i think you just pick your character, then you pick an assisting character that can also be 2nd player. i mean, wouldn’t you perfer to be able to pick BOTH characters instead of just 1? also, if you can pick BOTH characters then you can probably have the cpu as 2nd player, to. like, the player in the story were seeing probably picked kirby as there main and mario as there cpu assistant. mario got shot cause hes a cpu and so you can battle petey yourself, but if mario was human controled, you would probably both fight petey with a slightly diferent stratagy. see what im saying?