Super Smash Bros. Brawl | The Worst One, Apparently - Scott The Woz

No one was ready for Mario and Luigi's realistic overalls

Fun Fact: The longest work of fiction is a Subspace Emissary Fan Fic.

"They're letting anyone be a smash brother these days" stares in Sora fighting Minecraft Steve

The reason Snake became a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is because Hideo Kojima had originally requested Snake to be in Melee, but didn't make the cut due to time constraints.

Brawl is actually what got me into smash bros. I remember opening the game and sitting idly just to hear its opening theme. Good times

If the worst game in a series is still a really good game, then maybe you’ve got an extremely well developed franchise

Brawl was my first smash bros game and overall the perfect introduction to Nintendo's history at the time. Given the fact I was just a 8 year old little kid who'd only played Kirby and Animal Crossing, the hours I spent pouring over trophy descriptions taught me everything I knew about Nintendo. That alone makes me respect Brawl. It came out at the perfect time for new fans.

"You ever love a game so much that other people say is basically the bubonic plague?" Yeah, I'm a Pokémon fan.

I had no idea people didn’t like this game, I freaking loved it Side note: Link’s smash sounded so clean in brawl but they fucked up the SFX in the one after, shame

Snake got in as a personal favour Masahiro Sakurai did for Hideo Kojima. Kojima's son loved Super Smash Bros 64, and when Kojima heard that his friend Sakurai was making a sequel, he asked if Snake could be in it so that his son could play as Daddy's character. Melee was too far into development by that point to add any new characters, but Sakurai said he would try and get him in if there was a threequel. When development started on Brawl, Sakurai called Kojima and asked if he was still interested in Snake being in Smash. Kojima said "Hell, yes!" and that was that.

“Baby’s First Smash” is more accurate than you think. When I was around 5 or 6 I discovered Brawl while watching some of my distant relatives play Subspace Emissary. Believe it or not my introduction to Nintendo was watching Bowser shoot a dark gun at Diddy Kong and Donkey Kong taking the hit for him. Characters I barely recognized were dying and killing. And thus, that family trip became the most important event in my life. I quickly got hooked Wii games and Nintendo, and honestly, most of the games I played were life changing for me. Subspace Emissary was the first “game” I had ever beat and nothing will ever make me feel the way that credit sequence did. It compelled me enough to play Super Mario Galaxy, Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, Twilight Princess, and Majora’s Mask and those were all amazing experiences for child-me. I’m sure I would’ve fallen in love with Nintendo even if I hadn’t picked up the game, but thanks to its charming nature and ability to introduce and flesh out the characters, I decided to become a Nintendo fan right then and there. Definitely the best decision of my life.

As a kid I LOVED brawl. The story was very scary yet exciting and I loved fighting the newcomers.

I'm actually a huge fan of the gritty, more realistic looking art style of Brawl. Also Brawl's intro theme is the superior intro theme to all Smash Bros games.

I know the art style is gritty and dark but there’s something fascinating about seeing cute, colourful characters in a darker art style.

Why do video game fans hate it when the company gives casuals something to play?

If you're making a game series and the worst one you've got is something as good as Brawl, you're doing really good.

Brawl's main theme is one of the most beautiful songs ever composed.

This game proofed to me that I should never listen to the Internet when it comes to casual fun.

Subspace emissary was phenomenal, it was like playing a full-life consequences tier fanfic

All those Brawl haters need to realise that Smash Bros was originally created by Sakurai for everyone to be able to play, and was literally supposed to be targeted at casual gamers, which is why I don’t understand the arguments for why Brawl is a bad game. It was honestly my favourite until Ultimate, due to things like the Subspace Emissary, which was the coolest thing to me as a kid. I can definitely understand where these competitive smash players are coming from, but definitely not enough to turn away from the franchise.