Gamers play Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3Ds at the annual E3 video game extravaganza in Los Angeles, California on June 10, 2014. (Photo : FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Nintendo has officially revealed the last of Super Smash Bros. 5 character DLCs and as the game maker has indicated, Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII will be joined by Bayonetta and Corrin, the latter a hero that will be introduced with the Fire Emblem Fates. No Shovel Knight, King K. Rool or other popular characters that fans have likely clamored via the online Fighter Ballot.
Cloud from day one that he was revealed as making the jump to the Super Smash universe has been predicted to become a smashing success as a brawler. The fighter, after all, is legend produced by hugely popular Final Fantasy franchise. Getting into the Cloud Strife character should be dreams come true for majority of Smashers.
And the same applies to Bayonetta, which Nintendo touted as a wicked addition to the game title. Bayonetta coming to Super Smash, according to The Verge, will mean players will get a taste of "both her original and Bayonetta 2 costumes, in addition to a special red-hued Jeanne color variant." The Bayonetta DLC will become available February 2016 and like Cloud Strife the character promises to be a tough brawler, which is especially for Smashers familiar with her exploits.
But not in the case of Corrin, described by Tech Times as "a character nobody asked for." Not that Corrin turning up to brawl with Smashers would prove mediocre but the last fighter choice made by Nintendo seems out of character and a misplaced decision.
For one, Corrin as a Smasher would bring the total of Fire Emblem playable character to Super Smash at six, which the Tech Times report viewed as a glaring imbalance when considering that other iconic Nintendo characters like Pokémon and The Legend of Zelda have less than six. Only Mario surpassed the total number of Fire Emblem crew.
Tech Times could only surmise on its report that Corrin as a Super Smash brawler is a Nintendo business decision, precisely to drum up interest on the Fire Emblem Fates game title that will come out at around the same time that Corrin will become a Smasher. If the agenda is not to sell the upcoming game, it would have been the likes of King K. Rool, Waluig, Zero, Knuckles, Snake and Ice Climbers, the report suggested.
And the worst part of the impending disappointment, this latest batch of Super Smash DLC characters will be the last, which says that Smashers will have to make do with the roster for an extended period of time. The next change will only come with release date of Nintendo's follow up to the Super Smash Bros. 4, which means a number of years to wait.
