In reality Sony does not give a rats ass who thinks it is a copy nor does any other company care unless they get sued. Now on to ignoring this game and hoping for Sony to keep pleasing their fans and announcing exclusives I prefer. Good for Sony I hope MS learns from them come E3.

As long as its better, and Sony please copy NSMB please.

Haleluiah, salvage is complete! here you go Sal!

This is a good post. Indulge me

Get a copy of Brawl for cheap, try it and you'll instantly see what I mean. As for not being Smash bros, obviously I would never advocate for an artist to work with that in mind. No, just develop your own thing without being too similar to your competition.

I agree. But at the same time, don't you find that within that line of thinking, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat are vastly different despite their genre similarities?

I'm a SF fan, but I'm not really a MK fan. But I couldn't say the same here since they could essentially be the same game!

I can tell you that you're right. In the style of smash, there are only so many ways a character can grab. That's why every smash char has a unique way to grab. If these Sony characters were to be added to Brawl, they would fit right in

BUT (the big but), did you notice that there is a big difference between how characters grab in SF, MK, SC, Tekken and Smash? It's because they're all unique grabbing mechanics and choreography styles. You just can't say that about PABR versus Smash. They're too similar in style. Yes, between the characters everyone is unique, but between the two franchises (PABR vs Smash), they are all too similar.

If you compare the camera dynamics between the 3 versions of Smash, you'll see a clear difference at least between SSB and Melee. This one's kind of important.

There was a mode in Melee called Giant melee, and the camera dynamics between giant characters and normal characters were different. I was expecting that kind of difference here somewhat.

I wish you'd played smash, you would know exactly what I'm talking about when referring to speed. In Melee, there are a few extra modes, one of them if I remember is called lightning Melee, where the characters moved super-fast. It was lots of fun, but it affected the playstyle of the game.

Yeah, this stuff is all cool. As for Hades though, this is much too reminiscent of the pokemon level in Brawl:

That legendary pokemon in the back there really interferes with the stage alot, much like Hades .

Every character in brawl has uniqueness, unique movelists, different physical feel, unique stages, music and art. PABR components could easily fit into brawl as an expansion.

What would really distinguish two fighter games are size ratios, speeds, art direction (brush strokes, pen strokes, dusty, muddy) and those kind of things that would really make you see, oh yeah, that's a different game.

I love your inner fanboy, and I have him too. Even though they are different, they understand each other.

I was going to mention that Samus blew up an entire planet, Ganon is pure evil, and Toon Link once stabbed a guy in the brain, but what's the point?  You gotta pick which battles are worth fighting.  That wasn't one of them.

Nice going, guess I'll have to get to work on my response

Hm, can't say I'm displeased by the similarities between this game and Smash Bros. I'm of the opinion that we need more copying (of good concepts). Metroidvania is a good example of obvious inspiration but it's totally acceptable because the result is pure awsomeness!

With that said, I'm really not interested in PASBR. From what I've seen there isn't enough new stuff in this game to catch my interest. I'm not too fond of how you have to "level up" to be able to smash an opponent. I find the game's current state quite bland, but that might change. The biggest problem though, is definitely my lack of connection to Sony characters. On the other hand I understand why this game is a wet dream for PlayStation fans.

SCEJ made one of the best 3D platformers to this day, ape escape

one of the best racers , GT

One of the best rhythm games pararappa / u jammer Lammy / patapon

Two of the BEST games ever made , shadow of the colossus, ICO

They created some cult classics like legend of dragoon and siren

They co created one of the best golf / tennis arcade games every bodies golf/tennis

they co created demons souls and dark cloud, also white knight chronicles and rouge galaxy

Other games they created are gravity daze, Echocrome , and other innovative stuff like eye of judgment

The reason why they don't work on ps3 all that much is because Sony are fucking idiots, they force them to make portable titles instead they save console games for the graphical generic games

Now tell me what did SCEA do? 

Uncharted, the same bloody "game" 4 times already.

God of war .... No point in mentioning how repetitive this is getting.... Woohoo new one is coming... Again

Jak and Daxter, their best game, thrown to shit because its not "mature" enough.

Co developed ratchet and clank , I bet you no longer care about this game anyway it's milked beyond belief

Co developed Resistance , lol generic shooter number 192982819

SOCOM (the crappy ones) lol do I need to explain?

Sport champions, demond quest, start the party,  the shoot and countless crappy move games

Now give me a valid point of why SCEA is better than SCEJ  even though they're the only developers allowed to work on Sonys in house resources while abandonding support for SCEJ AND SCEE (have you seen what happened to THe getaway... Yeah they didn't want to waste money on it so they shifted their resources to ,,,,,playstation move )

Wait a second.................

The only way to kill other players in the game is by using your Super Moves? Ok I was excited to play this due to the frantic fun I was planning on it having but if the only way to defeat people is builing up to do a Super move and no one takes damage other than that...............wow thats way lame.