User blog comment:Cloudthehedgehog12/Top 5 Worst things about Brawl/@comment-1669199-20111020204214

5) A year or two sounds pretty long in terms of replay value. In that case, wouldn't it actually be a good thing?

4) Toon Link is essentially a cell-shaded Young Link, its not that drastic a change from Melee. Also, Roy wasn't in Brawl.

3) I don't see why Snake coming from a usually M-rated series is a bad thing. Its not the first time characters like Snake appeared in Teen rated games, and no one complained when those games came out. Mega Man, Sora, Spyro wouldn't work because they never once appeared on ANY Nintendo consoles. Bomberman appeared on a few, but hardly anyone remembers him these days, let alone acknowledge his existence. Snake works because he's appeared in at least 5 games that were on Nintendo consoles and handhelds, and I would also like to inform those that don't know is that Snake originally started out on the NES.

2) This kind of behavior is nothing new to online gaming. People do this kind of crap all the time.

1) (I heard this somewhere a long time ago, but I don't remember where, or even if its correct. You can always verify by going to the Smash Wiki) Sonic was basically a last-minute addition to the Brawl cast before they made up their minds on which characters they wanted to cast, so Sonic showing up at the end is something of a nod to this. And hey, at least Sonic did show up in the story, I think people should be grateful for at least that much.