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The Smash NX Rumor: What I Think

There’s a good chance you may have heard by now about the Smash NX rumor from a supposed reliable Japanese consultant. Predictably, the community has begun predicting as to what this could mean if true. Truth be told, the rumor seems quite questionable to me. A new title coming less than a year after the 3DS/U development finishes with the last DLC from February 3rd? There are quite a few factors…

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Nintendo Removes Minigame Fire Emblem Fans Didn't Want: Fire Emblem Fans Outraged

Nintendo Removes Minigame Fire Emblem Fans Didn’t Want: Fire Emblem Fans Outraged

This post is partly speculation and contains unverified information. Read with discretion.

Sounds like a contradictory title, huh? Because it is. And what a depressing one, at that.

Recently, there’s been some talk about the petting minigame from Fire Emblem: Fates being removed from the Western copies of said game. While unverified at the moment, the whole debacle goes to show how bipolar the…

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A Service to Fans

“There is a fighter ballot on the official Smash for Wii U/3DS website. We’ve received an extremely large number of votes, but of course, Lucas, Roy, and Ryu were in development even before the ballot was created. I had a grasp on their popularity and demand, though.

From now on, it is going to be fan service, but I can’t keep the development team together forever, so there’s only going to be…

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How did the Smash Ballot Work?

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This post is heavy on speculation and is not to be taken as fact.

This sounds like it has an obvious answer now, but really, there’s still a lot of information we don’t know about the Smash Fighter Ballot. In this post, I will try to speculate how the inner workings were handled…

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How did the Ballot work?

This post is heavy on speculation and is not to be taken as fact.

This sounds like it has an obvious answer now, but really, there’s still a lot of information we don’t know about the Smash Fighter Ballot. In this post, I will try to speculate how the inner workings were handled during it’s 6 month life span.

What we do know

Several facts about the polling are set in stone, such as:

Any video…

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I’m probably in the minority that enjoys the stage bosses in Smash. As elements that disrupt normal gameplay, they add a chaotic feel to a match that brings excitement(or salt depending on who you are) to the mix. So here, I’ll be talking about the bosses in general and highlight a few that would be awesome to see in Smash some day.

So what does a stage boss do? Well, they come in the stage after a set amount of time passes(usually a minute or so) and antagonize every player in sight. If they aren’t killed within a set time limit(30 seconds to a minute), they deem the players boring and leave to return another day. Each boss has their own unique quirks.

Yellow Devil is the simplest of the bosses and by that distinction the least threatening. It’s a recreation of the infamous controller-smashingly hard boss from the original Mega Man, except here it got a serious nerf. More people want to murder it now and the projectiles are way too easy to dodge, even it’s side change blob attack. It doesn’t take many hits to fell the Devil, and in return it can’t deal as much to the players. Payback for all those angry memories for any of the older fans. Thank Wahwee it’s not the Shadow Devil, too, that would have changed things for a different set of Mega Man fans.

Hailed as the last of it’s kind to speak a language that goes BUMO BUMO BUMO BUMO.

Metal Face is the sadistic steampunk mecha from Xenoblade that terrorizes players on Gaur Plain. Because he needs to fill in villain cliches, he only attacks at night, is arrogant enough to not defend himself enough and has a master’s degree in Tauntthehelloutofyouropponentology.

Descending from the skies, Metal Face picks one of four spots to land on. If he chooses any of the sides, Metal Face demonstrates his environment caring nature and blows off a piece of the scenery with his death laser so he can land. Once he’s there, Metal Face becomes a lazy bum and only attacks if someone gets close to him(despite having A DEATH LASER); as a result, anyone with fast projectiles can take him out easily. That being said, anyone SLICED INTO PIECES by his claw is in for quite a bit of hurt(this thing kills shields effortlessly).

Unique to Metal Face is dialogue, hence his master’s degree. He has lines for everything; arriving, landing, charging and firing the laser, the current events, and leaving. There’s even a cue from Gray Fox given that Metal Face taunts Shulk if he’s in battle. If he ends up leaving out of boredom, he might get the idea to ram past the stage, which looks like it would hurt as much as a car running you over but actually does no more than Ganondorf punching you from zero percent.

Overall, Metal Face is more potent than the Yellow Devil but suffers from an extreme case of passiveness. Takes the prize for funniest boss, though.

A step above MechaGodzilla and CYLAS but still inferior to your average Metal Gear, Evangelions and every Skell ever. Call me when it can launch stealth nukes to any part of the world and wield swords.

And now we have Ridley, perhaps one of the most controversial Smash topics ever. But let’s forget about that and look at him as a boss hazard.

