Board 8 > Rumorzone Nindies Direct next week with Nintendo Direct the week after

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Nanis23
03/26/20 3:29:04 PM
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mnkboy907 posted...
Mini Directs get shadow dropped. It's not particularly hype, so it makes sense Nintendo didn't announce it and build expectations.
Yeah the direct was pretty weak
Well, mini, after all

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ninkendo
03/26/20 3:32:49 PM
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It had the one thing I care about which is all that matters

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03/26/20 3:42:26 PM
#54:


Itll be the noodle girl or twintelle. The main guy is already an AT.

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Johnbobb
03/26/20 4:34:34 PM
#55:


Down for adding an ARMS character.

still hate the whole "making an announcement just to make an announcement at a later date" thing though

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Mac Arrowny
03/26/20 7:11:16 PM
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I dunno, I kinda prefer this. Kills a lot of the stupid predictions/leaks.
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StealThisSheen
03/26/20 7:28:53 PM
#57:


Yeah, now we don't gotta sit through months of

"The text had an S in it, it's obviously Shantae!"
"No way, didn't you notice how red everything was? It's Dante!"

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TomNook
03/26/20 8:12:38 PM
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Mac Arrowny posted...
I dunno, I kinda prefer this. Kills a lot of the stupid predictions/leaks.
You don't know the Smash fanbase well enough if you think this will stop anything!

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mnkboy907
03/26/20 8:12:54 PM
#59:


Well there's still "it can't be Twintelle because they made a pun about expandable arms".

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SantaRPidgey
03/26/20 8:15:14 PM
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I do like how relaxed it makes me about smash brothers tho

no matter what the character turns out to be, I won't care even a little.

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GTM
03/27/20 2:45:00 AM
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ribbon girl is already a spirit, so wonder if it could be her and how that will be affected

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ctesjbuvf
03/27/20 8:39:31 AM
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Predicting characters is the most fun part of pre-release Smash times. I've loved talking about possible additions for Brawl, 4 and Ultimate alike.

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MoogleKupo141
03/27/20 8:52:53 AM
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GTM posted...
ribbon girl is already a spirit, so wonder if it could be her and how that will be affected

i dont think having a spirit is relevant at all. There are characters who are already playable that have spirits too. I dont think having an extra Ribbon Girl is a significantly different from having Builder Mario and cat Peach

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Team Rocket Elite
03/27/20 9:13:55 AM
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GTM posted...
ribbon girl is already a spirit, so wonder if it could be her and how that will be affected


Spring Man, Ribbon Girl, Min Min, Twintelle and Ninjara are all Spirits in the game. That pretty much covers every likely option for an ARMS character. On top of that Spring Man is the most likely pick and he's also an Assist Trophy in the game.
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ctesjbuvf
03/27/20 9:42:41 AM
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I'd say Ribbon Girl is the most likely one. Or her with Spring Man as a swap.

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03/27/20 12:40:55 PM
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MoogleKupo141 posted...
i dont think having a spirit is relevant at all. There are characters who are already playable that have spirits too. I dont think having an extra Ribbon Girl is a significantly different from having Builder Mario and cat Peach
No playable character has a spirit. They have variations who are spirits. Construction Mario is separate from Mario Mario, for instance. That said, ARMS made every plausible character a spirit already, so you may be right.

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HashtagSEP
03/27/20 12:44:43 PM
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Max Brass aint a spirit!

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skullbone
03/27/20 12:51:00 PM
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An ARMS character in Smash has the potential to be silly with the crazy range they have. They're either going to need to be really slow or have bad air mobility to make up for the range. Most of the ARMS characters are pretty quick and nimble so I could see them using Max Brass just to make a slow character.


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mnkboy907
03/27/20 1:10:13 PM
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There's zero reason that they can't use a character that's already an Assist Trophy or Spirit. If they want to do it, they will.

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shane15
03/27/20 1:14:58 PM
#70:


mnkboy907 posted...
There's zero reason that they can't use a character that's already an Assist Trophy or Spirit. If they want to do it, they will.


Sakurai isn't allowed to do that because the fans made a law saying it can't happen.

