Well, guess i learn something new every day =p. And what time restrictions? they extended the game for like, 5 months. im cant see why they didnt decide to delay it a bit more XD. I still never really liked any of the sword people anyway; even link, though i do love the zelda games. i just suck as them, lol.
but again as i said, i cant see them taking out a character. imagine if -insert favorite character here- was taken out of the game? It would kinda suck to anyone who used the jiggles (as me and my friend call her) if she(?) was just taken out of the game. The only real excuse for taking out characters are clones. would have been uber-pointless to bring back Dr.mario and Pichu with the fact that their gameplay was way too similar to Mario and Pikachu. As you can see, thats why i would assume thats why they took out Roy.
and dont worry, ima nerd too. just more of a pc-techno nerd than a gamer nerd (but i still play games a lot).