Courtney:
Colors up tomorrow night. This is starting to become all too familiar, I know, but hopefully I’ll get my new life schedule on track soon!
Hey, have you guys heard that Nintendo is letting players vote on future fighters to join Smash Bros as DLC? Who did you vote for, or who will you? If you could have any character in there, no matter how unlikely, who would it be?
I’m going all-in for my favorite final boss from my childhood, King K. Rool (a.k.a. Kaptain K. Rool or Baron K. Roolenstein) from the Donkey Kong Country games. And if I could have anyone (besides him), it’d be either Rawk Hawk or Count Bleck (both from the Paper Mario series). Victor is a strong supporter of Bomberman. We also would both love to see Banjo & Kazooie, since the head of Xbox gave that his blessing even though Microsoft owns them now!
With the thought in mind that it is less a vote and more a suggestions box where they will pull the responses that asked for whoever Nintendo executives choose and then they will use the total and our reasons why to back themselves up (ie due to the suggestions of 70 whole people (out of a billon and their mother and their bots), we are adding Pink Gold Peach! One saying “I would like her to be an amiibo, and you could charge up the butt for it and we could do nothing to stop you.”) I asked for the protagonist of one of my childhood favorites, Tales of Symphonia. Lloyd Irving has a move set that would translate well to smash (demon fang! Demon fang! Demon fang!) As well as a fun specialty of airing opponents and pinning then mid-air. I’d like to use him to fight again. Sadly, the ToS HD remake was released on the PlayStation so… I won’t get my hopes up.
King K. Roll? Bowser needs a large lizard villain friend.
If Pink Gold Peach got in, I would NOT even be surprised. They should throw in Baby Rosalina too while they’re at it.
I love Tales of Symphonia! And Abyss too and… I need to play more Tales games. Y’know, I wonder if any Chrono Trigger characters could have a chance, since that game has been released on Nintendo systems twice now.
Fun fact, I originally envisioned this very comic about being a big lizard before I went with a more humanoid sorceror. Even though the world is more Zelda-like, Skarvs still feels way more like a Bowser in his constant kidnapping and defeats. One of the things I like about K. Rool is he sort of feels like Bowser used to be, a bumbling/comical villain but still threatening and evil before he’d been foiled SO many times that his existence feels like a joke, not to mention playing tennis, racing go-karts, and ice skating with his arch nemeses regularly. K. Rool has managed to kidnap main heroes repeatedly, and almost blew up an entire island. What’s Bowser done recently, turn into a cat?
Would breaking the curse be more along the lines of forcing it to cease to exist or persuading the gods to lift it (I assume that this curse, like the one on the Skärvas, is god-bestowed)? I mean, were I a god, I woudn’t like mortals mucking about with my curses.
It could theoretically be overriden (although this is extremely difficult and would require an absurd amount of magic) or the gods could be petitioned to remove it. Usually just praying a lot or even trying to be a better person doesn’t seem to work though. Curses have been removed in the past, but mostly they just seem to expire after a certain amount of time, while others are apparently eternal. It’s a complex theological question, as the Second found out when he spent the latter part of his life obsessively researching the problem. Well, the most clear answer seems to be this direct-portal-to-the-gods thing. It would be hard for them to ignore you that way.
For a second I thought this place was some kind of prison for another bad guy like Skarva. But if people are trying to release the people inside it then I suppose other wise…
Will there be a encyclopedia page about this castle or will we just learn more about it as the story progresses?
Who’s holding WHO against their will now?
It IS sort of a prison, but not for him. For his minions… and their descendants. You’ll learn more about this castle and curse throughout the chapter!
What is their curse? Will we find out soon? Why not just stay quiet and let them go ahead to do exactly what you said you could have done, Veronika? Pronouns!
I would love to see Isaac or Felix from Golden Sun in Smash, but seeing as it likely will never happen… T_T
You’ll find out quite soon! And yeah it’s almost like Veronika actually likes them!
They’re her only chance to see Blank, who she secretly loves but pretends not to due to her parents’ disapproval. Alternatively, she secretly loves Derk. Or Skarva. Or Floyd, who will be unemployed if Skarva gets trapped. Limitless possibilities!
Also, it is Earth day! Then spend every day of the year like you would on Earth day! Rejoice!
I fell kinda bad for Skarva. He’s such a minor threat.
It’d be great if Bomberman got into Smash. Also Rayman. Have all the -mans. Jumpman, Pac-Man, Megaman, Bomberman, Rayman…
And a Tales character, considering Namco helped make Smash 4.