I was wondering what people here thinks about the artstyle of both games. Brawl's realism or Smash 4's more...colorful look? Definitely not realism. Try to ignore HD out of this.

Personally I liked Brawl's artstyle more as characters like Marth, Samus, Fox, Lucas, and a lot others look far better than their smash 4 counterpart imo. Though I understand that characters in Smash 4 like Mario, Pikachu, Toon Link, ZSS, and such might look better to others. That's not to say Smash 4's artstyle is bad though, I just prefer Brawl more.

What do you guys think?

I personally prefer Smash 4, and its focus on vibrant, primary colors.

I don't think a realisitc style works with characters like Mario, and the colors looked washed out in Brawl. Melee was a lot more colorful and vibrant than Brawl.

Smash 4 seems more colorful. I don't know if this is because of the better graphics on the Wii U, but the coloring makes me prefer Smash 4.

I love Smash 4's art style much more. The realism of Brawl was so dreary and unappealing, especially after all these years. I'm glad they returned to the poppy visuals.

I find Smash 4's artstyle easily more appealing to the eye thanks to the use of vibrant colors! Hopefully they'll never go back to Brawl's artsyle.

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All I know is that Mario really didn't work in Brawl, but he does seem to work in 4 (artstyle-wise).

Melee>Brawl>4

I like SSB4's art style although Brawl in Dolphin looks amazing

Seeing there are 50+ characters from all over the game world in smash 4 and they look so great in it, I go with it. Brawl was nice but this new style just works for pretty much any game character.