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If SSF2 were an entirely 3D game, just like Smash Bros.
I would be fine with these changes, since that's usually what cloning does.
Some animations are different, sure, the taunt is not-the-best but I'm willing to put that aside, among others
But, this is not a 3D Game.
This is SSF2.
A sprite-based game that has shown so much creativity time and time again of characters, movesets and animations all leading up to BETA. In SSF2, you can't exactly get away with cloning that way because each frame has to be made from scratch, re-using animations doesn't fly in this house unless it's completely intentional.

there's Pichu.
When I first saw the splash card for Pichu, during the stream, I was ecstatic. Pichu was one of my favorite characters in Melee just because of how cute and silly he was, and next to his reveal was more Arena Modes which blew me away because I really like Arena Mode and--I'm rambling, back on track.
But then I watched gameplay.
All the unique animations he had in Melee just weren't there, at all.
No little dance for his idle, no waddle for walking, taunts are exactly like Pikachu's...
What happened?
SSF2 has had so much visible fun in it's sprites, winning contenders are definitely ones like (Especially 9b with the old Side Taunt,) , and in BETA , and are HUGELY expressive and it's amazing, I love it.
But Pichu is just...
Not Pichu anymore, really.
Yeah, his name is Pichu, looks like Pichu, has new balances and stuff to actually be good,
But what's a character without their, well, character?
Pichu in SSF2 at the SmashCon state was just...
Pikachu. He was Pikachu.
Of course, anything can change, and SSF2 Devs are well aware of fan-related stuff (For better, like Wario's Pummel, or worse, like TSON rambling for 5 years when he doesn't get what we're saying) and I'm certainly hope it does, but
Color me a little bit worried.
Atleast he still sleeps when crouching.

melee had one taunt so we have another two to add.

and he doesn't have a bored animation at all yet so it's just the regular idle lol.

so is this about him not having the melee walk anim? lol

melee had one taunt so we have another two to add. just because the one we've added so far was pika's doesn't mean we won't be adding the melee one or a unique one. and he doesn't have a bored animation at all yet so it's just the regular idle lol.
he has his melee moveset with small tweaks... so that's not really a concern there.

so is this about him not having the melee walk anim? lol

Did they seriously not add Pichu in 1.0.3? Or is he just unlockable?

Say, I'm curious. When Pichu is added in the future, will you devs be listing the changes made to him from Melee to SSF2 in the corresponding Changelog for the aforementioned future patch?

Considering Yoshi/Tails not getting any of that (Yoshi was just "Resprited!" and everything changed (Like Up B and stuff) for Tails was just listed as "New!") even though they really should've--especially Yoshi
I wouldn't think so

a ton of the changes will be from engine differences so i dont think it would be worth our time, plus the numbers aren't 1:1