Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20160315220335/@comment-24658561-20160329213004

CrashBash wrote: Err, with all due respect, though, Eggman Nega is such an obscure character, I doubt "we" includes that many people. Lets think about this for a moment...the only reason he's really there is to pad out the roster.

How many fans would really want him playable? Or the Zeti? Or the Koopalings? Maybe the most dedicated, but I'm pretty sure most fans would be happy with the mainstays of both series. Anything else is purely a bonus.

Just saying. Trust me, there's characters I would like, and to be fair, the roster has delivered to a degree or two...but anything else from here on out is practically padding, and/or potentially obscure. The sports games are the only opportunity to play as the Koopalings. Mario Kart and Smash Bros are sports games as well. The Koopalings are pretty popular actually, you find at least one of them on every "Best Mario characters" list that doesn't include RPG characters. They've been around since Super Mario World and a lot of fans were really upset when it was revealed that they aren't Bowser's children. Heck, there's an entire animated Youtube series called "A day with Bowser Jr." that's about Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings and it gets hundred thousands to millions of views.

You are right about the Zeti though, they were in only one real game that wasn't all that great, sold poorly and gets ported to PC. The Zeti are there for the same reason as Sticks: Promoting a game that didn't do well. Forcing the Zeti into every damn Sonic mobile game won't make them any more interesting and it won't make Lost World any less mediocre. Nobody cares about them.

Maybe Eggman Nega is obscure but then, why did they put him in it at all? I know that I'd be pretty pissed if they were like "Fawful will be in the next Mario&Sonic! ...but only in one version for one single discipline." If you wanna put him in, then just do it.