To be honest, pretty much none of the the announcements for new characters in this Smash have been as exciting as 4. Don't really care about Ridley because he was more of a meme (both in the "lol" sense and the literal sense of the word) than something I actually cared about. I kind of get a sense that people were arguing over Ridley for so long that they ended up caring more about the idea of if he could even be added then him even being in the game. King K. Rool ... meh ... never played the original DKC games. Isabelle is just ... lol. I mean, why are so many of the announcements echo fighters anyways? Seems kind of odd ... Chrom, Ken, Dark Samus, Isabelle ....
Am I disappointed? Not in the slightest. While I would have loved having a ton of new characters, there were a few things I wished for in Smash Ultimate. As far back as March, I was having heated debates about why Smash should no longer need to cut characters. It got to the point where my stance just changed to "all characters should come back". I stuck to that, and what do you know - all characters ended up coming back. I'm a regular fortune teller. But no, in all seriousness, that was something I had been wanting since shortly after the reveal and we got it. Plus - Dark Samus was actually one of the main 5 characters I wanted (Crash Bandicoot, Rayman, Skull Kid, Banjo Kazooie, Dark Samus).
By the way, funny how there's so many Playstation characters in Smash (yeah yeah Street Fighter started on Nintendo but SFV is exclusive!)
As for the Piranha Plant, not even lying when I say it's probably the best new addition ... both incredibly funny and unique, but also something I wasn't expecting and loved the moment I saw it.
