be on the cards, but I wouldn't be surprised if DLC, like in Smash 4, leans towards third party, and in this case, you're highly unlikely to see a lot of the characters that would make it in since no one's gonna negotiate a major character like a Dragon Quest rep for a jpeg.
Nah. If anything I'm thinking they didn't decide characters until after the game gone gold and that's probably why Nintendo did the selection. They wanted character development to be efficient as possible and I'm thinking character selection is done really early and probably doesn't take that much time at all.
I can get behind this logic.
I'd like to believe this, but part of me is still worried that any Spirit won't end up as a DLC character.
Hard agree with the top two points.
1) I don't think Dracula is on the normal Castlevania stage, we've only ever seen him fought in a boss arena
You could actually unlock the EBA cast in Ouendan 2 from DS download stations in Japan.From the Metro preview...
Aww yeah, unlockable localisation only characters from a niche game getting their due.
I want them to spread out the SNK characters to a ludicrous degree.
