You did. "NASB got backlash for how it TRIED to stand out from Smash, not for playing things too safe or pandering to Hbox or whatever." NASB did not get backlash for trying to stand out from Smash. That's just not true. Nick Brawl got backlash for genuinely being a flawed game. What you mentioned is apart of the reason but it's also just for the fact that Nick Brawl had little to it and a lot of unstable things that stayed in for months. Numerous infinites (there's still infinites) and badly designed characters like April is a bad look for the game. The online, one of the most marketed things about the game that could've gave Nick something on its name, was trash for so long too. There's not even any crossplay a whole year after launch...
Btw, I agree with the wacky ideas you're all saying. That's cool.
Yes, I said that in response to you saying that people don't like NASB because it's too similar to Melee and doesn't forge a unique identity of its own. That's wrong. I'm sure
some people said that, but generally speaking, you don't hear people calling NASB "Melee but worse" because that's not what it is. (If they do, they'd probably call any platform fighter that draws even superficial inspiration from Melee the same thing because they don't play platform fighters.) What I'm saying is that NASB didn't become an object of mockery because of how similar it is to Smash; if anything, precisely how it DIFFERS from Smash has contributed to its reputation, and that includes lack of polish and unique balancing issues. People don't hate it
because it's not Smash (well, at least I hope not), but they also don't hate it for just being an uninspired Melee clone.
But eh, circular conversations do be circular. At this point, people are gonna have their reasons for relentlessly hating this game and that's their problem.
