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Saying Brawl is the 'more casual' fighter than Melee is like saying Street Fighter IV is the 'more casual' fighter than Guilty Gear Xrd or Marvel. They're just different styles, and Melee looks more flashy. That's basically it.

Being more fast paced does not make a game more deep or anything. Brawl was more floaty and more about zoning than Melee, has a bit worse balance (though probably better if you just ban Meta), had tripping everyone likes to throw fits about, but both games are able to be played at high levels and imo neither one is "more credible" than the other. Melee at this point I'd say is better as its own thing because Melee is the best version of Melee out there and Brawl is just watered down 4/Ultimate, but at the time? Never played into that elitism.

Anyway don't really want to go too deep into that cause I don't want to derail your topic and you said in the write-up you didn't but yeah.

I'm just saying I'm not convinced FFX beats Majora even if Melee wins. FFX would have probably beaten Melee or Brawl but to me it's a really hard sell to say that Zelda anything is going to lose when it was shown to have won, no matter the circumstance. To me that narrative has always felt like we're just trying to blame Brawl for something for the sake of blaming Brawl for something.
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