I'm not depressed and I continue to remain healthy and positive, but developing 'Smash Bros.' is beyond hard.

You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them.

I'm not depressed and I continue to remain healthy and positive, but developing 'Smash Bros.' is beyond hard.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don’t stick to that thought, then we’d have to lower the quality or break the balance of the game. Something that goes way off spec could break the entire game.

What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.

So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.