I miss smash bros speculation
2018-2021 was a magical time when people would talk about their favorite video game characters and anything was possible, even moreso than the Super Smash Bros. for prerelease-release-DLC hype cycle. people kept watching their made up rules get disproven and by the end of it nobody knew how to predict anything anymore
there's something I find charming about the category of characters that are like. notably popular ideas for smash bros characters completely divorced from their popularity as characters in any other context. like how a lot of people somehow convinced themselves that Geno from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996) is an "obvious" choice for a smash bros character even though he's not even the most popular character from the mario rpgs
I was on the smashworld forums from 2004-2007 and man that was a beautiful place and time to be alive. I remember waking up before school every morning and checking the dojo at 7 am to see what was being announced and then in computer lab logging onto the forums and dissecting and discussion it to see if we could find one corner of one shadow in one of the images on You Must Recover that was the corner of the shadow of King K Rools tail or stuff like that. The first flash animation I ever made was a little sprite fight between King Dedede and Kirby and Mario and Luigi. Even back then people were saying Geno and I never bought it at all


















