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• 5Jul 09

  Super Smash Bros. 4 Character Roster Wishlist

  I've been thinking about the next Super Smash Bros. ever since I heard about the possibly meaningless Professor Layton twitter about the smash world tournament where he was told to fight a blue robot boy, a posessed doll, and a tiny boxer. So he was told to fight Megaman, Geno and Little Mac respectively. There were a couple tweets on the subject but the next day he made one about people reading too much into things not that there's anything wrong with that. Still the fact that this account is somebody who works at Nintendo is interesting and could end up being all true whether the next game comes out on Wii, DS or the successor to Wii. I'm thinking they are finally gonna make a DS version of SSB, it only seems logical. Logical, hence Professor Layton lol.
  
  So I thought alot about the characters for next big Super Smash Bros. game and I created this list. Prepare for wall.
  
  Mario characters:
  1. Mario
  2. Luigi*
  3. Peach
  4. Bowser
  5. Yoshi
  6. Bowser Jr. (hidden)**
  7. Baby Mario/Luigi Tag Team (hidden)
  8. Waluigi (hidden)***
  9. Birdo (hidden)
  
  Wario characters:
  10. Wario
  11. Captain Syrup (hidden)
  
  Zelda Characters:
  12. Link
  13. Zelda/Sheik
  14. Skull Kid
  15. Ganondorf (hidden)*
  16. Vaati (hidden)
  17. Midna with Wolf Link (hidden)
  Edit: it appears I forgot Toon Link and I don't feel like going through and renumbering everything
  
  Metroid Characters:
  18. Samus
  19. Ridley****
  20. Dark Samus (hidden)
  21. Either a hunter or possible new character in Other M (hidden)
  
  Kirby Characters:
  22. Kirby
  23. Metaknight
  24. King Dedede
  
  F Zero Characters:
  25. Captain Falcon
  26. Samurai Goroh
  27. Black Shadow (hidden)
  
  Donkey Kong Characters:
  28. Donkey Kong
  29. Diddy Kong
  30. Dixie Kong
  31. King K. Rool (hidden)
  
  Pokemon Characters:
  32. Pikachu
  33. Jigglypuff
  34. Lucario or newer Pokemon
  35. Pokemon Trainer
  36. Mewtwo (hidden)*
  37. Meowth (hidden)
  38. Rival (hidden)*****
  
  Star Fox Characters:
  39. Fox
  40. Falco*
  41. Krystal
  42. Wolf (hidden)*
  
  Fire Emblem Characters:
  43. Marth
  44. Ike
  45. I'm not too familiar with Fire Emblem but I think there could be 4 reps. (hidden)
  46. Seems like a series with a lot of good characters for a game like this. Maybe one of them could be Roy. (hidden)
  
  Earthbound Characters:******
  47. Ness
  48. Lucas
  
  Kid Icarus Characters:
  49. Pit
  50. Eggplant Wizard (hidden)
  
  Nintendo Other Characters:
  51. Little Mac
  52. Geno (or Square character maybe I don't know)
  53. Professor Layton
  54. Ice Climbers
  55. Captain Olimar
  56. Mr. Game and Watch (hidden)
  57. Isaac from Golden Sun (hidden)
  58. ROB (hidden)
  
  Third Party Characters: (all hidden)
  59. Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
  60. Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  61. Shadow (StH)
  62. Megaman (Megaman)
  63. Simon Belmont (Castlevania)
  64. Crono (Chrono Trigger)
  65. Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)*******
  66. Ryu (Street Fighter)
  67. Viewtiful Joe (Viewtiful Joe)
  68. Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil)*******
  69. Bomberman (Bomberman)
  
  70. Toon Link
  
  And the official never gonna happen #71 is Banjo Kazooie. Would be great though.
  
  Rejects: Popular third party characters I just don't think fit
  1. Dante (Devil May Cry)
  2. Cloud (Final Fantasy VII)
  3. Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
  Sora could fit but he's all about Disney and they would have to take that away which would ruin him.
  
