Freaky Mutant Man

http://smashboards.com/threads/site-smashbros-com-x.353594/ Something interesting that came up; searching for certain character names on smashbros.com brings up some odd results. The thread has more info, and we're still currently digging into this, but among the names that get results are; Shulk, Palutena, Ridley, Ness, Venusaur, Snake, Konami, Mewtwo, Dixie, and, uh, Bayonetta. There's plenty of reason to suspect this might be a whole lot of nothing, or at least little to do with new, unconfirmed characters, but I feel it's worth pointing out nonetheless.

Really, if Ganondorf gets a moveset change, I'd like to see him be something like a much more brutish, in-your-face version of Zelda. Not like a clone, mind, but in concept. Beefy, punchy warlock, basically. He could keep the Warlock Punch (because why shouldn't he have the strongest punch?), but the rest of his attacks could be much more magical in nature.

I'm wondering if there might be some kind of timelock planned for some of the characters. As in, some characters might not be unlockable in the 3DS version until the Wii U version comes out. This is pure conjecture, of course, but I do feel like it's in the realm of plausibility, though admittedly less plausible than the whole roster being available at 3DS launch. It'd be kinda like how Event Pokemon are hidden away in the game files, mostly or completely unhinted at during normal gameplay and completely inaccessible, lying dormant until Nintendo decides to reveal them and give them the traditional marketing push with major anime tie-ins and a limited-time event. With Smash Bros., something similar could be done fairly simply - allow 3DS players to play around with the stuff that isn't completely locked away for a few months (which would probably be the vast majority of content, so suspicions aren't raised by a glaring lack of characters or stages, also to lessen any potential feelings of being ripped off when it is revealed), then just when people are starting to get comfortable with the apparent final roster, boom; new reveal trailer outta nowhere! Of course, with each and every one of those Event Pokemon, they were uncovered and leaked to the public by hackers well before Nintendo got around to the official reveal. Given that Smash Bros. is such a popular series and how thoroughly dissected Brawl is (not to mention just how popular the modding scene is for it, such that a major Brawl mod (Project M) is gaining competitive traction to rival and possibly exceed the base game), I'd be willing to bet that any time-locked characters would be uncovered and thoroughly examined, if not before the official reveal, definitely before the Wii U release. They might be able to slip under the radar for a little while, assuming the people who will inevitably be trying to poke around in the files from day 1 fail to crack into it, but once anybody catches a whiff of content being locked away (even if they're only suspecting bog-standard cut content ala the remnants of the cut Melee characters in Brawl) and especially once Nintendo even so much as gives a wink in its general direction, efforts would be ramped up enough to guarantee complete leakage. Hell, all it would take is someone breaking in far enough to look at file names and then poking around the character files to see something like this: MARIO.mdl MARIO.snd MARIO.chr LINK.mdl LINK.snd LINK.chr GENO.mdl GENO.snd GENO.mdl Where, of course, Geno is our example time-locked character that hadn't so much as been hinted at prior and is clearly not unlockable in any way. While on its own, this could merely indicate a character cut during development who has remnants leftover in the release copy, which is far from uncommon and was the case for all the Melee characters cut from Brawl, it would only take somebody to hack in a way to access Geno from the character select (which would be relatively easy in the case of a character already set up to be rendered playable only after the game's been out for awhile) for the cat to be let out of the bag completely. Cue probably a good dose of drama as people either guess him to be simply time-locked or fear the worst and flip out about potential on-disk DLC. ...Okay, I was going to argue why the timelock idea seemed plausible, but in the process of writing out the post I kinda sorta talked myself into not quite buying it any more. It's not really less likely than I thought it was before, but I'm finding it more difficult to justify Nintendo either completely overlooking or choosing to do it anyway with the knowledge that the game would get broken open within months no matter what they did. I imagine the arguments for it are probably there, I'm just struggling to find them myself after that (also I'm kinda tired right now). Anybody else have something to chime in here?

Keep in mind that Bertin's post about that was made while drunk and likely upset, and that he simply said that Uyama would "think twice" (corrected for horrific misspellings) before allowing him to run. No other statement has been made on the matter (to my knowledge) and it's likely Uyama told Bertin that while freshly upset himself (though this is admittedly conjecture on my part). I find it unlikely any banning has actually occurred, and if it has, I wouldn't count on it lasting to the next marathon (though I am also admittedly unfamiliar with how Uyama operates behind the scenes). Anyway, the Blazing Sword was very good, definitely worked as a redemption run of sorts for Sacred Stones. Hopefully enough attention is given to it to factor into future decisions on the series's presence in the marathon.

Well, I did read a number of the LPs of the other games on the LP Archive. I probably should try some of them myself sometime, but other games have been grabbing my attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYKu_lkY_4 That is what's up with it. Alternatively, http://www.kongregate.com/games/ericthecooldude/supra-mayro-kratt if you wish to experience it yourself. I'm pretty sure part of it was just young incompetence on my part. Most of it, probably.

Wait, I'm a little confused here. How does the next character revealed being from Pokemon determine whether or not it's likely to be true? Is the "next character will be from Pokemon" thing also part of the rumor? Also, where did you find this?

And now I have arrived after months of quiet observation. Despair, forest, for I am here to post. Anyway, while I tried playing FE7 back in the day, I never even got to Eliwood's story because I was apparently incapable of keeping Dorcas alive in his recruitment mission (it was only years later that I learned that characters killed in Lyn's story come back, and at that point I couldn't find the game). I got into Advance Wars with Dual Strike, but I didn't try any of the other Fire Emblem games. I got Awakening after my brother got it, and I had a grand old time with that. Now here I am. Not entirely sure what else to say.