Nier: Automata fans haꦏd hopes for their favorite character making the jump to Smash dashed yesterday, all due to some less-than-idea🥀l tweet drafting from and also some tꦅrolling from one of their own.
In theꦛ run꧅-up to the release of the highly anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the folks running the Nintendo of America Twitter 🎃account set up some automated respons🐓es to fans tweeting about the game. One of these responses was a confirmation of New Horizons’ release date including the Twitter handle of the person requesting an update. This is where Twitter user entered theꦅ fray. If you’ve played ♕2017s Neir: Automata ෴or know anything about that game’s fandom, you can probably gu✤ess what happened next.
@2BforS﷽mash tweeted at Nintendo of America and got this automated reply, “@2BforSmash Confirmed! We’ll send you a note when #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons releases on 3/20.”
Anyone who’s even a little bit familiar with Twitter would, of course, read past the first two words of this reply and get the joke. On the other hand, half the fun of twitter is playing dumb for the sake of solid 𒊎meming in support of a good cause, like getting your favorite waifu added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Fans of Nier: Automata and its main character, the sword-wielding Yorha unit 2B, saw the tweet from an official Nintendo account that @2Bfo🧸rSmash so expertly baited out and blew it up.
The repl🃏ies to the tweet are chock full of faux-outrage and/or anguish over the realization that 2B will most likely not be added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. While 2B would certainly be a via🥃ble addition to Smash, Nintendo has added a sword-based character to the game so recently that the android’s addition seems unlikely. W𝔍ho can really say, though, there’s a Nintendo Direct next week and stranger things have happened.
This inc♑ident expos🐓es an inherent flaw in games like Smash and, to a lesser extent, Mario Kart. When ꦫa game starts aggregating characters from a bunch of different properties that game immediately disappoints some players by not including their favorite character no matter how obscure.
Well played @2BforSmash, well played.
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