Nega-review: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Joystiq)

[R.O.B.]

Filed under: Retro, Nintendo Wii, Fighting

"Super Smash Bros. Brawl isn't a giant leap forward from Super Smash Bros. Melee." (9) "Repetition is Brawl's ... real crime." (2) The "beat-em-up gameplay [is] relatively unchanged" (3) -- "returning to your stock franchises ... shackles you to old ways." (2) "This game was made for Nintendo fans. ... For the uninterested gamer, it's a curious diversion." (7)

"Subspace Emissary is boring. There, we said it." (8) "The storyline itself seems almost randomly compiled - a pieced together jigsaw puzzle of different factions coming together." (1) No, "there's not much rhyme or reason to the plot" (3) -- "it's a narrative mish-mash and bloated as hell." (2) "Most the time, you don't know what's going on. ... We find the complete lack of storytelling disturbing." (8)

"As a platformer, [Subspace Emissary] is not great." (2) "The fine-tuned jumping mechanics needed for platformers just aren't built into all of the Brawl characters, and shoehorning fighting game characters into action-adventure side-stories hasn't worked well since Tekken experimented with the same." (9) "Dull level design and unnecessarily tricksy warp door antics" (2) don't help, nor does "a seemingly random placement of Nintendo characters and newly designed enemy fodder." (1) "If this mode were a standalone game, it wouldn't rate very highly." (9) "The Subspace Emissary component ... is simply not as balanced or entertaining as the stages designed for multiple human opponents." (1)

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[Jogurt the Yogurt]

It's not surprising that Subspace Emissary isn't getting good reviews. Is anyone here surprised? I didn't think so. I haven't even played that mode of the game yet. I've been too busy, you know, brawling. Isn't that what the game's for?

[Radretrogamer]

the game is well worth 50$...

and thats the only thing anybody should care about.. really.

[The shoemaker]

Originally Posted by Radretrogamer

the game is well worth 50$...

and thats the only thing anybody should care about.. really.

Heck the soundtrack is worth $50

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

The actual core gameplay is fantastic. I also find it funny that this supposed nega-review doesn't have anything bad to say about the main gameplay... just that it's the same as the previous game except tweaked/better. That sounds like a good thing to me. And it is. Endless fun.