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Super Smash Bros Brawl

The long awaited sequel to Super Smash Bros Melee, and the latest game in the extremely popular Super Smash Bros series, Super Smash Bros Brawl is looking to be one of the best games of the year, with top notch graphics, excellent sound from past games and characters, items, levels and other stuff galore!

Characters

So far confirmed characters via the videos and official site are:

They are accompanied by the known new characters such as:

Stages

The stages shown in videos and updates include a wide range of areas from past Nintendo games, which have so far included a Mario Kart race track (Figure Eight Circuit sadly), Meta knight's ship, Yoshi's Island, Delfino Plaza and some unknown settings such as a medieval castle and a Metal Gear type level.

Super Smash Bros Melee Returning Stages

At least Rainbow Ride got renamed from Rainbow Cruise to it's rightful name. Pity Brinstar is basically another Norfair in terms of stage design.

Items

There are various confirmed items, and they are extremely varied, ranging from bombs to shooting weapons to banana peels.

Poké Ball Pokemon

Chikorita (fires leaves at all opponent characters)

Goldeen (flops around and does nothing)

Groudon (hurts all characters it touches except that which released it)

Deoxys (appears and unleashes Hyper Beam which causes massive damage)

Assist Trophy Characters

Note: According to official site, assist trophies are invincible.

Music

Known music in this game includes:

List of Musicians

Known Character Moves

Mario

Mario has been shown to have many of the normal moves he had in Melee, and these include throwing fireballs, slide kicks, kicking opponents and arial attacks. His final smash is the Mario Finale, which causes a massive explosion of flames which devastates his opponents.

Link

Has been shown to do a variety of sword attacks, and uses his bow as a weapon. His final smash move is a move which traps enemies using the triforce and then, after many furied attacks, smashes them out the arena.

Kirby

Kirby can kick opponents, hit them hard with a wooden mallet and also use the sword based final cutter type move from Melee. Final smash move for him has not been shown as of yet.

Pikachu

Not many ordinary attacks of his are shown, but one known to use and shown is his typical thundershock attack from past games. His final smash move is called Volt Tackle, and he turns into a orb of electricity which can be controlled and hits opponents hard on contact. Sadly, if it ends in mid air, he can end up falling to his doom.

Fox

He has been shown to use a dashing based attack which lets him attack at great speed, a fire fox attack where flames erupt around him, and he can also punch opponents the typical way. His down special move is Reflector, and this activates a shield which reflects all projectile attacks aimed at him. He can also use his blaster weapon to fire non stunning shots just like in Melee.

Samus

All that is known is that she can attack with her normal arm cannon beam attack that was in the past games.

Zelda

She can seemingly use typical attacks, and also magic. Nothing else has been shown or said about her attacks.

Pit

His special attacks have partially been confirmed, and they are:

Palutena’s Army

This is his final smash. He summons a godess who sends out an army of flying centurians (winged Greek/Roman soldiers) which attack the characters.

Wario

Seems to be able to use the normal physical attacks, and strangely to bite enemies, which is unusual. His side special move is to ride that direction on his motorbike, and he can get off by tilting the control pad the other way and pressing an attack button. Another move is the Wario Waft, where the longer you don't use it for, the more power it gains, and he literally farts, causing a massive explosion if held in for a long period.

Bowser

The Koopa King is back in this game, and looks more awesome than ever! For one, he sure resembles more a realistic version of the Mario version than a godzilla hybrant thing, and he is the most powerful character in the game. He can breathe fire as usual, attack things with his metalic like claws, and his Whirling Fortress attacj from the original seems to have returned. Let's hope he's a better character in this game...

Giga Bowser

When Bowser gets a Smash Orb, he becomes the enormous Giga Bowser, and can smash right through about anything, being totally invincible in this awesome form! Giga Bowser therefore is now a semi playable character, which is cool, and negotiates the need for AR codes. The idea of him being a boss separate from Bowser is unconfirmed though.

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong has returned, and his moves seem pretty similar to in the last game. He can do the attack involving pounding the ground, the mega punch attack as well as pickup characters and move with them.

Final Smash

Uses the Bongos to play music while invincible. I really think this move is lame personally.

Princess Peach

Although not specifically named by the site, she has been seen in a movie on the official site, and has been confirmed to be able to use her parasol. Nothing else is known.

Yoshi

The dinosaur helper of Mario from Super Mario World and onwards has returned, and sadly not much seems known of his attacks, as no screenshots show him currently attacking.

Ganondorf

Indirectly confirmed by an interview. Not much is known about his attacks this time around.

Shiek

Also indirectly confirmed by the same interview as Ganondorf.

Ike

A new Fire Emblem character for the Smash Bros series, he can use various sword attacks like Marth and Roy from the past game could. He has a feared attack called Aether, which can supposedly finish an opponent in one blow...

Pokemon Trainer

A normal trainer from said series. He does not directly fight, but summons his three pokemon to do it for him, one of them is on stage at any one time. The pokemon are Charizard, Squirtle and Ivysaur. Down B is to switch Pokemon. No idea how he keeps up with moving stages.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl: The Subspace Emissary

This is the new adventure mode of Super Smash Bros, and the Brawl 1 Player one I am assuming. It has a basic storyline (which is not known), and other stuff. However, this is what I have so far realised about this mode:

You fight bosses such as Petey Piranha, Ridley, Pokey, Rayquaza and Taboo

Other stuff

There are also Final Smash attacks which are used after grabbing a Smash Ball item. This causes a mega powerful attack such as Mario's fire attack and Link's triforce attack.

You can enter names like in Super Smash Bros Melee. This allows you to personalise controls for each name as well.

You can use the Wii Remote, Wii Remote and Nunchuk, Classic Control and Gamecube controller to play the game with.

There is now a stage builder option which can be used to create your own levels and random ones get sent out over wifi!

Events are back.

Classic Mode (and maybe All Star) return.

You collect trophies with a coin launcher instead of a slot machine.

Multi Man Melee, Target Tests and Home Run Contest return.

You can choose the various conditions for special brawls and have multiple conditions at once. Like making everyone invisible, fast and metal.

Short demos of Nintendo games called Masterpieces can be played from within Brawl.

Oh, and the whole game is wifi compatible.

Release Dates:

UK- Unknown US- Unknown in 2007 Japan- Some time in 2007 Germany, France, Spain, Italy- Unknown Australia- Unknown, don't even have a site for the game.

Discuss this game at the DS Ultimate forums

The Official Super Smash Bros Brawl Discussion

Official Site:

This game is probably the only Wii game which has a decent site for all major regions, and isn't based purely on Flash animations, music and gimmicks. To view the official site, click the link below and choose the one for the language you speak (and if you're reading this, you'll likely want the UK or US site).

Super Smash Bros Official Site