Sakurai on Smash clone haters: "A lot of them are children, it cannot be helped."

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Maybe they are right. Because the clone characters never really bothered me. The cast is huge enough, and to have only 4 duplicates of characters isn't a bad thing at all (Although Lucina moves faster but hits just SLIGHTLY less stronger than Marth, and Gannondorf is slower but stronger than Captain Falcon). Toon Link is considered a clone, but the strategy with both are very different IMO.

My biggest beef with Smash 3DS is the lack of Retro stages (Vanilla SSB Dreamland, Mushroom Kingdom II, Fourside) but the new stages are great (Ringside, Pit's stage, Wily's Castle, and Wario's stage).