User blog comment:TheFoolisherFoolishFool/What happened to Lucas?/@comment-6604133-20140920042846/@comment-25161957-20140920052318

I do think that they did all this stuff (clones, no story mode) because of time contraints. Adding fifty clones in Melee was what made Melee released on time and story mode was what delayed Brawl for about half a year.