What a week it has been at the DOJO!! This weeks announcements began on a lighter note with Links special moves set. His new boomerang will be the Gale Boomerang which can slightly pull your enemies towards Link. Link's spin attack is now chargeable and the Clawshot has also been tweaked to automatically shoot to the closest ledge. The standard Bow and Bombs are still the same.
Then, from Mondays bland announcement, we get this new video giving us more details of the single player campaign. The Subspace Army is the main enemy lead by Ancient Minister. This armies goal is to plant bombs in the world that are operated by Robotic Operating Buddies (R.O.B.s) and when the bomb explodes, a section of the world gets cut out and thrown into Subspace.
Even bigger news was announced Wednesday when it was revealed that Diddy Kong would be joining the Brawl. It's great to see Diddy making it, but what about the other DK stars? What about Candy Kong? Or Cranky Kong? Seriously though, the one character I would like to see in the game would be King K. Rool. To have all the hero characters with all their respective arch nemesis's would be simply epic.
We got two bits of news Thursday with a little sample of K.K. Sliders song for the Smashville level. Also that day we were shown Yoshi's Final Smash attack. He grows some wings (like when he stuffs a blue shell into his mouth in Super Mario World) and he can also spit out fireballs (like when he stuffs a red shell into his mouth in SMW!). Sadly, no ground pound attack like when he would stuff a yellow shell in his mouth.
On today's update, more of the The Subspace Emissary mission was revealed. From the video you saw on Tuesday, you saw that Petey Piranha captured Princess Zelda and Princess Peach. You have to fight Petey and can only save one of the Princesses. Obviously, the story line will have multiple directions and your choices will affect the story line.
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yes. this is awesome. the subspace thing seems real cool and i love the idea of a pokemon trainer character. and petey piranha? schw33t. first post! whoo!
kwaselow, I preordered this after I slid out of my mother's womb. Marty McFly was holding a sheet in front of me and said my future depended on it, so I signed it. Yes it was the receipt!
Going to be the most amazing ever. I wouldnt be surprised if there end up being like a dozen new characters. I also think we're gonna see characters in the subspace emissary that we never thought we'd see work together. I also hope Sonic and Megaman make it in. Then the game would be made of ultra-win.
Perhaps SSB:B might actually earn its T rating this time. I honestly believe after playing Twilight Princess that Nintendo would have to the balls to kill off or at the very least incapacitate one of its major franchise characters in this mode in exchange for emotionally involving game play. I wonder if you played this mode as Peach or Zelda that their respective male counterparts would assume the captive role?
Or maybe the one you rescue becomes a part of your posse for the rest of the game and then at the end you have to rescue the other one. This is probably more likely, but I think I would like my first idea better.
Super Smash Brothers is a game where a bunch of Nintendo characters are punching the hell out of each other. Emotionally involving gameplay should not be the forte of what you're looking for in this game.
That said, if there IS 'emotionally involving gameplay' in Brawl, color me annoyed.
I've always liked the crazy, lighthearted approach the previous games had. Don't get all serious on me, Nintendo.
As I would assume this is the movie you'd see playing the story mode, you play as Kirby unless they have a cool cgi movie for each character. Which makes me wonder that the game chooses who you play in this particular mode. Which would blow btw.
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10:42 AM on 08.24.2007
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I mean, just look at them...
THIS IS FOR YOU.
*Hands over balloon*
Or maybe the one you rescue becomes a part of your posse for the rest of the game and then at the end you have to rescue the other one. This is probably more likely, but I think I would like my first idea better.
Also this will be a simple feat from the trailer.
Kirby sucks up Bomb, throws in Vegetation Monster mouth. Monster Blows up. The end.
Super Smash Brothers is a game where a bunch of Nintendo characters are punching the hell out of each other. Emotionally involving gameplay should not be the forte of what you're looking for in this game.
That said, if there IS 'emotionally involving gameplay' in Brawl, color me annoyed.
I've always liked the crazy, lighthearted approach the previous games had. Don't get all serious on me, Nintendo.
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