Let’s get this out of the way: Ridley is BULKY. REAL BULKY. Even something jacked up on steroids Attack equipment will take a while to kill Ridley. This, of course, is because Ridley is bound to his contract where he is legally required to help anyone who slaps him hard enough. Given Ridley’s predicament, everyone is going to be slamming him in hopes of temporarily allying with the purple Charizard dragon. His moveset is lifted from Other M with the exception of that wall grinding attack which in itself was a shout out to Brawl, and Ridley’s apparent need to drink Delaware Punch from the sides of the stage to power up when he did this naturally in Other M as well. Balance, I guess? Whatever.

Ridley can end games by himself if given the chance due to how he actually hits like a speeding freight train even when unboosted. Functions as a shield, win condition and post-mortem fighter all in one. A dangerous threat that actually moves around a lot to at least keep players guessing and evade hits. The most chaotic boss.

Then he saw Godzilla sneaking up from behind, and he reached for his gun, which he just couldn’t find.

And that’s the three stage bosses. However, I think this game has a serious missed opportunity with these, so have a couple suggestions of my own.

This section contains spoilers for Splatoon and Kid Icarus: Uprising.

Metroid Prime/Gorea

Pictured: two sides of the same coin.

Now, the reason I lump these two together is because inherently, they are the same type of final boss from the same series, even if both fight differently. Aberrations that use several weapons against the player and have a second form, the former which is a boss idea Smash can benefit from. And in a 2D plane, these bosses can show off how deadly they are to a group.

Metroid Prime is the giant enemy crab final boss from the game of the same name, the most powerful Metroid in existence. Against Samus, it fires elemental lasers, missiles, homing elemental energy balls(all of these are conveniently based on the Ice, Wave and Plasma Beams), and has a tractor beam of sorts in it’s first form, which is the most ideal one to use. Such a stage would be in the Impact Crater with Metroid Prime appearing a minute into the match to terrorize players.

Gorea is the final boss from Metroid Prime Hunters, an eldritch abomination apparently biologically related to Rayman by virtue of some floating limbs sealed in the French word for a forgotten place(Oubliette) and freed by the stupidity of the six Hunters, after which Gorea showed it’s gratitude by killing them off and taking their weapons and life force for itself(gee, that sounds like a Metroid or something). Now in possession of an electric gun, a sniper rifle, explosive lobbing projectiles, an ice shotgun, a lobbing magma gun and homing electricity spheres, it’s up to Samus to kill this Metroid Prime wannabe. Like Metroid Prime, a stage based around Gorea is best put in the first boss area so it can be large.

Either of these would be a dream for me.

Hades

The god of the underworld who has hammy villainous dialogue that puts Metal Face to shame and is a brilliant schemer with a burning hot head of blue flames.

“We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.”

I’m talking Kid Icarus‘ Hades. That purple, towering smack-talker that appears right out of nowhere and steals the show from Medusa after she’s done for. Why am I suggesting him? BULLET HELL. Anyone who’s fought Hades knows that his boss fight is a myriad of lasers and projectiles. This boss just screams chaotic, so think Gorea with a personality. A hilarious one. If there’s one thing I wanted from Kid Icarus, it was this character voiced in Smash somehow. I didn’t get that, but hey, there’s always next game.

DJ Octavio

Hand it to Nintendo here; DJ Octavio is one of Nintendo’s finer final bosses of the last few years. And from a new IP in Splatoon? A rare combination.

DJ Octavio is the leader of the Octarians, a race of Octopi that wage war against the Inklings because of course they do. When you track this calamari to his UFO, he reveals himself on his giant flying musical death machine that sports rocket fists, ink missiles, the sound-based Killer Wail and what is essentially an ink nuke. DJ Octavio would be a selling point for a Splatoon stage for me, since all of these attacks are simple enough in practice, but in Smash, would make for a versatile boss. Also doubles as an excuse to get both ear-addicting final boss themes into Smash.

These inkredible puns, yo. And that’s a DJ board. A straight up DJ board for a control panel. Most clever thing I’ve seen in some time.

These four are standout cases. With some more familiarity to other Nintendo properties, I’d have listed a few more, but this is my selection for now. Stage bosses are a fun gameplay element and I think there should be more.

I don't wanna boss you around, but here's my latest post! I'm probably in the minority that enjoys the stage bosses in Smash. As elements that disrupt normal gameplay, they add a chaotic feel to a match that brings excitement(or salt depending on who you are) to the mix.

A Service To Fans

There is a fighter ballot on the official Smash for Wii U/3DS website. We’ve received an extremely large number of votes, but of course, Lucas, Roy, and Ryu were in development even before the ballot was created. I had a grasp on their popularity and demand, though.

