<3 Chain Chomp. Best pet Link ever had.

That’s just a cartoon stick figure human with a tiny domino mask and a Super Soaker. It almost doesn’t get more generic.

I’m literally working my way down this entire list (I’ve only gotten through 5 so far)
Come on, guys. Back me up and let’s get some votes for these characters who clearly deserve to be in Smash:

Barry knows what’s up.

This is greatest razor commercial that has been and ever will be made.

“There were heated debates over who the main character should be [in Splatoon],”
“Whether it should be Mario, or the squid. When we talked about the possibility of it being Mario, of course we could think of the advantages: anybody would be willing to touch it as soon as we announced that we had a new Mario game. But…

Uh... Yoshi’s world is usually made of craft materials. Paper, fabric, yarn, crayon doodles, etc

Kirby’s Epic Yard was more focused on cloth held together with yarn.
Now Kirby’s doing clay.
Mario’s still paper.

Damn those cute little bastards...
I’m going to end up owning all three of those Yoshi Amiibos... >_>
(Green because he’s true Yoshi, blue because he’s my favorite, and the pink one mostly just to complete the set)

I’m literally working my way down this entire list (I’ve only gotten through 5 so far):

“I’m not shure I’ll like Splatoon a whole lot. Don’t mean to bash, and perhaps it’ll be fun for party games, but I’m just getting this cheap-o generic looking feeling from it I just can’t shake off.”

Because they stripped it of all the originally intended Mario flavor it was originally supposed to have when they…

I get that from Miyamoto explaining that it’s only not a Mario universe game because they wanted to address Nintendo’s lack of new IPs.

Forgot Shovel Knight.
Silly me.

Because they’re super short-sighted and knee-jerky, assuming making it a new IP is somehow automatically going to make Splatoon better than if it were the Mario game it was originally intended to be.
People have a bad tendency to jump to X=good, Y=bad, while skipping over all the nuts and bolts about what the deal…

I’m all for new IPs from Nintendo, but you gotta do things however they work best.

Only if you take good care of it.

Simon Belmont, Banjo-Kazooie, Dixie Kong, Geno, King K. Rool, Bomberman, Spyro, Optimus Prime, Captain Toad, Amaterasu (Okami), Waluigi, Goku, Zero(MegaMan X3/4 form), Tails, Captain N-The Game Master, Arthur (Ghosts n Goblins), Firebrand, King Hippo, Eggplant Wizard, Dracula(Belmont first, obviously), NiGHTS, Dr.…

You forgot Geno and Optimus Prime.

I mean...okay. Cool.
I guess this’ll be a challenge then.
But where are my Battle Modes?
Where’s Captain Falcon and Diddy Kong Racing stuff?

This game is such a missed opportunity....
I mean, it’s CLEARLY a cool game, and Nintendo needs new IPs, but this game just SCREAMS “amazing expansion and new direction to explore for the Mario universe”.
Instead we get......”not Bloopers”, extremely generic humanoid designs, and fairly generic levels...

We coulda had…