Super Smash Bros. U/3D

Fuck Ridley - here comes the real Metroid starpower: it's everyone's slightly memorable bounty hunter, Gandrayda! Special attacks include transforming into other player and being pink.

Final Smash: Horrendous voice acting.

Apparently it has "sophisticated moves" and is hard to control.  Mewtwo, we barely knew ye.



Side special is Shadow Sneak, a disappear-and-ambush move.  Can be charged for distance while holding the button, and Grenny can move while charging.  I like that it's looking behind itself at Charizard.  Nice touch.

Gerudo Valley edition.  Plays "Gerudo Valley" in the background, to absolutely no one's surprise.

Don't really know what to say about this one.  Erm... ZSS' jetboots look nice?

Left one's Tac from the Kirbies - steals your "charged power".  Right one's a Skuttler from KIU - presumably it slashes you.

The interesting bit's in the text. "The 3DS version will have roughly the same types of Assist Trophies and Pokémon. Just roughly…" Hopefully that doesn't mean a straight removal to free up space, although I doubt Sakurai would do that anyway.

The Beam Sword features pretty colours.  The Fire Bar features shrinking every time you take a swipe.  Worst clobbering weapon ever?

We all know this one now.  Balloon Fight, complete with flippers.  The stage loops around, so it's up or down for the KO.

"Don't eat him.  You can't eat him."  Bless your youthful face, Sakurai.

Rainbow egg trail.  New stance when firing the Paralyser.  Move along, move along.

From left to right: MegaMan.EXE, X, Mega Man, Mega Man Star Force, and Mega Man Volnutt. What's a Volnutt when it's at home?

MIDNA MIDNA MIDNA MIDNA MIDNAAAAAAAAshe's just an assist trophy?  Aww. Still, nice to see The Best Zelda Character Ever making an appearance.  She chucks things about, and apparently "Her uncontrollable, whimsical nature remains intact."  Which is Sakurai-speak for "she's still a massive tsundere."

Tethers are longer, and multiple people can latch on, although only one can grab the ledge afterwards.  Nice to see this under-used mechanic being buffed.

Floaty jump?  Floaty jump.  They're still thinking about whether to implement a tail attack.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK

The Orne from KIU is "even more powerful than the Ultimate Chimera in the last game."  FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Hi Dillon.  He "can even do things like a quick charge."  Does that mean anything to anyone who's played Dillon's Rolling Western?

It's like a game of Where's Wally - can you find Little Mac's opponent?



Also you can make the lights crash to the floor.  Which I guess gives away the question above.

"Members of the Enemies That Love to Hide Association, here are Octorok and Met. Calmly grab them while they're ducking."  If we're seeing Mets in Smash Run, does this mean that the Badniks are on the cards too?

I'm confused.  Wasn't The Wonderful 101 a third-party game?  So are Nintendo including those as trophies now?  If so, we could actually see some Monster Hunter trophies in.  That'll make Jas happy.

So I guess you throw it at someone?



I GUESSED WRONG.  You turn into one and clout your opponents - or if you're me, fly off the stage into oblivion.

The Dragoon has a new targeting screen. In stereoscopic 3D on the 3DS, no less.



And here's the item itself, looking shiny. "I wanna get on it. I wanna get on and ride it." Do you, Sakurai? Do you really?

He's very nice, Sakurai, but we've all seen Wireframe Mac before (apparently originally drawn by a young Shigeru Miyamoto).  What else you got?

Charizard's new side special (replacing Rock Smash, which goes to down) is Flare Blitz.  Powerful, with a recoil effect if you hit, just like in Pokémon.



Mega Evolution confirmed for Final Smash!  Looks plasticky.

One of Sakurai's personal favorites[sic] apparently.

Gather round, folks: it's time for a Sakurai history lesson.

"The TV-Game 15! Color TV-Game 15 is a home entertainment system that was released in 1977 in Japan before the release of Space Invaders. This is the oldest game to join the Smash Bros. series.  

"Normally, controllers for these types of games had knobs with variable resistors--these allowed the players to control in-game movement by how far they twisted the knobs. The TV-Game 15 used microswitches instead. We've worked a little too hard to reenact the behavior of the original, so the paddles always move in linear paths with the same, consistent speed. We pay attention to such peculiar details!"

Altogether now: "ARIGATO SAKURAI-SENSEI."

Different costumes include being a girl.  Pretty cool, Nintendo.