Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS Discussion

Roy's debut game is SSBM (and his sequel is Fire Emblem 6 :v ). If Roy was never in Melee, I doubt anyone would give 2 effs who Roy was. Heck, I don't give a damn who Roy is because he's a mediocre lord with a somewhat cryptic but inevitably shallow story.

You had a nobody like Roy who had a (imo) pretty crappy Fire Emblem game that nobody ever played (at the time), ever could play without importing/translating/emulating, or ever will play because it's a pretty bad game, and still became relevant to people today in 2014 because of smash. Now you have Lucina who had the merit of becoming the most popular character in the best selling Fire Emblem game to date with a modest global presence, now joining smash. I'd say Nintendo had the full intention of adding her (and they determined the roster well in advance). This release is definitely bringing Fire Emblem a lot of promotion that I'm happy for. If anything, close to everyone who didn't play Awakening now knows who Lucina is now.

How Lucina is similar to Marth is pretty unfortunate (I guess) in terms of fighter diversity because of her relationship to Marth in Awakening. Though I don't understand why having a "clone" is a bad thing. What does that really mean to someone who plays Smash? Other than aesthetics, clones are rarely never played the same anyway. Falcon and Ganondorf are complete opposites in almost every way imaginable even if they are aesthetically similar (Brawl goes as far as completely changing all the animations on Ganondorf even though he's about 95% a ported melee-Ganon in concept). It's jarring to think that with all these newcomers, revamped veterans, brand new stages, and overall polish that people will complain that Lucina can use Dancing Blades/Dolphin Slash like Marth does or something silly like that. Nevermind the full VA, high-res model, portraits, Chrom final smash, and promotional material...