Ah welcome back for day 2 of our interview. As you may notice
lucarioIkefan99 is now longer with us. I'm afraid he was just too weak in our testing for balance among fighters. Plus, I realized we've got a lot of Fire Emblem
townie characters already and I'd like to try and fit in Baby Mario as a fighter in this game and get some more Mushroom Kingdom characters represented.
But don't feel too bad about Ike. I understand he's already found a great way to make money on the internet
I've decided to give Roy from Fire Emblem another chance though. But I cut Lucario from the game. Which is no big deal. No uses him anyways as there are better fighter options and I'll release Mewtwo making him irrelevant.
Some people wonder how I choose characters for each Smash game. One person hypothesized that it might be by this method...
.. and they were right! I find that gets the best results. I'm even thinking of making a game of that for the NWR forums but maybe with words instead of music and chairs.
But I've gotten myself distracted again. Let me show you another returning stage. I know some players want new stages but I like to keep reusing older ones in the hopes that they will work this time or finally become popular with the gaming public. Or in the case of this one, Yoshi's Island, I chose it because I know that somewhere out there is a gamer by the username Insanolord who doesn't like Super Mario World very much so I like to keep using this stage instead of making one for Super Mario Bros. 3. I've even made a Mushroom Kingdom and Mushroom Kingdom II stage but skipped 3 in Melee just to further rub it into him.
Doesn't it look great?
But what I truly love about this stage is the music. Especially the Melee version of Yoshi's Island.
I'm just going to hoedown all day to this song. You start to get tired of it after the first hour then really rage by hour 2 but by hours 3 - 35 you've gone mad and this song is your world. I love it. 36 hours straight is too much so I'll turn it off by then.
Why don't you grab a controller and try a couple matches? I'll take Dr. Mario. Ah man. I love Dr. Mario. Did I tell you about the internet's reaction when I announced Dr. Mario would return? Classic. I slept like a baby that night. I think I taught "the fans" a lesson.
What a minute? Where is
Dr. lolmonade Mario? He's missing from the game? The game just keeps saying player 14 defeated when I click on where his icon should be? Which of you code monkeys has messed up? Great. Now I'm going to have to add Blood Falcon to this game just to keep the roster number up. Oh well. It's not like he was a good
doctor anyways. He couldn't even protect himself from any
hits from the home run bat with his "doctor's sheet." I guess I'll just be Bowser Jr. for now instead.