So I have had Super Smash Brothers Brawl for like two weeks now. What’s my initial opinion? It’s awesome. The game is a real blast to play. I never realized why the game was so much fun. This is due to the fact that I don’t have a Gamecube and I don’t have SSB 64 for my N64. So my experience with the game is limited to playing it in people’s dorm rooms and apartments, not on my own time. The ability to have all of your favorite characters of Nintendo lore duke it out is a great concept. And adding characters from other platforms and games makes the brawl even cooler.
I have also been playing the game online with friends. I would say that I played random games, but I have yet to get one of them to find other players, let alone connect to another game that wasn’t created by friends. I don’t know what is causing it, but I imagine it is because the only times I am connecting are during peak usage hours. Also note that this is my first online game for Wii so I am not annoyed by friend codes. I can see it happening by the time Mario Kart comes out next month. Internet play has been good so far when it works. Lag is usually minimal, but when it does kick in, it kills the flow of the game. Having limited communication in the game sucks.
As for controls, I played it first with the Wiimote + Nun-chuck. After about a week of that, I went to Circuit City and bought a 9 dollar Gamecube controller and haven’t looked back since. It’s not that the Wiimote Combo sucks, it’s just that some buttons in the setup are hard to hit when in the heat of battle. Having one controller in my hand makes everything a lot easier. Especially since the button layout on a controller seems a lot better to use in a fighting game like SSBB compared to the two separate “odd” shaped controllers on the Wiimote combo. This is just my opinion as I see a lot of people using the Wiimote combo. I haven’t tried it with the classic controller yet.
More on the single player when I actually get into it. The single player story is lame though at this point…