From now on, it is going to be fan service, but I can’t keep the development team together forever, so there’s only going to be…

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"Sakurai hates _": A Rant

“Sakurai hates _”: A Rant

The Super Smash Brothers community is a volatile one, with criticisms leveled against the director, Masahiro Sakurai, being exceedingly common. Among these criticisms, a frequent one is to claim that Sakurai hates a certain character/series/whatever because it’s not included in the game or has received some form of treatment that fans abhor.

I don’t get it.

It would be very unprofessional for a…

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I’m probably in the minority that enjoys the stage bosses in Smash. As elements that disrupt normal gameplay, they add a chaotic feel to a match that add excitement to the mix. So here, I’ll be talking about the bosses in general and highlight a few that would be awesome to see in Smash some day.

So what does a stage boss do? Well, they come in the stage after a set amount of time(usually a minute or so) and antagonize every player in sight. If they aren’t killed within a set time limit(30 seconds to a minute), they deem the players boring and leave to return another day. Each boss has their own unique quirks.

Yellow Devil is the simplest of the bosses and by that distinction the least threatening. It’s a recreation of the infamous controller-smashingly hard boss from the original Mega Man, except here it got a serious nerf. More people want to murder it now and the projectiles are way too easy to dodge, even it’s side change blob attack. It doesn’t take many hits to fell the Devil, and in return it can’t deal as much to the players. Payback for all those angry memories for any of the older fans. Thank God it’s not the Shadow Devil, too, that would have changed things for a different set of Mega Man fans.

BUMO, BUMO BUMO? BUUUUUUUUMOOOOOOOOOO.

Metal Face is the sadistic steampunk mecha from Xenoblade that terrorizes players on Gaur Plain. Because he needs to fill in villain cliches, he only attacks at night, is arrogant enough to not defend himself enough and has a master’s degree in Tauntthehelloutofyouropponentology.

Descending from the skies, Metal Face picks one of four spots to land on. If he chooses any of the sides, Metal Face demonstrates his environment caring nature and blows off a piece of the scenery with his death laser so he can land. Once he’s there, Metal Face becomes a lazy bum and only attacks if someone gets close to him(despite having A DEATH LASER); as a result, anyone with fast projectiles can take him out easily. That being said, anyone SLICED INTO PIECES by his claw is in for quite a bit of hurt(this thing kills shields effortlessly).

Unique to Metal Face is dialogue, hence his master’s degree. He has lines for everything; arriving, landing, charging and firing the laser, the current events, and leaving. There’s even a cue from Gray Fox given that Metal Face taunts Shulk if he’s in battle. If he ends up leaving out of boredom, he might get the idea to ram past the stage, which looks like it would hurt as much as a car running you over but actually does no more than Ganondorf punching you from zero percent.

Overall, Metal Face is more potent than the Yellow Devil but suffers from an extreme case of passiveness. Takes the prize for funniest boss, though.

A step above MechaGodzilla and CYLAS but still inferior to your average Metal Gear, Evangelions and every Skell ever. Call me when it can launch stealth nukes to any part of the world and wield swords.

And now we have Ridley, perhaps one of the most controversial Smash topics ever. But let’s forget about that and look at him as a boss hazard.

Let’s get this out of the way: Ridley is BULKY. REAL BULKY. Even something jacked up on steroids Attack equipment will take a while to kill Ridley. This, of course, is because Ridley is bound to his contract where he is legally required to help anyone who slaps him hard enough. Given Ridley’s predicament, everyone is going to be slamming him in hopes of joining. His moveset is lifted from Other M with the exception of that wall grinding attack which in itself was a shout out to Brawl, and Ridley’s apparent need to drink Delaware Punch from the sides of the stage to power up when he did this naturally in Other M. Balance, I guess? Whatever.

Ridley can end games by himself if given the chance due to how he actually hits like a speeding freight train even when unboosted. Functions as a shield, win condition and post-mortem fighter all in one. A dangerous threat that actually moves around a lot to try and evade hits. The most chaotic boss.

Then he saw Godzilla sneaking up from behind, and he reached for his gun, which he just couldn’t find.

And that’s the three stage bosses. However, I think this game has a serious missed opportunity with these, so have a couple suggestions of my own.

This section contains spoilers for Splatoon and Kid Icarus: Uprising.

Metroid Prime/Gorea

Pictured: two sides of the same coin.

Now, the reason I lump these two together is because inherently, they are the same type of final boss from the same series, even if both fight differently. Aberrations that use several weapons against the player and have a second form, the former which is a boss idea Smash can benefit from. And in a 2D plane, these bosses can show off how deadly they are to a group.

Metroid Prime is the giant enemy crab final boss from the game of the same name, the most powerful Metroid in existence. Against Samus, it fires elemental lasers, missiles, homing elemental energy balls(all of these are conveniently based on the Ice, Wave and Plasma Beams), and has a tractor beam of sorts in it’s first form, which is the most ideal one to use. Such a stage would be in the Impact Crater with Metroid Prime appearing a minute into the match to terrorize players.

