Sakurai talks about the clone characters and the complaints about them
http://nintendoeverything.com/sakura...bros-wii-u3ds/

Does anyone know if Alph and Olimar have separate trophies? If I were to play through classic mode as Alph would I still get an Olimar trophy at the end of it?

Same goes for the Koopa kids I guess.

The Koopa kids trophies are randomly found. I suspect the same for Alph.

As for Trophies. I'm trying to get trophies of every fighter we've had in Smash. The only 2 I know of that I'm missing are Mewtwo and Ice Climbers. I saw Ice Climbers once in the shop but I didn't have enough coins to buy it and I haven't seen it since.

So Sakurai is actually speaking out on the clones... And ALL it seems to me is pretty damn demeaning, calling all critics children and that he alone knows best. Yeah Sakurai. Real mature. More like you just can't handle the criticism, asshat.

Alph's trophy is exactly the same as Olimars, you find it randomly in the shop.

Insulting people who disagree and saying things like "why don't YOU make a game then" is kinda his thing though. He's not very good at responding to anything like that an just comes across as patronising.

Yeah I guess it is...

Like, I get the cost issues. I genuinely do. But then they should have just left them as alternates instead of going through the effort of tweaking things to justify to themselves - and nobody else - why they should be separate. The cost (in terms of man hours maybe) for just those three could have conceivably even gone into just one unique character. Or revamping others like Ganandorf.

There were definitely better options, I wholly believe. But now that he sees what they chose isn't even being remotely well received, they're trying to justify it, but it is only come across as being rude and demeaning.

I really can't stand the nature of the response, or, hell, the purpose of it.

Hallelujah! I got all off Jigglypuff's alt attacks!
Of course, the only one I actually wanted, Hyper Voice, was the literal last one I get :lol

Still, her other moves are quite fun~

I don't know...I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he legitimately thinks the complaints are coming from children. Yeah, he could have been more polite about it, but it's not like half the roster is clones, there's only 4 out of 48 characters, so it's really not that big a deal that they're there.