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KateMarsh posted...

And for what it's worth, I think Brawl's roster was probably the most solid overall. It added most if not all of the remaining genuine "Nintendo All-Stars," had little if any fluff, and the third party characters were kept reasonable.

That's not to say it isn't cool to get Rosalina and Ridley and even silly stuff like Wii Fit Trainer in further installments, but by the time we got all of Ultimate's DLC the roster kinda started to look like a 12-year-old listing every character he could think of. Brawl's roster felt so much more concise.

I do kinda sorta agree with this? I think there's a few essentials in 4/Ultimate (Villager, Mega Man, Simon Belmont - I know the latter two are third party but they're so quintessentially Nintendo that they don't feel like guest characters to me whereas Sonic/Snake do) but for the most part Brawl has all the A-listers and B-listers covered and doesn't feel like it's stretching itself to come up with ideas. I actually do genuinely think Ultimate's roster is teetering on the edge of being too big - otherwise cool characters get completely lost in the shuffle which is not how I felt in Brawl.