SnakeFighter64
Smash Obsessed
Not to mention. Then you have characters like Villager and Inkling. Plus Bowser Jr. There’s no real way to organize their costumes and what on earth would they even do for BJ and the Koopa Kids? A lot of these characters would need completely newly designed costumes.....And let's not forget PASBR had 24 characters--Ultimate has over 70. I will say there are some--strange decisions. Why remove the Fire Mario alt color, when you can remove his Waluigi one? It fits Luigi more to have a Waluigi alt. Or get rid of Wario, since Wario's in the actual game. Little things like that are weird. Also, I would have much preferred Mega Man having alternate outfits of those in his final Smash, like EXE and Volnutt. I tend to care less about alt colors more than alt costumes to the point where I never use alt colors. It is, however, harder when it comes to third parties. Sega really dropped the ball with Sonic's alts--would have been nice if he could be the color of his friends (yellow, black, pink, purple) and have their shoe designs. And I try to avoid using the Random button to avoid getting alt colors (some look absolutely hideous), and instead use a random number generator. But I do play Lemmy, rather than Bowser Jr, Shirtless Shulk, and do plan on playing Three and Eight, rather than Hero's default. I like the variety alt costumes provide more than alt colors.
As it is, I don't think the number of alt costumes/colors is the problem--more the decisions made, some by Sakurai, and others that are out of his control, restrained by second/third party restrictions.
Ok. Time to fan-pick. Be back in a Muppet.