Mr Khan said:
I've always thought that a lot of these "Nintendo abandoned us!" screamers were more Rare fans then Nintendo fans, but blame Microsoft's acquisition of Rare and Rare's changes over the years on Nintendo. If you look at a lot of what they scream about, it was stuff that Rare provided at one point. Nintendo's largely been doing the same thing over the years, aside from some changes in hardware design philosophy.
Oh, and it is categorically and objectively false to declare that Brawl had an "overreliance on clones," especially if you're trying to make a comparison to Melee. Brawl had a cast of 35 and 6 clones (if we don't count the original characters: Luigi, Wolf, Falco, Ganondorf, Lucas, and Toon Link), Melee had a cast of 25 and 7 clones (Pichu, Roy, Dr. Mario, Luigi, Falco, Young Link, and Ganondorf), and in Brawl's case much more was done to distinguish the clones. Luigi grew still further away from Mario, and Falco and Wolf have more subtle differences from Fox this time then Falco did from Fox in Melee, Ganondorf and Captain Falcon both received changes that sent them in different directions. Lucas barely counts as a clone given that a lot of his Smash attacks function incredibly differently from Ness |
Brawl also had way more time to be developed, and yet even melee characters like Ganondorf remained clones. Its just lazy.
Time for hype