Round 3: Smash Brothers Brawl!!!

For those of you who don’t know, Smash Brothers Brawl, the third installment in the Smash Brother’s Franchise, came out yesterday. Words are hard to find so all I will say is this, “THANK YOU NINTENDO!!!!”

Its freaking sweet. It kept the old stuff that was cool and added several new layers of sweet stuff. It got rid of some of the minor characters from Melee: Pi-chu, Dr. Mario, Mewtwo, Young Link, and Roy. Now I don’t know about you guys, but the disappearance of Pi-chu and Dr. Mario is nothing I lost sleep over. The other three, especially Young Link and Roy for me, was rather hard, but have no fear, they have certainly made up for it. Instead of Young Link, they gave us Toon Link who is the same as Young Link, with small things that are different, that add up to a great character. Instead of Mewtwo, we get Lucario, which is basically MewTwo. Instead of Roy, we got Ike, which hands down is my favorite character. He is a modified Roy, which comes together Beautifully.

Overall Smash Brothers Brawl, has 35 playable characters overall. Many we’ve seen before, such as Pikachu, Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Ness, Fox, Capt. Falcon, Falco, etc…. Everyone else from Melee is here, but enough about whose back, lets get to the new stuff.

New Characters

1. Ike – Replaces Roy
2. Lucario – Replaces Mewtwo
3. Lucas – very Similar to Ness
4. Toon Link – Replaces Young Link
5. Pit – Sweet new character with a bow and dual blades
6. Meta Knight – New character from Kirby that flies and has a sword
7. Diddy Kong – a quick version of Donkey Kong with Peanut guns
8. Wolf – Similar to Falco and Fox, but BAMF
9. Wario – Haven’t quite figured him out, but he is fun.
10. PokeMon Trainer – controls, Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard each with their own moves and attacks
11. Zero Suit Samus – a form of samus, with her own kick ass moves
12. R.O.B. – The Robot – Cyclops in Robot form… just kidding, but he does shoot laser beams
13. King Dedede – Floats like Kirby but strong like Donkey Kong
14. Olimar – Haven’t quite figured him out as well, but uses he Pikmin to battle his foes
15.  Snake – From Metal Gear Solid, and uses alot of weaponry, including rocket launcher, mines, and yes his box
16.  Sonic – Yup your reading this right, Sonic is here. Uses his spin moves to hit his foes

What else is new and exciting ? Well they’ve added several new items that are certainly interesting, including the assist trophy. Using it will summon a random character to help you battle. Ship: collect three items and combine then to create a ship that you fire at opponents. Finally, the Super Smash. A floating Smash Brothers Icon, that once you break will allow your character to do a finishing, Limit type move. I will not spoil them all for you, but know that it is an incredible addition to this game, and works very well. If you wish to see the Super Smashes, you can find them all on Youtube, but don’t be surprised if you see Gigabowser, Super Sonic, and other such characters, including Super Wario.

Last component is Online Play. Yup when your done beating one player and unlocking all the characters, you can go online and play with other people who have the game. The first night my roommate and I hooked up with my Brother and his friend and were able to capture 6 victories out of the overall 8 battles. Nothing is sweeter than beating my older brother, but the true joy was discovering the new elements of the game.

For those of you who know and love the first two components of this Franchise, please trust me and go out and get this game. For those of you who don’t know of the Smash brothers Franchise, I demand that you go out and try it. If you like fighting games, you won’t regret it.

 cout<< “T Evans”