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[Fetus Commander]

I know there's a thread about the 3DS one, but is anyone looking forward to the Wii-U version as well?  Gonna try to get in a lot of local multiplayer action this weekend with buddies.  Being a Dokapon lunatic, Smash Tour mode kinda excites me.  The idea of playing duo with your local friend vs. the Internets is cool too.

[oahda]

no

[rj]

if you buy me a wii u then yes

[BizarreTomato]

I picked it up. It's incredibly pretty and charming thus far. I've mostly been playing Ness & Shulk.

[Faust06]

I want it. No Wii-U yet, alas, but it's got such a stellar lineup it will probably be the next purchase.

[SolarLune]

I got it via download. Despite not having the game tied to my account (oy), the nice Digital Deluxe promotion and no tax on digital goods means it was a good choice, I think.

As for the game, it's good. Graphics, gameplay, characters, customization; online mode can be pretty lag-less, which is nice. I think it just misses a story mode.

[rj]

no hyphen

[Glyph]

It feels good after so many years of playing Brawl to move on to something else. When it comes to lasting appeal, I can only hope that it will stay as interesting to me as all the games before it, but since I don't see any glaring issues as of yet (off on a tangent but: nothing on the scale of tripping), I really think it will. And I think, unless you've been secretly praying for wavedashing to make a return after all these years, that core experience shouldn't disappoint. And if you have been praying for wavedashing to return, go play Project M already...

High praise aside, Pac-Land is the ugliest looking stage ever. At least it's kind of a fun one (Not that scrollers are great to begin with, but its hazards aren't too obtrusive). Also it fortifies my baseless rancor toward Pac-Man.

[SolarLune]

Yeah, Pac-land's original graphics weren't the most, uh... "Sound" to begin with. The original Pac-man has the minimalist, slick, simple appeal of good quality pixel art done simply. Pac-Land just could've been rendered better overall, I think.

[Jondog]

I'd love to get Smash Wii-U but I don't even have a Wii-U, it really sucks because a lot of my friends already have it.

[HeliocentricS]

Picked it up digitally a few days ago. It's a smash game so you know if you'll like it if you've ever played one before. Can't speak to the subtle differences that make people prefer melee over brawl and whether this one is a good successor.

Just been playing with the ai so far and trying to get the unlocks but I've been enjoying it quite a bit. I'm going to try it online with some friends sometime this week. Has anyone tried that yet? How's the latency?

[Glyph]

Didn't really notice any latency, except on rare occasions. I think it's still peer-to-peer though, so it might be more hit-or-miss than if it was truly server based. My brother and I played a whole lot of online team battles together, and finished the final team event match as well, on hard (it was quite unforgiving, we ended up going with a vampiric and auto-heal set and both playing as Ness). Team battles online were fun, but were 2-minute timed matches instead of stock, which was a bit annoying, especially when people would abuse the timer.

The Melee>Brawl argument is a pretty common one, probably soon to mold to Melee>Smash4>Brawl. You have to understand that this is a competitive viewpoint though, and that Brawl and Smash4 will probably blow their respective predecessors out of the water for the average player. Only for a serious player will the subtle options that make Melee a better competitive game matter whatsoever, and even then, those options (Wavedashing! L-cancelling!) are invoked in arguments as though they are glorious design choices beyond reproach instead of esoteric mechanics that I personally am glad to be rid of. Also most Project M players that I know are assholes who do talk of these things as though they are perfect and immovable, so that doesn't help my viewpoint at all.

[Duckbridge]

Yeah I definitely want to pick it up! I love smash, however I'd need to get a wii-u first..^^

[Jondog]

Should the Smash Bros. threads be merged or something? Doesn't make much sense for there to be a split between Wii U and 3DS when they are mostly the same game.

[BizarreTomato]

I second that idea. Any subtle differences or version of interest could be clarified on a post-by-post basis.