this is the only platform fighter to come close to touching melee, rivals kinda suffers from a lack of manpower and foresight to what it would become (the pixel art style is hard to read, babydashing is difficult to the point of semi-controller dependency, edgeguarding can either be dynamic and engaging or a rinse-and-repeat slog, the game is pretty well balanced but certain matchups are VERY one sided) but you can play as a lightsaber cat with time-stopping tippers so i literally couldn't give less of a shit.