Masahiro Sakurai doesn’t sound too big on bringing fighting game characters into the Super Smash Bros. series.
Sakurai explained to GamesTM this month:
“The biggest feature we look at in Smash Bros. is, ‘What does this character bring to Smash Bros. that other characters don’t?’ If you look at… someone from a fighting game already, and people like fighting with this character, from my point of view, it’s like ‘this guy does what this guy already does. He fills the role that this character already has. So while you may like this character and he’s interesting, that doesn’t really merge well, here.”
Only one new third-party character has been confirmed for the new Smash Bros. game: Mega Man. Based on Sakurai’s comments, fighters from well-known franchises like Street Fighter, Tekken, and Soulcalibur are unlikely to be represented.
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The Mushibugyo 3DS site is now open for business. You can find it here. Visitors can watch the game’s first trailer, or check out a Japanese commercial.
According to the latest Media Create data, Wii U has reached the one million units sold mark in Japan. The system’s total now stands at roughly 1,005,000 units. We don’t have the exact date for the milestone, but we know that it took place sometime between July 15 and July 21.
This week’s Famitsu confirms that all songs from the original Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai will return for Project Mirai 2. Additionally, five brand new songs have been confirmed in the magazine. Adolescence, Cendrillon, Skeleton Orchestra and Lilia, and The Celestial Fox will be included in the 3DS game.
Siliconera recently chatted with Ace Attorney series producer Motohide Eshiro and Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies scenario director Takeshi Yamazaki. You can find the full thing here, but there are a couple of points that stand out.
First, there’s a vague hint from Yamazaki that Dual Destinies could be the start of its own series. The first three Phoenix Wright games kind of stand together as their own trilogy, and Capcom could be thinking of doing something similar starting with Dual Destinies.
“It takes place a year after the previous game [Apollo Justice], so it’s a continuation of that story, so in a way you can think of it as a direct link to that one, as part of a new series, so to speak.”
