Luigi's always been a semi-clone of Mario, I assume that's still the case. Havn't heard otherwise.

 I feel SSE to be full of awesome and win so far. About 25% done. When it comes out in your area, judge for yourself.

Are all of these epic sequences cut scenes that I'll see anyway? I mean, if I'll see them in SSE for sure, I don't want to watch. However, if they're not that easy to access, I'll watch them now.

Hmm, it's true Mario and Luigi were always partial clones, then in Melee they added a couple other partial clones and people liked it, now they add a couple other partial clones and even made them more unique and people have flown off the handle. It's like they wanted 50 unique characters that were from ALL their favorite games and on top of it all had a single player mode that put SMB3 to a shame, in the sidescrolling sense.

so wait
does the game come out sunday the 9th?
or gets shipped on the 9th
and sold on the 10th??????????????????????????????

 To be fair, Sakurai might have done that do himself, when he mentioned wanting to stay away from clones.  I think people are fine with (semi) clones when it's appropriate as in Mario/Luigi, Fox/Falco, Link/Young Link, Pikachu/Pichu.  In all those cases it was logical they'd share most attacks.

The one that annoyed people was Ganandorf, as generally people didn't feel the Cap. Falcon moves suited him.  So him still having that moveset is disappointing to say the least.  At least it looks more different and he transforms into Ganon, but still, some sword / magic attacks would have been great.

Also Toon Link shouldn't really have the same attacks, but whatever. 

Wolf is the only one I'm really hearing bitching about.  Another semi-clone of Fox.  It's makes sense, a little bit.  And yes he's heavier, slower, there's a lot of difference - for a clone.  The Landmaster FS is disappointing.  Krystal would have gotten a better reception, or at least would have if she used staff attacks, instead of being a semi-clone of Fox, same with Wolf.

I think people forget Melee did the same though, worse even. Mario, Luigi and Dr. Mario. So Wolf isn't precident setting or anything, just a little bit of a let down. 

Frankly, if they are going to continue with cloning, then I think fans would have accepted that (with slight disappointment) if that's what Sakurai had said instead and in fact, hoped for more.  Raichu (sp?), Dark Samus, an F-Zero Cap. Falc clone, etc.

Anyway,  I think the issue is beaten to death now.  Let's all agree that it's not ideal, but in the end, the more characters the merrier. Wolf, Toon Link, Ganondorf fans will be happy they are even in the game, and that's what counts. 

 Actually, the only things I can think of seeing so far that you read are names. Dialogue is basically non-existant. Just laughs, gasps, and other sounds. They can still be funny and are used to move the plot forward. I haven't looked at what IGN said exactly though, so I can't speak directly on it, but so far the only issue I could see is that, yes, if you don't like side-scrolling linear play, you may not completely like it. There are sometimes side rooms and such that you can go to though.