Spazzy_D
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Cloud was a pretty popular choice in Japan,I... want to agree immediately, but some part of me kinda feels like all bets are off at this point.
Ryu was an iconic character from a franchise birthed on the SNES in which he at least appeared in many games that were on the SNES. He made sense.
There's really no justification for Cloud being in this game other than "he's popular". He wasn't a main character of a FF game that was on a Nintendo console, and while FF was birthed on the NES, it's basically a different game with every sequel. It's not like Cloud is even a character that's from the same universe as any of the FF games on the S/NES.
Also, his moves look extremely similar to those of Ike/Shulk so I can't help but feel like there's going to be some overlap (though we'll ultimately have to wait and see how he plays).
Ergo, I kinda feel like we've arrived at a point when Nintendo isn't above trying to draw new players onto their consoles nearly any way they can. I can't ENTIRELY blame them, either...
Cloud will bring an audience to the Wii U/3DS that wouldn't have otherwise bought the game/console. That's undeniable.
Now, how FAR is Nintendo willing to push that advertising advantage into other areas? I have no idea, but I'm not counting anything out at this point. Master Chief, for example, sounds ridiculous to us, but it would no doubt convince a whole pile of Halo players to buy a Wii U and getting the console into the person's home is really most of the battle (buying games for it is much easier to justify than the initial purchase of the console).
And then that raises the question of non-VG characters. Many people have joked about Goku, but yeah, the DBZ fanbase is HUGE. Or what about Batman or Captain America? Again, it sounds insane to us, but I'm sure the Nintendo execs have sat down and discussed the pros and cons of that kind of crossover.
Naturally, it would piss off many of the existing fans, but in the end, what are we going to do? Sell our Wii Us and never play SSB4 again? We already own the game and the console. The odds are that we'll do the same thing we've always done: gripe about it for a while, then get used to it and buy whatever DLC characters they put in the game anyway (that's been the pattern and I'm sure Nintendo knows it).
Look at it another way: When Ryu was revealed, he had tons of supporters here. How many people here are actually genuinely excited about Cloud? I've not seen many, which confirms my suspicions: Cloud wasn't added to the game for US...
I think this reaction video says it all:
There's no excitement here. Only confusion.
I want to be wrong about this whole thing, as I'd much rather see obscure characters make it into the game instead of more popular 3rd party characters from other consoles, but I'm just not ruling it out at this point. Nintendo is all about the money and this would be a great way to bring in more of it...
http://www.sourcegaming.info/2015/09/13/japantopdlcpt2/
and he is SUPER popular in the casual Smash scene. There are more Brawl mods for Cloud then almost any other character. The speculation and hardcore Smash scenes are a very small part of the over all Smash community. He's a ballot character.