The video game questions thread!

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What the title says! This is where you post any queries you have regarding gaming! If you wish to answer any of the questions here… well maybe. The whole point here is to ask random questions without expecting an answer, but if you wish to answer, please do put in a more similarly fun answer as well that still abides to the rules.

As for mine… why exactly is it called Super smash brothers? I understand smash because it's a fighting game, but why brothers, if there are some femal characters and most of them aren't even relatives? I mean if I had a choice I'd call it nintendo smash tournament or something like that, but still, why brothers?

 

[Setsuna]

As for mine… why exactly is it called Super smash brothers? I understand smash because it's a fighting game, but why brothers, if there are some femal characters and most of them aren't even relatives? I mean if I had a choice I'd call it nintendo smash tournament or something like that, but still, why brothers?

I always got the idea that this was just to make it easier to understand/associate with being a game with Nintendo characters, since the title is so close to Super Mario Brothers. There are female characters but in the first game the only female character was Samus (though you could make a good argument for Jigglypuff!) and it wasn't until games like Metroid Zero Mission or Metroid Prime that they seemed to be fully transparent about Samus being a female since that reveal was still meaningful for people back then. I think it actually makes a surprising amount of sense for back then, but it's something that doesn't really age as well now that we have characters like Bayonetta in Smash. Keeping the name the same just makes it less confusing than changing it to a name that'd be more accurate nowadays.

Edit: As for my question, there seems to be a trend in some JRPGs to have this really elaborate side-mode minigame, things like Queen's Blood in the FF7 remake, Wheels in Sea of Stars, or Triple Triad in FF8 and FF14, to the point where people could say it's a common aspect of the genre and could even be more fun than the actual main game they're already playing. So how did something like that catch on and why was so much effort put into it? I think it's super neat.