I want to preface this by saying I've spent the last day pouring hours into this game, and my young son also loves it to death (in fact he is obsessed with it). We've unlocked about a third of the fighters and have enjoyed all of the modes.
However, like previous games in the series, I absolutely love everything about the game except for one thing—unfortunately, that one thing is the most important thing about the game: the controls. Frankly, I'm surprised that I don't see more people talking about how horrible it feels to move around in this game (maybe those conversations just get buried). I mean, I've played enough at this point that I can almost get over them, but at the same time I feel a strong sense of what could have been.
I find the controls so bad that I feel like I must be approaching the game incorrectly. The way I want to play, it just feels absolutely terrible. Tap a little bit and your character shoots halfway across the screen, try to move to an item and it is nearly impossible to be precise. This is particularly obvious in the bonus level in the regular Smash mode.
I've watched a lot of tutorials, but no one seems to mention that actually moving around in this game is an exercise in frustration. Clearly, the controls are designed with a certain method of playing in mind. Any tips on playing to this game's strengths? I'm just a little baffled that so few people seem to share this opinion, as to me—someone who has been playing Nintendo games for nearly thirty years—it is impossible to overlook.
