Reasons To Hate Masahiro Sakurai

Considering his creation, Kirby, was the sole survivor in TWO scenarios (Galeem wiping out the entire universe, Kauzya throwing the other characters into the volcano) literally no one else survived...

The only one I agree with because Kirby his character survived in smash ultimate

I don't know if this is true, if I had heard it somewhere or just popped into my head, but wasn't the reason given for Saki Amamiya being relegated to an Assist Trophy in Brawl and a Spirit in Ultimate that he primarily uses guns? How about that a Trophy (not an Assist Trophy, just regular type) of Tharja from "Fire Emblem" cut from 3DS Smash because she wears little more than a demi bra and sarong and that would hurt the E10 rating? Yet Bayonetta is in, negating both of those excuses.

Mai Shiranui: too risque for her existence to even be acknowledged in Smash Ultimate (no Spirit or even a cameo on Terry Bogard's stage)

Bayonetta: a-ok as a FULLY REALIZED (read: playable and everything that goes with it) CHARACTER

Yeah...

Heard somewhere he was a Persona fanboy, which is why Joker got in and there are seriously people who decided to buy Smash Ultimate and his download just so they can use him to beat up literally everyone else in the game.

I guess this is where I'm supposed to remind that there was a fan voting thingy towards the end of Smash 4's life, but I do question the legitimacy of that. No way Bayonetta beat out every other possible choice.

Even when it's not a playable character (exclusion of Mai from "Fatal Fury" while Bayonetta was meanwhile promoted to the base roster, anyone? )

Watch out; someone's going to say "you're just racist". That's what happens when anyone criticizes Tiana ("The Princess and the Frog") for being a workaholic.

You mean "bias against"

Worst was how it escalated from an elaborate Mii costume with a music track (Undertale) to an elaborate Mii costume with a music track and Spirits, to a fully realized character with all that goes with it (Minecraft).

"Even if it is just Mii costumes and music tracks." Unfortunately, now SPIRIT EVENTS can be added to the list.

We're getting "Five Nights at Freddy's" and "Dream Daddy" content at some point; I just know it.

I don't hate Byleth, but even I have to admit Sakurai was a bit of a jerk in that Direct.

Well, he kinda had to with Cheaponetta so as to force her into an E10 rated game. But there's no excuse for how some of the other characters are depicted here vs how they actually are in their own games.

Like how he reduced all the Fire Emblem characters to bumbling single minded idiots, arrogant a holes, or both?

And it's not just the player characters, either.

I thought he'd learned his lesson after Little Mac, Dark Samus, and Isabelle- all former Assist Trophies made playable (Chrom and Palutena- both formerly just part of someone else's Final Smash- should probably be mentioned here as well). Guess not.

And even that's only if the character is "for good boys and girls of all ages" (which at least two playable fighters totally aren't, but that's beside the point).

At least with Min Min, we now know Spirit Battle does not mean a character is completely off the table.

Says the person who allowed BAYONETTA into Smash Bros for 3DS/Wii U and did not cut her from Smash Ultimate.

Actually in truth Sakurai himself never said that exact comment it was added in the English Translation still doesn’t excuse Bayonetta making it in though.

An excuse that was already null and void before he said it

Since there wasn't one this go round and won't be, maybe that wasn't actually his idea. Still a little too coincidental the timing of the Smash Ballot's announcement and the announcement Nintendo had bought the publishing rights to Bayonetta, though.

Not only did he admit Sora was the actual winner, he's since admitted that another character that had to wait until Ultimate, Banjo, was #2. I'm starting to doubt B1tchonetta was even really "within the top 5" like he claimed, and if she was it was #5 exactly.

Especially now that we know who the actual winner was, and it wasn't that foul-mouthed Lady Godiva who was said to have "won".

Bayonetta (who didn't actually win the Smash Ballot so he can no longer use that excuse), Steve/Alex/Zombie/Enderman, and Kazuya. Not to mention both Final Fantasy characters and all associated music, stages, and spirits are from VII, the most overrated game in that series.

Bayonetta is the prime example, especially now that he outright admitted she didn't read win the Smash Ballot from a few years ago.

I don't really blame him for doing so, Minecraft is officially the best selling video game of all time. But yeah, I do think it's kinda dumb to just waste it on another soulless player character.

Thanks to Min Min, I was thinking- hoping- that FP2 would be all "upgraded" Spirits. Nope, he gave us the boring-@$$ "player character" with less personality than Byleth from THE most overrated game in gaming history.

Not helping: his reveal trailer had Kirby survive something everything else didn't YET AGAIN.

Someone from Soul Calibur would have been better, as a nod to Link having appeared in SC2.

And that Sans Mii Costume has overshadowed the release of Banjo&Kazooie, the return of Home Run Contest, and the announcement not only of Terry Bogard as the fourth Fighter's Pass character but that there would actually be even more DLC than previously announced!

Even if it was just a Mii outfit and a music track, that's still more Undertale representation than should have been included

Apparently it was because Undertale's creator beat him on Smash

Much as I hate her and abhor her presence in the game, at least I can KILL Bayonetta, and (by proxy) various other characters I hate who appear as Spirits and Assist Trophies. Rock, however, I can't kill because he's neither playable nor even an Assist Trophy or Spirit.

That was his concession to Rock's scary cult