I love you all to death (Just so I can smash bros with you) (SSBWiiU/3DS)

[TomGuycott]

I'll sleep soundly knowing that none of the Brawl assists besides Little Mac will become playable characters. Outside of Issac, none of the ones Koopaul listed sound like anything more than cameo appearances. Their franchises aren't popular enough to warrant playable representation.

Meanwhile, Issac is just another Marth/Ike with elemental magic powers. Let him stay in as an Assist, literally no one cares about Golden Sun in 2014 anyway.

I still care about Golden Sun... >_>

Seriously though, I love Golden Sun. It was one of my favorite GBA games, and I'll never really forget the experience I had with it. It holds a place in my heart. I:

As for "Marth/Ike with Elemental powers", maybe to the point of him having a sword. Frankly, swordplay would be a minimal part of his moves if I had a choice devising them, given that sword strikes in the actual game were very slow and deliberate (given the fact they were turned-based mind you), and you couple those with a variety of strong magic spells and summons. There's also his Psyenergy, which is what Brawl had him use, and the distinct visual style and application of that divides him from being "Ness with a sword".

In my ideal kind of moveset for him, I'd picture him getting more powerful as more Dijinn are set to him, either over a period of time or through a special move. These would grant him buffs to his elemental power, maybe even changing it depending on whether he could set more than one element of Dijinn. The important thing is his main element being Earth, which is a very unique elemental type when you consider the majority of elemental damage in smash is limited to fire, followed by limited water, electricity and ice.

Granted, there are characters far more popular that are probably going to get in before him, and that's fine. In fact, maybe his assist trophy doesn't even make the cut this time (though I doubt that, seeing as Sakurai mentioned wanting to include as many as possible, and it seems ideal to just bring over all the Brawl ones and add more to that list).

As for other assists, there are some that represent characters or at least series that I wouldn't mind seeing represented as playable characters. First and foremost in my mind would be Tingle, the ultimate "joke" character, not really in the sense that he sucks to play as, but that he's just insanely weird. I think that HIS absence from the starting roster of Assist Trophies is something to be curious about over Isaac's.

The Excite Bike rider would make a very interesting character, seeing as he could always be on a bike and use that as a playstyle mechanic, while also making for a variety of funny poses, like how he'd look while ducking. This could easily serve as a "retro" rep resembling Ice Climbers (who is easily on a list of series "most people don't care about" and yet they were considered as playable anyway in one of the more unique character concepts in the series). Since Balloon Fighter is probably nixed because of Villager's recovery move, the Excite Biker would be an alternative for a retro rep.

The Advance Wars trophy represents more of a series I'd like to see represented rather than a character, seeing as it was just the basic units in sprite form that served as trophies. While the series sort of went out with a whimper, it has a decent history dating back to the Famicom Wars days, and I know that when I got into it with the Advance Wars title on GBA there was a large cast of characters that would be awesome to pull a guy from. I hope this takes off this time, because someday I'd love to see the villain Sturm in 3D form, either as a trophy, assist or even playable.

As for Barbara the Bat, while I know nothing about the series, I've felt that's always been what I loved about Smash, it gets you into something new. She's easily one of the more unique concepts out of the assists, and characters in general for that matter, though I doubt she'd be included, like much of these suggestions. The others I find interesting are Ray, who I picture as a miniscule run and gun character with very high mobility but low KO power and extremely low defensive power, and Jill Dozer, who's just adorable in that drill tank of hers. At LEAST I hope these characters return as Assist Trophies.