Zero Punctuation: SSB Brawl

[racketboy]

Couldn't resist:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... Bros-Brawl

[Daniel Primed]

Yeah I didn't like this one so much, label me a fanboy..whatever. I just didn't feel as though there was much substance here, there is a barrell of material to work with on this game and he seems to have only scraped the surface.

[Abras]

Yes, he definitely didn't do as much with the game as he should have. Way too much of the review was just him bitching about how you can't play Sonic or Snake at first. The way I see it, SSB is the kind of game that is likely to be played for years to come, which is plenty of time to unlock all the hidden content. At any rate, the ending made me laugh

[racketboy]

Yes, he definitely didn't do as much with the game as he should have. Way too much of the review was just him bitching about how you can't play Sonic or Snake at first. The way I see it, SSB is the kind of game that is likely to be played for years to come, which is plenty of time to unlock all the hidden content. At any rate, the ending made me laugh

But you have to admit he had a point. Why would you hype those characters to death and then make them unlockables?

[Mozgus]

Well I think we've got a thread around here regarding unlockables, and we agreed that in fighting games, all characters should be open right off the bat.

Anyways it was another funny review. If you're a fan smash and disagree with him, just remember he exaggerates for the sake of satire. Also note that he admits this game is meant to be played with friends, and he claims to have few of those. Also note that they were using wiimotes to play, which is just asking to have a bad time.

[Ack]

I can understand unlockables in terms of boss characters, like Dural in the Virtua Fighter games, but it does get pretty annoying when the one character you like to play has to be unlocked by spending several hours with a bunch of characters you don't like as you slowly bash your way through round after round of opponents on Easy mode like a retarded Neanderthal.

[racketboy]

I can understand unlockables in terms of boss characters, like Dural in the Virtua Fighter games, but it does get pretty annoying when the one character you like to play has to be unlocked by spending several hours with a bunch of characters you don't like as you slowly bash your way through round after round of opponents on Easy mode like a retarded Neanderthal.

I agree. Unlockables used to be for like "Secret" characters.
Kinda like all those secret characters in NBA Jam (even though those were codes, not unlockables)

[Phantom of Krankor]

The Super Smash Brothers games have always felt bouncy to me. They seem to have two camps of fans:
The must play flat stages with no items and only one on one, the tournament camp.
The play with everything to have fun, the casual camp.

While these terms are not universal, I believe they sum up the groups fairly well. I have also noticed that the players from one group do not play well with the other, on a whole. I believe that the tournament camp’s opinion far outweighs the casual’s, atleast in the respects of how vocal they are and how critical they are to anything that may deal with the game. While I have no doubt in Mr Yahtzee’s review style, from his previous works I believe he is more of a denizen of the casual camp than tournament. He does not seem like the kind who would attend tournaments in most fashions. While he is well adjusted to his position and has a verbose lexicon, he seems to play games more to have fun than to win money. This review may not be his best work, but it was still quite funny, and is not that his goal?

[Unknown]

Awesome.

Guys, keep in mind that the only reason he said he was doing the review because everyone wanted him to.

[SpaceBooger]

These reviews are entertaining and hilarious!