JamesDNaux wrote:sonicbrawler182 wrote:He also said himself that Ridley would be too big, and extremely difficult to work into fighter form.
I honestly don't see why people particularly want him to be sized down and made playable. Giant characters should really be bosses. It's about as cool a role as a playable fighter, and it doesn't compromise one of their defining traits.
He never said he would be extremely difficult, he said "He might be a little slow, is that ok? [laughs]"
And if Olimar, who is canonically the size of a quarter, can be upscaled, then Ridley can certainly be downscaled. Ridley being "too big" is just a construction of trolls who hate him and enjoy relentlessly taunting fans. If giant characters should be bosses, then by all means take out Bowser, since he's been far larger than Ridley before.
Olimar has no character from his series to come with him that is proportionally different, so sizing him up doesn't look weird, since we're normally not supposed to see him next to other characters of say, Mario's size. Similarly, although Kirby is scaled up a ton, Dedede and Meta Knight were too - except their sizes still are consistent to their own games, relative to each other.
Ridley, compared to Samus, is a giant. To make him anything but that next to Samus would look wrong. Although Ridley wasn't that big in the original Metroid, that was due to NES limitations, nothing more.
The beauty of Smash size liberties is that they are supposed to make you question if the small characters are being sized up - or if the bigger/human sized ones are being sized down, and maybe the stages themselves are actually just small. Sizing Ridley down would throw a wrench into that, and he'd look really off next to Samus, especially since Sakurai has already represented Ridley at a close to canon size in Brawl - not only would sizing Ridley down as a playable character look proportionally weird to Metroid fans, it would also look proportionally weird to SMASH BROS fans:
Also, you are omitting the first half of Sakurai's quote:
Sakurai: I think that would probably be pretty impossible. [Laughs] If we had put our best efforts into it, we may have been able to do it. But he might have been a little slow. Would that be all right? [Laughs]
And while Bowser has been huge before, he's also been seen kart racing at a more moderate size. When Bowser is gigantic, it's due to some form of transformation. Even in Galaxy 2, he says "Whoa, I'm huge!" in the game's opening, as if surprised by the fact, which indicates he normally isn't huge.
I have nothing against Ridley nor am I trolling. I just genuinely think he's too big, and sizing him down would remove one of the few things that makes him such an imposing, threatening looking character. A boss role is perfectly dignified, since you'd still see him and interact with him a lot.
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