2014-08-20, 12:12 AM
I think there may be a disconnect between what you guys consider secret characters and what Sakurai may consider secret characters.
For example, would you consider EVERY character that you unlock in Brawl through Subspace Embassy secret characters? I would say no. I would say the only secret characters in Brawl were Toon Link, Wolf, and Jigglypuff, because by the time you completed the campaign they were the only ones you had to find through special means, who weren't included in the single player in any way, and who weren't given to the player. With this logic, neither Luigi nor Captain Falcon were secret characters in Brawl either. They were simply locked characters.
If we have some sort of Single Player thing going on here to unlock characters, then the same thing would be going on here. We really don't know what's going on with Single Player. Yeah, we had that article about the modes of Single Player, but they can easily hide things to keep it a surprise, no one said that those articles were ever going to be 100% accurate.
Right now, there's still a chance for both Ness and Lucas. With Mother's anniversary coming up, they MIGHT reveal them then (and I wouldn't really consider that "doing something for the Mother anniversary" either, to be honest, except maybe an honorable mention), or they could just keep them secret for whatever reason. I don't think that EVERY character in Brawl was revealed before release, and I don't mean the 3 characters I consider secret either. I think Lozmaster had a post a while back (that I'm too lazy to find because 105 pages) that said quite a few characters were not mentioned prior to release in Brawl. Just because Ness and Lucas haven't been mentioned doesn't mean they're gone.
For example, would you consider EVERY character that you unlock in Brawl through Subspace Embassy secret characters? I would say no. I would say the only secret characters in Brawl were Toon Link, Wolf, and Jigglypuff, because by the time you completed the campaign they were the only ones you had to find through special means, who weren't included in the single player in any way, and who weren't given to the player. With this logic, neither Luigi nor Captain Falcon were secret characters in Brawl either. They were simply locked characters.
If we have some sort of Single Player thing going on here to unlock characters, then the same thing would be going on here. We really don't know what's going on with Single Player. Yeah, we had that article about the modes of Single Player, but they can easily hide things to keep it a surprise, no one said that those articles were ever going to be 100% accurate.
Right now, there's still a chance for both Ness and Lucas. With Mother's anniversary coming up, they MIGHT reveal them then (and I wouldn't really consider that "doing something for the Mother anniversary" either, to be honest, except maybe an honorable mention), or they could just keep them secret for whatever reason. I don't think that EVERY character in Brawl was revealed before release, and I don't mean the 3 characters I consider secret either. I think Lozmaster had a post a while back (that I'm too lazy to find because 105 pages) that said quite a few characters were not mentioned prior to release in Brawl. Just because Ness and Lucas haven't been mentioned doesn't mean they're gone.