Smash Bros. needs Alis Landale badly.
Get Shinguuji Sakura and watch Japanese twitter meltdown and the West get angry.
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The utter lack of female alts for Hero in Super Smash Bros. is downright appalling.
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Get Shinguuji Sakura and watch Japanese twitter meltdown and the West get angry.
Yeah, it's awful.
It's baffling seeing the DQ hero get four basic recolors instead of a complete set of eight heroes.
Sakurai really has a talent of getting things so close, and screwing up at the end. Hopefully at least on of the remaining two DLC characters will be a women, but it's hard to feel confident when his history with adding women to the series so lackluster.
It's baffling seeing the DQ hero get four basic recolors instead of a complete set of eight heroes.
Sakurai really has a talent of getting things so close, and screwing up at the end. Hopefully at least on of the remaining two DLC characters will be a women, but it's hard to feel confident when his history with adding women to the series so lackluster.
No, they're referring to Julianne Stingray from Va-11 Hall-a, commonly referred to as Jill:
He's not going to go out of his way to make 4 new models for female characters that are barely recognized in Enix themselves. The fact is that the default for the hero has been male with the female alt at best getting small nods every blue moon.
Also, the recolors are not basic since they represent a different hero too. Like how Shulk's different colors call backs to one of his friends.
He went out of his way to give Bowser Jr. eight unique alts, and he can't do that for the series that created the JRPG genre?
While it is possible that this is Square Enix's fault, there's no need to defend Sakurai given the state of women in Smash.
"Appalling" seems a bit strong of a word but I will agree that I was surprised and disappointed not to see any of the female alts among this crew. Sure they would have had to have gone the extra mile but this def seems like a place were it would have 100% been worth it.
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And Bowser Jr is what out of how many characters in Smash? That and it's purely Nintendo owned.
And I don't have to defend anything. I don't care about a female rep, I care about character themselves. So the idea of 'so-so needs females', I just don't care about. If the entire case is all male and it's all character I love and play, then don't care if there are no females.
It's really shitty. Especially if the whole pass ends up with nothing but male characters (no, Kazooie doesn't count).
Also I'm almost certain that Sofia is more popular than Solo.
Also I'm almost certain that Sofia is more popular than Solo.
Not for me it isn't. All my most wanted characters are and were male. If there were DQ female hero, I wouldn't be against it, but I'm not surprised or upset that they're all male.
The DQI hero only uses a few spells (fire and healing/defense), and the DQII hero doesn't use magic at all. He's just a regular swordfighter. The Smash move set really only works for the four heroes that were chosen.
Obviously Jill of the Jungle, from the developers of Gears of War and Fortnite.
I disagree, if they add Linkle she should be her own character since in Hyrule warriors she has her own move set with the dual crossbows and stuff
i know everyone loves sakurai, but maybe its his decision on what material to use from the series?
like Nintendo likely gave him Hero as the character and he decided to not put in female alts.
like Nintendo likely gave him Hero as the character and he decided to not put in female alts.
Okay.
Honestly, it's fine if it doesn't bother you. Different thing matter to different people.
But if it doesn't bother you, then there should be no need to make excuses for the Smash team. These criticisms are directed Sakurai and Square Enix, not to you.
We already know what the other 4 colors are, & they aren't the female variants.
That would be weird of him, since he loves to put in female alts for nearly a half-dozen other characters - Wii Fit Trainer, Robin, Corrin, Villager, Bowser Jr, Pokemon Trainer, etc.
I think this one might be down to Square Enix or deadlines being the culprit, not the lack of interest.
Female corrin being default would be awful. She is only more popular than male corrin because some people are ok with badly written characters if they are fanservice. Acknowledging a character that is mostly fanservice as the main one is the opposite direction FE should go
It's totally fine if you don't care. You don't have to care. But "I don't care and its weird that anybody else does/nobody else should care" is rarely a good look.
Thought thats the chars for different move sets of the hero char. Maybe i got this wrong in the trailer
"Loves"
Leaf wasn't allowed to be a Pokemon Trainer until Ultimate.
PT vanished from Smash 4, the game that started including female alts for characters.
Pokémon Trainer was gone until Ultimate, that's why.
If he was in 4, I think he would gotten the female alts.
Wario had an alt outfit in Brawl, I don't think that's a good excuse.
In fan circles she is, if you look it up you'd find much more art of sofia than you would of solo
I don't think it's likely but I hope the theory some people have about making Echos of Kasumi from Persona and the Heroine's would be true.
He's also THE ONLY ONE that got one back then because Nintendo had to pretend they still cared about Wario Land.
My feelings. It's definitely disappointing, appalling sounds... too much?
Honestly, I wish Daisy were her own character. I wish we also had Impa playable. If this were a bit more... thorough, maybe we'd have Lana and/or Cia from Hyrule Warriors. Hell, it'd be amusing to have Pauline be a character and have her sort of "Hulk out": as classic DK for some moves, maybe? Give her the hammer, let her through the flame guys, create platforms that fall, etc.
Come on now, you know the reason for that...
Hero is like one of the characters where I feel like they could still 20 or 30 alts with all the different heroes and then including female versions of them. Really wanted Sophia and also wanted other heroes besides just those four. I do hope we get a bunch of DQ related spirits too.
I kind of wish they didn't bother with those high quality renders. Sakurai has mentioned them as a significant point in the workflow of Echoes, so that certainly limited alternate models here. Then again, he could have ended up with 8 male alts, considering how they didn't even bother with any female hero for the final smash.
Maybe? Not really. Promotional material for Animal Crossing consistently uses male Villager. It seems that Isabelle is considered the "female representation".
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This is a video game message board. Not sure what this post accomplishes tbh
On one hand, it's odd... On the other, it's weird to see people talking about Smash as a whole with this issue when every other character like this has a female alt.
