Super Smash Bros Brawl.
Look, i grew up with this game. I love the roster, I love Lucas, Sonic, R.O.B., Dedede, Wolf and Diddy Kong. I love the Music selection, best one in the series. Audi famam illius is a superior song to Lifelight in every.single.way.
But it SUCKS. Tripping is an absolutely moronic mechanic, and the worst part is that it doesn't even punish the most overpowered character in the game, have fun accidentally tripping when you dash as you get destroyed by Meta Knight's ABSURD air game.
Dogwater balancing even for Smash standards, Chaingrabbing via characters such as Icies and Dedede, ledgehogging, and other assorted tomfoolery.
Brawl tried to be as anti-melee as possible yet it ended up beign as janky and broken, without any of the charm. Im not even a hardocre competitive tournament guy, i have never entered a tournament, but in its attemps to beign ultra casual Brawl fumbles the bag to the opposite direction from Melee (and unlike Melee, this time its not accidental)
I HATE Brawl's artstyle, and still do. I don't mind the more realistic detail like in Mario's overalls, but i do absolutely despise this washed out color scheme. Did Mario left his clothes in the sun for days? Why does everyone look so dull? Outside of the TP Cast and Solid Snake, NONE of the characters look good due to their color scheme and lightning alone, and why do you think adding TOON LINK to a game with this artstyle was a good idea?! Seriously.
And most of the stages are a chore. For every Pirate Ship and Green Hill Zone we get a Hannenbow and Rumble Falls. Stages filled with hazards that only hamper the experience, and since this was before Omega Mode, Battlefield mode or Hazard toggles, this means if you wanna experience the music in this game while playing it, you WILL have to endure some of this garbo.
and Subspace Emisary is the most overrated thing in Smash's history. Look, i love the idea of an adventure mode, i LOVED Melee's adventure mode but this is just lame. I hate story modes in FIGHTING games because im forced to play as characters i DON'T wanna play for the sake of "the story". No SSE, i do not wanna play as Marth or Lucario or the Ice Climbers, why do i gotta wait until the very END to play as Sonic? Why can't i just play as Wolf for the entire campaign? For the cutscenes? The sames ones that Sakurai and his team were salty that were shared online? yeah right. The only worthy thing to come out of this is the Boss Battles (i will give credit to Brawl for having an ACTUAL Boss Rush mode instead of locking it behind a DLC character in Ultimate)
To make things ever lamer, the levels are mostly made up locations. The Jungle BARELY counts as a DKC level, same goes for the Glacial Peak for Ice Climber, while everything else is a creatively bankrupt level like.......the Canyon......or the Swamp......or the Wilds. Riveting stuff guys. Oh and outside of Goombas and Koopa don't expect to see iconic enemies like Waddle Dees or Motorbugs or Kremlings, but instead OC bollocks that Sakurai pulled out of nowhere. Outside of the Afromentioned Bosses, none of these made up enemies are appealing.
If i wanna play SSE, i just play Smash Run on the 3DS, a less bloated experience that allows me to play whichever character i actually like.
If i wanna play Brawl, i play a HEAVILY modded version of it. It's the Skyrim of Nintendo games.
Also fuck you for removing Mewtwo.
