1 Week Till Brawl: Import Impressions

Here’s an interesting little story: I was invited to go to a LAN party at some dorm near my college. He told me they’d have Team Fortress 2, Unreal Tournament, Starcraft, etc. It sounded like fun, so I forced a friend of mine (who was feeling incredibly lazy) to come along with me. We got lost a couple of times on the way, and we even though about turning around and going home, but we finally got there. It all seemed pretty normal, until I noticed someone was playing Smash on the TV. I first thought “Wow! Melee! Awesome!” But it seemed to pretty to be Melee. And what was that? MEDAKNIGHT??????!?!?!?!?!

New Nintendo Channel Hints at Possible Brawl Downloads

The following is taken from an article on Ign.com

During a Game Developers Conference session called “Planning the Wii Menu” today, Nintendo’s Takashi Aoyama announced a new Pay to Play program. This will be a new version of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (NWFC). Aoyama explained that NWFC will remain a free service, but forthcoming experiences will require users to pay a fee to enjoy. These services will fall under the new NWFC: Pay to Play program. Games that utilize the new service will feature a logo similar to the one used for NWFC but is orange and reads Pay to Play at the bottom.

Unfortunately, Aoyama did not go into details about what games or services we will be paying to play. He did say Nintendo is taking steps to ensure consumers don’t mistakenly buy a Pay to Play game with the expectation that they will be able to access the entire game for no extra charge.

Another Unlockable Character

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Unlockable #3

Two Characters that JUST missed the final roster.

Well, if you haven’t already, read Homelessvagrant’s post on characters that just missed being in the game. Note that was just “in” the game. No one said any of those would have been playable. They could have been Pokéball Pokémon, Assist Trophies, NPCs, Stickers, and/or Trophies for all we know, if they aren’t already are one of those. Now, some major spoilers are coming. So if you don’t want spoilers on the roster (who didn’t make the cut), stop reading NOW!

 

the characters who almost made it.

a new discovery has been made tht gives the impression that the full roster actually included some other characters that didn’t made the final cut. Please be aware that this information may result in minor spoilers as it reveals what characters didn’t quite make it.

secret character #2

Another Dojo update, another secret character announced. If the character isn’t a suprise to you himself at least the tips given by Sakurai hopefully will intruige you. Now on with the second unlockable.

Brawl’s report Card; reports are in!

Before I satart may I warn everyone that spoilers are rampant in this post. Secret characters and stages are revealed. Thus if you are being spoiler free avoid this post like the plague. Today we are going over numbers to see exactly how well Sakurai and team (because the man didn’t do it himself) did in representing each of Nintendo’s franchises within this game. Again I repeat Spoilers are present. Now lets get started. unlockables are marked in orange and past stages are marked in blue.

New Brawl Layout, new character revealed

Yep, it’s officially Smash Season…at least in Japan.

The Smash Dojo just got a cool new background image. It’s the same picture from the box, so it’s nothing we haven’t seen before.

And yeah a new character has been revealed. Please go no further if you don’t want spoilers

*SPOILER* Great Gameplay Video

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