*UPDATED!* The Super Smash Bros Brawl Thread!

[Whitewater]

I know the Japanese release is soon and then questions will be answered, but what are the odds of the North America based game being different then the Japanese based game?

[Hitzel]

Honestly, very little chances. The information for the NA version and the Japan version is the same. I'm thinking the only differences we'll see are language, and possibly some online details. For example, our matchmaking buckets may work differently because North America is bigger than the Island of Japan. Lag affects a fighting game much more than it does a shooter, so matchmaking has to be more strict in a fighting game when it comes to connection and distance from host than most of the users here are used to.

[Hitzel]

There's a demo up in Japan now!

Japanese pro gameplays!

Uploader's youtube

SB thread


All matches played with Wii-remote alone. That means no short hopping, amoung other AT's.

Expect more soon.

[Exiled Bandit]

Would of been better if the demo had some more characters to play as. It got boring watching DDD and Ike fight. The Pkmn Trainer vs Link was a good match though.

[Hitzel]

I actually think that these 9 clips are better than 95% of the videos that have been released so far. 1v1 fights actually show some mental game. It's interesting to me.

Besides, did you see D3's chain throws? How Ike's sword prevents you from edgeguarding? How powerful Kirby's down throw is now? These vids are just teeming with info.

[VoRLiN]

Originally Posted by Hitzel

I actually think that these 9 clips are better than 95% of the videos that have been released so far. 1v1 fights actually show some mental game. It's interesting to me.

Besides, did you see D3's chain throws? How Ike's sword prevents you from edgeguarding? How powerful Kirby's down throw is now? These vids are just teeming with info.

You scare me sometimes. One of those times is now.

[Hitzel]

Haha. How's that scare you?

*Edit*

More videos up, this time from ITP.


Uploader's Youtube
^More vids here already.


Here's his thread at SWF:
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=139250

Originally Posted by I.T.P

Ok, First of all I'll say I played A LOT today, around 40-60 matches easily, I'm not kidding. the place was deserted most of the time, and no pros came, I only played Noobs/ok players, which didn't stop me from losing because of the **** wii-mote and/or bad luck.

I have 15-20 videos to upload, but I'll get to that soon, first I want to write my impressions so I don't forget things:

First of all, a discovery I made by mistake, you CAN select the starting pokemon for PT, in a very bizzare but cool manner, once you pick him, It'll be default to random starting pokemon, but,and here's the good part, if you click on one of the portraits, It'll gain a light glowing frame, and he'll be the starting pokemon! not only that but his sprite is shown on the stage select instead of the PT's, and if you press B and select PT again, you'll hear that pokemon's name instead of "Pokemon Trainer". I'll put a demo movie I made of that first up.

here is the demonstration:

now, I will be listing my Impressions as points, starting from basic, and then character specific.
just so you'd now, I played mostly as Ike,DeDeDe and PT, my entire opinion of these three completely changed now that I can play them normally, I did play the rest of the characters, but less. I even played a bit of shiek in the SSE Demo, but only for a short while so no real news there, I did take footage of someone else doing the same though. so first shiek video soon.

Now on to the impressions: starting with the things Gimpyfish asked me to check via MSN

• No L-Canceling is confirmed, I tried many times
• Dropping from ledge is done by both back/down. you can Ledge hop like in Melee, I did it with charizards Fair
• Ike's forward B cannot be used more than once in the air
• DDD can only have 2 waddles in play at any time, whenever he shoots a third, the first dissapears
• Kirby can inhale Items, but gains no abilities from them as far as I've seen. DDD can do the same. it's more of a counter mesure when thrown an item at.
• Air dodge is confirmed to grab Items automatically without needing to press A, just like I saw in whobby but wasn't sure
• You can pick your starting PT pokemon, Details above
• Charizard's Flame thrower can go up and down, just like Koopa's
• Squirtle's water gun does no damage, but its knockback exceeds FLUDD's, and it charges quickly and you can cancel the charge with shield, the only symptom of a charged squirtle is that he slightly glows, comparable to samus but less noticable
• Capsules and Crates can contain Smash balls, not sure if this is new
• DDD's chaingrab is very easy to do(at least with the wii-mote), I'll have vids of me doing it to newbies on later
• DDD can rethrow waddles by pressing A near them, the effect is the same as side Bing a new one
• Ike's counter works like Marths, and works for a very long time, does 13%
• Wii-mote sucks
• I got lots of taunt footage :P
• Great bay's zelda main theme is in Bridge of Eldin
• Link's claw is confirmed not to make him flinch/lag, it's about the length of an Air dodge - that is very short

That's it for now, I'll start working on the videos right now so hang on tight. you can subscrive to my Youtube account if you have problems waiting for me to update the thread.

my account is http://www.youtube.com/user/ITP123

Videos:
me(DDD) vs RG(Link) -

in BoE
I.T.P(Pokemon Trainer) Vs Random Guy(Pikachu) -

in Lylat
I.T.P(Pokemon Trainer) Vs Random Guy(Mario) -

in halberd
I.T.P(DeDeDe) Vs Random Guy(Ike) -

Random Guy(DeDeDe) Vs Random Guy(Pikachu) -

SSE video 1 - shiek footage inside -

now I'm off to work my *** off for you guys, be patient :P

[Exiled Bandit]

So anymore updates from SmashBros Dojo as of today? And I did not watch those 5 of so new videos I.T.P. just posted.

[Hitzel]

Dojo doesn't update on weekends, if that's what your asking.

FYI, there's like 8 videos up now.

[Exiled Bandit]

Yeah I haven't been lurking here often, but I thought they updated daily (or atleast 2-3 times a week). Guess we'll have to wait til tomorrow to see what's in store.