Japan doesn’t really have a Melee scene in the way there is one internationally.

This reminds me of when I recommended a burger place I really liked to a white friend of mine, and he came back really bad about the place because the chef at the place was very adamant that pickles would ruin the flavour of the sirloin burger patty (their burgers are served with an olive on top instead).

While that’s an argument that makes sense from the business viewpoint, this is also a game that many, many of the creatives worked on VERY HARD... in fact, TOO hard, if that Nikkei story is to believed. As much as it’d be immediately gratifying to stick it to Konami, don’t forget there were many people, Kojima…