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Smash Bros. Ultimate dev gives biggest hint yet of a Dragon Quest character being added to the roster

by rawmeatcowboy
04 February 2019
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Okay, stick with us on this one. There's a few steps in the trail of clues here, but it certainly has a satisfying payoff.

Remember back when Smash Bros. Ultimate dataminers were sifting through the game's code, and they found mention of character codenames? One of those names was 'Brave,' which had fans speculating that there would be some sort of Dragon Quest-related announcement for Smash Bros. Ultimate. Now more recently, Nintendo removed the 'Brave' codename in the source code of the game, which had fans wondering if perhaps it was a MacGuffin.

That brings us to the image above, which comes from Shinya Kumazaki, game supervisor for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He's posted up a picture of Kirby with a shield from the Dragon Quest series. As you can clearly see in his post, he flat out mentions 'Brave's Shield.' Fans are taking this as a flat-out confirmation that there will indeed be a Dragon Quest character added to Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Honestly, it's quite surprising to see Kumazaki post this up. It's hard to believe he's not aware of all the datamining/rumors out there. At best, he's completely blind to that discussion, and was just making a harmless post. At worst, he has knowledge of a Dragon Quest character being added to Smash Bros. Ultimate, and he's very clearly teasing that to fans following the dataminer info. You'd think if that's the case, he'd get in a bit of trouble for fueling the fire!

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