Super Smash Bros. Melee
Genre: Action/Fighting
Review by: Wiifan001
The sequel to Super Smash Bros back from the N64 comes out to the Gamecube. SSBM is a 2d platformer. Unlike other fighting games, you attack and the opponent will rack up percentage damage. They don't die, just fall off the stage. The higher their %, the farther back they'll fall off. You can recover by jumping and other special moves.
All the original characters from the N64 are returning to Melee, including some of your favorite Nintendo characters such as Mario, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi. There are some added characters. One of them is the Ice Climbers. They are unique because you can control 2 characters, one named Nana and the other named Popo, at the same time. Another character is Zelda. She is also uinque because she can literally transform into a completely new character. Also, you can play as Mario's greatest nemesis, Bowser, who has a lot of powerful attacks. Finally, I'll say one last character, also from the Mario series, Princess Peach, who can pull vegetables from the ground and has a unique hovering ability.
The stages are as neat as ever. A few are just like the N64 version with minor changes such as Brinstar and the Great Fox. New stages include an F-Zero stage. You'll be fighting on a race track with F-Zero vehicles racing each other. You better look for them. Another great stage, one of my favorite, is Pokemon Stadium. The entire stage transforms from time to time. It's great fun. There are 20+ stages in the game.
Items are fun to use too. You'll get new (2nd generation) Pokemon out of the Pokeballs and the Home Run Bat is still as devastating as ever. The only item that didn't return from the N64 version is the Bumper (don't know why). New items include a Metal Box, which makes your character temporarily become metal. You won't be knocked back as far. If you do get knocked off the stage you'll fall faster. Appearantly the laws of gravity are being broken. Another new item is the bunny hood which lets you jump higher and run faster. There are arguably 29 items in the game (Capsules, crates, barrels, and eggs are kind of debatable.)
On multiplayer you can switch any item/items off except those in paranthesis above. Let's talk about the 1 Player mode. There are several things you can do as to one player. The classic mode is still there. However, this time you will be fighting with different characters on different stages instead of playing the exact same thing over and over on the N64 version. The good old Master Hand is still fun to fight. This time around, depending on a few circumstances, you can fight the Crazy Hand, a left handed Master Hand.
Adventure Mode is where you'll be doing the same thing over and over and over again. Like the Classic mode, there are 5 modes of difficulty- Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Hard, and Very Hard. The 1st stage is a lot like Super Mario Bros. stage where you run across getting past Goombas and Koopa Troopas. It's very fun. But then, you got an underground Zelda stage and Metroid stage which really aren't much fun to do. At the end of Adventure mode, you will fight a Bowser that is bigger than the one you can play as.
Another 1 player mode is called the Event Match. There are 51 stages total where you'll have to do mini objectives, most of them which you simply take out the player/players. Then there's the Target Test which you have to break 10 targets without falling. The Home Run Contest is a mode where you hit a sand bag with a home run bat and it will fly across the stage several hundred feet.
In multiplayer mode, you can play with up to 4 people and can play against CP's. You can do team battles with all the multiplayer modes too. Modes of multiplayer include the classic time and stock battles. There's coin... basically you have to collect the most coins at the end of the match. You will lose 1/2 of them if you fall off the stage. There's special kinds of melee. There's Lighting melee which speeds up all characters dramatically. There's Giant Melee... which increases the size of all characters. Heck, there's even tournament mode in which you can have up to 64 people playing. Sweeeeet.
The graphics are fantastic in the game. The characters all look great. The stages are clean with all sorts of varieties of backgrounds with different artistic views. The trophies that you collect in Melee are animated great with only minor polygon problems in the stages. Very nice graphics.
Every character has at least 20 different sounds, whether attacking or sleeping or crying. It all blends in really good. Some of the most popular sound tracks in video game history are in this game and play on certain stages. Some old-school songs have been redone like the F-Zero music and others like the Earthbound and the Super Mario Bros. music are left untouched.
Multiplayer mode is probably the most addicting one of all the Gamecube games out there. You'll spent many, many hours on multiplayer. Don't worry, you will get a LOOOOT of playing time on single player mode, too. You could also attempt to get all 290 trophies (all from Nintendo games of the present and past) released in America. Tilt- If you have a Gamecube, get this game. Imagine Pokemon, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, Ice Climbers, Ganon... (never mind) all together in one game. This easily has the best multiplayer out there.
