Red Leader

Fresh was exactly the term I was thinking of.

This is an AWESOME looking game. Style, story and substance, wrapped up with excellent graphics and sound.

Now I'm conflicted: kudos to Square for knowing that they're a mere shell of their former selves, or how dare they NOT move forward on something we at least know they won't screw up on (mostly because Matrix Software does the DS remakes)?

Apparently Square Enix doesn't like MONEY.

And don't want anyone to realize just how superior they are to FFXIII.

DONE. Where do I put my money? Can I pay an increased amount to have it immediately?

I've read a great deal about the mod and played it a fair amount, but what it boils down to is that they didn't really re-balance the characters by giving them more equality in attacks strength, speed or range.

Instead, they take the differences in the characters and embrace them to be even MORE exaggerated, so that each character is equal in how extreme they are.

Sheik, a master at combos, now links attacks more easily than ever to make up for a lack of power, while Zelda is just as slow but brings the power. To make both usable, they sped up the transformation so you can actually play both easily, instead of one or the other.

Ganon is slow, cumbersome and frustrating to play as, but his power - as before - is now immense, and his domination game from before is taken to new heights.

Mario, the ultimate balance character, has been rounded out so that his lack of specific strengths is now a boon rather than a burden.

Captain Falcon retains raw power and speed, but he was always about his ridiculous specials. Before, they were unrewarding and difficult to use, leaving him with the Knee and Stomp. Now his special attacks chain together beautifully, allowing you to use them proudly, just the way you'd expected to.

Link hits harder, Luigi's dash attack is still comical but now works perfectly, Peach is more effective in the air than ever, and the entire Star Fox team now has a workaround to make up for irritating stage-lip deaths.

They also made Sonic even more annoying than ever. He's all about annoyance, they just embraced a tiny bit more to bring up his level of play.

Not so much about making the characters play with similar strengths . . . more about enhancing their unique qualities to equal levels.

Were it now for that fancy title screen, you may have a hard time noticing you're even playing the mod.

@Barry

As a counterpoint to that, they've introduced an ability to Jigglypuff that lets her use a taunt to create one of a few select (ie. not overly powerful) item from thin air.

Basically, they've INCREASED the possible item use in the game.

I've been playing this for a while now, and it's actually pretty invisible once you get playing. You do discover, though, is that characters you played as before are just awesome in a very sensible way.

Play Ganon or Falcon with this and you'll see. Falcon is now EXTREMELY fun to play as without making it feel like an easy win.

Ah, don't worry charlie b. Hace probbably mains Metaknight and Snake, and finds he can only enjoy games through the constant, merciless beatdown of his friends with unbalanced characters.

And ONLY plays on Final Destination.

The game was excellent, but I THINK what he meant was that the game is not "$300 for the concept art book" good.

And that's certainly a fair statement.

I wonder if they all contain the same content, though . . . that's what I'd like to know.

Works for me! As long as they keep Luigi in as a bonus, I'm happy.