

Remixes of their themes from Metroid Prime both appear in Brawl. Ridley appears as a boss in Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary, alongside his Meta form. Ridley as he appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, many fans have created various mods for the game which allow Ridley to be playable in some shape or form, often using Charizard as a base. Instead of going through a lot of very convoluted hocus-pocus to make Ridley a fighter, I figured it’d be better to keep Ridley as it currently is, the correct way, and have it feel like a truly threatening presence. It'd have to be shrunk down, or its wings reduced in size, or be unable to fly around freely. I definitely know that Ridley’s a much-anticipated name for fans, but if we made Ridley as a fighter, it wouldn’t be Ridley any longer. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Sakurai again addressed the requests of fans for Ridley to be playable but shot down their wishes, stating: Would that be all right? įollowing the release of Super Smash Bros. If we had put our best efforts into it, we may have been able to do it. I think that would probably be pretty impossible. Masahiro Sakurai himself commented on the idea of a playable Ridley in an interview with Nintendo Power: The contentious nature of Ridley has spawned the " Ridley is too big" meme. However, some fans argued he was too large to be playable and to include him would mean scaling him down in size. On the Japanese website, he was the second-most requested character behind King Dedede. 5.3 Smash Tour ( SSB4 Official Game Guide)īefore Ultimate, Ridley was highly requested as a playable character in the series.
