Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

[shadowgoomba]

The last two updates were both to characters: Snake's Final Smash and Olimar's moveset. Snake's seems pretty effective. Olimar's is about what I expected, but Up-B is pretty clever.

[Toomai]

Also, Olimar's moveset deconfirms the return of Single-Button Mode (not that anyone really cared about it).

Other news: There's been a leak. Or five. www.brawlcentral.com reports that (spoilers!) Zelda's Final Smash is the Light Arrow, Shiek is returning, Ivysaur has Razor Leaf, Squirle has Water Gun, and ZSS has something called "Flip Jump". Also, Japan gets some public demo time for 5 total days before the North American release.

[PDoogan]

The whole pikmin thing reminds me slightly of throwing eggs in Yoshi's Island. They walk in order behind you and you use the one directly behing you first.

[shadowgoomba]

You might want to fix the link. It good to know some of that info.
->PDoogan-Interesting connection. Both games were made by Miyamoto, so they might have something in common. The art style is similar too.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

It could still be possible that olimar has 1 or 2 standard a moves he can use without pikmin. But yea, single button mode was my second least favorite mode right after slow-mo melee and olimar probably wouldn't be verry good at it at all with out smash attacks or arial.

[shadowgoomba]

Actually, he'd still have both of those. Just no special attacks, sheilding, dodging, grabbing, rolling, etc. He'd probably start with some Pikmin.

[shadowgoomba]

Challenge mode, which is almost identical to a mode in Kirby Air Ride. Eh.

[Toomai]

Hopefully most of the unhammerable unlockables will be the true challenges, such as going through Classic on Very Hard or getting the No Damage Clear bonus. Then you could reserve your cheats for the dumb little things like "play as this character 100 times".

[shadowgoomba]

If it's like Air Ride, then there won't be any unhammerable things. Which, so far, hasn't had anything different at all except for aesthetics and the ability to play CDs right there.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

What do you meen by unhammerable?

[Toomai]

Well, the cheap way to unlock things is to bash the glass with a one-time-use Golden Hammer, and it said in the update that there will be those unlockables that cannot be cheated on.

[PDoogan]

Your killing us, Nintendo! Quit pushing back the release date!

[shadowgoomba]

Well, that sucks for everyone else, but it probably won't effect me much, because I was going to get mine on March 16 (my birthday) anyway. Anyway, today's update is very nice. It's the Pikmin stage, and it looks like they put a lot of effort into it. It's called "Distant Planet," but we all know it's Earth in the future.

[Toomai]

I can understand a delay of one week (that how it is in Japan). Maybe production hit a snag and they didn't notice they ran out of red ink or something.

But do things really move so fast in Japan that the exchange rate is 4:1? I don't think so. If the game is finished (which it must be, Japan can buy it in like 15 days), then the only possible reason for the quadruple delay over here is if the translators or voice actors are on strike or something.

[shadowgoomba]

It's not just getting over here that's the problem; it's getting it to retailers and signing all the right paperwork, which, considering the mass amount of beaucracy that we have, it would take quite a bit of time.

[shadowgoomba]

Nothing that we don't already know, but Sheik was updated today. Looks like she has the same Final Smash as Zelda. She looks a bit more feminine as well.

[Rex]

You do realize that the movesets have now been listed on all the charecters, not just sheik. Now we know all the movesets; Olimars FS is "End of Day" for example, and Charizards up-b is "Fly".

Edit: And bowser has a new side-b: "Flying Slam", yet we saw a picture of him useing his koopa klaw move.

[Toomai]

Flying Slam is actually the same move as Koopa Klaw. It's just that instead of biting people, Bowser suplexes them.

They've probably been waiting to put up the moveset tables, but doing so would give away Sheik so they had to delay.

[shadowgoomba]

Here's proof that the game's already finished: Famitsu Magazine gave it a perfect 40/40 score, only the eighth in history. Oh, and the tables are pretty interesting. But now that Olimar's FS is officially updated today, it's nice to see. More clever than a Pikmin hoarde, although in the game he doesn't have any control over the time, unless you count going into holes and freezing it.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Lol, sticker "power ups". It looks like there bringing out all the stops for this game, there going all the way, there making absolutely sure that this game will be the most perfect game of all time. I wonder what there going to put in it next, or reveal to us what theve alredy put in. I just can't wait to see what else theve cramed into this game. Hopefully it'll be an item that lets you controll gravity or something cool like that. That would be amazing.