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Muffinz0rz posted...

Part of me wants to call it lazy, which it kinda is, but I'm going to hold off on passing judgment until we see how many more new characters there are. So far it's Ridley and Inkling and "technically" Daisy.

That said Sakurai also did say something like "we don't have that many new characters" or whatever he said in the trailer, so idk

While I would guess the engine is based off of Smash 4 (which is good), it's still heavily modified, which means things have to be tweaked for nearly 70 characters on an individual basis, and plenty got small move reworks. And while characters like Young Link and Pichu aren't "new", they still had to be designed from the ground up with new assets, considering they weren't in Smash 4 at all. So while only 2 "new" characters exist, saying it lazy is an insult to the huge amount of work that has gone into the game.

Personally, I could have done without Pichu and others, but it's admittedly exciting to see the game be an ultimate compilation of all things Smash.
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