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Simon Belmont was not surprising, but boy am I stoked. Richter was surprising and that was a pretty cool addition (he has a fucking awesome theme). I love that like Mega Man, they got the look of Simon exactly right - his overall look and his animations look exactly faithful to Simon circa 1987-1991 and I couldn't be happier about that. They got his walk cycle right! That was like, the most important thing.

Surprised by King K Rool. I never really thought he was quite popular enough or really 'fit' but I guess they proved me wrong on that one. I love the DKC games and just don't really care about the guy that much, but hey, people seem to love him so that's cool. He's a reasonably unique addition to the cast. I've always been confused about whether or not King K Rool is supposed to be the same guy as the ones from DKC2 and DKC3 but including moves from those games makes sense. At the very least, even if I'm not personally excited for the guy it's cool that they've got their finger on the pulse of what the fans want.

Chrom is whatever. Again, I like FE:A and I just don't care about him nearly as much as Lucina or Robin so I find his inclusion strange but whatever. The FE fanbase is a hell of a thing.

Dark Samus is weird. Was she actually a highly requested character? I feel like I've seen Dark Samus talked about as a potential contest character more frequently than as a Smash entrant. Doesn't seem like an important or interesting enough character to warrant inclusion buuuuut ok I guess, sure!

I feel like Alucard, Zero, and Knuckles are all wasted opportunities as AT's but what're you gonna do, I know they can't include every character as playable.

Krystal got enough fan support to be an AT I guess but yeah I don't think she was ever player character material. Star Fox Adventures is such a weird, obscure footnote that it's sort of bizarre to see. Ashley deconfirmed too, never really saw what people saw in her as a potential fighter.

I don't think I've seen anyone mention how fucking hilarious the Kapp'n AT is. Him driving a horrified Mario off the screen to the tune of Mega Man X's opening stage theme is lowkey the funniest moment of the entire thing.

Second-funniest lowkey moment is when the number of music tracks stops at 480 briefly before suddenly going up to 800. They are having way too much fun with this.

Love the long list of Castlevania tracks. Hell yeah for Wicked Child and Awake. No Dance of Pales (what? this track is fucking awesome, I could fight to it) or An Empty Tome (because I'm the only person who fucking loves order of ecclesia) is disappointing but eh.

I think it's cool that final smashes with no items is an option now. Wonder how that affects Little Mac.

Smashdown is cool. Wonder if that means we'll have a number of characters divisible by 4 or not.

also HOLY SHIT DEATH FUCKING KILLED LUIGI

JESUS