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Suprisingly supplies hours of fun!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User
Having zero expectations, I found myself trying to beat the game with every character and having fun at nearly every moment.
A Game Which Began a Legacy
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User
In 1999, Nintendo had never really put all their leading mascots in a game together. They might have had cameos or easter eggs, but they were never playable together. Super Smash Bros changed that. It not only put some of Nintendo's greatest characters up against one another, it invented a completely new style of gameplay for fighting games that is still, to this day, unmatched.
Super Smash Bros had a simple concept to playing. Every character has a series of attacks. Standard attacks, a special attack (usually a projectile of some sort) and an assortment of smash attacks. Not only were characters given a different array of attacks, but there were also a ton of items for characters to grab and throw at each other or use to their benefit. Beam Swords, pokeballs and baseball bats are but a few of the items you can pick up and use against your opponents.
Super Smash Bros continued Nintendo's idea of making games simple and easy to access and play. In most fighting games you need to remember a series of button presses and bring an opponents life gauge down to zero. Super Smash Bros does away with that. There are no complex button presses to pull off different moves. And the object of the game is not to deplete a character's life gauge. Up to four characters can go into a battle. The object of the game is to increase a characters percentage until it gets high enough for you to knock them off the screen. You can either play a stock match in which characters are given a set number of lives and the goal is to survive, or play a time match which is basically a free for all.
It's this simplicity and originality that makes Super Smash Bros fun. There are also a good list of characters to choose from. There are only eight characters to start with, but there are four unlockable characters. There are eight stages and one unlockable.
Compared to its older brothers, Melee and Brawl, there aren't a whole lot of things that Super Smash Bros offers the player. But it's still a fine game. One that introduced concepts that the later games would later evolve. Bringing out more characters and bringing out more level designs. But it's hard to deny that Super Smash Bros is important to video gaming for being the pioneer of this style of party games.
Graphically and sound wise, Super Smash Bros is one of the Nintendo 64's crowning achievements. There's a lot of detail and colors brought out in the game. Not to mention some great sound effects and music that showcase what the Nintendo 64 can really do.
If there was anything wrong with Super Smash Bros, it's the same thing that still plagues the series to this day. The fact that Super Smash Bros is definitely not a single player experience. While there is a single player mode where you fight against certain fighters in different circumstances (Metal, giant, maybe a team) but this isn't nearly as exciting as playing against your friends and pummeling them. Just the same, you can do versus mode against computer controlled characters, but the experience isn't a lot of fun. In the first place, the computer spends much of their time performing the same moves over and over again, and they're just not challenging. Even when the CPU is at their highest level.
Despite this, the game is a lot of fun. It just isn't much of a single player experience. Future games in the series, while bringing in a lot of new modes, never really became memorable for their single player outings either. Super Smash Bros is still a very fun game.
On a side note, however, it's hard to say whether or not the game has really aged well. It's still a fun game to play, but in terms of having bigger and better sequels, the Smash Bros series usually gets better as it goes. As a result, some may forget about the first one all together because the later ones are just THAT much bigger and better. In terms of when Super Smash Bros was released, it was incredible. It's still incredible. It's just one of the few games where later installments can make the first one seem a bit forgettable. Where as other games series have had minor improvements, the jump from the original Smash Bros to Melee was much more than just a tweak. Melee goes all out. As a result, Super Smash Bros can seem a bit more tame to other gamers. That doesn't make it a bad game. If you're curious as to how far the series has come then you might want to pick up the very first Super Smash Bros. It may not be as good as the later games, but it's still an incredible game.
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