Brawl would have had more Characters?

Relient K | July 04, 2008 | News | Wii

Sakurai, the man behind Brawl, said that there were many characters in Brawl, but many were cut, but he won't tell us which characters were almost in Brawl because it's in the past. But I for one want to know who they were.

In an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine in the United Kingdom, Masahrio Sakurai, director for Super Smash Bros. Brawl told the magazine that at one point, Brawl's roster was much larger.

The interview, which will be available in it's entirety this Friday when the magazine is released, has Sakurai saying "I had a lot more characters, for example..", but he said that as the game moved closer to completion, more and more characters had to be cut, leaving gamers with the roster the finished game has now.

However, Sakurai also said "but sadly I can't discuss which ones didn't make it", leaving the subject of the cut roster completely up to speculation.

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Magimaster | July 04, 2008

Smart man. He knows he's going to stir up the fanboys if he announces the characters which didn't make it. Personally, I would've liked it if they took stuff out from SSE and used that extra space for more characters.
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Remino52 | July 04, 2008

I wish we had more. But I guess the amount we have now is fine too.
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cbjones | July 04, 2008

The picture on that site makes it seem like there would have been near 200 playable characters. I doubt Nintendo would have went overboard like some poorly constructed Mugen game.
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Pyrazor | July 04, 2008

People hacked the game and got a look at the files in it. Basically it was the melee characters that were cut and a few more clones.
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Demonfurby | July 05, 2008

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People hacked the game and got a look at the files in it. Basically it was the melee characters that were cut and a few more clones.
Like whom?
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Aussie Legend | July 05, 2008

Sakurai is a smart businessman, he's not going to give you the whole lot at once. If he did, who would care about the next Smash game?
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Fishlock | July 05, 2008

Why cant they just make a freakin expansion pack? Come on Sakurai!
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Aussie Legend | July 06, 2008

Smash Bros. isn't really the type of game designed for 'expansion', he'd then have to put them into Subspace somehow, and game info into the log thing etc.
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  black doom | July 06, 2008
  
  Not really if I buy them I don't want to have to unlock them.
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Big A2 | July 07, 2008

The obvious one that was taken out is Geno. Ridley might have been a character but was thought to have worked better as a subspace boss, and there might have been some others taken out due to copyright issues.