I think the thing about that Direct is that none of the announcements were “bad”. I reckon all of the major announcements and reveals were great in a vacuum.
It’s just that there wasn’t really a good balance or variety of announcements.
Tried my hand at the smash roster thing.
Am I proud of this? No. Will this please everyone? Absolutely not. This is kinda just what I think would be pretty cool so I know it’s probably gonna be someone’s exact opposite taste
@soflesbianlass Barret and Rodin come to mind, maybe Ekko from LOL, Sandman from Punch Out, Wii Sports’ Matt (?), Kimberly from SF6 would make for a great modern rep in the next Smash game-
@soflesbianlass I think gaming in general needs more black and Asian protagonists that aren’t Japanese. While the lack of diversity in Smash is disappointing, I can’t really fault Smash for it since - as u said - it’s more of an industry problem than it is a Smash problem
@emilyis_emilies I don’t really blame Smash for this one, simply because like u said there aren’t many POC characters to really choose from, Nintendo or otherwise.
But it’s weird to think that even for explicitly-Asian characters in Smash we only really have Ryu, Joker and Min Min
@emilyis_emilies I reckon it depends on the character. Sometimes characters come from games that either have limited combat or no combat at all, so u kinda have to rely on references to get diversity in a character’s moveset