Mario Tennis Aces

Spike is a very strange choice. It's not like he's a common or iconic enemy like Koopa Troopa or even Chain Chomp. He's very rare, only showing in a few games and in a few levels in those games.

Perhaps Spike has a fan following in Japan that we don't know about. Also, do you think that they listen to Japanese Mario fans before they listen to Western ones when it comes to characters?
 
or can we just accept that Nintendo's developing houses hardly know what people want to see and just pull things for the sake of pulling things in the games?
 
I suppose Spike is a strange choice and one that's not being clamoured by most of us Mario fans, but I don't mind some new faces every now and then. I mean, Chain Chomp is a very nice surprise because you never expect Chain Chomp as a playable character.

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winstein said:
I mean, Chain Chomp is a very nice surprise because you never expect Chain Chomp as a playable character.

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Chain Chomp is a dog-thing that holds a racket in its mouth and doesn't look like it can play tennis. Spike is just some green fish-lipped thing with arms and legs. I don't know why the developers like it, but hey, it's used a fair bit in games.
 
I'm sure that they're putting Spike in here because he was in Mario Party 10. He made enough sense there since they often have random enemies playable in the later Mario Partys as one-offs, but having him show up again here is a weird choice since he wasn't especially popular in MP10 afaik.
 
I like Spike.
 
I like thwomps.