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1)  Let me first start off by saying that I have always preferred Brawl to Melee.  This is for a number of reasons.  First is that Brawl is just more accessible, easier to get into and has more content and characters.  Whenever I wanted to play with friends, I always just found Brawl to be a more favourable choice.  It just seemed so much "grander" and inviting.  

Furthermore, I've never really been a competitive player.  Sure, I love a bit of friendly competition between my mates, but I don't got to tournaments or anything.  However, I thoroughly enjoy playing P:M probably as much as I enjoy Brawl- (i.e. more than vBrawl and WAY more than Melee).  So don't think for a second that P:M can only be liked by Melee loving tourney players.


2) The most common misconception about P:M is that it's just a Melee clone and as a result people just go "Why would I want to play a worse version of Melee?".  I'm just going to flat out say it.

YOU ARE WRONG

Project M's entire concept is for it to feel more like a sequel to Melee.  Whilst Brawl went in a completely different direction as far as its game engine goes, appealing more to a casual audience whilst still having a decent level of competitive gameplay, P:M follows a closer goal to Melee BUT NOT AN IDENTICAL ONE.  It's goal is to create a more technical and competitive fighting engine similar to Melee's (and as a result its physics engine is very similar), whilst still having the relative accessibility of Brawl.  Jumping into P:M is a lot easier than jumping into Melee in my opinion.  As well as this, it's trying to create a more balanced roster so that every character has a good fighting chance whilst giving each character a good level of depth to their playstyle.  EVERY character feels rewarding in some shape or form, which is something neither vBrawl nor Melee achieved very well.  


3) Another common misconception is that the characters are all going to be made to play exactly like they did in Melee.  This again, isn't necessarily true.  The main characters that this holds true to are the Melee top tiers like Fox, and even they don't feel exactly the same.  This is because of the simple fact that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".  Every character has been designed so that they fit into this faster paced, more competitive environment.  This is the main reason why they recloned Falco.  Whilst Brawl Falco does extremely will in Brawl's environment, he doesn't do well that well in Melee.

However, the main thing that the P:M team is going for is balance.  They wouldn't replicate each character as they were in Melee, because it just wouldn't be balanced (since Melee isn't balanced and neither is Brawl).  They're doing certain things to each character to make them not only feel slightly different, but to make them overall feel more well rounded, balanced, rewarding and fun.  Here are a few examples:

- Mario is not just his Melee incarnation.  There are quite a few aspects of him that are from Dr. Mario too.  Mario has always been either a Middle or Low Tier character, but infusing both the slightly increased speed of regular Mario, with the increased power of Dr. Mario makes him and overall more powerful jack-of-all-trades character.
- Ganondorf has a mixture of moves from both Melee and Brawl.  Whilst the majority of his moveset is more like it was in Melee (since anyone with half a brain can tell you that Ganon was MUCH better in Melee than he is in Brawl), but some of the better aspects of his Brawl moveset were kept too.  He kept his Brawl tilts (except they're a tad faster now), his Brawl Neutral B and most importantly his Brawl Side B.
- Bowser is now monstrous.  In both Melee and Brawl, he is undeniably quite a bad character and always stuck at Bottom Tier.  In P:M, he is a complete powerhouse.  He is the perfect representation now of what a heavyweight character should be in Smash.  Slow and powerful.  Though rather than giving more explanations, I think I'll just leave you with this video:

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And don't even get me started on the treatment that some of the newcomers are getting (i.e. the characters that are only in Brawl).  If there was one reason that could sway someone into playing P:M, I'd have to just say Project M Lucario.  Either that, or Charizard's Seismic Toss U Throw.  But seriously, the amount of creativity and depth that shines from Lucario is amazing.  Here's a video with the most recent build of P:M Lucario in a video (it's constantly changing).  He's in the 2nd match which starts at 3:33 :

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4) Some people think that they are recreating even the Melee models and stuff blah blah blah.  If you think this, you are again wrong.  They aren't.  Simple as.  Project M is just a codeset with PSAs and stages.  No models are included except for a few recolours for team packs etc (i.e. for Sonic for example, it's a pure red Sonic with green shoes rather than having that reddish hue he has in Brawl).  The people doing Melee models (i.e. Gamewatching, KTH etc), aren't doing it for Project M.


5) Which actually brings me onto probably my final point.  Characters are not the only things that are getting revamped.  Stages are as well.  They aren't necessarily taking all the stages in Melee and putting them into Brawl because to be honest half of Melee's stages suck for competitive play.  Some stages have been replaced completely with different ones (e.g. Luigi's Mansion is now Dracula's Castle, Green Greens is now Dreamland 64, Bridge of Eldin is now Hyrule Castle 64 etc) and others are getting edited to be more playable (Norfair now consists of one good sized platform with 3 smaller ones, rather than 5 baby sized platforms all spread out.  The most drastically changed is probably Temple.  See this video here):

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I'll just finish off by saying when it comes down to it, it's all about how much fun you can have.  This is main reason why I enjoy Brawl Minus as well.  However, this kind of genuine fun comes out of quite a few things.  The first being whether or not it feels rewarding or satisfying, the second being whether it's unique and the third being whether or not it has enough depth.  Project M, in my opinion, fills all three of these and with a higher level of professionalism than any other Brawl modset, and as a result it's fun to play.