domingo, 13 de marzo de 2016

Micaiah & the Character Selection in Brawl (from the original Twitter's Version)

Hi Dawn Brigade! After I know about the Sakurai's Criteria about how he selected characters in Super Smash Bros Brawl (the selection was finished in late-2005). I started thinking about how this theorically affect Micaiah's Chances.


Reference link: http://www.sourcegaming.info/2015/07/11/gdc-2008-translation/
The criteria for choosing a character is as follows:

The character must have a personality in their game.

She is passionate and visionary, is also a good-hearted girl, will do anything to help their people and achieve what she proposes.

It's important to have something a character can do.

This is simple. Micaiah have access to various spells (their animations for both movements and the magic itself from her game and other Fire Emblems) and Staffs.

Development issues.

Micaiah doesn't need transformations or other overly complex mechanics (like the Ice Climbers's Gimmick) to be true to her character in Smash Bros.

Franchises distribution taken into consideration

Of the four points this is the most problematic. Fire Emblem has two Veteran Character (Marth, Ike), a Normal Newcomer (Robin), a Veteran DLC (Roy), and Newcomer DLC (Corrin) and a filler (Lucina). 
This makes a total of five characters (and a filler would not consider his own character by the negligible development time used in Lucina).

Fire Emblem is the third most represented franchise in Smash Bros Character-wise.

However, I don't know the latter point continue to implement since Smash Bros. Wii U / 3DS introduced two new characters Mario considerably extending the limits for original characters... Or at least no completely if the character is original enough (Sakurai himself would be opposed to put Corrin in Smash 4 if she/he doesn't have unique traits like happen before with Chrom

Moreover, while Fire Emblem sales haven't Mario or Pokemon level is a franchise full of characters with very different styles and personalities of each other, and incredible world with a lot of possibles ideas, and I think that even with all the representation problems Micaiah is a good choice... in fact, the best choice between everything Fire Emblem has to offer.
Thank for your attention.

- Troykv (The Dawn's Historian and Micaiah4Smash Main Admin)

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