I will be honest. I never liked Ness. I do not like the way he looks, the way he moves, or the way he resembles Jimmy Neutron, but that's just me. I would have been OK with him being in Brawl as long as I did not have to use him much for unlocking stuff.
Anyway, today's DOJO update reads: "There’s a character named Ness who has appeared in the Smash Bros. series up until now, and Lucas is very similar. They are from the same family of PK users." I have seen some speculation in the forums about Ness still having a chance, but the evidence is quite clear. Why would Sakurai describe Ness in this manner unless he were talking about SSB4 for some odd reason? If he were describing SSB4, then yeah, Ness would still have a chance for Brawl, but it is beyond me as to why Sakurai would include a character in Brawl and then pre-announce his absence for a game that has not even begun development. On top of all that, Lucas is essentially Ness with a different name.
Ness will not be in Brawl as a playable character. Sorry, folks. :)
UPDATE: Apparently, many fans believe there was a translation discrepancy on the English page of the DOJO. I find this extremely hard to believe for two reasons. (1) The English page is second most important (under Japanese), so it seems odd that a mistake would appear there of all places. (2) Fans are simply up in arms because a favorite character is on the verge of being declared dead. It intrigues me that only under these circumstances do smashers question the translation of the text on the DOJO. I still say Ness is gone until someone can provide some sort of proof to invalidate the English text.
UPDATE #2: SamuraiPanda translated the Japanese for everyone in the recent episode Show Me Your News podcast. It is abundantly clear now that Ness is gone.
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I... worship you
Man oh man am I glad that little punk is out. I mean, he's got sparkles and everything, but once you get passed that, it just comes down to a little thug wanna be with a disjointed baseball bat.
You know what, it probably is right...he's probably gone. But that's just "probably", and I still won't believe it until it's confirmed.
Like you're doing with Captain Falcon. =P
Good point, William. However, Ness was never confirmed to begin with, so I don't see this as a major contradiction. If you can offer a different interpretation to the phrase "until now", I may withdraw my statement. ;)
I don't like Ness, either (in fact, I would prefer him to not return), but here's what I think. Ness is not officially confirmed, nor is he officially confirmed to not be in.
There has also been something going around, stating that the English translation is a bit off (in regards to the "up until now" part), and that the Japanese, and the Spanish and French translations, state it in a different way.
This update either confirms the replacement of Ness or the simple occurence of a semi-clone, the same way luigi is a semi mario clone. Ganondorf feels totally different from CF and yet they're clones. Both Ness and Lucas sharing the same moves does not necesarily mean that Ness is out, for all we know, Lucas could feel absolutely different; there are a lot of factors that differentiate characters, movesets being the most obvious of them.
In any case, Lucas is looking maddd good right now. And I don't really care if Ness is out; I personally think Lucas is looking a lot better (love the blond hair!)
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