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[Mar. 6th, 2008|10:05 pm] |
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Just about 48 hours until Super Smash Bros. Brawl releases! w00t! Now is the time for blogging about Smash Brothers.
I'm going to have to practice up on Melee. Sadly, I can't compete in the GameStop tournament, since I'm an employee (Nintendo's rules- I specifically double-checked when my manager informed us)... but I guess it makes sense. There are prizes involved, and sneaky employees could play the game before the release date, thus having an unfair advantage, yadda yadda. Oh well... I get a 15% discount on the game, so hah!
I agreed to work the midnight launch, since I can't play in the tournament. It'll at least be fun to witness the camaraderie, and maybe I'll meet some players I could battle on Wi-Fi. Plus, since we have the most pre-orders in the region, we're budgeted money to buy food and drinks for the staff and players. Matt (our manager) said he's probably going to buy pizza for the staff, and at least some drinks for all the players. Huzzah!
According to Nintendo's rules, the matches will apparently be one minute each (?!), so the tournament should progress quickly. Matt said we should be out of there by 12:30 or 12:45, and I wouldn't have been able to buy the game until midnight anyway.
It's also funny because I don't think they expected me to agree to work the launch. I often talk about Brawl at GameStop, so my co-workers are always teasing me about the game getting delayed, or cancelled, or even forcing me to work the entire launch day while they play the game right in front of me. LOLz. Of course, it's all in good fun. The people we like at GameStop, we tease. The people we don't like... we just talk trash about.
Next, since the character roster has been leaked for weeks from the Japanese release (I meant to blog with thoughts on that, but somehow never got around to it), it'll be fun to look back on my roster predictions, and see how close I was!
( Predictions, and the Forbidden 7. Possible spoilers. )
Lastly, on a side note to the Smash Bros. series- what happened this Monday?? Nintendo has been really erratic with the Virtual Console games the last couple of months or so. It used to be like clockwork that we got three games per week. Now, we usually only get one or two. And this week, all we get is SUPER TURRICAN?!? Way to drop the ball, Nintendo!
I mean, not to hate on Super Turrican, because it's pretty decent- but what about releasing N64 Super Smash Bros.?? I would have bought it too, because my SSB cartridge was stolen several years ago, and you can rarely find the game for less than $20. Not only that, but N64 emulation is still rather iffy, and just imagine the logistical problems with 4P matches on your PC!
Mario, Zelda, and Kirby have appropriate VC representation. Nintendo even dedicated a freaking MONTH to Metroid on Virtual Console, plus a Prime 3 Preview Channel- but they can't see fit to release ONE GAME to VC for what will be, in all likelihood, the best-selling game for the Wii? Melee was the best-selling game of ALL TIME for the GameCube, and the original SSB was the fifth best-selling for N64. What's the deal, guys? Metroid deserved the promotion, but so does Smash Bros.!
I am going to be sorely disappointed with Virtual Console if they don't get SSB up by next Monday. Of course, by then, Brawl will already be out... but better late than never. I still love some of the stages from the original, which were never featured in Melee or Brawl. Hyrule Castle was the best stage, hands down, and the Pokemon level with the randomly opening door was pretty great too. |
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