I've actually said this before in another Epic thread: Epic is the antithesis of what works on the Wii. They're definitely not a right fit for the Wii.
The barbs are just an extra attack because they don't have to do business with Nintendo anyway and it stokes the flames of 360/PS3 fires.
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