GalacticPetey said:
You say Sakurai is a troll. Sakurai also said he doesn't like building up false hype. There's a difference between playful teasing and what had happened. Every other character, Chrom, Skull Kid, Waluigi, Takamaru, he explicitly stated they were deconfirmed. They even corrected IGN when they originally posted that Chrom was playable. But Ridley? Not a peep.
My issue isn't that Ridley is not in, it's the way Sakurai treated the whole thing. Had Ridley been shown as a hazard along with Pyrosphere back in August 2013, then I would have gotten over it.
Are you kidding me?
Sakurai heavily hinted at Ridley not being playable by showing Ridley's shadow. Maybe his message didn't get through clearly, but I don't think everyone should be saying that what he did was downright disgusting or one of the meanest things ever.
The reason why you all see it that way is because you OVERANALYSIZED this crap. I could give have given you tons of reasons on why Mewtwo would have came back even though he didn't, all being speculation. Apparently everyone like you had "strong reasoning" for why Ridley was basically going to happen this time around, and these trophy theories from the Smash direct and the Ridley shadow being actually Meta Ridley.
In reality, he showed off Pyrosphere in August of 2013, and mentioned there would be a boss that visits once in awhile, and (iirc), Ridley was the boss at this place in Other M. Then during the Smash Direct in April of this year, he showed Ridley's shadow, which yes left speculation but also was a subtle message saying "Ridley is not in". Other than that, he did not state anything else.
You guys made it so that you would build up with all these speculations and "theories" and had basically all the proof that Ridley was in and got yourself way too hyped. Now you guys are all overreacting about the roster and at Sakurai who has worked his damn ass off on this game for the past 3 years even though he is suffering from injuries when he works too hard. Sorry he didn't please you by adding Ridley in.
Ridley is not the only character that was/has been confirmed/deconfirmed. We still don't know what Isaac's status is if he is still an assist trophy or not. We don't know if Mewtwo will be in the game at all, K. Rool was theorized by fans and the Kremlings seemed to support his chances more than before, Ghirahim was long time speculated without really any proof until he was deconfirmed. Every time he deconfirms someone - Skull Kid, Ashley, Ghirahim, Shadow, Dillon - people get all flamed up over it saying that they should have been a character and stuff.
Do you think that if he outright deconfirmed Ridley that it would go so smoothly?