Poll of the Day > How come Smash Bros. for the Wii U has no Adventure mode?

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I really liked the progression mode from Brawl in the Subspace Emissary mode.

I loved the Subspace Emissary. Apparently not a lot of people did.

I expect it was a combination of SSE having a very mixed reception (a lot of people wanted an Adventure Mode more like Melee's, and as interesting as fleshing out the idea was, Smash just doesn't make a great action platformer given how many characters aren't all that good at jumping) and both games being a little rushed on account of developing it for two systems and trying to make them meaningfully unique (while not making one clearly superior to the other). Putting different, sizable adventure modes into each game would have been a ton of extra work, putting the same one into both would have discouraged double purchases, and based on SSE's lukewarm reception, there wasn't really enough demand to justify dealing with that decision and extra development time on top of the substantial existing workload.

At least, that's my guess.

Dmess85 posted...

I really liked the progression mode from Brawl in the Subspace Emissary mode.

that was one of my favorite parts of Brawl

Because the the SSE ended up being a big time and resource sink for the developers where most of the content (including cinematics) ended being cut from the final game.

aHappySacka posted...

Because the the SSE ended up being a big time and resource sink for the developers where most of the content (including cinematics) ended being cut from the final game.

That too. While the cascade of "They wasted their time on SSE instead of giving me *insert obscure character here*" wasn't particularly reasonable given that nobody cared about whatever niche character the person in question was fanboying, it did take a very, very significant amount of resources.