Most characters dont solely wield swords. Only advanced classes that do are swordsmasters, some lords and samurai. Lucina could technically be wielding a lance, Ike could be wielding a axe, Roy could use an axe, Corrin could use magic and staves... the list goes on.
Why, yes, it is. Though assuming those people are their base classes, they could only use swords. Design-wise, I'd say Roy and Ike are thier advanced class that can use axes whereas Lucina, Robin, Marth and Corrin are their base classes. Luckily, Sakurai uses the Dragonstone for Corrin and Tomes for Robin which is good. So it all lines up with fire emblem, I guess, just the Ike and Roy must hate diversity.
Fox is a great character, and much better than he was in Brawl. Duck Hunt is as similar to Snake as you get in this game, and most pro Snake players from Brawl flocked to 'em. If you want all of the characters fast just set up a 1 stock match vs a cpu and SD repeatedly, you only need 100 matches to unlock every character. Oh and a better alternative to Fox really depends on how you play, Shiek is the best character in the game so you should try Shiek, but just try every character until you find one you like.
I have trouble with fox. His range is so short, and I haven't really gotten to the level of combo yet. I really like fast ones though, it's like the scout. I feel like my "gamesense" or whatever is pretty good, my mind just isn't really to the point where I can just see a combo and execute it. I liked snake because he had that down throw and side tilt, those I could actually combo.
This game has much more combo game than Brawl, in fact most characters have throw combos. Even Bowser now has combos.
Then your game sense isn't that good. Fox does lack range, but he makes up for it in speed, combos, and power. His up and f smashes are great for killing and can be combo'd into.
I've only played the first Mystery Dungeon game, how does Super stack up to the original?
I can see why you'd feel that way, it is a fairly niche genre. I really liked the first one, so I figured I should try the new one.
Tbh Explorers of Sky is still the best of them all. SMD feels rushed story wise and I really didn't care for any if the characters besides my partner. The difficulty is a lot higher than the other games though. To put it this way, you fight a level 50 pokemon while you are only around 10 but they give you a fair amount if items to compensate for how unforgiving the game can be at times. I highly reccomend Sky if you never played it though.
