I play Melee competitively and it is the only Smash game I touch , so my position is a bit biased Brawl and Smash 4 are utterly horrible and Smash 64 feels weird to play , IMO , but here ' s why I love MeleeThe unbelievable depth . Melee ' s been out for 15 years and people are still optimizing and making new discoveries . Melee in 2007 looks like babies playing compared to now . That ' s some Starcraftlevel of depth in a game that was intended to be for kids . Not to mention the sheer amount of stuff in the game from a competitive standpoint . It ' s actually kind of mind boggling the amount of things you need to keep track of in a game that ' s basically unrivaled in speed . Secondly , as many others have echoed , the movement . It ' s precise , insanely fluid , and ridiculously responsive . Mango has even gone so far as to say I can ' t even enjoy a game now if I don ' t like how my character moves . Dashdancing with Marth is hypnotic and satisfying . And that ' s really it . I could expound heavily upon the depth section , but those are the two main reasons why I love Melee and why it will endure for many more years to come .