  So the grand total is 70 characters with 34 hidden and 36 available from the start. Kind of a stretch I think from the 35 or 36 in the last game but I think all the characters here are mostly reasonable. Now I'll go over some of the *s.
  
  * Luigi could use his vacuum as an attack much in the same way Mario uses his FLUDD. Just not as crappy. On that subject make FLUDD a bit more useful.
  
  It's about time Ganondorf finally gets his own moveset. Give him one! And he needs atleast one attack with his double swords and maybe can use them for basic A attacks too.
  
  Mewtwo needs to be improved very badly from how he played in Melee. He was too slow and had too many useless attacks. Falco and Wolf need more dramatic differences from Fox too although leaving them be would be understandable since they are similar characters anyway.
  
  **Bowser Jr. could transform into Shadow Mario in much the same way Zelda and Pokemon Trainer transform.
  
  ***Waluigi whether you like him or hate him (I personally find him hilarious) would be a great addition to the series. Reason being he has the potential for a great, varied moveset with his stalky figure and lanky stance. Give him a bob-omb attack. I understand all the haters of Waluigi I've heard all of you, but this is a smash bros. game not a Mario adventure. All that matters I think is popularity and eligibility.
  
  ****I'm on the fence about Ridley because he would be so cool but he'd also need to be scaled down ALOT. But then again look at first Bowser who is a bit smaller than normal and second Olimar. Olimar is MUCH smaller than the other characters but in the game they scaled him way up to a competitive size.
  
  *****Rival Pokemon Trainer would be great. He could have the starters from a newer generation or he could have an Eevee evolution trifecta or something else. He has to look like Gary Oak.
  
  ******I didn't include anymore Earthbound characters. I looked into a lot of them. Jeff, Poo, Paula, Klaus, Porky etc but they all seem like they'd be better as assist trophies. Then again I dunno I've never played a game in the series.
  
  *******Ryu Hayabusa might be shocking to some because of how bloody and gory the Ninja Gaiden games are but I actually think he's one of the more possible characters here. His moveset would be easy he has a large set of ridiculous attack, weapons and ninpos at his disposal and then look at the collaboration with Team Ninja and Nintendo on Metroid. I think it's safe to say Ryu is a likely possibility. As for the blood issue it's Super Smash Bros. Characters don't bleed so he'll be as child safe as anyone in the cast.
  
  Leon S. Kennedy I think is less likely because the creator doesn't like firearms attacks but I think they could do it by giving him incendiary grenades or flash grenades, the rocket launcher and his roundhouse melee attack. I don't think a shotgun that only hurts at close to mid range but be much of a big deal. It would be lame to pass up on Resident Evil's most popular character and the star of one of the most beloved gamecube (and wii) games.
  
  And one last thing I'd like to go over is the new assist trophiest/adventure mode. A lot of great Nintendo characters just would not work as playable fighters or just aren't popular enough. And regarding the new adventure mode I think many Nintendo characters could replace the stupid shadow enemies in Brawl. Think of all the glorious minibosses. Anyway here's the list of adventure enemies/assist trophies I just thought of. There are so much more they could use. They have such a huge library of characters.
  1 goomba
  2 koopa and paratroopa
  3 shy guy
  4 metroid
  5 space pirate
  6 hunters
  7 Kraid
  8 Motherbrain
  9 Wart
  10 cackletta and fawful
  11 villains of super paper mario (count bleck, ochunks, mimi, dimentio, MR L!) and the other paper mario games
  12 Elite Beat Agents
  13 Donkey Kong Country enemies
  14 semi popular fire emblem characters
  15 The Earthbound characters listed above
  16 Kid Icarus enemies
  17 gorons
  18 wallmaster (lol jk)
  19 pak E. derm
  20 Slippy and Peppy
  21 9 volt
  22 Chibi Robo
  23 Stanley
  24 Ryota Hayami
  25 Knuckles, Tails, Dr. Eggman, Amy etc
  26 phoenix wright
  27 king hippo
  28 zack and wiki
  29 kamek
  30 raiden
  
  I could go on and on but I won't.
  
