it was with this comment about links power that i disagreed with. yes link is very powerful if used correctly, and he is more easy to learn to use then most others, but if playing against a decently good character the person playing as Link needs to be real good to not get schooled.skyman, i gotta agree with pretty much all of that, i know someone that was real annoying with jigglypuffs b-punch, they also used it to travel from one side of the screen to the other making it very hard to kill them. If i remember correctly i though links new third jump was somewhat weird, but i havent played in a while.
I think all the characters had at least one movie that was real powerful and the that you could exploit, but at the same time you could also exploit the characters use of that if you knew what you were doing. overall i think the original was fairly well balanced. my friends and i got so good that we would basically cheap kill people (kick them straight down when they were trying to come back) Ness is very good at this if you can control his third jump (which i could), Pikachu and Yoshi are also good at keeping people from coming back as well as DK cause he has that down punch.
I think the change in controls affected the play a lot, like with Ness it made his 3rd jump much harder to control.
I started mainly playing Zelda/Shiek (the ability to transfer based on the needed situation is huge) and I also used Mewto but to a lesser degree.
-Darth Simon