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The week started off with a new challenger! Lucas has joined the Brawl and he has made his way from MOTHER 3. Masahiro makes a small mention towards Ness as well in this update. He will more than likely make it back. I made mention of Tuesdays update on the site already. Basically, we see video of Snake in action as well as some funny little dialog exchanges with Snake about some of his opponents. We were shown Snake's battle stage as well.

Wednesday brought new Assist Trophies of the 8-bit flavor. That's right, you're going to be able to summon characters like Excitebike and Lakitu. Excitebike will race around on the stage with other Excitebikers and Lakitu will throw his Spinies at people.

Thursday was a double update starting off with Fox's Final Smash. When he gets the Smash power up, the Landmaster lands in the stage. You can hover, roll and shoot the cannon at your opponents. Then the shielding and dodging techniques were shown off. Nothing about the shields have changed. Your shield will shrink after a period of time still and it can still get shattered which will make you lose consciousness. Same goes for dodging. You can do sidesteps, backward rolls and forwards rolls.

The week ends at the DOJO with a bang. The campaign mode in Brawl will have two player co-op. Two people can play together but from the way the update is worded, it looks like you can only do co-op on the same Wii. It basically plays out like Sonic 2. The camera will stay fixed on the main player while the second player has to keep up. If you get behind, you will automatically do a space jump to get back to the side of your partner. The main character will form teams based on the development in the story and whoever they meet will join their team. Each time you lose a life, you switch to a different character on your team.

Seems like every other week now at the DOJO is going to be filled with awesome. What did you think of all this week's news?  

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kapshhh's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 03:51
kapshhh
Steal! Is this another ploy to get our hopes up for a Mother 3 translation?
Painuser's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 04:05
Painuser
Sigh, all I want in life is Sora as a character in SSBB :/ Would make me die happy.
RskimB's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 05:04
RskimB
@ kapshhh: i know, right? jebus nintendo
freeman1's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 07:29
freeman1
Monday's update was great, because new characters are always good update.

Tuesday's videos were pretty funny. And we got another stage, even thought we've already seen it.

Wednesday was good too. I like assist trophies, and Excitebike is cool. I don't know why they bothered showing us Lakitu if they weren't going to give him his own profile. I guess that's so they can waste another update on him later.

Thursday's update wasn't so great. We already know how shielding and dodging work. Fox's final smash is pretty cool, but I can wait for the game to come out to see everybody's moves. I'm more interested in seeing what characters are going to be playable.

Friday's update was the only really crappy one. I don't really give a crap about the adventure player mode. It's a neat addition, but who buys Smash Bros. for the single player mode?
Tino's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 08:10
Tino
Friday's update was the only really crappy one. I don't really give a crap about the adventure player mode. It's a neat addition, but who buys Smash Bros. for the single player mode?

People who enjoy unlocking characters.
Spectral's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 08:51
Spectral
Man. This week sucked.

Lucas was already predictable, we all know how to shield and stuff, Snake's purpose in the game is just UTTERLY useless, 8-bit graphics are shitty 80's retro junk, and I don't have any friends to play co-op with anyway.

...

This week was awesome! =D
Mister Disco's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 08:53
Mister Disco
People who enjoy unlocking characters.

QFT. If you gotta do it anyway, might as well make it fun, right?

Personally I think this was one of the best Smash update weeks. We got a new character (and another sliver of hope for a Mother 3 localization), Snake in action and trying to get into Samus's pants, Landmaster, Excitebike, and freakin' co-op. It doesn't get much better than this.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 08:55
Holyetheline
It's insane how much they've put into this game. So much time and effort, it's crazy. All those characters, endless amounts of possibilities, it's great! I like what they're doing with this game and I greatly look forward to all of the updates.
FuriousGeorge's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 09:12
FuriousGeorge
PFFFT at sonic 2 refference..... its clearly like 2 player mode in the kirby series hamza

/ubernerd
NukaCola's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 09:23
NukaCola
How does Masahiro making a small mention towards Ness make it more than likely that Ness will come back?
Rancor's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 09:39
Rancor
DO WANT NOW
LionheartAce's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 09:42
LionheartAce
Totally need to replace that first image with this...

JonDarkwood's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 09:55
JonDarkwood
"Steal! Is this another ploy to get our hopes up for a Mother 3 translation?"

It's a Japanese game and Japan already has Mother 3. But if Roy and Marth are any indication for helping to make a case for Fire Emblem, maybe Nintendo will stop crapping all over Earthbound fans for once when we show how much we love our franchise.

Probably not though, fuck you Nintendo.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 10:05
Cheeburga
This was a great fucking week.
Variable Gear's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 10:26
Variable Gear
@ Cheeburga:

Fuck Yeah!

Great week! Sakurai-san hinted at something really interesting in todays update with this quote:

"There’s a method for powering yourself up as needed to do battle with the Subspace Army—a method that has not been seen before.

I’ll explain this in great detail another time."

I hope this "method of powering yourself up" is not limited to the single-player modes.

What a tease as always, Sakurai-san, but thanks for another week of updates.
thrillhouse's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 10:31
thrillhouse
Only thing that could top this week really is voice chat in play with friends..../broadcast positive vibes towards nintendo...
LarkOhiya's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 11:24
LarkOhiya
"Man. This week sucked.

Lucas was already predictable, we all know how to shield and stuff, Snake's purpose in the game is just UTTERLY useless, 8-bit graphics are shitty 80's retro junk, and I don't have any friends to play co-op with anyway."

@SPECTRAL

HMM no friends? I wonder why.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 11:38
Excel-2011
LionheartAce, what's to object? Every update this week has been nothing but positively received.
scottoid's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 11:39
scottoid
shit, i cant wait for this game. the addition of Co-op makes me more rabid for it...and not to mention it comes out on my b-day! it will be a good day on December 3rd!......now we just gotta wait for Ghost Squad, Mario, RE:umbrella chronicles and manhunt 2 to hold us over till then.not to mention waitin on those games still suck, idk how much more RE 4 Wii, Metroid prime 3 (maybe) and Legend of Kage i can play lol.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 12:15
Hamza CTZ Aziz
"How does Masahiro making a small mention towards Ness make it more than likely that Ness will come back?"

They wouldn't tease about a character whos been all the previous games and then have him not come back.
ShinSennju's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 12:57
ShinSennju
@ FuriousGeorge :

You beat me to it dude! I was about to post the same comment. Since Sakurai created Kirby, it should be noted that the co-op mode is inspired by the co-op helper that you could use in Kirby Superstar.

And Awesome week by the way, the landmaster was specially badass, and since I don't have the Japanese skillz to play Mother 3 yet, I'm curious about what kind of moves Lucas will have, although I'm sure they will be P.K. related.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 13:48
Bob Muir
Other than Thursday, this was a great week. I love all the fanservice being put into this game. It makes me wonder how Nintendo could possibly surpass this game with a sequel down the road.
LionheartAce's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 13:55
LionheartAce
@ The-Excel

No! Nothing to object to, it was a great week.

It's just that's all I'm reminded of when I see that picture of Lucas!
FuriousGeorge's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 14:34
FuriousGeorge
@ necros

I asked myself the same thing when melee came out the only logical answer was mach rider as a playable character
godkow's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 15:45
godkow
Definitely one of the more exciting weeks.
Spectral's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 16:12
Spectral
@Lark

Sarcasm.

=)
Timtoid's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2007 22:23
Timtoid
guess who tipped them off about sum of the 8-bit stuff? ME! Sorry...I feel a bit excited....
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