Super Smash Brothers Brawl

I am not sure there are many people in world that has not experienced any of the Super Smash Bros series. Right from the release of the very first for the N64 this series has rocked the video game industry. It is hard to believe this but Super Smash Brothers Brawl was the best selling fighting game, it even got more sales in total than Super Street Fighter II! So there must be something good about this game if it is selling this many copies, so that is why I am going to give my own personal opinions on this game, to see if I feel it is worthy of these world records.


Graphics 8/10

I am quite aware that this game was released in 2008 meaning it was in the early days of the Wii so I have to cut the game some slack but there are many other games on the console that are better so why couldn't Nintendo master their own console in 2008. I am really not saying that the graphics of Super Smash Brothers Brawl are bad because they were sometimes rather stunning. The peaks of the game were the cutscenes in the Subspace Emissary but let's be honest here, cutscenes are always the graphic highlights of the game. I guess at the time they were something to show off about but only a couple of years after with the stunning Mario Galaxy 2 removed meaning to be big headed about it. I guess it was a case of getting to grips with the console, learning its thresholds and capabilities. Then again Super Mario Galaxy 2 had amazing graphics as did The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword they are just two games in the consoles hundreds so you could say Super Smash Bros Brawl was not far off of them.


Sound 10/10

Super Smash Brothers Brawl offered a ton of great music tracks. Each course contains a reasonable number of unlockable songs, usually 7 or so, sometimes more. Most of the songs are pieces from the game backgrounds, say you would have the Super Mario Bros theme on a Mario related arena or the pokemon arena stage would have pokemon battle music. Yet there are some other sound tracks that you can unlock for certain stages. For instance you can get the Tetris theme on the Luigi's Mansion stage so it is nice that you can get other music from games that never made an appearance in this one. 
All of the music in the game has been covered unless it originally came from that game itself. Most of the covers were orchestrated such as the Pokemon Route 301 theme, Song of Storms and  many more nintendo hits. Of course there is the Sonic the Hedgehog course, unfortunately the songs on that are not as good as the original ones. I really did not like the cover for Green Hill Zone or Chemical Plant, they were no where nears as great as the original ones. That was only something small so that did not take down a whole mark because I am telling you now this game does deserve it's 10/10, I just love old Nintendo music.


Gameplay 8/10

There is something about Super Smash Bros that is very enjoyable. It seems to be that game you would play if your friends are around, it is just built to be multiplayer. I am not sure many people bought this game to play alone, because if they did I am sure at some point they would of asked a friend to bring a second controller. Any of the games in the series are addictive, or at least for a long time they are. I can remember playing hours of Melee even though it was my friends gamecube and much more hours on Super Smash Bros Brawl. It was the on Wii that I played for a long time. There was nothing more fun. 
You may of noticed that I said "at least for a long time" that being games like this do eventually get boring. Once you have unlock everything, once you can beat everyone online, the games gets boring there is nothing you can really do anymore. I managed to get to that stage, I was amazing at the game. My online record was 67 games played 61 won and that was impressive. I was beating youtubers, I joined their online sessions. I also remember playing with my favourite Flipnote creator Glen-i (though most of you won't know him because he was european), and yes I beat him. I know I sound all big headed about this but it all came down to many hours of game play, I just could not stop until now. Now the game is just boring, I hardly ever put in the Super Smash Brothers disc. The light gameplay just got boring, it is not the same as other fighting games like Super Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat which you can just not get enough of, this game does get boring after a year or so. The heavy feels of the true fighting games just make them realistic and to me realism is one of the main things that can make a game good. This is why I prefer Forza Motorsport to Need for Speed and I hate to say this but this is why I prefer Mortal Kombat to Super Smash brothers brawl.
There is so much in the game yet the easy difficulty of the game, even in the hardest settings it is easy, makes it all come to soon. That is why the game ruins its addictive vibe, because it ends to quickly. Even with so much depth put into the game. I guess that is what Nintendo need to work on next so that the Super Smash Bros game for the Wii U and 3DS will be even more successful.



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You did an awesome job on your review. Even better than the last one I saw! Your intro is short and yet grabbing the reader's attention to read the whole thing and you put a decent amount of detail for all the categories and a great amount of detail for the gameplay portion of your review. Keep this up and I look forward to your future reviews!