This post is inspired by
B-Radicate's post that was inspired by my post...did I just
open a can of worms? Anyways...his post on Smash characters and who you want in it brought me to the Smash Character Screen. Right now there are only 18 characters showed off but the box spacing leaves room for one veteran and one newcomer making a grand total of 20.
It is possible to expand the boxes but for right now we can guess who the newcomer will be and who the veteran is.
My guess...
Newcomer =
Snake
Veteran =
Captain Falcon
I think that would cover all the basic types of characters from the original. Don't hold your breath for Marth, Roy, Pichu, Dr. Mario, Falco, Young, Link, Jiggly Puff, MewTwo, or Mr. Game & Watch coming back. Ness, Ice Climbers, Gannondorf, and Luigi are iffy...
And about Ganondorf, I could see Zant possibly coming in cause Twilight Princess or a revised Ganondorf.
Your guesses?
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Also, how many more smash characters have to die?
Newcomer = Besides Snake would be Sonic.. I still believe it..
Veteran = Ness
As for new characters Snake isn't htere and we know he is so that's gotta be him.
I don't know if they will announce Sonic at all as I see him as an unlocable character and thus the internets won't be full of Sonic!!!! omfg!!! until after the game is released, or someone leaks it.
If Ness wasn't in the game that would be tragic. But I think there are going to be more than just 1 veteran and 1 newcomer I mean if you are going on the box from the website...they can add another row too so I could see Ness, Luigi, Captain Falcon etc. still in the game.
Veiwtiful Joe would be pretty sweet actually.
Hahaha Cooking Mama - I've never thought of that, I love it.
My guess would be 25 and 25, they aren't going to lay all their cards on the table yet, methinks.
He could have the power to stand, walk over there, fall asleep, wiggle his arms around, vote on things and most importantly march in a parade.
Luigi will be in it, though. There's no reason not for him to be, especially when he plays differently enough from Mario and is one of Nintendo's biggest characters.
Did anyone else always get mad when they had to play as a yellow Kirby or green Donkey Kong? Wouldn't it be cool if every different player, if they chose the same character, would merely have an entirely different costume?
Many fighting games, like Soul Calibur, allow for totally different costumes. With such a wide range of games to pull from these characters could have different themes. Dark Samus? Windwaker Link? Dr. Mario? Pichu?
The separate "clones" would instead become the different costume variations for the characters. It'd allow for many of the old cloned favorites like Falco and Ganondorf to return, as well as open the opportunity for more "characters" to enter the Brawl, even if they played exactly as (or slightly altered from) their original character (Dr. Mario throwing pills instead of fire, for instance, but retaining most everything else).
While the clones may be even closer to their original characters instead of more different, which is generally what is wanted, I think it'd be even cooler. Maybe for some of the old characters even have 2D sprite versions or "original appearance" versions. And, heaven forbid a character doesn't have enough "versions" or similar characters throughout Nintendo canon to warrant more than one or two "clone costumes" (like Pit, for instance) THEN and ONLY THEN could they do color changes to the costumes.
For real, 2D Mario vs 2D Link vs 2D Samus vs 2D DK.
A man can dream, can't he?
PS - Props for the post inspired by my post inspired by your post.
They'd have to create a lot of new animations for the old 2D sprites, since they were much more limited and less fluid than what you can do in Smash Bros. The only reason Mr. Game and Watch worked was because they drew from the entire Game and Watch series.