Official Super Smash Bros. Brawl Thread (OUT NOW!)

[Kroogah]

http://www.destructoid.com/hands-on-...wl-48983.phtml

tl;dr version:

New items:
Spring jump pad (the one Sonic uses for his up+B?)
Screw Attack now sticks to you so you can hold another item with the Screw Attack.
Bombs from Starfox. ("a poker chip with the letter B on it"....dude.)
New flamethrower item that sticks to you like Screw Attack
Spiked item (maybe Gordo from the Kirby games?)

Assist trophies:
A Metroid, latches onto characters as they are known to do
Little Mac (NOOOOOO) who runs around and punches the shit out of you
Drill Dozer
A character from Sin And Punishment
(also, the 1up preview mentioned in an earlier post mentions Advance Wars tanks)

Pokemon:
Wailord or Kyogre ("a giant blue whale that can fly")
Latios and Latias (at the same time)
Torchic
Piplup
Venusaur
Snorlax

Final Smashes:
Peach: Zooms in, graphics from Super Princess Peach appear, zooms out, all opponents are asleep and a bunch of life-restoring peaches are on the stage.
Ike: Same as Link's, pretty much.
Metaknight: Grabs onto people and 1-hit-KO's them.
Pikachu: Turns into a ball of energy, flies around like Super Sonic
Zero Suit Samus: Gets her suit back. Yay.

[Kroogah]

"So I hear Brawl was delayed until February."

"Oh yeah? Well, that's a good thing."

"Why's that?"

"So nerds can have something to do on Valentines Day!"

"OHHHH HOHOHOHOHOHO! "

[SkiDragon]

The "Final Smashes" kind of bother me. Can they be turned off?

Me and my friends were big fans of Mario Tennis for N64. Power Tennis for Gamecube introduced "power shots" which completely ruined the gameplay. They can be turned off in Power Tennis, but the game seemed to be designed in a way that you almost had to use them to gain any advantage, and normal "skill" had much less to do with it.

[Kroogah]

The "Final Smashes" kind of bother me. Can they be turned off?

It's an item, so signs point to yes.

[Kroogah]

Yeah, he's just an assist trophy...but I'm happy.

[Nintendork]

Little Mac's in the game! I think King Hippo should be a secret boss now.

[Kroogah]

WOOO HAHAHAHAHA NEW CHARACTER YESSSSS

I KNEW IT SAKURAIIIIII

[Frica89]

I'm super-happy that King Dedede is in this game, I love that guy.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

The delay is annoying. Get your paws of my SSBB you damn dirty Nintendo apes!

Anyway, SSBB is (Probably) going to be awesome when it finally comes out. I have a can of Mountain Dew Game Fuel set aside for when SSBB comes out (With a note taped to it saying "DO NOT OPEN until Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes out"). Hey, I liked that stuff.

I love the note idea. Although I didnt really care for the game fuel, but I just thought it was funny.

[FantasiaWHT]

Custom stages... *drool*

Not only can you share them with friends, you can submit some to Nintendo, and Nintendo will "publish" a stage a day! Very, very sweet.

[Kroogah]

Custom stages... *drool*

Not only can you share them with friends, you can submit some to Nintendo, and Nintendo will "publish" a stage a day! Very, very sweet.

I saw the ladders and immediately thought of making all 4 boards from Donkey Kong.

[FantasiaWHT]

Yuck - messages that go along with taunts. I really hope you can turn that off; can you imagine how annoying that will get with somebody doing it constantly and blocking part of the screen?

Actually, now that I think about it, Nintendo will probably disable it for online matches to prevent profanity, etc. Still, if I'm sitting on the couch and somebody starts spamming some message like that, I'm smacking 'em upside the head.

[snes_collector]

Do you make the messages your self or has Nintendo programmed all you can use in?

This has to be the first update that I haven't liked.

[Moo Cow]

Anyone else dissapointed that Saki's not a playable character, just an assist trophy?

[FantasiaWHT]

Do you make the messages your self or has Nintendo programmed all you can use in?

This has to be the first update that I haven't liked.

Confirmed today that you get to input your own messages, bizzare:



"This is where you enter your short taunt messages."

[monkeysuit]

Confirmed today that you get to input your own messages, bizzare:

Oh, the pre-teens are going to have a ball with this.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Pure genius in regard to online multi-play: http://kotaku.com/gaming/super-smash...cts-331227.php

For me, this is the best bit of SSBB news since the announcement. Now release the bitch already!

[monkeysuit]

Having the computer takeover a dropped player really is a great idea. Now all we have to worry about regarding online play is lag.

[FantasiaWHT]

I wonder if you get dropped if you can make it back into a match and replace the AI?

[GrandAmChandler]

Olimar w/ Pikmin is a new character!

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/pikmin.html