Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros.

Logo of the series since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
developer	HAL Laboratory BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. Sora Ltd.
Publisher	Nintendo
Designer	Masahiro Sakurai
First title	Super Smash Bros. (1999, Nintendo 64 )
Last title	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Nintendo Switch )
Platform (s)	Nintendo 64 Nintendo GameCube Wii Nintendo 3DS Wii U Nintendo Switch
Genre (s)	Fighting Game

Super Smash Bros. ( Japanese : 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ, Hepburn : Dai Rantō Sumasshu Burazāzu, unofficially often abbreviated as Smash Bros. or SSB ) is a video game series from Nintendo in which the company's most popular characters come together . In the third part of the series, two characters from other companies ( Konami , Sega ) were also added. These are fighting games in which the aim of the game is to use a chosen character to push your opponent from a platform with the help of individual attacks and random items . The series is created by Masahiro Sakurai .

The event is presented in a stylized and comic-like manner. In the multiplayer mode (depending on the game) up to eight players can fight with or against each other.

Game mechanics

The game system is two-dimensional : the players the action from the side and can their figures upwards, move down the left and to the right, as in 2D - platformers runs .

In contrast to most fighting games , the competition does not consist in knocking out the opponent with successful attacks ; rather, the player has to keep his own pawn on a floating platform for as long as possible and knock other pawns out of the picture in any direction. For this, each opponent must first be weakened with suitable attacks. With each hit inserted, a percentage display assigned to the figure increases. The higher this “damage indicator” is, the further the figure will be thrown back by attacks and the more difficult it will be for it to get back onto the platform. To counteract this, the characters usually have a second jump at their disposal, which they can start freely in the air, as well as special attacks with which they can cover additional distances in the air.

The Smash Bros control system is also very different from that of other fighting games such as Street Fighter : Instead of predefined input combinations, only a dedicated button and possibly a direction input via the analog stick are required to carry out a special attack . There are also not several buttons for blows or kicks of different strength and speed, instead a single button is used, which causes different attacks depending on the movement and position of the analog stick.

In addition to the peculiar attacks of each character, items are also available to the players . These appear randomly on the battle arena and can be picked up by the characters. Like the game characters and combat areas, these items are also borrowed from well-known Nintendo game series. Examples of this are the fire flower from the Super Mario games, which functions as a flamethrower, or the huge hammer known from Donkey Kong .

Some items immediately put the wearer into a temporary state, for example invulnerability, or partially reset the damage indicator, while others function as a blank , projectile or thrown weapon . In general, edged weapons and projectile weapons can also be misused as thrown weapons at any time. Some objects are containers that, when thrown, reveal additional items. Are a specific type within this Poké Balls and Assist Trophies: This type Pokémon or a non-playable character, which usually attack other players in the short term.

The peculiarities of some arenas contribute to the game; In addition to the main platform, there are some smaller platforms that can either temporarily disappear or move.

Games

Super Smash Bros.

With Super Smash Bros. , the first part of the Super Smash Bros. series was released on November 19, 1999 on the Nintendo 64 and was particularly popular in Japan. The game is shown in 3D computer graphics . It was developed by HAL Laboratory under the direction of Masahiro Sakurai and published by Nintendo . Super Smash Bros. contains 12 playable characters, four of which must be unlocked in the course of the game, and nine playable arenas. The game contains both a single player mode in which the player fights various computer-controlled characters in a fixed order, as well as a multiplayer mode in which several players can compete against each other.

The game was generally rated well by critics. The US game magazine IGN named Super Smash Bros. 11th in its list of the 25 best N64 games.

Super Smash Bros. was released in Europe on June 12, 2009 for the Virtual Console on the Wii Shop Channel. The publication for North America followed on December 21 of the same year.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

The successor Super Smash Bros. Melee was released at the end of 2001 in Japan and North America and in May 2002 in Europe for the Nintendo GameCube (NGC) and comes with numerous innovations, including some additional game modes for single and multiplayer functions, other arenas and Characters as well as numerous other additions and improvements that significantly increase the scope of the successor. A large part of the game (characters, arenas) only opens up after certain hurdles have been overcome, such as exiting a game mode within a certain time. Like its predecessor, Melee was developed by HAL Laboratory under the direction of Masahiro Sakurai .

