Smash Bros Future Fighter Pass - Character Speculation
With the announcement of more DLC
characters past the fighter pass for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate fans of the
game have gone into more of a speculation frenzy as to who they could see join
this already jam packed roster of video game icons throughout the ages. I have
to imagine we will get at least 5 more fighters past this fighter pack as with
most fighting games now season passes are normally around 2 or 3 and while I
hope for 3 I imagine at the least another 5 fighters will be the case (or of
Nintendo goes all out and gets the roster to 100 I’d flip). We also need to
keep an open eye on who could join the game, fighting games have grown to
include a wide range of characters not expected. Between Tekken using The
Walking Dead’s Negan and Noctis from Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat using God of
Wars Kratos, Friday the 13th’s Jason, Predator amongst other and Soul Caliber
using Darth Vader and Yoda from Star Wars all bets are off when it comes to 3rd
party characters joining games. I’ve tried to keep my predictions realistic but
have a list of characters I personally would love to see when it comes to
characters and while I am #TeamWAH I with a heavy heart have to concede that
Waluigi won’t be in the game as a playable character. I also haven’t considered
any echo fighters for this as any dlc content with this type of fighter remains
unclear, I do however hope that more echo fighters do come out in their
own dlc sometime in the future.
Master Chief
Starting with one of the most
likely ones to round off the first fighter pass, Master Chief has had a lot of
fan support to join the roster. You think of all the big Sony ‘mascots’ in the
game like Cloud and Joker who’s respective games are PlayStation exclusive it
would make sense to have an Xbox exclusive mascot and there would be none
better than Master Chief.
Crash Bandicoot
When it comes to real classic
video game mascots smash has almost all of them now. One of the last big
mascots missing is Crash Bandicoot, with the remastered game coming out a
little while back the character is once again in public eye
Spyro The Dragon
Speaking of classic characters
with remakes similar to Crash, Spyro the Dragon has been a big video game
mascot for a large number of years. Being a Quadrapet character would give him a
unique move set to the majority of smash characters as I believe only Ivysaur
shares this troupe.
Jin Kazama
With the announcement of Terry
Bogard the main character of the Fatal Fury series in the first fighter pass it
lead to speculation on who else from big fighting game we could see in the game
with Ryu (and Ken) from Street Fighter also being on the roster. I believe a
Tekken character is next in this line of characters. I went with Jin Kazama as
while Heihachi Mishima had a Mii costume in Smash 4 *SPOILERS* he died at the
end of Tekken 7 the write off for that character. With Jin considered the main
character of the Tekken series for a while now it makes sense for him to be the
DLC character. Plus him vs Ryu or Terry are some big fighting game dream
matches.
Travis Touchdown
What I didn’t know until
starting this was that No More Heroes 3 would only come out on the switch (or
that 2 only came out on Wii) it got me thinking with this being the case there
is no better way to promote the game then having the main protagonist Travis
Touchdown in Smash, using Smash bros to promote characters has helped in the
past as seen with Fire Emblem Awakening and the sales of that game. I think
Travis could be an interesting character for the game and would be nice to
shine a like on a character that a lot of people hold in high regard.
Black Shadow
One of the biggest grips that
people have with the roster of smash bros is the lack of antagonists on its
roster. Looking the main roster of the original smash a lot have antagonists
from their series present in the game now. Mario has Bowser, Donkey Kong has
King K.Rool, Link has Ganondorf, Fox has Wolf but one missing an antagonist is
Captain Falcon. I went with Black Shadow as he was the main antagonist of the
F-Zero anime and the one on the end of the iconic Falcon Punch to end the
series. It was between Deathborn and Black Shadow for this slot but I went with
the later out of the two, however I could see either getting in.
Geno
One of the long requested characters
for Smash has been Geno from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Silver Stars. This
character inclusion always relied on a good relationship between Nintendo and
Square Enix which wasn’t always the case but seems to be better now since the
inclusion of Cloud as DLC in Smash 4. I know Sakurai wanted to put Geno in
Brawl but wasn’t able to at the time now with extra time to add characters and
the fan demand there I wonder if Geno is more likely then ever to make it into
a Smash game.
Rex
If we are going by characters
we know the developers wanted in the game look no further than Xenoblade
Chronicles 2 protagonist Rex, when his Mii costume was announced Sakurai had
stated he wanted him in the game but ran out of development time. With this
additional development time for these characters now it could very well be that
Rex finds his way into Smash Ultimate as a full playable character.
Sora
If we go by worldwide fan
appeal nobody has more than Sora as illustrated by the following graph
Going by number of comments on
the Nintendo post of more smash fighter Sora ranks top in EU and US regions and
second in Japan, no other character is in all three regions showing his demand.
I imagine this will be something the developers will look into. Not only that
but Kingdom Hearts has a knack for having at least one game in each series on a
console, the switch does not have one yet and I can see the next Kingdom Hearts
game coming to switch. By fan demand alone I think Sora is a very likely case
to be added to Smash.
Ryu Hayabusa
Between Dead or Alive and his
own game series Ninja Gaiden it’s clear for a lot of people to say that Ryu
Hayabusa is one of if not Temco’s most iconic characters. With the Smash DLC
largely looking at adding iconic characters of the video game industry Ryu fits
that bill, I’ve noticed a few rumours and ‘leaks’ which are to be taken with a
pinch of salt saying that Ryu will be the one to conclude the First Fighter
Pass. If we will is something only time will tell.
Part of the love for Smash Bros
that everyone has are the dream matches they can put out, I remember back in
2008 when people were losing their minds at the idea of Mario facing off
against Solid Snake and Smash 11 years on is still making dream matches nobody
thought possible happen. I imagine as long as a high demand is there they’ll
keep making characters, maybe they’ll get to 100 as I joked about earlier (if
they do could that at least upgrade the tournament to have a 64 Man one
please), whatever the number and whoever the characters I look forward to
seeing what iconic video game characters join the Smash Roster in the near
future.
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