I stand here as a REAAAALLY big Metroid fan, like many of you. There are many Ridley supporters out there (Myself included) and we were all let down today. I understand that we got in waaaaay over our heads about him, let's be honest, though... we grasped at straws for a long time to just HOPE believe that Ridley was in. I will say, there was some convincing evidence here and there... but deep down I knew he'd never make it.



Now what I'm about to say may have Metroid fans, Kid Icarus fans and just random people shouting at me for days on end, but...

I wanted Dark Samus in more than anyone new that appeared in this game...

That's right.

Anyone .



Dark Samus was a perfect Metroid villain to put in the game if Ridley wasn't "possible". Let's face it, if you look at how Dark Samus is in the Prime games, she's got loads of things that she could have in her potential moveset that could be 100% different to Samus now. (She has her Phazon multi-shot beam, her jump meteors, ground spike shield etc.) Instead? We got Dark Pit and Dark Samus as a god damn assist trophy . We got 2 Kid Icarus representatives in total -A game with a much smaller fan base than the Troid over here- with a villain shoehorned in. It's like Sakurai doesn't care about Metroid sometimes. Yeah, sure, he gave Samus (ZeroSuit and otherwise) some nice costumes, but in the long run, what's that compared to a representative? Not to mention a choice of two representatives that people would love? It hurts man, it really hurts.