Board Thread:Super Smash Bros. Discussion/@comment-24354169-20131230094827

The first time I heard about the new Super Smash Bros game was for a friend that told me a bit, like it would have Rosalina like one of the characters and it would be available for the Wii U. I got very happy about that: I personally think Super Smash Bros games are so great, I have Melee (the GC version) and Brawl (the Wii version). For me, Melee is a very good game even comparing with the most new games, and Brawl is just fantastic. You can imagine how I love Super Smash Bros games: a lot.

Well, I wanted to know more about the new game and I saw many pages on Internet about it. Hmmm… what a deception. Let me explain you why.

First thing to say: IT’S NOT A NINTENDO GAME. It’s licensed, published and helped by Nintendo, but it looks like Nintendo has sold its author rights. Sincerely, I don’t know why… IT WAS SO SOLD IN AROUND ALL OVER THE WORLD, SO I JUST CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT. But it’s the truth. The company that has made it is called Sora Lt., and it’s helped by another called Namco. Namco is a good company, I have one game done by Namco and it’s good, but it’s not Nintendo, and it’s only a helper more. And I’ve never heard anything about Sora Ltd. Anyway, it can be very good too, but again, it’s not Nintendo.

Second thing to say: it’s a game made for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. When a video game is made for more than a console, it means the game is not exclusive made for an only one console and the game experience will be much better for the controls, the graphics, etc. And obviously, if the games for more than a console are made in the same time of the games for only one console, it seems the spent time for one type of the games for more than a console is much smaller than the time that is needed for making a game done only for one console. Perhaps you think it’s not an important point, but me, I think.

Third thing to say: number of characters in Melee: 25, 26 if we say Zelda and Sheik are different characters. Number of characters in Brawl: 35, 39 if we say Zelda and Sheik, Samus and Samus Zero and Charizard, Ivysaur and Squirtle are different characters. Number of characters here: 20! LESS THAN IN MELEE! HOW CANS THAT BE POSSIBLE?!

Fourth thing to say: number of stadiums here: 11 per game (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS). I don’t know the number of stadiums on the other games, but much more than 11, it was…

Fifth thing to say: complaining about the characters. I’ve always seen Super Smash Bros games like the “League of Nintendo” fighting. WHY DOES A 10% OF THE CHARACTERS AREN’T OF NINTENDO (Mega-Man and Sonic) DISSAPEARING A LOT OF NINTENDO CHARACTERS THAT WERE NICE?! In Brawl, the presence of Sonic and Snake was a present of Sega. If it would be repeated again, it would be nice, BUT NOT TAKING OFF OF THE GAME THE NINTENDO CHARACTERS! I just cannot understand why there are fewer characters than in the other games. It’s objectively worse, but if you take off characters, not Nintendo’s!

This happens if you give a company that has no idea of how is a game like Super Smash Bros A GAME LIKE SUPER SMASH BROS. For example: why do you take off Captain Falcon, Ness, Falco, Jigglypuff, etc.? They’re so classic, they’re “very Nintendo”, and they won a lot of fame with Super Smash Bros… And why do you take off Mr. Game and Watch? “Oh, he’s not very commercial, none knows who’s him, only has fame for Super Smash Bros” would say me Sora Ltd. Well, I would answer Mr Game and Watch is practically the beginning of Nintendo, one of its first games. He deserves much more being in the Smash Bros Games than Sonic, for example, that has a lot of international fame, but it’s not of Nintendo, and of course and in consequence not the beginning of Nintendo. And if I say this, is because I think firmly in this, because Sonic is my favourite character, but the most of the taken off characters has much more right to be in Super Smash Bros than him. And the best test for convincing you that Sora Ltd. has no idea of Nintendo: in the first game of all, the Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 64, the fighters were only heroes, so from the Zelda saga was only Link and it was ok, but if you have Zelda like character in the new Super Smash Bros (wow, she’s still, seeing what Sora Ltd. has done it’s almost magic! Let’s see if in the next game it has the “brilliant” idea of taking off Mario of the game, it wouldn’t surprise me after all this changes!) WHY DO YOU HAVEN’T GANONDORF?! You can’t break the Triforce if you want, you can’t have two of the Triforce on the game and the other out! And let’s remember the proportion of the game: one of the new characters is Rosalina, one more for the Mario Bros saga, they’re 5 now, but you take off the villain of Zelda! Now in Zelda saga they’re… 3? Really Sora Ltd. preferred Toon Link before than Ganondorf? Well, like you can see, the intelligence of the company shines for its absence. And don’t forget: Sheik doesn’t exist in this game.

