fresh fruit for Adol
even electronic brain pancake crystal elderly
That's the appeal of Smash. The characters don't have built in combos, you instead can link attacks together to form all kinds of combos. And personally find trying to knock your opponent off the stage better than trying to reduce their health.
You do the exact same thing with 2D fighters; no 2D fighter has built in combos. That's a 3D fighter (Tekken, Soul series, DoA...). And Ring-Out fests are not fun. Soul Edge proves this fact.
I would say that Battle Arena Toshinden is in dire need of a new game, they've already announced a new one for the Wii. Let's see if it works.
I think Star Gladiator, and Bushido Blade are long overdue for second sequels, however.