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I know I know, people have so many ambitious ideas for “what could they possibly do after ultimate?!” From rebooting with new movesets for old characters, to going 3D.
And I know there’s nothing like the magic of a brand new third party series being introduced into Smash, but the thing is to me - Smash has always been a great ratio of big series getting lots of content, with the cool one offs or retro series getting one stage and a character. You had swaths of Mario and Zelda and pokemon content - multiple stages, characters, items, ATs etc. and the retro one offs like Ice Climber, Duck Hunt and G&W.
But now, because of how third parties have been handled, you have MASSIVE franchises with tons of content to pull from like Castlevania, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Mega Man etc. getting the same amount of content that Nintendo series like…. Ice Climbers get. It’s made it feel uneven and tacked on.
Which is why I think the next smash should focus on expanding that representation over introducing another 10 or so franchises to smash. Give me Alucard! Give me Rodin! Give me Chun-Li! Give me Zero! Give me Roxas! Sephiroth already opened the floodgates being the first second unique newcomer for a third party series, I hope the next smash continues that. Integrate these worlds into smash more, make them feel like part of the family to where speculating for a character from them feels the same as speculating for the next Fire Emblem or Zelda character.
Many of these publishers like Microsoft have spoken about how much they liked working on Smash, Konami was extremely generous with Castlevania content, even after their poor showing with Cloud initially, Square really opened up and got THREE characters in the DLC. I’m sure there’s opportunity for exciting third party newcomers even if they aren’t introducing brand new franchises
And I know there’s nothing like the magic of a brand new third party series being introduced into Smash, but the thing is to me - Smash has always been a great ratio of big series getting lots of content, with the cool one offs or retro series getting one stage and a character. You had swaths of Mario and Zelda and pokemon content - multiple stages, characters, items, ATs etc. and the retro one offs like Ice Climber, Duck Hunt and G&W.
But now, because of how third parties have been handled, you have MASSIVE franchises with tons of content to pull from like Castlevania, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Mega Man etc. getting the same amount of content that Nintendo series like…. Ice Climbers get. It’s made it feel uneven and tacked on.
Which is why I think the next smash should focus on expanding that representation over introducing another 10 or so franchises to smash. Give me Alucard! Give me Rodin! Give me Chun-Li! Give me Zero! Give me Roxas! Sephiroth already opened the floodgates being the first second unique newcomer for a third party series, I hope the next smash continues that. Integrate these worlds into smash more, make them feel like part of the family to where speculating for a character from them feels the same as speculating for the next Fire Emblem or Zelda character.
Many of these publishers like Microsoft have spoken about how much they liked working on Smash, Konami was extremely generous with Castlevania content, even after their poor showing with Cloud initially, Square really opened up and got THREE characters in the DLC. I’m sure there’s opportunity for exciting third party newcomers even if they aren’t introducing brand new franchises