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GuessMyUserName
03/28/20 12:33:21 AM
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https://twitter.com/B8Grimlyn/status/1243757894190825472

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MoogleKupo141
03/28/20 1:28:46 AM
#72:


Anagram posted...
No playable character has a spirit. They have variations who are spirits. Construction Mario is separate from Mario Mario, for instance. That said, ARMS made every plausible character a spirit already, so you may be right.

mario in a different hat isnt a different character. Construction Mario is literally a costume you can wear in the game when you play as Mario, thats a playable character with a spirit.

the only minor thing theyd probably have to do is change the original spirits name to Ribbon Girl (something) so the new playable character spirit can just be Ribbon Girl

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UF8
03/28/20 1:41:28 AM
#73:


by the way, the jp mini direct differed again. got a better look at the mr driller game which actually seems pretty cool and also there were a handful of other things, like a Shiren port and brigandine 2 stuff

also some vn called gnosia that was on vita already but seems pretty cool

i actually already liked the stuff in the global mini direct a lot though so i'd say it wasn't exactly a must-watch by comparison. it didn't even spend as much time on panzer dragoon remake smh
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MoogleKupo141
03/28/20 1:43:39 AM
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I really loved the DS Mr. Driller game, I might get this new one. Its been so long.

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03/28/20 3:23:51 AM
#75:


MoogleKupo141 posted...
mario in a different hat isnt a different character. Construction Mario is literally a costume you can wear in the game when you play as Mario, thats a playable character with a spirit.

the only minor thing theyd probably have to do is change the original spirits name to Ribbon Girl (something) so the new playable character spirit can just be Ribbon Girl
I don't dispute that it's silly, but there's no equippable spirit named after a playable character. It's always Princess Peach (Tennis) or something, and then the character is in a nonplayable outfit.

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MoogleKupo141
03/28/20 3:58:36 AM
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Oh wait, never mind, I see what youre saying. The Construction Mario isnt actually something you can equip.

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03/28/20 4:17:27 AM
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MoogleKupo141 posted...
Maybe hell just swap out the Ribbon Girl spirit for a different character if she ends up being the DLC.
That's what I think as well, but I think if he does that, he's more likely to remove the AT of the main guy and use him because he's the face of the series.

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skullbone
03/28/20 8:59:08 AM
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Yeah the "having a spirit deconfirms a character" is true until it isn't.

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Underleveled
03/28/20 10:27:51 AM
#80:


One of the things I've thought of was how weird would it be for them to simply change the Spring Man AT to another Arms character without changing its hitboxes, functionality, or really anything else other than the aesthetic?

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skullbone
03/28/20 10:31:39 AM
#81:


I didn't play ARMS so I could be wrong but I feel like Spring Man and Ribbon Girl are basically interchangeable. They would maybe just need to change the posture of the idle stance and running animation. But at that point why not just make Ribbon Girl the playable choice?

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Underleveled
03/28/20 10:32:41 AM
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Because she isn't the "main" character?

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skullbone
03/28/20 10:36:26 AM
#83:


I feel like picking main characters only really matters when it's 3rd party. I mean yes all of the 1st party DLC choices have been main characters so far but Spring Man isn't exactly Ryu.

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Underleveled
03/28/20 10:42:29 AM
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We went over this when Byleth was revealed. Even in cases of first parties, it has been very, very rare for someone other than the "main" character to be playable before anyone else from their game/series. The two arguable exceptions are Pokemon, in which four Pokemon got represented before the trainer himself, and let's face it, they're all way more iconic and Pikachu is flat-out the mascot, and Fire Emblem: Awakening, where you could argue that Chrom is the lead but he had to sit out a game while Robin and Lucina got the green light.

This is why people shouted ad nauseam that Byleth would be the Three Houses rep instead of the infinitely more popular Edelgard, and they were right.

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MoogleKupo141
03/28/20 10:45:08 AM
#85:


Ribbon Girl is basically as prominent as Spring Man, I think (based on my incredibly limited knowledge of this subject). She was revealed at the same time as him and shes the only other character on the box art. Also maybe it would be nice to have another female character in the game.

although there is some kind of evil robot Springman character they could maybe easily swap in for the current Assist Trophy if they were going that route

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The_Ctes
03/28/20 11:43:57 AM
#86:


I played some ARMS and I don't see how Spring Man is any more main character than Ribbon Girl. What makes him that?