Gorea is the final boss from Metroid Prime Hunters, an eldritch abomination apparently biologically related to Rayman by virtue of some floating limbs sealed in the French word for a forgotten place(Oubliette) and freed by the stupidity of the six Hunters, after which Gorea showed it’s gratitude by killing them off and taking their weapons and life force for itself(gee, that sounds like a Metroid or something). Now in possession of an electric gun, a sniper rifle, explosive lobbing projectiles, an ice shotgun, a lobbing magma gun and homing electricity spheres, it’s up to Samus to kill this Metroid Prime wannabe. Like Metroid Prime, a stage based around Gorea is best put in the first boss area so it can be large.

Either of these would be a dream for me.

Hades

The god of the underworld who has hammy villainous dialogue that puts Metal Face to shame and is a brilliant schemer with a burning hot head.

“We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.”

I’m talking Kid Icarus‘ Hades. That purple, towering smack-talker that appears right out of nowhere and steals the show from Medusa after she’s done for. Why am I suggesting him? BULLET HELL. Anyone who’s fought Hades knows that his boss fight is a myriad of lasers and projectiles. This boss just screams chaotic, so think Gorea with a personality. A hilarious one.

DJ Octavio

Hand it to Nintendo here; DJ Octavio is one of Nintendo’s finer final bosses of the last few years. And from a new IP in Splatoon? A rare combination.

DJ Octavio is the leader of the Octarians, a race of Octopi that war against the Inklings because of course they do. When you track this calamari to his UFO, he reveals himself on his giant flying music death machine that sports rocket fists, ink missiles, the sound-based Killer Wail and what is essentially a nuke. DJ Octavio would be a selling point for a Splatoon stage for me, since all of these attacks are simple enough in practice, but in Smash, would make for a versatile boss. Also doubles as an excuse to get both ear-addicting final boss themes into Smash.

These inkredible puns, yo.

These four are standout cases. With some more familiarity to other Nintendo properties, I’d have listed a few more, but this is my list for now. Stage bosses are a fun gameplay element and I think there should be more.

Savage Setpieces: Stage Bosses in Smash I'm probably in the minority that enjoys the stage bosses in Smash. As elements that disrupt normal gameplay, they add a chaotic feel to a match that add excitement to the mix.

Savage Setpieces: Stage Bosses in Smash

Moving on from a ranting topic for now, the concept of bosses in Smash dates all the way back to the N64 original, but it was only until the 3DS and Wii U versions of Smash that the idea of a boss coming into play on a stage was implemented. This is different from the Subspace Emissary, where fighting the boss was the onlypurpose of the segment. A boss character that opposes everyone while they…

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The Smash Echo Chamber

A month since the final Smash presentation dropped and here’s a topic that I will continue to ponder about since it’s never going away and will in fact come back in full force if a next game comes to fruition.

It’s no surprise that what the Smash Fighter Ballot caused was a movement by legions of fans to get their character voted to the top for inclusion. Since April, the talk is mostly…

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“Metroid Prime: Hunters will be releasing on the Japanese #WiiU eShop Sep 30.”

Interesting. Hoping it releases in NA.

#metroid #metroidprimehunters #wiiu

I’m sure there are people out there who would like to see this become a reality. :)

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#metroid #sylux #super smash bros #Smash ballot

nephenees-lance

We need another rep from Metroid that ISNT Samus. Rundas from Metroid Prime Corruption.Or Sylux since he is going to be an important character in a future game.

it is true we do need another

Metroid Prime’s Director Confirms that the Dark Samus Story is Complete

CG Mag: So for the story, will you be carrying over any of the story elements we saw in the previous Metroid Prime games into this one?

Tanabe: So the story around Basin and Dark Samus in my mind is already complete. The previous games completed those stories. But Are you familiar with the ending of Prime 3?

CG Mag: Yes.

Tanabe: Sylux is one of the hunters that was in Metroid Prime Hunters. So in Metroid Prime 3, there’s sort of hints where Sylux is sort of there. In a way to sort of create that potential for the story, between Samus and Sylux. I’d like to have that with a focus on the Federation Force as well.

CG Mag: So it is tying together a universe?

Tanabe: That is the focus of Federation Force. It works in a similar way to the Avengers where they had individual movies focus in on one hero and now this is the team up that brings it all together.

CG Mag: So kind of telling the stories of each hero.

Tanabe: So while we’re not carrying anything related to Dark Samus in the huge universe of Metroid Prime, I do have ideas on how to tie them with that universe of the previous games.

When’s Sylux ;-;

#metroid #metroid prime federation force #sylux #nintendo