Lingering Hopes:
-Ridley?
-Stock battles in online battles with anyone.
-Most balanced game in the series, without characters that are miles ahead or miles behind the majority of the cast.
-Lucina and similar clones are not as identical to their original character as they sound like.
-Improved stage builder with less limitations, and the ability to create make more complex stages.
-Ridley?
Existing Positives:
-Freaking handheld version.
-Console version anyway.
-Stable 60fps in both versions.
-Several characters that I wanted.
-Characters that I didn't want look amazing.
-Every newcomer has a completely unique special feature/gimmick/move that separates them from the rest of the cast even beyond just having new moves.
-Every newcomer gets a trailer.
-The roster is gigantic, and surpasses all expectations, even with no further characters from what the leak revealed.
-Extra versions of Final Destination, I'm sick of seeing that same stage all the freaking time, even casual players spam it like crazy.
-Insane amount of control options.
-Improved online play, with separate game modes for every play style.
-Customizable characters.
-I can ****ing play as myself.
-Gameplay looks fast and exciting.
-Removal of tripping.
-Countless tweaks to existing mechanics for an overall better game.
-New visual effects, for extra flashyness and eye-candy.
-Transformation characters separated, leaving space for full movesets, and making them overall more viable on their own.
-Many alternate costumes.
-New mechanics added to classic mode.
-Extremely iconic third party characters.
-Minor redesigns to more than a few characters, both in appearance, and in moveset.
-Very colorful graphics, without being oversaturated and plain.
-Heavier gravity than in Brawl, and a more noticeable fast-fall...
-... While still keeping aerial combat very smooth, and offstage play a very viable option.
-Faster rolling dodges.
-Most item additions seem very interesting and fun to use.
-A lot of pretty stages with interesting layouts, and complex interactive features.
-Every newcomer is mostly very faithful to their original games in both moves and special gameplay features, with little things that were made up or changed for the sake of change.
-Link seems like an overall better character, and has awesome additions like his iconic jump slash, and backflip.
-Donkey Kong can roll.
-Bowser acts more like Bowser, and has some absolutely sick changes to some of his moves and overall speed that make him far more formidable and intimidating.
-Samus's forward smash freaking explodes.
-Many changes to Pit, every single thing I disliked about him is gone, to the point he's a potential main for me.
-Pikmin are more manageable, sacrificing Pikmin to recover adds extra depth to the character.
-Luigi can still adjust his nose, good job Sakurai.
-Kirby has a chargeable hammer.
-****ing Jet boots are the most badass addition ever, Zero Suit Samus in general seems far awesomer and fun to use.
-New moves for Sheik look very useful and fun to use.
-Yoshi freaking jumps out of his shield now.
-Peach has a rainbow attack. A rainbow attack.
-Pikachu has a healthier yellow color.
-Toon Link's hair no longer looks like an oversized moth, but a gloriously smooth banana.
-Ike looks like a ****ing powerhouse now. Further differentiating him from Marth in terms of appearance, and hinting at his playstyle just by looking at him.
-Captain Falcon. Just Captain Falcon.
-Separate Charizard, good job.
-I can't stop laughing at Wii Fit Trainer's inclusion, and how she moves.
-I can't stop shaking in exciting at Mega Man, and how he moves.
-Villager's moveset is hilarious, cute, and very original.
-Rosalina was a potentially boring character but ended up as one of the most unique ones ever.
-Little Mac is made out of hype, very simple moveset, but some stupidly different properties to everyone else. K.O. bar is stupid awesome.
-Greninja looks stupidly agile and fast, a completely random, but very solid addition.
-****ing Miis, can customize everything, face, appearance, clothing, THREE ****ING DIFFERENT MOVESETS.
-Palutena is the best thing ever, crazy amount of moveset options.
-Pac-Man, didn't want him until he was in, and now I'm in love. Seeing all third parties+Mario is super special and makes me feel warm and happy, childhood me would be pleased.
-Robin is the perfect new Fire Emblem character, the series has more to offer than swordsmen, a mage was very needed, and the addition of an "ammo" oriented character is very welcome.
-I exploded when I saw Shulk, monado mode changes are an excellent idea, and I'm so freaking glad his Final Smash is a chain attack rather than something boring but very logical like Monado Buster.
-WE'RE GETTING A NEW ****ING SUPER SMASH BROS GAME.
