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PM is pretty mediocre; I only play it for the mostly free money it provides and its a fun diversion. Plus I get to be Bowser and Bowser is fun.

I will always transition fully to the new games when they come out and Smash 4 is no exception - You should do the same!

Don't agree. Smash 4 looks pretty poorly put together. But whatever.

I played it, it was fun as hell.

Out of curiosity, why do you think P:M is mediocre?

It breaks a lot of common-sense design decisions.

It has arbitrary levels of skill required for the different characters, like they were designed by different people (go figure). This means MY project M is different than YOUR project M because a character like Bowser or Diddy is easy sauce while others are technical as hell. There's no reason for this. It's arbitrary.

The combos are all auto-combos. This isn't like Melee combos where they could change drastically based on SDI. Combos in this game are virtually the same thing every time. If they aren't, you're playing wrong.

Watch a pit play; it's the same manuevers on loop and the game becomes about doing the same loops over and over again. This opposed to the Melee situations that involved various moves and setups that would lead to different combos.

They consistently nerf characters by bringing them down rather than bringing others up, and the way they do it is pretty bonkers. Bowser's up+b to ledge was removed and replaced with a slight possibility of him suiciding.

There's still a possibility of him doing it based on his position and momentum, so their design decision was "We don't like it, but we'll leave it in and make players memorize how long to hold the control stick and in what direction based on their position. If they mess up, they SD". That's dumb.

The stagelist is balls at virtually every tournament and for some reason has multiple bans (WTF).

Recoveries are all over the freaking place because they weren't overseen by a single designer

There is virtually no footsie in the game whatsoever; they made everyone into a fox-style clone where attacking a shield is safe. If you attack a shield and get punished it is YOUR fault. This is dumb and wasn't the case in Melee; it took half a decade for peopel to figure out how to get around shielding opponents and even then could only do it in specific circumstances.