None of them are the central figure of the whole game. Byleth is. Byleth is the POV character and exists in the center of the conflict regardless of the house choice made.
I mean...I've been caping for the blue boar forever. But as others say, we haven't had a wholly new Zelda rep since Toon Link, if you want to be generous. Even if you wanted to stick with the main three-four chars, there's no shortage of ground still left to cover.
Yeah, Corrin was the breaking point. Their trailer was really hard to watch.
The weird thing about echo characters is that if you look at Fire Emblem Warriors, Lucina is not a Marth clone. She uses Chrom's moveset. Chrom, in turn, should have been an Ike echo in Smash since he's all about the power moves.
This game is Smash Bros, not Three Houses. They dont have to be the central figure of the whole game to have a reason to be in. They are just as much leading characters for a large majority of it and can continue to be so depending on your choice, which Sakurai even brough up while he was advertising it in the Direct.
So where was this backlash when they put in Hero and even Terry?
I'm not using buts and excuses. Look at the FE characters in Smash. They're all leads or co-lead of their respective games. And the avatar character Robin got in as a unique fighter over Lucina (originally a Marth alt promoted to an Echo) and Chrom (whose Smash 4 exclusion was a punchline in a trailer).
I think the differnce is that Hero represents a very popular franchise in japan and one that was very influential on the RPG genre. Cant exactly speak for Terry as ive barely looked into the KoF series
There actually was some. You didn't see any of the memes going around for Hero or how Japanese fans felt pretty saddened and dejected by the reactions to Hero in the west?
Lucario's and Mewtwo's tilts are nothing alike. I guess their forward Smashes are similar, in the same way that Kirby and Fox have the same up Smash. But that's a hilariously weak justification for calling Lucario "just barely above the threshold of being an echo".
Co-leads, you mean like the three houses lords that you are actively trying to minimize? You are absolutely just making excuses. Byleth did not have to be who they chose.
Which to me was a bit silly since at least in the Hero's case Banjo was revealed in the same direct for western fans lol
Weird since Lucina is basically a Marth clone within FE Awakening itself. I figure Chrom having a similar moveset is a nod to how Lucina says she learned how to fight from him.
Sure but the thing is that showed that people care about characters first, moveset second which is the thing that can be applied to Ultimate, even if Byleth had the most interesting moveset in the game the reaction would be the same because it's another blank faced, sword wielding, male-with-a-female-alt FE character
Read what I said again about the avatar Robin getting priority over the Awakening Lords.
This has consistently been the stupidest reaction people have had to this whole situation. It's fine to not like the character. It's fine to be sick of Fire Emblem characters. It's fine to wish they would've picked one of the other characters in Three Houses over Byleth. It's weird to try to twist it into being on some moral high ground when it's obvious people just don't care about the character picked.
Mario doesn't really need advertising though. It's Mario. Mario got a number of recent editions since Smash 4. But yes to TW101, Astral Chain, and Xenoblade. Would love characters from those games to make it in.
Does that make Anna Bowser's Castle?
What are you talking about, this is a super diverse and interesting cast of characters!
Actually, Chrom was chosen specifically because he was a huge fan request (in the Smash Ballot). But personally speaking, I'd prefer Celica.
I mean really they're not even all yellow. Some are yellow, sure, but some are primarily really pale yellow, or just have yellow highlights. Plus one of them is blue! That's like, an opposite of yellow.
