since sega, capcom, and konami all have 3 characters, I could see another namco character getting in like a heihachi or some sort of digimon
same goes for another square enix character, i could definitely see a dragon quest stage popping up
there are very few western developed characters on the list (what like k. rool and dark samus?) so i kind of doubt they’d add more but lara croft is notable enough and square enix owned enough to maybe make it in
maybe an ARMS character would make it in
i really do think some kind of shonen jump character is also possible
after joker though, it feels like the normal predictive moves don’t apply
anyway they’re obviously going to have my dream lineup of
that one sexy master chief girl they made for dead or alive
The only one I might put money on is Ryu Hayabusa. Koei Tecmo have been working with Nintendo even recently with the Zelda and FE Warriors and Fatal Frame. Also a strong history on the NES and even in an upcoming game of DoA6. Really hope he will be mainly based on his NES iteration even if the modern version will be an alt-costume.
Considering how awkward Squennix seem to be about Cloud’s inclusion (the only one without English VA, only 2 music tracks that are both direct rips, not a single Spirit from all of Final Fantasy) I don’t find it likely they’ll play any more ball. Not even with Geno.
I really want and still have the smallest hope for Banjo-Kazooie.
I want Banjo-Kazooie to be an echo fighter of Duck Hunt, and I want them to just reskin the dog so Banjo is shaped like an actual idiot bear just grunting along on all four legs.
I’m still surprised ARMS didn’t get a fighter. I could see them adding Min Min as DLC, she seems to be a standout character.
People have done a lot of speculating about Porky as a DLC character and that would be pretty cool, but I want to play as Giygas! Let me be a roiling, shifting personification of chaos just phase-shifting around the map. I think they could make it work.
Goku really seems like the most obvious “dream choice” considering the Bandai/Namco connection and the fighting game being on Switch, but i don’t remember if Sakurai explicitly said no to that or not
Tetrimino seems like an obvious “left field” choice as well (my preferred would be T block)
an Oregon Trail stage where the hazard is that your down b randomly gets replaced with wario’s fart. be careful though since you might accidentally launch yourself off the top of the stage.
pls sakurai, this is a very reasonable and mature request stop asking me why im in your house
They’ll throw us a curveball and give us a character from some as yet unannounced game
The FF and DQ ones might be a bit of a stretch because it seems like Square Enix are strangely stingy about letting Nintendo use their properties. Only 2 FF songs, one stage, seemingly no spirits etc