#Ssbwiki palette swap series#

It's a powerful marketing tool in my opinion and hopefully Ultimate does what 'For' (sort of) did for Mega Man and helps resurrect Banjo when he lands later this year.ДЇire Emblem and Ice Climber are the only series which I had no clue about their existence before their Smash appearance, and while I eventually got into the former when Awakening came out, Ice Climber has ages like shit and it's lucky Nana & Popo make for an endearing Smash tag-team fighter.Дitto on Melee's trophies being super influential. Brawl got me to check out Metal Gear and Pikmin, 'For' pushed me to track down and play the original Xenoblade proper and invest more time in Animal Crossing, its DLC pushed me to finally play Final Fantasy VII after writing it off for years after seeing Advent Children (huge mistake) and Ultimate got me to marathon Castlevania (had really only played the original few beforehand) and Dragon Quest (completely new to it but already up to 7). With 64 I hadn't played Metroid and Earthbound but was aware of what they were thanks to Nintendo Power, but after Melee I got into both big time. Smash has introduced me to a ton, even if I knew they existed beforehand. The quality of Melee's trophies goes underappreciated I think, between all the unique models they made and the writing involved, the concept was never done as well again. The Brawl trophies weren't quite as engaging, and the Smash 4 ones barely had any actual information in favor of bizarre jokes. I used to spend ages looking through them. The 'Old Hylian proverb' invented for the Like-Like trophy to replace the Japanese proverb it was actually named for has stuck with me all these years for being such a perfect example of the unexpected little flourishes they had. It created a sense of rich history around the things they were writing about. They used so many descriptive and evocative words and phrasings. The writing for those things back in Melee was seriously good, in retrospect. Now I've almost entirely fallen out of Pokemon, but Melee lead me to a lifelong interest in video games.ДЄnd I think it was the trophies that really did it. I was pretty much only aware of other games through ads. I only had a GameCube to begin with because I had gotten into Pokemon since it was a fad at school, and my parents knew Pokemon was on it. I bought Melee as a kid because I wanted to know why Pikachu and Mario were on the cover of this game together. And finally with Ultimate's release I dipped into Splatoon 2 and a handful of the Persona titles, though not 5 itself because of the upcoming Royal release.Дo you suppose Ultimate will get people to check out the world of Banjo-Kazooie for the first time? That said I'm not invested in Dragon Quest any more than I was before, which is to say not really. Melee didn't pushed me towards anything in particular (unless you count the Mother series around 2006), but after Brawl came out I bought Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, F-Zero GX, Metal Gear Solid 2, and the entire Metroid Prime Trilogy. I don't think this was my gateway to Donkey Kong himself since I was aware of the character, had played the original DKC, and was interested in DK64 because of it's similarities to Banjo-Kazooie more than anything else. I think the original introduced me to Kirby and Zelda, since I rented Kirby 64 shortly afterwards and bought Ocarina of Time alongside DK64. Did Smash Bros serve as an introduction to any of the series featured in it? By that, I mean is there any series that you immediately checked out because of Smash? I've been wondering something since the DLC announcements at E3.