Let’s speak about the new characters now. I’ve complained about the number of characters from the Mario Bros saga for the debut of Rosalina, but in fact, I love the idea of Rosalina like new. If you are a girl player like I’m you want more girl characters (one more bad point of this new game: I waited the new Super Smash Bros would have 55 characters more or less and it has 20, like I’ve already said, but I thought too there would be much more girls, and no) so I like female incorporations, and specifically Rosalina is interesting and powerful. But the other new characters… I have one thing to say for each of them.

Hmmmm… Mega-Man… That hero came from Capcom, not from Nintendo… I think about him like I think about Sonic: I wouldn’t have no problem about him if Sora Ltd. wouldn’t have taken off so many characters of Nintendo.

The villager is one representative of the Animal Crossing. It’s an important saga of Nintendo, so it’s nice that now there is one of Animal Crossing in Super Smash Bros. At the end! But he has a very big problem: he’s not anyone; there are a lot of Animal Crossing villagers, one for each player, and all they are the same. They can have different items, houses, clothes, it’s up to the person who plays, but at the end, all we have a same life in Animal Crossing. Even Paris Hilton has the same life that we have in Animal Crossing (it was a bad joke). The main character of the Animal Crossing hasn’t got a defined story or personality, like all the rest of the characters in Super Smash Bros, he’s only one more of a big crowd. Now is when someone thinks “yes, but there’s a lot of Yoshis, there’s a lot of Pikachus and there’s a lot of R.O.B.s”. True, but there’s only one Yoshi that helps Mario (the green one), there’s only one Pikachu that is friend and Pokémon of Ash and there’s only one R.O.B that in Super Smash Bros Brawl is the Old Minister and in its original games has come to play with you from the island of robots (the white and red one).

Oh, I’ll have fun of complaining about this. The Wii Fit trainer. Where do I start? Oh, yes: THE WII FIT IT’S NOT A REAL GAME. It’s like we say the DVDs that teach you how to do exercise are films, it’s exactly the same. “But if the Wii Fit trainer were constantly in the game showing you lessons, perhaps it would have more sense”. WII FIT HAS A LOT OF MINIGAMES, AND ONLY IN THE YOGA YOU MEET THE WII FIT TRAINER. Her importance in a game that is not a game is small. Don’t forget: one of her problems is the same that the villager has too: she’s not unique. And it’s not the same a character funny and a character ridiculous. The funny characters have jokes, are not very complicated and are usually stupid. That type of characters that always makes you smile, but can have a serious role in its game and in Super Smash Bros. Do you really think in Subspace Emissary (the adventure mode in Brawl, the people who have played it will understand me) WOULD HAVE A MINIMUN SENSE THE WII FIT TRAINER?! Tabuu is destroying the world, but in any part of the universe some yoga fans are practising. The subspace bombs finally arrive there and all the yoga fans are sent to the Subspace, except the trainer, that saves herself invoking the yoga powers of the Ming dynasty and swears revenge because the subspace has let her without job. Come on, Sora Ltd! Are you laughing at us? If this is one of the most representative representatives of the female sex that we’ll have till now in Super Smash Bros… God.

Sixth thing to say: I’ve heard Sora Ltd. wants become this edition of Super Smash Bros in a game less of fighting and more of creating and personalization. ARE YOU SAYING REALLY TO US THAT YOU DON’T WANT A LOT OF FIGHTS IN A SUPER SMASH BROS?! THE FIGHTS ARE ALL THE GAME, BUT EXACTLY FOR THAT REASON THEY’RE WONDERFUL! If we want a creating game, we’ll buy the Sims, not the Super Smash Bros. That “marvellous” thinking of Sora Ltd. has done things like the disappearance of the Final Smashes, for example. And I don’t care if I can personalize even the colour of the eyes of the characters. What I want is epic moments with my friends fighting till death in fiction and laughing so happily in real life. That’s what I think all we want when we are playing to a Super Smash Bros game.

After all this, my conclusion is selling the author’s rights of Super Smash Bros has been a giant mistake of Nintendo (at less they would had looked for a company that really knows how to do this) and this new game won’t have the quality (even it won’t have the spirit) of a Super Smash Bros game. My recommendation is if you have already got Brawl, follow playing it and don’t waste the money in this rubbish. If you don’t have, save your money that you would use for buying the new game and buy Brawl, you won’t regret about it. I know an opinion of an angry player won’t change the minds of all the people (I’ sure a lot of people won’t read this seeing the extension) but if all the people could listen to me, perhaps Nintendo would think better selling one of its best games before doing it. I don’t know if Nintendo will can recoup the author rights, but if it could and this game wouldn’t have success, we would have a good edition of Super Smash Bros, like we deserve, with 55 Nintendo characters, 30 stadiums, a lot of modes and no Wii Fit trainers.

Thanks for listening to me. 