In their own games, these characters are central and often engaged in deep stories. Perhaps most interesting, it also includes major characters from outside Nintendo, like Sonic the Hedgehog (from Sega) and Solid Snake (from Konami’s Metal Gear series).
It includes Mario, Princess Peach, Zelda, Link, Donkey Kong, Pikachu (from the Pokémon series) and Samus Aran (Metroid). If you like console games, Brawl is like having Luke Skywalker, James Bond and Indiana Jones all in one (impossibly improbable) movie.īrawl’s roster reads like a Who’s Who of Japanese console stars.
Even companies outside Nintendo have seen the value of licensing their famous characters to the Brawl series. formula has always been its diverse range of characters taken from other game franchises. Melee (which has sold more than seven million copies for Nintendo’s GameCube), Brawl is all about jumping, spinning and unleashing various attacks to knock your opponent whether human- or machine-controlled off the screen. The successor to the original 1999 Super Smash Bros. In some ways, Brawl is a throwback, a gamer’s game. (The regional finals are this weekend, with the national finals next month in San Jose, Calif.) Last Sunday, GameStop, the major game retailer, held Brawl tournaments at thousands of its stores. Thousands of fans, disappointed after the game missed its original release date in December, have flocked to advance tournaments and demonstrations in recent months. is aimed at an entirely different audience). It is certainly the most anticipated game released this year (at least until Grand Theft Auto IV comes out next month, but G.T.A. In fact, it’s so good that Brawl will almost surely be one of the top-selling games of 2008 and may become the best-selling game yet for Nintendo’s popular Wii console. Brawl, which was released by Nintendo this week, is none of those. There are games that make you think seriously about the world around you. There are games that tell a sweeping story. Additionally, Jeff was added as an Assist Trophy.There are video games that try to make you cry. Brawl adds numerous EarthBound-themed elements: Lucas was added as a newcomer alongside the New Pork City stage from Mother 3. In terms of representing the EarthBound series, Brawl's main focus is on Mother 3. Brawl but was removed from the English version due to being a commercial failure outside Japan at the time. EarthBound was a demo in the Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. Porky appears as a boss in this mode, while the King Statue appears as a hazard.Īnother mode, known as Masterpieces, allowed players to play demos of games from previous systems, such as Super Metroid and Super Mario Bros. The Adventure Mode, however, was redesigned into a new adventure called the Subspace Emissary, which featured all but three of the playable characters and an actual plot. Classic Mode returns and is kept largely the same. Brawl featured some modes that were unavailable in the last two games, in addition to the older modes. Bold denotes EarthBound Stages, and Italics denote unlockable stages: Also added was the ability to create one's own stages, known as Custom Stages.
Bold denotes EarthBound series characters, while italics denote unlockable characters:ġ Note: Zero Suit Samus can be playable by using a Final Smash as Samus, or by holding the Shield button when selecting Samus.īrawl features 31 new stages and 10 returning from Melee, which total to 41 stages. Brawl also included a new EarthBound series stage: New Pork City, which is also from Mother 3.īrawl features a total of 35 playable characters, 24 of which were carried over from Melee, though 5 Melee characters were removed. Ness from EarthBound returns as a playable character, this time he is once again an unlockable fighter, and the Onett stage returns from Melee.īrawl also introduced a new EarthBound series fighter, being Lucas, the protagonist of Mother 3, who is available from the start. There are 39 playable characters in the game, including transformations, 11 more than Melee.
While Melee's Adventure Mode was replaced with the new Subspace Emissary story mode. Brawl brings back the Classic and All-Star modes, Is also the first game in the series to feature non-Nintendo characters, namely Sonic and Snake.īrawl introduced Final Smashes, a powerful finishing move for each character that was going to be in the original Super Smash Bros. Released for the Wii, it was one of the most anticipated games for the console, mostly due to delays in its release. X), is the third game in the Super Smash Bros. Brawl ( 大乱闘 スマッシュ ブラザーズ X Great Fray Smash Bros. SmashWiki has information on Super Smash Bros. Limited edition boxart for Brawl released in PAL regions This article or section contains non-canon information.