*facepalm*

Jan 9: Angst/Fluff

You can experience a lot of things when your crush almost die in battle right after he came back from prision, after months not knowing if he was alive or not.

Forces comic, feel free to imaginate the dialogue.

Listen, I have nothing against Masahiro Sakurai. In fact I think he’s an amazing game developer and really puts his all into his games. I really want him to take a break after finishing Ultimate, becuase he could quite possibly work himself to death. 

Note that what I’m about to say has no affect on my opinion on Ultimate. The game will still be amazing, and I’ll still play it This my eyes don’t work no more, but I have one simple thing to say:

Making Shadow an Assit Trophy was a mistake.

Hold on, give me a moment. First off, I’m not a Shadow supporter. During the Grinch Leak days I saw Shadow as just a happy little addition to the roster. I really never wanted him in as badly as others. But I do honestly feel that Sakurai’s sole mistake with Ultimate, as of pre release, is having Shadow as an Assit Trophy.

Shadow has risen to become one of the most requested Echo Fighters since the term was introduced back in E3. He made his debut on the first Sonic game on Nintendo. He is, more or less, a literal clone of Sonic. People had hope when Knuckles was announced as the new Sonic Assit Trophy, but as we found out it was a red hearing alongside the Moon-Skull Kid debacle to hide that Isabella was switched with Kapp’n. 

Still, I feel like Shadow was a missed opportunity. Sure he wouldn’t have been the most creative character, being an Echo, but it still would have made his fans really happy. Not to mention his final smash could have been just the same as Sonic, which would have made him substantially easier to create then all other Echo Fighters, especially Ken.

What I’m trying to say is, Shadow could have really been an easy to do fighter, and would have livened up the final Smash Direct (I’ll talk more on that later). And it’s odd that Shadow is the only one a feel this way about. Yeah, I would have loved to see Bomberman, Zero and Skull Kid as fighters, but at the very least they’re still in the game. Shadow, though, just…doesn’t feel right.