You Appear to Be Leaking, Super Smash Bros.

SHUUUUUUULK

Also Duck Hunt Dog. HA.

Nobody "got their hands on an early copy." This is a montage video of content sent to the ESRB for ratings (notice in the third embed that it switches directly from a victory screen to footage of the home run derby mode). There's also an imgur gallery floating around of more shots from this video, many of which focus on any content that would potentially affect the rating (shots of scantily clad female character trophies, Wario's trophy that mentions farting, the gambling-esque element of spectator mode, etc). This isn't somebody with a leaked copy, this is a leaker in either NOA or inside the ESRB, which is news in itself. Somebody's getting fired.

@papercut: he's actually just an assist trophy, you can see em in the Nintendo Direct SSB video

@corruptedevil: Wow, that's alot more than the original SSB >.>

Just came in to say that this is a great article title. Also that all these new characters are actually getting me kind of optimistic about this even after Brawl wasn't the greatest.

You missed the part where the dog from Duck Hunt is in this game. I'd buy a separate, real world figurine of that.

Who the fuck are Chorus Men?

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Anyway the Duck Hunt Dog & Duck are nuts, and I hope it is an even 50 that has a good grass starter final form (AKA Sceptile) and either Wolf or Ice Climbers. I'd love Lucas but it is a long shot at this point. Dr. Mario is definitely as boring of an addition as possible, close to Falco in the yawn level.

TOO BAD! NOT WALUIGI TIME!

Aha!

I wonder if the DLC rumors for cut characters is true then too. In addition to Snake, Lucas, Chorus Men, and Ice Climbers there's another rumor that suggests Dixie Kong and Mewtwo are coming too. That would be so rad.

I think this is relegated to the 3DS version. It differs from the Wii U version graphically with a SFIV type of art style (looks slightly 2Dish with bold outlines). I'm guessing they did this due to the low specs of the 3DS and to help emphasize the visibility of the characters in the small screen.

@brodehouse: Xenoblade Chronicles protagonist.

@bbalpert said:

OHHHHH, so THAT'S what people meant when they were talking about "Shulk" being in the game. I thought people were joking about She-Hulk making a surprise entrance.

I'm still at the point where I'm looking for Jennifer Walters. Who is this Shulk everyone is talking about? Is it a Fire Emblem character? Is it a gender flip Sheik?

No. Everyone thought he'd be the next character announced for the Lucina/Robin reveal only because there were tweets from Monolith Studios about a voice actor of their's being in Smash, but he wasn't. Now I guess this is the unofficial unveiling of him.

Edit: Also, I assume that Duck Hunt Dog and Duck act like strategic fighters like Rosalina and Olimar where the dog has some control of the ducks for the fight, which would be pretty rad.

@bbqbram said:

@corruptedevil said:

@papercut said:

All I want is a leaked character select screen and I'm good.

@corruptedevil said:

I am very okay with this!

NO WALUIGI. NO BUY.

Leaker better hide from Nintendo ninjas or Sakurai. He's doomed either way.

@corruptedevil said:

@papercut said:

All I want is a leaked character select screen and I'm good.

@corruptedevil said:

I am very okay with this!

As far as I know, that rumor started with an anonymous post on 4chan's /v/ board, so I would take it with a pretty large grain of salt.

Also: is no one else hype for Bowser Jr.?

I'm kinda disappointed in the roster overall. Smash Bros to me always had a wide variety of characters from different art-styles unified into a more coherent look this time around half the characters look all anime.

Duck Hunt is a real great pick though!

Also DUCK HUNT DOOOOOOOOOOOOG.

Are the Duck hunt dog and duck really playable characters? I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Correct, I'm guessing this is a Nintendo employee playing the build they recorded for the ESRB.

OHHHHH, so THAT'S what people meant when they were talking about "Shulk" being in the game. I thought people were joking about She-Hulk making a surprise entrance.

Snake is an alternate skin for Dr. Mario.

Or this is the most elaborate fake ever, which would be way more awesome.

Someone is going to be fired over this. And not just a loss of their job. Nintendo will fire them out of a cannon pointed at the moon.

Still, I'm excited to play as Shulk!

@corruptedevil: Yeah. I also hate that we live in a world where even Nintendo is going for the planning DLC before release thing, if that's true. Like, I know the reasons why, I'm not saying they shouldn't, etc etc, I just never thought Nintendo would start doing it. I dunno.

You're leaking.

All I want is a leaked character select screen and I'm good.

It's rumoured that Snake and Ice Climbers will be DLC, which is super lame if true.

Bowser Jr. is a cool addition. And I am glad to see Ganondorf is back, hopefully we get his Hyrule Warrior costume as an option. But the coolest addition seems to be the Duck Hunt dog. I'm excited to see how he plays.

We are getting closer and closer to the Japanese release date. We should know all the characters by Sept. 13.

I was wondering if Patrick was going to write anything about this.

Not sure what I think about these leaks. While I think Duck Hunt is a hilarious (and great) pick, and anything relating to Xenoblade is something I'm for, some of the other potential characters seem...lame. Like Dr. Mario.

Also, no Snake.

Hahhah, what a story Scoops!

You forgot Duck Hunt and Shulk.

Still Waiting on Lucas being announced!

All else matters little to me!

So yeah....there's Shulk. Was he actually announced yet? I don't seem to recall seeing anything about him before.

I have sprung a leak.