We all were. But unlike Esam who can forever be tormented by"boxing ring" and other similar matters he said, if some of Animal Crossing Bells us get famous now we could always use different usernames so nobody knows what we said and did when we were stupid kids.
made me know the purchase price of anonymity that large streamers/youtubers and actors cover. Well worth the purchase price IMO but it's definitely a factor.
There was little to no respect for Sakurai from the west in the day. I remember there was a popular webseries of SSB bits made from spritework and there was an entire joke of Ridley, Geno, Mega man, and some different characters getting mad they were not in the match and Geno just fireblasting all of Japan for this. It was just like, in retrospect, incredibly fucked up
You're right that there was a lot of hatred and disrespect towards Sakurai, but Smash Kingdom was in good fun and generally featured lots of dark humor. You must dig deep into the archives of Smashboards, GameFAQs and NeoGAF (if that's even possible with the latter) to find the authentic vitriol.
Yeah there are some straight up death dangers in there. Same could be said today here, but it would get downvoted to oblivion.
That said I really do wish Skull Kid was at precisely the same amount of demand today as he was then. Zelda still has gotten no more meaningful representation, and Skull Kid stays the ideal pick to give the franchise it is much deserved new fighter--and yet he's been mostly forgotten in discussions about new characters. Skull Kid will forever be my number one pick. I'd really be really pleased with Midna or Tetra too. Only SOMEONE to represent Zelda that is not a Triforce Trio incarnation.
I have a feeling that we're going to get BOTW Zelda, and while I do think that could be cool I'd be disappointed if Zelda's just purposeful representation since freaking MELEE are yet another Zelda.
I knew someone was gonna say this, but basically in my mind she's distinct enough from Zelda to where I would be OK with it. Hell she is not even really"Zelda" before the final third of that game, and even in the Animal Crossing Items For Sale end she moves back to her pirate origins. She feels distinct from Zelda is essentially what I'm getting at. Personality wise, design wise, everything is more Tetra compared to Zelda.
