Now you are just reaching. The discussion ends here.

1.       Lucina could have been an alt like Female Robin why did she have to have a slot?   For fucks sake

2.        That makes sense, however, I feel as though if you’re making something of the caliber of Smash you are practically required to add x amount of characters for advertising and gabber (Example; You can now play as X many characters! ), which seems to me that Sakurai couldn’t reach that quota and threw a few  clones and weak characters in to make it seem like a large rooster.  Doing tricks like separating Zelda and sheik and Samus and Zero suit also was a part of this I assume.   I also like FE and it’s one of my favorite SRPGs, but seriously 4 is over kill.  I think Ike should have been cut if they are doing the cutting thing like they did to Lucas, Wolf, Snake ect and made Lucina an alt and kept Robin.  Only 2 slots, but really 4 characters for the fans.   As for the sales, there aren’t getting more for including 4 FE and 3 KI, but they are limiting their appeal and alienating old school Nintendo fans.

3.       I don’t consider online an innovation.  In should have been there in Brawl and it’s still too flawed imo to be one of the brightest things about the game.  Classic and Solo are overhauled but still aren’t very interesting to me or anyone really =/.  Event modes are old modes so IDK.  The ledge mechanic is new, but like I said before a lot of the mechanics in melee and some in brawl were removed (Gliding, z-dashing, Directional influence ect. ) it’s more like they were just trying to make it as simplified as they could, without making it a press A to fight game.

4.       Yep.

5.       EarthBound clearly has a fan base that is larger.  Look at how well the rerelease sold on Wii U, at its amped up price.  Not to mention they haven’t had a stateside game since the 90s, where as fire Emblem has had time and time again to increase it’s fans and popularity and only recently hit it lucky with the new game and it’s anime-equse characters and dating sim functions.  Also how is Wolf not original?  Besides his smash he is nothing like Fox or Falco.  I’d say Ike, Luigi, Gannondorf, and Toon Link are far less original yet they’ve stayed for more installments.   Don’t think 4 FE chars is going to make the sales of FE or Smash increase.  I mean Fire Emblem has had free Smash advertising since Melee and the franchise is still niche at best.   Cutting characters based on popularity makes no sense, Duck Hunt hasn’t made a game since the 80s, and Megaman  is dormant as fuck =/

6.       Yeah, but the thing is it replaced something that was far cooler and funnier.   Snake’s codec’s was a far better and more thought out Easter egg.

7.       It’s not just that, its Nintendo not putting in the same effort they did 6 years ago.  It says a lot to the overall quality of the game as a whole. 

8.       Yes I know the stats are more balanced, but why replace the icons with generic orange, blue and green tiles when they could have added more Nintendo lore to the game.   As it stands, this game feels more like a stripped smash bros game than a true homage to Nintendo’s history. 

9.       Brawl has more new ones,  a lot of them are ones from brawl.

10.   I doubt it took any effort to make the online better.  Online like this existed since the 90s and the Wii U is definitely up for the job.  But I hardly count this game as balanced, there are still plenty of useless characters like Olimar and Zelda, and OP ones like Diddy Kong, Little Mac and Sheik.  I can’t see how you honestly think that an usable online mode in 2015 is worth the removal of a fan service cut scenes and a whole story mode. 

 That makes sense, however, I feel as though if you’re making something of the caliber of Smash you are practically required to add x amount of characters for advertising and gabber (Example; You can now play as X many characters! ), which seems to me that Sakurai couldn’t reach that quota and threw a few  clones and weak characters in to make it seem like a large rooster.  Doing tricks like separating Zelda and sheik and Samus and Zero suit also was a part of this I assume.    I doubt they would have let it slide if they didn't add those clones, which could have been poteintially newer and more excity character designs.  For a franchise that isn't at the bottom of a barrel.  

PS Allstar is pretty good. Too bad no one really gave it a chance... Who do you use? (please don't say Kratos)