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Sakurai answers some (old) questions- about Brawl! Posted on Augus These questions were part of a two-part article that was published shortly after Brawl's release, in the magazine Nintendo Dream, featuring a bunch of reader questions, which Sakurai answered. It looks like it took place 4 months or so after Brawl's release. I'll leave links to the scans at the bottom. I've only taken the ones I think are really interesting- ones relating to character selection, differences between Melee and Brawl, etc. by sourcegamingsoma 18 Comments Question: Why did Wolf become a playable fighter, and not Krystal? Sakurai: Wolf was a character that barely made it in due to time constraints. He was added because there was high demand for his inclusion on places like Smash Bros. Dojo!!", and he's a popular character. Of course, if he didn't have that backing him, I don't think I could have put him in. Among the characters with high popularity, I chose one who had a high possibility of becoming realized in the game, and as a result you could say Wolf was created. Host: Does that mean even if you wanted to add more female characters Krystal didn't have a realistic chance of being physically implemented into the game? Sakurai: For Krystal, we didn't have any of the technical modeling knowledge that we had cultivated with Fox and Falco, so it was like making a brand-new character from scratch. And because of the limited amount of time we had, creating Krystal wasn't realistically possible. On that point, with Wolf we already have some knowledge of how to model his character, and would require about 70% of the effort required to create a whole new character Host: I see. But we did get a lot of questions like, "Why wasn't Krystal a playable character?" Sakurai: It's not that I don't understand how that feels, but if you start saying that, it becomes "Why isn't Waddle Dee playable?" or Dry Bones, or Baby Peach. There'd be no end to it. Host: Well, that is true (laughs) Sakurai: In the end, the three playable characters in this game from "Star Fox" are Fox and Falco, and on top of that, Wolf, because he was popular and easy to create. On the other hand, if it was a situation where it wasn't easy to create this character, and we had to make him from scratch, "Star Fox" may not have had 3 representatives. So, please think of Wolf as a lucky inclusion.

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And Wolf isn't even a clone. The only moves he has that are even remotely similar to Fox's are his specials -- and even then, those are radically different.

All of his standard attacks are completely separate from Fox's (aside from a kicking b-air, but just how many other characters have one of those?), making his status not even that of a pseudo-clone like Lucas or Luigi.

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