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8.6
By Wiifan001
Genre: Action/Fighting
Review by: Wiifan001
The sequel to Super Smash Bros back from the N64 comes out to the Gamecube. SSBM is a 2d platformer. Unlike other fighting games, you attack and the opponent will rack up percentage damage. They don't die, just fall off the stage. The higher their %, the farther back they'll fall off. You can recover by jumping and other special moves.
All the original characters from the N64 are returning to Melee, including some of your favorite Nintendo characters such as Mario, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi. There are some added characters. One of them is the Ice Climbers. They are unique because you can control 2 characters, one named Nana and the other named Popo, at the same time. Another character is Zelda. She is also uinque because she can literally transform into a completely new character. Also, you can play as Mario's greatest nemesis, Bowser, who has a lot of powerful attacks. Finally, I'll say one last character, also from the Mario series, Princess Peach, who can pull vegetables from the ground and has a unique hovering ability.
The stages are as neat as ever. A few are just like the N64 version with minor changes such as Brinstar and the Great Fox. New stages include an F-Zero stage. You'll be fighting on a race track with F-Zero vehicles racing each other. You better look for them. Another great stage, one of my favorite, is Pokemon Stadium. The entire stage transforms from time to time. It's great fun. There are 20+ stages in the game.
Items are fun to use too. You'll get new (2nd generation) Pokemon out of the Pokeballs and the Home Run Bat is still as devastating as ever. The only item that didn't return from the N64 version is the Bumper (don't know why). New items include a Metal Box, which makes your character temporarily become metal. You won't be knocked back as far. If you do get knocked off the stage you'll fall faster. Appearantly the laws of gravity are being broken. Another new item is the bunny hood which lets you jump higher and run faster. There are arguably 29 items in the game (Capsules, crates, barrels, and eggs are kind of debatable.)
On multiplayer you can switch any item/items off except those in paranthesis above. Let's talk about the 1 Player mode. There are several things you can do as to one player. The classic mode is still there. However, this time you will be fighting with different characters on different stages instead of playing the exact same thing over and over on the N64 version. The good old Master Hand is still fun to fight. This time around, depending on a few circumstances, you can fight the Crazy Hand, a left handed Master Hand.
Adventure Mode is where you'll be doing the same thing over and over and over again. Like the Classic mode, there are 5 modes of difficulty- Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Hard, and Very Hard. The 1st stage is a lot like Super Mario Bros. stage where you run across getting past Goombas and Koopa Troopas. It's very fun. But then, you got an underground Zelda stage and Metroid stage which really aren't much fun to do. At the end of Adventure mode, you will fight a Bowser that is bigger than the one you can play as.
Another 1 player mode is called the Event Match. There are 51 stages total where you'll have to do mini objectives, most of them which you simply take out the player/players. Then there's the Target Test which you have to break 10 targets without falling. The Home Run Contest is a mode where you hit a sand bag with a home run bat and it will fly across the stage several hundred feet.
In multiplayer mode, you can play with up to 4 people and can play against CP's. You can do team battles with all the multiplayer modes too. Modes of multiplayer include the classic time and stock battles. There's coin... basically you have to collect the most coins at the end of the match. You will lose 1/2 of them if you fall off the stage. There's special kinds of melee. There's Lighting melee which speeds up all characters dramatically. There's Giant Melee... which increases the size of all characters. Heck, there's even tournament mode in which you can have up to 64 people playing. Sweeeeet.
The graphics are fantastic in the game. The characters all look great. The stages are clean with all sorts of varieties of backgrounds with different artistic views. The trophies that you collect in Melee are animated great with only minor polygon problems in the stages. Very nice graphics.
Every character has at least 20 different sounds, whether attacking or sleeping or crying. It all blends in really good. Some of the most popular sound tracks in video game history are in this game and play on certain stages. Some old-school songs have been redone like the F-Zero music and others like the Earthbound and the Super Mario Bros. music are left untouched.
Multiplayer mode is probably the most addicting one of all the Gamecube games out there. You'll spent many, many hours on multiplayer. Don't worry, you will get a LOOOOT of playing time on single player mode, too. You could also attempt to get all 290 trophies (all from Nintendo games of the present and past) released in America. Tilt- If you have a Gamecube, get this game. Imagine Pokemon, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, Ice Climbers, Ganon... (never mind) all together in one game. This easily has the best multiplayer out there.
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8.6
By Wiifan001
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