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Team Rocket Elite
03/28/20 1:04:31 PM
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There's already precedence for a particular Assist Trophy being disabled under certain conditions. For example Alucard won't show up in Wii Fit Studio because it has a mirror in it. So, if all else fails, they can just disable the Spring Man Assist Trophy if someone selected Spring Man.

There's also precedence for just not caring that the same character shows up twice. While not quite the same, Chrom still shows up in Robin's Final Smash even if someone picked Chrom.

In regards to Spirits deconfirming characters, I feel like people got it backwards. I suspect what was going on was Spirits would not be made for characters that were in the game or planned to be in the game. So since the first batch of DLC characters were mostly known before development ended for the base game, they could avoid making Spirits for those characters. This won't extend to the second batch of DLC characters since they weren't known at the time (and the second batch might not have even been greenlighted yet). However this might mean that DLC Spirits might deconfirm characters from the second set. It just depends on when they decided on who would be in the second set of characters. At the very least, it's a bad sign if the character shows up as a Spirit from now on.
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Kenri
03/28/20 1:49:09 PM
#88:


Team Rocket Elite posted...
For example Alucard won't show up in Wii Fit Studio because it has a mirror in it.
What in the world

That's a neat touch I never knew about!

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03/28/20 4:22:41 PM
#89:


The_Ctes posted...
I played some ARMS and I don't see how Spring Man is any more main character than Ribbon Girl. What makes him that?

At least there's an evil spring man in the game (Springtron) and I dont think there's a evil ribbon girl, so that makes Spring Man more main character-y?

Even so, as stated, using a main character in smash is a rule only until it's not.


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The_Ctes
03/28/20 4:46:30 PM
#90:


Well, alright I suppose, but it sure isn't by as much as out usual examples.

Also this:
Kenri posted...
What in the world

That's a neat touch I never knew about!


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MoogleKupo141
03/28/20 5:31:55 PM
#91:


I think Springman is just the main because someone has to be in that first slot on the character select screen. It makes him seem like the de facto Ryu of ARMS


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Luis_Sera89
03/28/20 5:43:45 PM
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From the limited googling I've done, he seems more like a Mitsurugi than a Ryu i.e. a 'face' of the game rather than anyone with major plot importance.

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skullbone
03/30/20 4:12:01 PM
#93:


So apparently someone from Nintendo Japan accidentally leaked that Flipnote Studio is coming to Switch and posted this image taken from inside the game:

https://imgur.com/u9OOJOs

Maybe the next direct is going to be inside of Flipnote or something and these are the images for the talking points?

Animal Crossing summer bug catching event or something
Skyward Sword for Switch
Something Paper Mario related?
Ribbon Girl for Smash
Mario Odyssey DLC for Luigi's Mansion? Some sort of crossover event or something?
Pikmin on Switch

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/03/rumour_leak_suggests_flipnote_studio_is_coming_to_nintendo_switch

If it's fake it's well done

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Grand Kirby
03/30/20 6:47:13 PM
#94:


I mean, maybe they're just Nintendo theme images. That's exactly what they would show if they announced Flipnote and wanted to include sample pictures for the video

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skullbone
03/30/20 6:55:51 PM
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The Skyward Sword pirate is the main thing that makes me think they're supposed to be reflective of announcements. It's just so random otherwise! But yeah this could be nothing

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skullbone
03/30/20 8:04:01 PM
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More Flipnote pictures that could ultimately end up being pointless:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUYbKrlXQAcu74n?format=jpg&name=small

E3 2020 presentation picture is interesting. Plays into my theory that the direct is going to be inside Flipnote and these are the topic images

Metroid
Pikmin again
Paper Mario Thousand Year Door (switch port?)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (3rd pokemon isn't normally in the game right? DLC?)
Random ass main character from the game Giftopia on Gamecube
https://i.imgur.com/tXtvSjX.jpg

If these are just pictures in a video about Flipnote then they sure picked some odd ones to display!

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SantaRPidgey
03/30/20 8:10:51 PM
#97:


TTYD on switch I will pay any price

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The_Ctes
03/30/20 8:17:13 PM
#98:


SantaRPidgey posted...
TTYD on switch I will pay any price

This. Charge full price and I'll still buy without a thought.

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skullbone
04/01/20 12:38:14 PM
#99:


Flipnote leak confirmed fake by the creators

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