One of the most entertaining and simple game series Nintendo has to offer is back and better than ever! Super Smash Bros Brawl for Wii easily surpasses both the original and Melee, due to its better graphics and interesting story mode.

Well here’s a game that all sorts of Nintendo people have grown to love. You’re a Starfox fanboy? I’m a Pokémon lover? Your favorite is Link and Zelda? Well gee, let’s just put them all together. People love having the “my hero could beat up your hero” conversations, and Nintendo put many of their famous heroes and villains together into one game back for the Nintendo 64. The next console brought a much more interesting variety of things to do, adding in a homerun derby and other special melees. And I’ve finally got my hands on the third installment, Brawl.

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• The characters. There are now 35 different characters (But Zelda/Sheik, Samus/Zero-Suit, and Pokémon Trainer each have more than one option to switch between.) Twenty one of the characters are veterans returning from previous games, but that have been considerably improved upon (for example Samus). That leaves 14 new characters in this game.
• Nostalgia. Part of the beauty of these games is that they take different old and new Nintendo characters and bring them all together. For the young and old Nintendo fanboy this will make you remember. For example, one of the new characters in Brawl is a robot named R.O.B. from the old SNES. Or Mario from the classic NES game.
• Story. Super Smash Bros never was a very deep and elaborate game, and never will be. One of it’s favorite traits is how simple it is to just battle it out without any traditional story. However, in Brawl they added an adventure mode that is far more elaborate than the older stories (used to just be a progression of battles, ending in a fight with Master Hand). Subspace Emissary is still a relatively simple story when compared to how other games work, but it creates a fun way to change it up and to introduce the new characters.
• Graphics are considerably improved on all the characters. When I booted up my old N64 game I was amazed at the difference. These characters have undergone such improvements and the attention to detail makes it a very smooth game.

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• Controls. Whenever I have friends over there are at least two of them who need me to plug in my old gamecube controllers into the Wii (Although it must be pointed out that being able to do this is a handy plus). The Wiimote and Nunchuck have proved to be confusing controllers for this game to the players of the earlier versions. I’ve found that while unusual at first I now am able to use them with considerable ease, but the switch was a big jump.

I actually can’t think of any more things that really bug me. Some added features like new or updated items and Final Smashes can get annoying, but if you’re looking to get rid of that there’s a setting when you set up a Brawl. This game has got it all. I have actually beat the entire story mode and collected all the characters. I’m just enjoying the simple games, trying out the internet gaming (Tell me your brawl friend codes and I’ll add you!), and trying to collect all the trophies.

SPOILERS!

For those wondering, you can get all but three characters by simply playing the Subspace Emissary. The three hidden characters after that can be achieved in several different ways: