Characters confirmed to return in SSB4

Anser said:
Jim McGinn said:
In Smash they represent their respective series, so they're not really classed as Mario characters.
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Oh, I thought we were talking about them in general. Then yes, all Mario characters have already returned (and possibly, all Donkey Kong characters too).
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I LOVED the fake-out in the Super Smash Bros. Direct with Zero Suit Samus! See, THIS is what I meant by Sakurai's trolling nature, he loves to mess with us. Anyway, it's interesting that they wanted to "power [Zero Suit Samus] up" this time around, even though she was technically "higher tier" in Brawl, not to mention the whole point of her character was that she was weak attack-wise by a very fast character. Regardless, those jet boots are cool (no, I don't think it's sexist that they gave Samus high heels, especially since they actually IMPROVE her combat style, so shut up!), plus they got ride of that stupid tether recovery, so I'm glad!

I like Zelda's new down special move, that Phantom Slash looks dang useful, and awesome to boot! Oh, and I guess Sheik is a seperate character now... and they replaced her Chain move it seems. I guess I'm fine with that, the Chain move didn't have that much practical use anyway. the "Bouncing Fish" reminds me of the Flip Jump move Zero Suit Samus had in Brawl.

And FINALLY Yoshi shows up! I guess they were saving him for this. Sakurai said they were working on improving his look, which is why they held off his reveal until now, and I guess I can buy that. The dedication made to actually making the characters LOOK like the games they're from is really great this time around! And at last the original 8 have all been confirmed!

Seeing Charizard all by himself is pretty cool, though I guess this means no Squirtle or Ivysaur, which is a shame... Still, Charizard is pretty badass on his own, and it's cool to finally see him playable on his own.
 
Something that I love about this game is that characters like Bowser and Yoshi actually look like how they do in there games. Brawl made these two, as well as all the other characters, have a realistic look to them and a washed out color palette. This game is sticking true to how these characters look in their games.
 
Nick Fury said:
Something that I love about this game is that characters like Bowser and Yoshi actually look like how they do in there games. Brawl made these two, as well as all the other characters, have a realistic look to them and a washed out color palette. This game is sticking true to how these characters look in their games.
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Yeah, that's something I really appreciate about these new games as well, and it's not just with Bowser and Yoshi. Mario and Luigi's outfits are also very similar to how they look in recent games. They're still detailed, but in a more subdued way compared to the previous Super Smash Bros. games. There's also the fact that Luigi uses his freaking Poltergust and likely won't have that stupid trippy "Negative Zone" move.
 
I think one of my favorite things is how they actually gave Dedede facial expressions instead of just a constant soul-staring look, especially when doing his hammer. Definitely another reason why I'm going to continue having Dedede as one of my mains.
 
Ira Gamagoori said:
I think one of my favorite things is how they actually gave Dedede facial expressions instead of just a constant soul-staring look, especially when doing his hammer. Definitely another reason why I'm going to continue having Dedede as one of my mains.
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King Dedede was bound to continue to be my main no matter what, but the fact that he's a lot less (for lack of better terminology) "dead-faced" then before really makes me happy. Hell, the same could be said for all the characters. I thank Miyamoto (aka God) that Mario's no longer "so super serious" like he was in the previous game. Hell, when he used that taunt based on his death animation from Donkey Kong, and he still continued to use that "super-cereal" face of his while he was doing it... well, it kind of broke the mood for me.

Almost ALL the characters have gained more expressions, including Pikachu who, from what I can tell, almost always had one face whenever he fought in Brawl.
 
Zae Eildus said:
yeah they're pretty excessive.

Although ive seen worse.
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my problem with the heels is that the character designers for the zero suit specifically didn't want the outfit to have high heels.
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Crocodile Dippy said:
Zae Eildus said:
yeah they're pretty excessive.

Although ive seen worse.
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my problem with the heels is that the character designers for the zero suit specifically didn't want the outfit to have high heels.
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Again, just another reason why I hate Metroid: Other M... and by that I mean, she wore high heels in that: