Animal Crossing’s Villager Originally In Brawl

<p>Yesterday we reported on Sakurai&&num;8217&semi;s challenge to innovate the Super Smash Bros&period; series and his decision that a 3DS&sol;portable version was crucial in order to do just that&period; In his regular column for Famitsu however&comma; Sakurai has revealed even more information regarding the series&comma; revealing that the villager from Animal Crossing was originally in Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Nintendo Wii before being removed&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;A lot of people understood Mega Man&comma; but they kept asking me &&num;8216&semi;Why did you go for the Villager and the Wii Fit trainer&quest;&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Neither of them are fighting characters&comma; certainly&period; In fact&comma; we had previously removed the villager from Super Smash Bros Brawl in the planning stages because he wasn&&num;8217&semi;t suited for battle&period; <&sol;em><em>However&comma; with his net&comma; axe and plant pots&comma; The Villager definitely has all the tools for battle&period; Same goes for the Wii Fit Trainer&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sakurai then continued to speak about the reception of both the villager from Animal Crossing and the controversial inclusion of the trainer from Wii Fit&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;Something I think that people noticed in the movies and screenshots released is that the villager and trainer were not choices we made for the sake of cheap novelty&period; Each has their own unique attacks and battle strategies&comma; and they make the game more interesting&period; If I have an image of a character in my mind that dances around and jibes with what I want&comma; then that&&num;8217&semi;s the most important thing&period; On the other hand&comma; even if you have a character suited for a fighting game&comma; if you can&&num;8217&semi;t make him stick out from the pack and extract something unique from him&comma; then what can you do&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2013&sol;6&sol;26&sol;4465706&sol;masahiro-sakurai-discusses-mega-man-smash-bros-s-other-new-characters">Polygon<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;officialnintendomagazine&period;co&period;uk&sol;51601&sol;animal-crossings-villager-was-originally-in-smash-bros-brawl&sol;">Official Nintendo Magazine UK<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;3d4d1e62-cdc7-4869-b851-09ec1bf804b9" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;