Byleth Joins Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

<p>A new fighter reveal for <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tekken-7-director-expresses-frustration-against-smash-bros-spam&sol;">Smash Bros&period; Ultimate<&sol;a> was announced a couple of days ago&comma; and today we finally got a new character&period; And it turned out to be yet another <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tokyo-mirage-sessions-fe-encore-introduces-she-is-song-preview&sol;">Fire Emblem<&sol;a> character&period; This time Byleth from the recently released Fire Emblem&colon; Three Houses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aside from the fact Byleth sounds like an anagram for &&num;8220&semi;Blethy&&num;8221&semi; &lpar;missed opportunity for a female name there&rpar;&comma; the fighter itself seems fine enough&period; Most of the attacks seem to be focused on range&comma; with Byleth being able to hit most enemies from a distance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though it seems the issue isn&&num;8217&semi;t so much the character itself&period; But rather the fact that Nintendo has decided to launch yet another Fire Emblem character for Smash when they have such a vast universe of characters to pick from&period; Why not any of the other oddly missing characters from the roster&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As for the Devil May Cry announcement that Capcom <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tsr-bagocast-5-ft-theaeonanima-pokemon-direct-smash-and-more&sol;">teased people with during the beginning of the month<&sol;a>&quest; Well&comma; it turns out it was just an announcement regarding <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;DevilMayCry&sol;status&sol;1217660052351250433&quest;s&equals;20">Free Style switching for the Nintendo Switch version<&sol;a> of Devil May Cry 3&period; So&comma; no&period; Dante is not going to be part of the Smash Bros&period; roster &lpar;At least not yet&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-151373 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;01&sol;16110439&sol;Byleth-Smash-2-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Byleth Genders" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A Wasted Opportunity<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>It just seems like such a wasted opportunity and it seems most of the internet agrees&period; The <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;2aqVlLlKkcg" rel&equals;"noopener">reveal video<&sol;a> has gathered 21&comma;000 dislikes on YouTube &lpar;at the time of writing&rpar;&period; And while the amount of likes is still larger around 37&comma;000 that is still a fair amount of people who are disappointed in Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s choice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is not the first time Nintendo has been tone-deaf regarding what their player base wants&period; Their reveal of the Metroid spinoff title <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;e3-2015-metroids-getting-a-co-op-game-on-3ds-next-year&sol;">Federation Force<&sol;a> still holds rather fresh in memory as one of the biggest disappointments in recent memory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not to mention&comma; their recent <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tokyo-mirage-sessions-fe-encore-censorship&sol;">Tokyo Mirage Sessions scandal<&sol;a> doesn&&num;8217&semi;t make them look any better&period; It seems every time they build something up&comma; there is a rather big chance it&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;pokemon-expansion-pass-is-this-the-future-of-pokemon&sol;">not going to please everyone<&sol;a>&&num;8230&semi; Or most people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though despite the disappointing reveal&comma; there is no doubt that Super Smash Bros&period; Ultimate is still a popular game&period; And a huge system seller for Nintendo who knows their player base keeps growing&period; And no doubt Byleth is going to pull in its share of fans as well&period; But perhaps it is time to let old forgotten characters shine as well&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;