I find it amusing how you think that second sentence serves any purpose other than to prove you're a fanboy. It's like you're saying Brawl, Brawl+, and Brawl- are not fun at all.
It's not ludicrous, for several reasons.
1) They are making the physics a CARBON COPY of Melee's, or as close as they can get.
2) They are changing the animations of the characters who were in Melee back to, or to be closer to their Melee incarnations.
3) They are making the movesets practically carbon copies of their versions in Melee (for the ones who were present in Melee), with only minor changes.
4) The only characters with "new" moves are the ones who weren't in Melee. Namely Sonic, Ike, Toon Link, Lucario, Pit, Snake, and whoever else I missed. With the exceptions being moves on the characters that the people on the project just can't stand seeing or don't want to see.
So basically: They are using the new characters, and the stuff Brawl has in order to hide a single fact:
They are nigh-literally turning Brawl into a Melee 2.0. Just because they think that's how Brawl should've been.
Like ThE DarkYoshi, I don't really see it as necessary.
-but if SDo0M wants to help make it, I'll support his decision, but you will not be hearing me talking about wanting to play it.
Cause if I wanted to play Melee: I would rather play the real thing than a mere copy.
No matter how much you try to hide behind the Project:M moniker, that M says it all.
Melee
Point 1 is partially right, but not entirely.
Point 2 is not true, since we use the best of all three Smash games (like Kirby 64 NAir, Melee Ganon Run and Brawl Ganon side B) and even create all new animations if needed.
Point 3 might only be true for the Melee top tier, but it surely isn't true about most of the Melee cast, so it is mostly biased.
Point 4 is also not true, since 'new' could be understood as many things.
Basically, your arguments are based on nothing more then the assumption that P:M is nothing more then a carbon copy of Melee, which is just not true if you ever have looked at the P:M thread on Smashboards and the vids of P:M.
Sorry if this is considered derailing the thread, but I can't stand it when people are misinformed about P:M.