  Cuz this blog took forever to make.
  
  So that's about it. Thank you for reading my wall of text(if you did)
  
  And one more thing
  
  STAY OUT OF CAVES

  • Posted Jul 5, 2009 6:53 pm PT
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• 17Jun 09

  And my game of show is...

  Scribblenauts!
  
  Okay I didn't wanna jump on the bandwagon, but no nevermind actually I don't mind. Scribblenauts was the most impressive game there. It seemed to have come out of nowhere at E3 and take everyone by surprise. If you don't know anything about Scribblenauts yet it's a simple premise. There's a place you have to reach on each level. However the possibilities of getting there are almost endless. You write in whatever items you can think of to reach your goal. Things like skateboards, penguins, ladders, cars, shotguns, and even God. From what I've heard people at E3 were trying to come up with words that would not register in the game and the game provided an item every single time. Incredible. This should be the best DS game ever.
  
  
  
  

  • Posted Jun 17, 2009 1:47 pm PT
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• 13Jun 09

  Graduation + The Hangover + Game hype

  I graduated this Thursday. It was fun we had grad night later on a hornblower which was pretty cool and I stayed up 24 hours then slept for 12 from pre-noon to night.. Now though it's summer time. And I don't have anything to do and no job. NOOO!!!
  
  So I have been looking over all the E3 highlights and whatnot and decided to compile a list of the games I'm most hyped for on each systemI own. Also I will add a list of games on each system I really want to try, but just havn't had the time or money. And my next blog, maybe tomorrow, will show my overall hype.
  
  DS:
  1. Scribblenauts
  2. Mario and Luigi 3 Bowser's Inside Story
  3. Golden Sun DS
  4. Zelda Spirit Tracks
  5. Pokemon Gold/Silver Remakes (even though nothing new was announced or shown)
  
  1. Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars
  2. Castlevania Order of Ecclesia
  3. Final Fantasy IV
  4. The World Ends With You
  5. Professor Layton
  6. Henry Hatsworth
  
  Wii:
  1. Metroid Other M
  2. New Super Mario Bros
  3. Super Mario Galaxy 2
  4. Muramasa Demon Blade
  5. Zelda Wii (even though there is practically no info on it)
  6. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Ultimate Allstars
  7. Metroid Prime Trilogy
  8. No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle
  9. Wii Sports Resort
  10. Red Steel 2
  11. The Grinder
  12. Silent Hill Shattered Memories
  13. The Conduit
  14. Dead Space Extraction
  
  1. Mad World
  2. Punch Out!!!
  3. No More Heroes
  4. House of the Dead Overkill
  5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
  6. Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition
  
  Xbox 360:
  1. Marvel vs. Capcom 2
  2. Bayonetta
  3. Bioshock 2 (still skeptical)
  4. Brutal Legend
  5. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
  6. King of Fighters XII
  7. Tekken 6
  8. Milo
  9. Batman Arkham Asylum
  10. Left 4 Dead 2
  11. Modern Warfare 2
  12. Shadow Complex
  13. Assasin's Creed 2
  14. Halo ODST
  15. Forza Motorsport 3
  16. NBA 2K10
  
  1. Ninja Gaiden 2
  2. Castle Crashers
  3. Left 4 Dead
  4. Burnout Paradise
  5. Braid
  6. Elder Scrolls IV
  7. Fallout 3
  8. CoD 4 Modern Warfare
  9. Dead Space
  10. NBA Street Homecourt
  11. Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts
  
  
  P.S. Go see the Hangover. More laughs than you can imagine.

  • Posted Jun 13, 2009 5:56 pm PT
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