I agree with you to some extent, I dislike the cartoon idea but I can see what you mean. Also if you wish to remain true to the original, the cannon needs to be made longer, and needs to be edited.
i will do that while revamp the rig on the cape+fix the feets on canon
what i needing to do:
revamp cape rig
revamp some of the worst animations
make a new F-Air/up-Smash since they dont come good out and needing a whole new attack
make Down-B(still needing to do that attack)
PSA FS
make Wins/up-taunt
make Throws/Grap animation(will use Mario´s Catchwait so just Catch animations is needed)
make recolour of the flat texture of Geno (not starwaffle´s but the texture that was with the model)
send the textures+model to SJS for he can make CSP/BPs(yes he said yes to make CSP/BPs for geno)
and then Animte Cape on the rest animations in the Fitmotionetc.pac and done
edit: looks like Geno can only have 1x Win animation and no up-taunt(Down-taunt and up-taunt will be the same)
cuz of filesize limit on the Fitmotionetc.pac