Super Smash Bros. Melee is the best-selling video game for the GameCube with 7 million copies sold worldwide. For many fans of the series, Melee is still considered the best part of the series due to the great depth of play and the high speed and is therefore often played by e-athletes .

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl logo

Studio

Sora

Publisher

Nintendo

Erstveröffent-
lichung

January 31, 2008 March 9, 2008 June 26, 2008 June 27, 2008

Game mode

Single , multiplayer (1–4)

control

Gamepad , Wii remote control

medium

1 dual-layer - DVD-ROM

The Wii title Super Smash Bros. Brawl (SSBB, 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ X Dairantō Sumasshu Burazāzu Ekusu for "Riesenrauferei Smash Brothers X") appeared in Japan on January 31, 2008 as the first Wii game on a double-coated DVD-ROM. It sold over a million copies in two weeks in Japan and 1.4 million copies in eight days in the United States, where the game was the fastest selling game to date, with 874,000 sales on the first day of sales, March 9, 2008 Game for Nintendo was made. Sales for the European area began on June 27, 2008. The game was released on February 20, 2008 by the entertainment software self-regulation from 12 years of age.

Game series already represented, such as Donkey Kong or Kirby , have been expanded to include additional characters and newer series are represented by characters such as Wario or Olimar , the protagonists of the Pikmin games. One of the new characters, ROB , does not come from a game, but is an accessory for the NES . As a novelty in Smash Bros games well-known characters from Nintendo's independent studios are playable: Konami's Snake , the protagonist of Metal Gear series, and Sega - mascot Sonic . Some of the characters have to be unlocked again under different conditions, after which 35 characters are available to choose from.

As with its predecessors, you can play this game with up to three other players. As the first game in the series, Brawl also supports an online multiplayer mode with two connection types:

The player connects with friends, whose names he has in a personal list, and you can send messages that you have defined yourself beforehand.
The player is randomly connected to other players and can then neither see their names nor send them messages. These fights are limited to the "one-on-one" and "two-on-two" modes.

Other options for using the online function include sending your own battle arenas, screenshots and video recordings.

The game supports four control modes:

The Wii Remote is held horizontally with both hands like a gamepad.
The Wii Remote is used with a connected Nunchuk Extension.
The Classic-Controller / Pro is supported.
In addition, the game can be played with the GameCube controllers connected to the Wii console .

For each of these control options you can freely change the key assignment and save it under a player profile. This profile can be loaded in the character selection before a game round.

One of the biggest technical innovations in Brawl is the ultra-smash attack, a potent attack that can be carried out using a special item, the smash ball . The Smash Ball appears at varying intervals during a fight and flies in random paths across the screen and disappears as soon as it has received a certain number of attacks. The character who carried out the last attack on the Smash Ball is now able to use its individual Ultra Smash once.

The developers made an effort with the acoustic background music for the fighting game. For each battle arena there are several pieces of music available, which can be listened to in a sound menu as a rehearsal, in order to then determine the probability with which a song will be played in the respective level. The music tracks come from games from all generations of Nintendo consoles , starting with the Nintendo Entertainment System . In addition, Nintendo internal and external composers such as Koji Kondo and Yuzo Koshiro each create an arrangement of a well-known Nintendo melody of their choice. The theme music was composed by Nobuo Uematsu .

It was also difficult for Nintendo to release the game on a single-layer Wii disc , which is why they decided to release this game on a dual-layer disc . Nintendo confirmed during the release period that older Wii models could have problems reading the disc, which resulted in an offer of repair and a lens cleaning kit being offered afterwards. Although Nintendo used the conventional single-layer disc again for other games that appeared after Super Smash Bros. Brawl , it has also opted for the dual- layer disc for games such as Metroid Other M, Xenoblade Chronicles or The Last Story . Disc decided.

Mods

Flaws in Brawl's programming while loading player-created stages allow hackers to modify the game. One result of this is unauthorized variants of Brawl that change the gaming experience with different goals. Changes that go beyond purely graphic aspects such as additional character costumes and indicators for more effective e-sports training are mainly to enable a fairer game, ranging from changed parameters, switching off unwanted and sometimes random mechanics to completely revised movesets .

