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I'm just gonna throw in my two cents on everything now that I've had time to process and I'm sure everyone's been on the edge of their seat waiting to see what I have to say.

First, before anyone accuses me of just being salty that I didn't get the exact characters I wanted, whether from the Grinch leak or in general, I want to say that every character that I really, really wanted is either already in or never had a realistic chance of getting in (at least the base roster of) Ultimate. I could champion for Vaati or Klonoa or Micaiah until I was blue in the face, but they all had their best chances in prior games or never had a prayer to begin with.

So when I judge the Ultimate newcomers, I'm doing it entirely on their own merit. And I personally find them extremely underwhelming. I understand why people are disappointed. Simon and Richter are cool, I guess, but I'm nowhere near a Castlevania superfan so that's more about the novelty than anything. And as much as I dislike Incineroar as a Pokemon, it'll be fun to have a grappler and the pro wrestling fan in me is honestly excited to dropkick and german suplex and LARIATOOOO my friends. But it's hard to ignore that there weren't really that many fans that wanted him. If you're into Ridley or K. Rool, good for you, but I have no personal investment in their games and thus no personal investment in them. Inkling was an obvious choice, but not one I think many people were exactly clamoring for. And then the rest are echoes, so there's not much to say about them.

All that being said, no character inclusion in Smash has never annoyed or angered or otherwise upset me, because it always seemed obvious that the oft-repeated cries of "wasted slot" were misguided. I never subscribed to the idea that the developers went in with a number in their head of playable characters and put candidates on the chopping block from there, but rather just included whoever they want, which has proved to be the case.

But now today we get the fucking Piranha Plant. Folks, this is a wasted slot. Sakurai acknowledged in the Direct that Smash is seen as the ultimate crossover. It's a fanservice-based game. What is the point of putting in a generic enemy from a series that already has a huge amount of representation? What kind of crossing over is that? What fans are they serving? Ask 10,000 or 100,000 or even a million people and I can't imagine you'll find more than one or two that would honestly say, given the choice, that there's no character in video games that they would take over Piranha Plant.

So you've already disappointed a lot of fans by confirming that the not-that-interesting Ken and Incineroar are the last two base fighters, disappointed many further by showing Assist Trophies of highly-requested characters that you've apparently kept hidden intentionally to create false hope, and then set a poor precedent for the eventual DLC that might have given them some actual hope to take away by starting it off with the Plant.

I don't care whether you're personally satisfied with the roster or not. It's inarguable that this was mishandled by Nintendo and people being upset about it are perfectly justified.

Spirits looks awesome, and the hypest part of the whole Direct for me was the remix of We're the Robots that showed up, but again, when the whole point of the game is fanservice, the characters are the most important part and they really vomited all over themselves on that front.
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