The2ndQuest posted:

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So after getting a chance to play for a few hours yesterday, my thoughts:

-SSE is interesting in a sort of training mode/familiarize with characters kind of way, though it alternates between being very easy and rather hard, depending on what enemies you're facing with which character. It's also pretty huge- I'm only 25% clear at this point. The cinematics are fun to watch too- and I can't help but ponder if the pairing of Yoshi & Link is a reference to the Yoshi doll in Link's Awakening.

-Almost everyone online plays as Lucario or Ike. I lose a lot online

-Did have a neat match where I, as Link, vs someone as Toon Link, came to sudden death on the TP bridge, and we both drew arrows, but I guess mine didn't charge slightly as much, and my arrow fell short, but his hit and took me off the stage. haha.

-Meta Knight has great moves, but they don't seem to do as much damage as you think, and I think he's also easier to knock off the stage, as playing as him often gives you the sense that you are doing much better than you actually are.

-Conversely, Ness has surprising dexterity when it comes to not getting knocked off the stage, both when played my a human or CPU (despite being the first unlockable character, he actually took me the msot number of attempts to unlock him- he kept getting the damn final smash which is seemingly unavoidable (and, truth be told, I cna't even tell what the hell happens to me during it- it seems like it's just "aim and die")).

-I've also noticed CPU characters will always go after the human play(s) with their final smashes. Never seen a CPU target another CPU player intentionally.

-The coin shooter minigame is pretty fun

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EmpireForever posted:

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i do agree about SSE. but i felt it was really easy the entire way through except the final boss (i played on hard) i felt the boss was insanely tough and it was kind of a weird difficulty curve-ball.


His moves are definitely wanked, but once you play him a few times you can figure his pattern out pretty easily, and dodging all of his attacks is not very challenging once you have it down.

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ParaMunn posted:

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EmpireForever posted:

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i do agree about SSE. but i felt it was really easy the entire way through except the final boss (i played on hard) i felt the boss was insanely tough and it was kind of a weird difficulty curve-ball.


His moves are definitely wanked, but once you play him a few times you can figure his pattern out pretty easily, and dodging all of his attacks is not very challenging once you have it down.

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very true, but theres that one move thats nearly physically impossible to avoid where he goes in the middle and throws out like 3 circle things from his body. u have to be like off the stage! i thought that was a little much... though i got him after my third or fourth try

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Axle-Starweilder posted:

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i disagree completely with the button mashing to mastery notion.
i feel that a game like smash bros., while simple on the outside, is actually a very technical title.
you can get into it and even beat up on friends that are waaay better than you without too much understanding of the deeper aspects. but there are certain characters i.e.samus, falco, snake and so on, that have a lot of rather subtle moves and tricks that really can take quite some time to master. probably mostly with snake out of those three. but there's a lot of features to each character and it's hard to really play them to their full potential all of the time. i mean, it's easy to know what you should do in any given hypothetical situation, but it's another thing to actually be able to pull off all of the moves you need most when you really need them.

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darth_Boba posted:

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So basically because the game is complex enough for people to spend hours developing intricate playstyles while being simple enough for casual players to pick it up and not get whomped every time by the hardcore people, it's an overrated game? I disagree with that.

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