Well-known mods from Brawl include:

Brawl + , one of the first successful mods with the aim of reducing bad matchups mainly by reducing strengths.
Brawl− , as a parody of Brawl + with a similar aim of reducing bad matchups through sometimes enormous reinforcements.
Project M (the M unofficially stands for Melee ), with similar goals as Brawl + , but also to bring the gaming experience closer to that of Melee . On December 1, 2015, the development team announced that they would discontinue further development due to legal concerns.
Legacy versions of Project M , which, depending on the version, try to meet the demands of casual and tournament players.

At times, Project M was a discipline in international fighting game tournaments like Evo and CEO, which do not focus or limit themselves to games from the Super Smash Bros. series.

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U

At a Nintendo Direct conference on June 21, 2012, Nintendo announced that Bandai Namco Games and Namco Bandai Studios would support Nintendo in the development of the fourth Super Smash Bros. This was justified with the effort to produce two different games at the same time and to publish these games relatively promptly. Masahiro Sakurai from Project Sora is the lead on the project while Masaya Kobayashi from Namco Bandai is the producer. Yoshito Higuchi, who z. B. was involved in Tales of Vesperia , is appointed as Director. Namco Bandai already has experience in the fighting game genre and will provide their best developers for this project, such as: B. the development team behind the Tekken series and some developers of the Soul Calibur series.
It is possible to personalize individual characters with different items and then swap the characters between the two game versions. An interaction between the Wii-U and Nintendo 3DS versions is possible by using the 3DS as a controller for the Wii-U version. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS was released in Europe on October 3rd, 2014 (due to public holidays in Germany already on October 2nd), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U on November 28th. Since this part it is possible to use Amiibo from the Super Smash Bros series.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

The Nintendo Switch title Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. series. At the Nintendo Direct presentation on March 8, 2018, it was announced that another Super Smash Bros. title is in development for the Nintendo Switch. At E3 2018, the name Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was announced and the release date was set to December 7th, 2018.

Ultimate contains 74 playable fighters at the time of publication, each one from the previous titles and 11 newcomers. 5 more DLC fighters have also been released in Fighters Pass 1 and 6 more DLC fighters are to follow in Fighters Pass Vol. 2. Nintendo of Japan has confirmed via Twitter that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate runs in TV mode in 1080p at 60 fps and in handheld mode at 720p at 60 fps as well. It is also possible to play the game with a GameCube controller and a suitable adapter on the Nintendo Switch.

