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[chigsam]

Sakurai has said some characters from Melee won't make it.
For example, the Ice Climbers have been scrapped.

It's Metaknight, not Metakirby.
http://www.smashbros.com/en_uk/characters/index.html
Here are the character bios.
Watch the trailers (also on that site) to see the rest of the confirmed characters.

Most have probably done that already, but it's worth posting just in case.
The site is updated daily (except for weekends).

yes thats where i got the info. i saw wario on the pics just forgot to say him 

[Xion]

Well, let's see, I don't think samus ever punched in a Metroid game, and neither did Ganondorf in Zelda or Capt. Falcon in F-Zero, but they do in smash bros, so I don't see why they wouldn't be able to make Sonic punch. He'd be a Melee character, probably the fastest. His punches would be quick jabs, and one of his smash attacks would be like jigglypuff's (or yoshi's) wierd rolly thingy. He'd be really light though. He can bounce up and down in a ball as an attack...well, I'm not much of a sonic fan, so those are all his abilities that come to mind right now. There'd be no shortage of moves for him, though. I just don't think he'd fit because...well...he's lame.

[huZba]

Sonic wouldn't fit cause his ability is running fast and wild, while in smash bros it's more like hand to hand combat. Sonic doesn't do that. He runs and rolls.

I'm sorry, I have to interject here though I have absolutely no interest in fandom chat about a video game like smash bros, but wait wait wait. So sonic doesn't fit in a hand to hand fight game because he's a runner, whereas Mario does, whose powers include fatness, high drug tolerance and constant failure at saving princesses?

Last time i checked Mario used his fists, legs, fireballs and waterguns as well as his butt to kill baddies(He's grown since the 8bit days u-know). But smash bros does have all kinds of guys there already, so i guess Sonic wouldn't be hard to trick in either. I was kinda just thinking out loud trying to figure out why he wouldn't fit, since someone before me said he wouldn't. Some of the newer sonic games had some character using Uzis if i remember correctly.

I guess they'd try to include every character possible anyway.

Personally i'd probably favor playing with Captain falcon just to get to yell FALCOOOOON PUNCH to the extent that it annoys the other players to bits.

[Muffin]

Can't Sonic do tornado to defeat his enemies?

[AdamAtomic]

Sonic was awesome.  Then they made him talk, and gave him stupid sidekicks, and "free-roaming" hub levels...sigh

When he was spiky, blue, insanely fast, and didn't say shit - just killed robots and saved animals - that was an ok character!

[Xion]

Sonic was awesome.  Then they made him talk, and gave him stupid sidekicks, and "free-roaming" hub levels...sigh

When he was spiky, blue, insanely fast, and didn't say shit - just killed robots and saved animals - that was an ok character!

this is true.

[.TakaM]

I still have some love for sonic, I grew up with my brothers teaching me how to draw sonic getting his head chopped off, mario locking him in prison and throwing away the key etc.. but I always liked him, I was a little kid, and sega's shallow advertising worked
I remember going to my friends house, playing sega with him, and being all like "whoa, the ground's all curvy" since just about everything in mario games were made out of blocks at the time.

then like 10 years later or something, I decided to buy sonic advance, and it was pretty fun, not that great, but fun
then I bought sonic advance 2, and it kinda got me back into it, he was ridiculously fast in that game, had some cool effects, introduced the trick system, some really cool level design, and I liked how you were always running in the boss fights
even though sonic advance got me slightly interested in the 3d sonics, since there was a GBA-GCN link up thing, I had a look at the GCN box at a store and I could just tell it was bad, so I never bothered with the 3D games, and it seems to be pretty clear that sega still really doesn't know how to make a 3d sonic game.

So.. I've never really felt like sonic should just be hung up, because the 2D games are still good (except for advance 3), and I think sonic would fit in fine on SSBB, sega made that 3D fighting game on GBA with all the sonic characters, and I think it got pretty good reviews, plus SSBB's gameplay is 2D, sonic's bread and butter.


oh and the mario-sonic olympic game, one of the lamest announcements ever.
such an anticlimactic resolution to years of rivalry, it's meant to be like the final test to determine who is the ultimate mascot, but the olympics? thats so lame

[Blick]

I haven't made pixel art in the longest time. I used to get inspired by editing stuff for critique and either deleting it or basing a critique around it, but lately I can't even force myself to work with pixels.

My spirit is dead, I feel.

[Panda]

Then do something about it.
Whining won't take you anywhere.


As for sonic, I've always been more of Knuckles fan (not only because he is red, but he looks more badass), but I kinda liked some of the 2d games.
Sonic games never left any special memories though. I remember playing them, and just that.
Oh, but I liked their weird catchy tunes, I esp. remember those in casino levels and all.

[Blick]

Then do something about it.
Whining won't take you anywhere.

You say that like I haven't tried. Thanks for nothing.

I've tried finding inspiration by looking into new artists, new mediums, even just going back to traditional mediums and then I come back to pixel art and it's like I don't feel it anymore. I've been in this strange phase for longer than I ever have been before. Usually they just go away, but this is going on 7 months now.