The_vagabond7 said:
I blame the hardcore. Fox, and falco were two of the highest tier characters in the game, and along with Marth just about all major tourney matches were pretty much falco and marth with the occasional Fox. I'm guessing wolf was thrown in for yet another fox option, a slightly slower more powerful fox.
I say be thankful there aren't five versions of Final Destination. |
FightingGameGuy said:
The_vagabond7 said:
I personally believe that the 3rd fox clone really is for the hardcore smashers. If he is like a slight variation on fox, he probably will be mained alot by the tournament crowd, much like falco was in melee, as a slight alternate to fox. Here's looking forward to countless youtube videos of marth vs wolf on Final Destination. |
You might be right, but I hope not. Hardcore smashers play a lot of fox/falco simply because they're incredibly good (at a high level) not because they like them as characters. Give any character a 1 frame move, great a-moves, incredible speed (hard to control is not a downside when you're willing to put in hours of practice) and you have character hardcore smashers will want to use ... it didn't havehave to be a fox-clone : (. That being said I think Wolf was probably included to give the Star Fox franchise a villain representative matching the composition all the other highly represented franchises | |
Again, I think a large potential flaw your logic is that the hardcore will always primarily main the best characters -- whoever they may be. Does Sakurai really intend for the space animals to be better than all the other characters? I at least hope not (though maybe he intends them as "advanced characters" or some BS like that).