Overview of the game pieces

Overview of the characters that can be played in the series
character	Game series	Super Smash Bros.	Super Smash Bros. Melee	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Mario	Super Mario	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Donkey Kong	Donkey Kong	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
link	The Legend of Zelda	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Samus Aran	Metroid	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Yoshi	Yoshi	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kirby	Kirby	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fox McCloud	Star Fox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pikachu	Pokémon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Jigglypuff	Pokémon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Luigi	Super Mario	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ness	Mother	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Captain Falcon	F-Zero	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bowser	Super Mario	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peach	Super Mario	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ice climbers	Ice climber	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Zelda	The Legend of Zelda	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shiek	The Legend of Zelda	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Falco Lombardi	Star Fox	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ganondorf	The Legend of Zelda	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Marth	Fire emblem	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mr. Game & Watch	Game & Watch	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dr. Mario	Mario	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Young link	The Legend of Zelda	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Pichu	Pokémon	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Mewtwo	Pokémon	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Roy	Fire emblem	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Pit	Kid Icarus	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wario	Wario	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zero Suit Samus	Metroid	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ike	Fire emblem	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Squirtle	Pokémon	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Bisacnosp	Pokémon	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Charizard	Pokémon	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Diddy Kong	Donkey Kong	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Meta Knight	Kirby	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lucas	Mother	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
King Dedede	Kirby	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Olimar	Pikmin	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lucario	Pokémon	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
ROB	Robot Operation Buddy	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Toon link	The Legend of Zelda	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
wolf	Star Fox	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Snake	Metal gear	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Sonic	Sonic the Hedgehog	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Residents	Animal Crossing	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Mega man	Mega man	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Wii Fit Trainer	Wii Fit	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Rosalina & Luma	Super Mario	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Little Mac	Punch out !!	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Quajutsu	Pokémon	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Palutena	Kid Icarus	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Mii fighters	Wii / 3DS / Wii U	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Pac-Man	Pac-Man	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Lucina	Fire emblem	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Daraen (English: Robin)	Fire emblem	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Shulk	Xenoblade Chronicles	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Finsterer Pit (English: Dark Pit)	Kid Icarus	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Duck Hunt-Duo (English: Duck Hunt)	Duck Hunt	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Bowser Jr.	Mario	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Ryu	Street Fighter II	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Cloud	Final Fantasy VII	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Bayonetta	Bayonetta	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Corrin	Fire emblem	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Incl	Splatoon	No	No	No	No	Yes
Ridley	Metroid	No	No	No	No	Yes
Daisy	Super Mario	No	No	No	No	Yes
Simon Belmont	Castlevania	No	No	No	No	Yes
Judge Belmont	Castlevania	No	No	No	No	Yes
chrome	Fire emblem	No	No	No	No	Yes
Dark Samus (english: Dark Samus)	Metroid	No	No	No	No	Yes
King K. Rool	Donkey Kong	No	No	No	No	Yes
Melinda	Animal Crossing	No	No	No	No	Yes
Ken	Street Fighter	No	No	No	No	Yes
Fuegro	Pokémon	No	No	No	No	Yes
Piranha plant	Super Mario	No	No	No	No	Yes
joker	Persona 5	No	No	No	No	Yes
hero	Dragon Quest	No	No	No	No	Yes
Banjo & Kazooie	Banjo kazooie	No	No	No	No	Yes
Terry Bogard	Fatal Fury	No	No	No	No	Yes
Byleth	Fire emblem	No	No	No	No	Yes
Min min	ARMS	No	No	No	No	Yes
↑ Until Brawl, the player could switch between Shiek and Zelda during a game . From the Wii-U version onwards, these are two separate figures. ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g only as a download content available ↑ Samus and Zero Suit Samus are exchanged for each other during the current game under certain conditions. From the Wii-U version onwards, these are two separate figures. ↑ ^a ^b ^c In Brawl and Ultimate, the Pokémon trainer represents the three Pokémon in the character selection that the player can change cyclically in a game. ↑ Charizard is now available as a separate figure ↑ Alph is an alternative costume by Olimar ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the named fighters are called "Echo Fighters", which are marked with an ε after the number. These fighters can be selected either directly or through a costume change in the selection box of the original fighter. ↑ Bowser Jr.'s alternative costumes are the Koopalings (Larry, Morton, Wendy, Iggy, Roy, Lemmy, Ludwig) ↑ Early buyers who registered the game in their "My Nintendo" account by January 31, 2019 can download this fighter for free from January 30, 2019. ↑ Paid DLC character from April 18, 2019 ↑ Chargeable DLC character from July 31, 2019 ↑ Paid DLC character from September 5, 2019 ↑ ^a ^b Chargeable DLC character from November 2019

Web links

Super Smash Bros. at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/what-does-the-creator-of-smash-bros-kirby-think-about-the-ps4/1100-6418290/

↑ IGN : Report on the unusually high sales in Japan

↑ metacritic.com : Page with the average rating from English-language reviews of Super Smash Bros.

↑ ^a ^b press.nintendo.com ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Press release of March 17, 2008 about Super Smash Bros. Brawl (accessed March 30, 2008) @1@ 2

↑ nintendo.com.au ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Australian Nintendo site, on SSBB : "Launch Date: Jun 26, 2008"@1@ 2

↑ IGN : Report on reading problems with Japanese Wii consoles with the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl (English, accessed on February 4, 2008)

↑ IGN.com : February 28th report on Brawl sales in Japan (accessed March 30, 2008)

↑ Nintendo.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Report from April 24, 2008 (accessed on April 27, 2008)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nintendo.de

↑ Gameplay modification. In: SmashWiki. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .

↑ Patrick Klepek: The Smash Community Is Chaos Right Now. In: Kotaku . Gawker Media , October 3, 2015; archived from the original on October 5, 2015 ; accessed on July 9, 2020 (English).