#Yeah this is absolutely because of the pikmin release LOL

[channel-eclair]

u know i think a big issue with third parties in smash bros and the series focusing almost entirely on third parties these days (aside from the game becoming a huge corporate copyright mess) is that we hardly ever get Not The Face Of The Series characters anymore

imo something that adds so much fun and flavor to smash bros is like.. the "not absolutely main characters". like jigglypuff, rosalina, robin, greninja, bowser jr, sheik, palutena, meta knight, etc

yeah theyre important to their series, but theyre not mario or link or pikachu. and having characters like that land in such a special place like smash bros gives these characters such a special lasting prescence in nintendo history

but then sakurai realized "wow, adding third parties makes me more money" and threw 90% of the series' uniqueness and passion out the window

like almost every new character in recent time is just... The Main Face Of Their Series. and its kinda boring tbh. we just have a boatload of one character series now with a character thats kinda just, whatever

like idk anything about street fighter, tekken, and fatal fury. but ive looked at these games rosters and they have SO MANY NEAT CHARACTERS! street fighters got chun li and juri and an ohohohoh rich lady, tekken has some sorta robot android girl, fatal fury has tons of cool characters

and then we just get...

regular dude mcgee

those sure are uh. those sure are characters i guess. honestly the first time i saw terry in smash i thought he was an alt costume of ken. these sure are regular dudes with regular designs i guess. of all the character designs in video games, these sure are some of them

like how am i supposed to care about sora when aqua is right there. how am i supposed to be invested in cloud when vivi and freya are there.

imo the most interesting characters on the fighters pass are joker, min min, and pyra/mythra (i adore byleth so much 3h is a masterpiece but i do think they shouldve gone with edelgard overall, even if im a golden deer fan forever, byleth is one of the best parts of ultimate to me 100%)

joker is great because instead of just being jack frost the mascot of SMT, or instead of using every persona ever, hes just... joker from persona 5 with arsene. hes not the representative of an entire series, hes just the main character of persona 5 and i LOVE THAT

min min is amazing because she won the arms popularity tournament at the end of the games support cycle. rather than just using spring man, they went with the characters fans loved the most

pyra and mythra are so much more interesting than rex and really represent xenoblade 2 so perfectly and were the best possible choice by far

like they just have so much more Flavor and Passion than just. heres the kingdom hearts guy doing everything youd ever expect him to do i guess.

and i know itd be dumb to expect them to put in a third party side character over the main character, but i think it raises the overall issue that modern smash bros is "quantity over quality". the roster feels messy, the single player feels empty, the game releases without things like home run contest and spirit descriptions (and still hasnt added spirit descriptions even though the fans wrote their own at this point lol)

so honestly i think the ultimate solution is just to reboot the series and focus on fleshing out each series

put nintendo first above all else. flesh out all the nintendo series. give zelda reps that arent the triforce trio, give kirby some modern rep, freshen up fire emblem and pokemon (these two series should still have a lot of reps, but more variety beyond swords and gen 1), rework outdated movesets like luigi and ganondorfs, give pikmin alph as an echo and a pikmin 4 rep

this was the slogan of smash bros. this is what its supposed to be

THEN we can talk about third parties... but honestly like? fleshed out third parties. put sonic first, and then add shadow. then maybe go to mega man, and have protoman or bass as an echo. then the next series. take it one step at a time rather than give us half empty shells of these series

if all smash does anymore is focus on main face "hype" characters, its going to feel like playstation all stars battle royale in no time tbh. honestly it already kinda does and its awful. stop doing that sakurai

also prioritize story mode + more single player content + trophies/spirits with descriptions so that the game isnt doomed to die when its online service inevitably ends please

that is one of my biggest and dearest wishes for the switch 2. smash bros needs its whimsy and soul back

[leafyaria]

And my revamped up team I DID put on Artfight, Ocean and Alantis! the Bluemin team! 

Sorta like the PMD Sky timeline but instead of a human it’s Ocean and she stays a Pikmin, I got a long complicated story for them both but fornow just have these cuties,, <3;;