{"id":109740,"date":"2020-02-29T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/sora_named_most_wanted_smash_bros_ultimate_dlc_fighter_in_recent_japanese_poll"},"modified":"2020-02-29T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T07:30:00","slug":"sora-named-most-wanted-smash-bros-ultimate-dlc-fighter-in-recent-japanese-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/29\/sora-named-most-wanted-smash-bros-ultimate-dlc-fighter-in-recent-japanese-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Sora Named &#8220;Most Wanted&#8221; Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC Fighter In Recent Japanese Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f8a1997772b06\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f8a1997772b06\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Kingdom Hearts\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f8a1997772b06\/kingdom-hearts.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f8a1997772b06\/kingdom-hearts.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Kingdom Hearts\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/rumour_nintendo_wanted_sora_in_smash_bros_ultimate_but_got_rejected_by_disney\">rumour<\/a> Nintendo had previously approached Disney about adding the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/kingdom_hearts_3d_dream_drop_distance\">Kingdom Hearts<\/a><\/strong> protagonist Sora to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> and was rejected by the American company&#8217;s Japanese branch.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Disney isn&#8217;t necessarily keen on the character&#8217;s inclusion in Nintendo&#8217;s all-star brawler, it hasn&#8217;t stopped fans located in Japan from nominating Sora as their &#8220;most wanted&#8221; DLC character for the latest entry in the series. In a poll run by <em>Inside-Games<\/em> recently, the Kingdom Hearts hero was well out in front with 290 votes. The runner-up was Dante from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/devil_may_cry\">Devil May Cry<\/a><\/strong> series and the hunter from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/monster_hunter_generations_ultimate\">Monster Hunter<\/a><\/strong> series was in third place.<\/p>\n<p>While it is just a small sample, it&#8217;s still interesting to see what other characters players are interested to see added to the game \u2013 even if it includes Geno and some anime heroes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sora (Kingdom Hearts) \u2013 290 votes<br \/>Dante (Devil May Cry) \u2013 91 votes<br \/>Hunter (Monster Hunter) \u2013 80 votes<br \/>Rex (Xenoblade Chronicles 2) \u2013 74 votes<br \/>2B (Nior Automata) \u2013 70 votes<br \/>Crash Bandicoot (Crash) \u2013 65 votes<br \/>Waddle Dee \/ Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby) \u2013 64 votes<br \/>Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) \u2013 59 votes<br \/>Arle (Puyo Puyo series) \u2013 56 votes<br \/>Steve (Minecraft) \u2013 55 votes<br \/>Saber (Fate series) \u2013 53 votes<br \/>Kirito (Sword Art Online) \u2013 50 votes<br \/>Hakurei Reimu (Touhou Project) \u2013 42 votes<br \/>Goku (Dragon Ball) \u2013 32 votes<br \/>Geno (Super Mario RPG) \u2013 26 votes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, we even ran our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/feature_so_whos_next_for_super_smash_bros_ultimate?page=2\">own poll<\/a> to see who should receive the next invitation. Interestingly Rayman, Waluigi, and Sora received the most votes.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see Sora added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? Anyone else? <em>Tell us what you think in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, there was a rumour Nintendo had previously approached Disney about adding the Kingdom Hearts protagonist Sora to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and was rejected by the American company&#8217;s Japanese branch. Even if Disney isn&#8217;t necessarily keen on the character&#8217;s inclusion in Nintendo&#8217;s all-star brawler, it hasn&#8217;t stopped fans located in Japan from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}