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I know I am going to get a lot of crap for this but yes, I am going to defend this
Fire Emblem's rep count is usually joked about but let me tell you: It all comes down to circumstances
Let's start with of all places, Smash 64, Marth was later reveled to be considered for this game, with the reason for his exclusion due to a lack of premade assets given to secret characters, it is notable that he is the only character that wasn't from a series represented in the game that we know to be cut and the reason is due to original game low budget opposed to say, a lack of popularity
In Melee, Marth is added and Roy is added as a clone, he was there to promote his game but there might a starting point how he was added, Roy's originates from the canceled Fire Emblem game for the Nintendo 64, then called Ike funny enough, Roy's seiryu and Sakurai are actually aware that was his name once, keep in mind, this wasn't revealed till years later
In 2001, when Melee came out , the anime aesthetic was popular overseas and yet to become a internet punchline, as no
games were released out of Japan, aside those who came across an obscure dub of it's OAV, those who were even interested in Fire Emblem beforehand must had a positive opinion as importing games and the consoles needed to play them was much harder in a world where the internet was limited.
Additionally, the characters were fun to play as the only other swordfighters were the two Links and they were powerful both in their own ways, hence the series become localized.
With the series leaving Japan and find it's standing on the GBA, it started to become more popular, Sakurai took note of this
deiced to put "A new Fire Emblem character" on the list planned for Brawl, the devs for the games suggest Ike, keep in mind, if we go by sales, we would likely get a character from Blazing Sword over him, as both of his games bombed in both Japan
and overseas
Before Smash 4, remakes of Marth's games sale decently, but not enough to save the series from the sales of Ike games, Fire Emblem Awakening is made as a test, do well or go away forever, what do you think happened? Not only did it save the games, but make the series more popular than ever, the game was first came out in 2012, meaning the game came out around the time Sakurai started to make Smash 4 after finishing Uprising, however, it yet to come out of Japan, it must left a pretty good impression for Sakurai to even consider it for a series that would die if it failed.
Marth was an obvious addition from the past two games where it would feel glaring to feel leave out, Ike's games did not do well however Sakurai had no other reason to take him out besides lack of relevance, with Sakurai rather not taking out characters knowing that players would miss them, Lucina was added as a skin for Marth, afterall, she was flat out pretending to be him in her games, with her being added a full slot due to the usual reason clones were added, it was late in development and she was easy to add as a bonus to make the game seem bigger
Here is why I don't think Sakurai is adding the characters for the sake of adding Fire Emblem characters, with the fallout of Ike's games sales, a failed game that never came to be on the Wii to reinvent the series with Real Time strategy, he would have to be of wary adding anyone from the series, regardless Chrom was rejected for Smash 4 and only added to Smash Ultimate as an easy echo due to already having a model, is that he would do add very little to the series, considering FE reps are addressed as "Marths", I think he was becoming aware that people would not simply eat a FE rep for being a FE rep.
Roy was added as DLC as after Mewtwo, he was the most missed character that was in Melee but not Brawl, not to mention that we have proof within Brawl's data that he, the Doc and Mewtwo were the ones to be added next anyways, Corrin I believe was picked over the Inkling for Smash 4 was due to Awakening's success compared to an new series that could go in any direction, otherwise, I believe the Inklings would be picked over him due to Fate's later split reputation
So, yeah, that's all I got
Fire Emblem's rep count is usually joked about but let me tell you: It all comes down to circumstances
Let's start with of all places, Smash 64, Marth was later reveled to be considered for this game, with the reason for his exclusion due to a lack of premade assets given to secret characters, it is notable that he is the only character that wasn't from a series represented in the game that we know to be cut and the reason is due to original game low budget opposed to say, a lack of popularity
In Melee, Marth is added and Roy is added as a clone, he was there to promote his game but there might a starting point how he was added, Roy's originates from the canceled Fire Emblem game for the Nintendo 64, then called Ike funny enough, Roy's seiryu and Sakurai are actually aware that was his name once, keep in mind, this wasn't revealed till years later
In 2001, when Melee came out , the anime aesthetic was popular overseas and yet to become a internet punchline, as no
games were released out of Japan, aside those who came across an obscure dub of it's OAV, those who were even interested in Fire Emblem beforehand must had a positive opinion as importing games and the consoles needed to play them was much harder in a world where the internet was limited.
Additionally, the characters were fun to play as the only other swordfighters were the two Links and they were powerful both in their own ways, hence the series become localized.
With the series leaving Japan and find it's standing on the GBA, it started to become more popular, Sakurai took note of this
deiced to put "A new Fire Emblem character" on the list planned for Brawl, the devs for the games suggest Ike, keep in mind, if we go by sales, we would likely get a character from Blazing Sword over him, as both of his games bombed in both Japan
and overseas
Before Smash 4, remakes of Marth's games sale decently, but not enough to save the series from the sales of Ike games, Fire Emblem Awakening is made as a test, do well or go away forever, what do you think happened? Not only did it save the games, but make the series more popular than ever, the game was first came out in 2012, meaning the game came out around the time Sakurai started to make Smash 4 after finishing Uprising, however, it yet to come out of Japan, it must left a pretty good impression for Sakurai to even consider it for a series that would die if it failed.
Marth was an obvious addition from the past two games where it would feel glaring to feel leave out, Ike's games did not do well however Sakurai had no other reason to take him out besides lack of relevance, with Sakurai rather not taking out characters knowing that players would miss them, Lucina was added as a skin for Marth, afterall, she was flat out pretending to be him in her games, with her being added a full slot due to the usual reason clones were added, it was late in development and she was easy to add as a bonus to make the game seem bigger
Here is why I don't think Sakurai is adding the characters for the sake of adding Fire Emblem characters, with the fallout of Ike's games sales, a failed game that never came to be on the Wii to reinvent the series with Real Time strategy, he would have to be of wary adding anyone from the series, regardless Chrom was rejected for Smash 4 and only added to Smash Ultimate as an easy echo due to already having a model, is that he would do add very little to the series, considering FE reps are addressed as "Marths", I think he was becoming aware that people would not simply eat a FE rep for being a FE rep.
Roy was added as DLC as after Mewtwo, he was the most missed character that was in Melee but not Brawl, not to mention that we have proof within Brawl's data that he, the Doc and Mewtwo were the ones to be added next anyways, Corrin I believe was picked over the Inkling for Smash 4 was due to Awakening's success compared to an new series that could go in any direction, otherwise, I believe the Inklings would be picked over him due to Fate's later split reputation
So, yeah, that's all I got
