Before I get into this, I wanna say that I genuinely HATE sounding like a fanboy, so please take into consideration that I'm a MASSIVE Melee fanboy.
I sat down and played brawl two days ago and it's been the first time that I've tried out some of my old characters, (the other two times I've played I tried random characters lol). So it was essentially the first time I got a feel for the game.
What the hell happened here :(
Is it me or did they slow this game down about 33% compared to Melee? I couldn't connect crap for combo's with MANY of the characters, and Game and Watch and Ganon in particular feel like they're litterally chugging along. Needless to say I'm going to have to completely re-learn Fox, not a single combo set from melee seemed to work in Brawl, keep in mind I'll say seemed since I need to adjust.
I think it was the stage, but I was playing on some glacier, and ganon seemed to take literally forever and a half to fall, I mean were talking as slow if not slower than any iteration of Samus, what the fudge? Please someone tell me it was the stage.
What the hell happened to down throws? Whenever I toss my opponent to the floor, they always seem to shoot off to the right or left o.O; Wth? If I wanted to throw them right or left couldn't I just do so myself? A good oponent could roll out of them in melee, but now the game just seems to do it for you, why did they get rid of throw combo's? Laaaame-o
I see the term about Wii's graphics thrown around pretty often and for some reason this game keeps getting brought up as a source to show how amazing the graphics are. I'm sorry, but Galaxy looks far better than this game, this is still a side scroller for god's sake! While the graphics are fine, they're honestly not that much better than melee's. Maybe it was the TV (the tv wasn't HD with a nice range of color) just big and washed, or maybe it's just me.
All in all I'm glad they added some features like online play and some of the new stages and what not, but I'm not impressed with the additional characters at all, even being a gigantic Sony fanboy I didn't enjoy playing as Snake :(, the game feels almost too slow for me to play, the physics seem massively adjusted in a very negative way, and they seemed to make it way more casual friendly with the removal of many exploitable combo's. I'd unfortunately say I honestly prefer melee >< and I really don't want to ;-;
From 0 to KICKASS in .stupid seconds.
