So IGN boards are bitching and moaning that there are "only" 35 playable characters. Smashboards appear to be down...?
Meanwhile we're seeing that SSE may be about 9-10 hours long on first playthrough... 59% = 5:47.
So personally, I'll take a 10 hour single player + co-op adventure mode over a handful more characters.
Sad that Mewtwo gets cut, but all the other old movesets are back... Plus some people seem to have already forgotten about Pit, Diddy Kong, Wario, Pikmin and Olimar, Charizard/Ivysaur/Squirtle, Lucario, Snake, Sonic, Dedede, Meta-Knight and the rest. Wait until you've played as any of these characters for at least 1 second before complaining that Ridley, K. Rool, Mewtwo and Krystal didn't make it in.
ROB is the perfect "WTF final character." He's important to Nintendo history, but he's fantastically weird and retro. Just like G&W.
Supposedly a WW/PH styled young Link is on that 35 character (now basically confirmed) roster. I've GOT to see that.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.