Pikmin & Captain Olimar are playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Ugh..

Nice addition to the roster.
Btw, where the hell is "Pikmin DS" ?
It would kick ass...

Nintendo, get Capcom on the phone and get use Mega Man damn it!

no gutsman's ass for the fucking loss.

I love how this update completely floored me for a bit. I simply did not know how to respond. I was just stunned that Olimar made it into the game, and to a certain extent I still am. The music doesn't strike me as the perfect background noise for a brawl, but Sakurai-san is right that choosing music from Pikmin is difficult because the two Pikmin games on Gamecube had such natural soundtracks. There were very few 'flashy' tracks to choose from, but many relaxing ones. All things considered, they did a pretty respectable job with the arrangement.

@ sh13ld:

I'd rather have a Wii version. I'm not the biggest fan of 3D DS games. Just made pretty 2D games instead of shitty-looking 3D ones (Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow vs. Metroid Prime: Hunters), I demanded just now.

Absolute utter win.

That is rad!

useless

This likely is to be the last new character to be revealed before Brawl it's released, so I have mixed feelings about that character being Olimar.

But I also can't deny that unlike other characters people have been hoping for like Mega Man, Pepper Pete from BurgerTime, and the California Raisins, Olimar and Pikmin will play in a way completely unlike any other Brawl characters.

Will the Pikmin be vulnerable to damage as well as Olimar, and as such could they be individually picked off (pun intended)? Will Olimar be able to throw Pikmin at items to get them to grow more Pikmin like in the games? Will he ever be able to have 100 Pikmin at his disposal, even if only for his Final Smash?

We wouldn't be able to ask these sorts of questions about Mega Man or the California Raisins. And we'd have to fight to "I heard it through the grape vine", which would sort of assey.

His final smash is probably calling in a horde of Pikmin, at least that would be logical.

That's awesome, I really hope you can chuck a pikmin at someone, mwahahaha

Needs more Tom Nook!

i don't know how to feel about this.

Yes! This is awesome. I remember about a year ago I brought olimar up to my friends as a smash character! I am so happy they made him.

Color me titillated. I'm glad Sakurai is going for the more unique, interesting, quirky characters instead of just "cool" ones.

Not saying I don't want Mega Man, but it's the desire to make a game overly "cool" that destroyed Sonic and so many other franchises.

Can't. Wait. For. Brawl. Wish. I wasn't. Going to Canada. On February 10th. Oh. Well.

This could be the next Pikachu.

I played quite a bit of Pikmin 2 and I really like the game. I'm real curious to see how Capt Olimar fights. I wonder if Louie will show up?

He's already my favorite character. Sorry, Peach.

@chicken

And Metaknight is a floating ball with wings and a sword that goes mach speeds.

:P

First of all, this is to who thinks this is probably the last *new* character.
Just because they don¨t show new characters every week doesnt mean they dont have a lot more characters.
They dont show new characters after they have created it.
All the characters are done, they just put it on the Dojo once in a while so they dont use up all the good stuff.

Since the game is comming out in japan in a few days, we will probably get a lot more juice, because its obvious there are going to be thousands of people posting every character and level available on the internets.

I am a smash lover, to prove my love, Im going to buy an american wii just because of Smash, problem is, where can I get one?
I see a lot of wiis on stores in europe, to bad VC games are 50gz and games take two years to come out. WITH GLITCHES.

F U Nintendo of europe or whoever is in charge of that peace of crap organization.

Wii bundle with smash, you will be mine.

It was obvious that Nintendo would include Pikmin in Brawl in some form. However, most people (including myself) expected Olimar and/or the Pikmin to be an assist trophy.


I suppose the website still has a handful of surprises left in it. By the way, is is correct to say that Brawl may perhaps have the most off-line and online features of any video game ?

SO awesome!