I was going to read the whole thread before posting. But as a Ganonbrawl main I have to disagree. Falcondorf is disrespectful to the Zelda Series, to the Smash Series and to Sakurai himself. The Nerfs and the pathetic drive to keep Falcondorf alive could be taken as proof that Sakurai is completely biased despite anything he tries to say.
Anything I say about my salty complaints from now on should be taken with a grain of salt since I don't even have a 3ds.
I was going to buy one, but currently, i might as well buy a Wii U and a damn GC controller already.
I'm severely disappointed with how the game turned out.
It does not have a good online mode where you can have a good 1v1 .
(For Fun is FFA, Time Based and has items. For Glory is a mockery of the competitive community. It doesn't even have a Battlefield version, or as I would call, Alpha version to complement FD's Omega variants. Nice try though.)
Smash Run is not online either.
Custom Moves share the equipment slot, and is therefore banned online due to possible abuses. Because after all these menu pics of the day, turns out Sakurai and his team messed up and got the hypest gameplay addition in the game banned online. Good grief.
Bosses are meant to appear in games with plot or an adventure mode. Mid match? No. Thanks for banning Wily's Castle in all reasonable rulesets, Yellow Devil.
Characters that desperately needed buffs or even remakes didn't got em, but Pit? Sure, why not. Ike, Ganon and Samus players don't need buffs. In fact, give 'em a whack with the nerf bat. (Samus might be an exception.)
Speaking of characters, Falcondorf must be allowed to die. The only punch I saw Ganondorf doing was in his execution attempt in TP. (and it looks so much like a flameless Flame Choke that I'm not really sure)
Ganondorf always used Sword, Magic, both or High Cholesterol Pork to attack in the Zelda Series, it's not even justifiable.
Ike can't even have his brawl boxing style because they took it from him.
Little Mac had the potential to be top tier. He was even designed off a good idea and actually play with a solid counter style like in Punch-Out. The catch? ****ed up execution. Mac has no air game. In smash. Which is the most air focused fighting game in the world. He doesn't even have good edgeguard options and I'm pretty sure he's lacking in combos too since all of his moves have insane knockback. Basically, Mac is a boxer who can't keep momentum. And anyone who knows about boxing can tell you that without momentum you're not winning anything. Not to mention that Slip Counter is his best recovery move. F**king ******** if you ask me.
Clones. Sakurai took 'em from Melee to port them to Smash 4. The world makes sense again.
Lucina is inexcusable. She's basically a nerfed Marth. If her attacks were damaging, I'd say it's ok, but she deals 1% more damage on average than Marth... Hitting with the middle of his sword. Lame excuse is lame.
Regarding lame excuses, "Chrom won't get in because he would be too similar to Marth." Lucina is announced.
Mr. Sakurai, fire your PR staff.
Dark Pit had potential to be an good character. KI:U had enough moves for everyone. Too bad Palutena got most of 'em.
Not justifiable. At all. I know that advertising your previous work in a crossover is cool, especially if it's a good game. But you went completely overboard.
Regarding cuts, Snake was kinda expected. (Even though I didn't like it.) Wolf and Lucas? Not ok, at all. Lucas only had the same Special Names and Final Smash of Ness. Nothing else. Completely different gameplay and style. Not to mention that MOTHER is big in Japan or so I've heard. I'll never know. No export for me.
Wolf's removal was absurd. The most iconic and quotable Starfox villain got cut while Star Fox U is in development. Really smart.
Mewtwo is probably a lost cause at this point. Maybe Sakurai ran out of Ultra Balls, Maybe he didn't read the crazy **** he does in the manga with a spoon, (Which was a great possibility for a spacing character) Maybe he doesn't know Mega Mewtwo X is awesomely cool. Who knows. At this point, I don't even expect him anymore.
The Ice Climbers was a sad case. And I hate them. (Brawldorf main, that was a worse match-up than MK)
Ok, technical problems happen. Which leads to my next point, Why not make it exclusive to the New 3DS if you had framerate issues? No Johns. A fighting game needs to have fluid 60 FPS gameplay or it's screwed. No way around it. Not to mention it was a dumb idea from a commercial view.
We can only pick 2 songs per stage and the 3DS cartridge is not even half-full. Why not at least give us the option to use songs stored in the SD card? It's not an issue because we can use headphones to contain the sound if someone finds the song offensive.
Not to mention that all that free space and the cuts the developing team made for space and compatibility only mean one thing. Loads and loads of DLC. Despicable.
We may not make games. But we know when something's bad, and with the resources the development team had, we could've done better. At least hear the fan base before doing the DLC.
Warning: Salt filled wall of text above.