SMASH 150 - 044 - ICE CLIMBERS By professorfandango Watch

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Bring them back! Bring them back!



Ice Climbers in Smash

Sorely missed but I suppose I can understand why. There was now way they could have different rosters between the Wii U and 3DS versions and since the Ice Climbers couldn't work on 3DS they were excised, with the reasoning that they haven't had a game since the NES so they're not especially important characters.



And that's true, they've been in more Smash games than Ice Climbers games but they did bring something completely unique to the franchise and folks have been quite vocal about their exclusion so I'm going to make the very safe bet that should Smash come to Switch (or beyond) we'll probably see Popo and Nana again.



I quite like them and did use them a middling amount in Brawl and of course, as soon as something is taken from you you really want it so I'm itching to give them another go.



Ice Climbers in the Ice Climber series

Unlike Metroid, I actually DID know about this game before Melee was announced, I even owned it but it was one of those old NEWS games that was only really a step up from an arcade game so levels looped as difficulty increased and there was no specific goal so I tired of it quite quickly.



But Ice Climber is not really a series, is it? I always felt those retro NES titles were the experimental phase and since games like this, Clu Clu Land and Devil World didn't really have enough going for them to kick off a full franchise I think it's unlikely there'll be another game in the series, unless they come up with a completely new idea to fit into the 'universe'. But then would the game be made just to facilitate the IP?



Who knows? I don't expect to see new Ice Climbera any time soon but I do expect to see them again in Smash and if the rumours I'm hearing about Switch Online are true, maybe we'll be able to play the original game in a new way this year...!

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Published : Jan 5, 2018