I've mulled over the leak some more last night and these are my thoughts:
I'm still hoping the leak isn't real. I just don't want Raiden in the game over Snake or Big Boss, and I definitely DO NOT WANT Dino in the game over someone else who deserves a spot. Dino being in the game is a shameless cash in.
Also Evil Cole is saddening, because I was hoping that we wouldn't see any clone characters until at least the second game :\ I understand he will have a different moveset, I love the inFAMOUS games and I know how different evil Cole is to good Cole, but I'd rather just have ONE Cole and use the spot for someone who deserves it.
A lot of other people have expressed complaints in regards to the roster overall, that there's too many brooding human characters.. so far we're looking at 6 human characters and 6 cartoony/non human characters. I consider Big Daddy a non-human type character because he's a ridiculous amalgamation of stuff to make him a living weapon. I think if they maintain that balance of cartoony and or non human characters to human types, everyone will be happy.
If the stages are real, I love the stages, I really do. The only gripe I have is the Columbia stage, which I've pointed out before, makes no sense and is an obvious cash in. We have Big Daddy being represented by a stage from a game he isn't even a part of. I mean, out of all the choices of a third party stage, we get Columbia. If this leak is real, we know of 14 stages and all of them are awesome except that Columbia stage IMO. All the rest of them make sense but that one.
I'm really curious how future characters will play, like if Sackboy is similar to Kirby and steals other character's powers - I think we can all agree this is the only build that makes sense for him.
Also in regards to the Paul Gale Q&A:
Only two dozen items? I know SSB had only 17 items, so in comparison we're actually getting more but still; I keep comparing the stuff we're seeing to SSBB's amount of content, which is actually not fair when I think about it ._. We've seen about 11 items so far in events and trailers? So I guess we do have a lot of stuff coming.
Lastly, the amount of modes is pretty impressive if this is true. Free roam?! I really want to see how that works out. Paul Gale mentioned a mode popularized by shooters - the one that popped into my head first was the horde type mode. This is where friends cooperatively fight off waves of enemies, I mean it's typically similar to survival but hopefully if they have something like that, they know how to spice it up.
Wrapping up, I really hope this leak isn't real but lots of things are pointing to yes. If it wasn't for Dino and Raiden, I would love this leak. I'd much rather have Big Boss or Snake and Dino shouldn't have taken the place over someone like Crash or Spyro :\