Hey guys. I know I only own a PS3, but my roomate has a modded Wii and managed to hack a copy of Smash. We had to burn it to a dual-layer DVD after he corrupted a bunch of the data to get it to work, but we have a working Japanese retail copy of smash.
My impressions so far:
Items are broken, as are the new super power moves. We usually play with items off, so I can't give too many specific details. Fox's super power is pretty ridiculous, as is Ike's
Link got nerfed, pretty hardcore. At least from my initial impressions, and I was a damn good Link player, and he feels EVEN SLOWER than before (I know how is that even possible?).
Peach's down smash got nerfed, but her forward air still seems pretty powerful.
Fox's shine is not as broken as it used to be, not really that broken at all anymore.
Metaknight is my favorite character so far. He is very well balanced and has sick recovery. And I mean sick. Pit's recovery might be even better, but my initial impressions of pit were that he is good, but not great. That is by no means definitive though.
I like a lot of the new levels (and there are a lot of them).
Pokemon Trainer is pretty cool, but he is not my cup of tea. Charizard is the strongest of his pokemon, but has awful recovery. Squirtle is quick and has good to decent recovery. Ivysaur is somewhere in between.
We are working on unlocking characters so we don't have Snake, Falcon, Ganondorf, Wolf, Lucero (or however you spell it), Sonic, and a few others.
Pikachu might be even worse if that is possible. I would say he is slightly better than the last game, but nothing compared to the original.
Olimar may be one of the top tier characters. My roomate really likes him and thinks he has a lot of potential. He can deal great damage and has a lot of characters that follow him around (the Pikmin). He kind of has a hard time killing people though.
Ike is very solid too. He does great damage and is very good at knocking characters around. He is a little slow though. I would say he is similar to Link if you took away Link's projectiles and gave him more sword moves. His recovery is pretty bad though.
Dedede might be the best large character I have ever seen except for Ganondorf. He jumps by puffing like Kirby and he has some sick moves, albeit they are kind of slow. He looks like he will be particularly powerful in group battles, though maybe not so much for one on one.
I will post more details once I get them about the game (i.e. once I play it some more). Please ask if you have any questions.
The unlock order so far (if you just do versus battles to get the characters) looks like Luigi, Ness, Marth, Falco.
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