Scooter155
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I'm really impressed with the amount of new content added to the game -- either the team is a lot more talented than Brawl's or the staff is a lot larger. Tingle was the only Zelda assist in Brawl, for example, but now we have Tingle and Skull Kid and Midna and Ghirahim. The game feels so fleshed out and complete, but the "leaked" stage select screen worries me. That's an indefensibly terrible assortment. You'd think a game so rich in characters, items, and other bonuses would have a better variety of stages.
I think part of the characters and trophies is that Nintendo's being a little more forward-thinking about asset generation, especially since they're developing everything in HD now and it's a lot more work.
They're probably able to re-use or re-purpose assets from other games even more so now than ever before. The stages are one of the few areas where all the work has to be done from scratch pretty much no matter what, at least for a new stage. It makes sense they'd have bigger variety in characters, items, and trophies than in stages. It is a bummer though.