There's a lot of talk concerning whether or not the Smashville stage means that there'll be an Animal Crossing playable character or not. On the one hand, there's never been a stage in Smash Brothers not also represented by a character, but now that we have the Assist Trophies, it could just mean they're paying tribute to one of those,


I also had to look up who that dog was this morning since I've never played AC.