Super Smash Bros is the first Nintendo game that brings together the many different universes of gaming found on the Nintendo 64. This fighting style platform pulls the powerhouses from Nintendo's more popular games into one unique game. I believe this game to be the beautiful birth to a beautiful series of fighting style games that lives on today as Super Smash Bros: Brawl.There's no where else you can put your favorite characters to an all out fight to see who is the most powerful fighter of the Nintendo world.

Graphics: 9
I do think that the graphics of this game took a small step backwards compared to those of Super Mario 64 and Legend of Zelda which part of this game originates from. The reason for this is due to the fact that most the levels are built by blocks and is relatively flat and 2 dimensional. Aside from this I do love that the levels seemed somewhat eye catching. First, your stages are designed with a nice set of texture and second, each stage offers a few different effects that can take place. On the Castle stage, for example, the Tornado may hurl you into the sky which could easily lead to your death. I liked that this helped make the stage feel like there's more than feeling so 2 dimensional.

I also liked the animations by the characters and the items. Some of the items like Poke balls have cool little animations and is appealing to the game play. The home run bat is probably my favorite. Whenever you get the bat ready for the 1 hit KO is just awesome and makes me laugh every time. There is a lot that is offered in terms of graphics and it really helps pull the gamer into the game. Super Smash Bros is one of those games that did a pretty decent job at this even after the little set back. I feel a 9 is a suitable ranking for graphics.

Sound: 10
The sounds for this game really stand up to the expectations from combining games. First, you have the music and character sounds that come from each of their respective games but, you also have new music that was added to the game. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of new music. I also liked the sound effects of the items. These were definitely cool when the game first came out. Playing the game too much leads to a lot of repetition though. I also liked fighting the boss at the end of the game. The music and sound effects were pretty cool and help make the boss fight feel somewhat more challenging adding to the excitement of reaching the end.

Addictiveness: 10
Super Smash Bros is a very addicting game. It's the first game of the smash series and it offers some pretty intense battles between characters. Has anyone else done a 99 lives run killing 3 Jigglypuff? Well, that was one of the many things I liked to do in my free time. I also couldn't get enough of playing the main game where I'd travel between each world and play the different characters trying to get a high score. If that isn't enough, you might even play the multiplayer mode with friends. Who plays the best Link? Who's the best Mario? Capt. Falcon anyone? Battling friends can really keep you going. The game offers plenty of things for you to do and with playing your friends adds more to the enjoyment of playing the game.

Story: 2
There isn't much of a story to this game if any at all. The only real story might come from finding the different challengers or reaching the Master Hand at the end of the main game. Aside from that, there's only a tutorial and that's it.

Depth: 7
The main component to your game is the 1 player main game where you travel from destination to destination to prove your skills as a fighter. This eventually leads up to the final boss and to a victory. The awesome thing about this is the level of difficulty ranging from very easy to very hard in which you can hone your skills and become an exceptional fighter. The second key component to this game is the multiplayer aspect that allows you to play up to 3 friends. This might be the most fun aspect of the game because you can never get enough of pounding your friends into the ground and watching them shoot across the sky like a shooting star.

Items are another key factor in playing the game. These appear at random times and help alter the gameplay depending on how good you are with them. Items can be powerful if they hit your opponent. This makes for interesting games and sometimes it might just help you come from behind. The last cool thing I enjoy about this game are the 2 challenges to board the platform and smash the target. These will test your speed at completing the courses.

Difficulty: 7
Depending on which level of difficulty you play on will alter this rating. I know that by playing the main game you are prone to falling off the stage many times especially when playing the harder difficulties. These stages will really test your ability to play the game and can be quite frustrating. Aside from that, the game will challenge your level of skill no matter what difficulty you can play as. this helps you to grow and be able to overcome the nest level of difficulty that you can play.

Overall: 10
Overall, I think that this was a great foundation for the Super Smash Bros series to begin. It offered many cool options and had a great cast of characters to play as. With this in mind, it led to the creation of greater, much more in depth games than even this one. For this game on the N64 it offered exactly everything that it needed to. I feel that this was enough to consider the game a 10 out of 10. In my younger years I couldn't get enough of this game even though I destroyed my younger brother at it quite often. When playing this game with friends it was probably the most fun for me because I felt like I had more of a challenge then. I never liked playing Very Hard Mode but I did anyway and eventually succeeded. This game is great for anyone young or old and if you ever find the time to try it, I suggest you do.

Fireproof :
Wonderful review! Nice long detailed and to the point! I enjoyed this game as well, especially with friends around!

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Smash Bros, the original, is a pretty nice piece of work. Knowing it was going to be a different series is kind of weird, but the game has brought the change to great use.