Bodysuits rock.

The more you know...

I think Kotaku's got that covered.

The attention to detail is surprising and disturbing.

I'm not going to lie: I've been waiting for that since 1989.

Really, the whole Ice Climbers' special moves post is especially amusing, but that bit was great.

And, since there was Ice Climbers news to get me posting, I'll throw my hat in on this tournament. I'm for having it in April, though, as I'll be away from my Wii the week Brawl comes out. I'll be at the beach, so I'm not complaining. But I think that gives us all enough time to play the game/get a copy/exchange friend codes/think up witty taunts. Mike's got his, so I'm already behind on that.

Oh God you had to call it.


Talk about professionalism in the game review industry.

Oh my god.

ZSamus scissoring Peach while Zelda acts as a guard while casting suspicious looks down the hallway...

That is easily the best screencap ever.

They... they really did think of everything.

I remember getting such a screenshot once in Melee. Captain Falcon and two Samus(es). Grapple beam from behind, and a compromising position between Samus#2's head and Falcon's Knee.

I can't go into more detail than that... maybe I can convince the girl who took the screenshot to send it to me.

Nintendo has always hit me as the "goody, family-friendly" game makers. Behind that, there's ZSSamus, who goes against everything. Heck, most of the other female characters in Nintendo games are princesses or royalty of some kind... Usually the pure and innocent kind. Samus is the girl who gets dirty with it and likes showing herself.

Edit: I just remembered who she reminds me of. Rouge, from the Sonic universe. Look at Amy and Cream, then compare to Rouge. Do the same thing afterwards with Peach and Zelda, then compare to ZSSamus.

I was thinking about the same exact subject this morning. ZSSamus really seems like a cop-out to me, as if Nintendo trying to be "hip", "sexy", and any other cliches you can think of. Samus was definitely one of my favorite Nintendo characters: she was cool, she kicked copious amounts of ass, and the fact that she was a woman just made her even cooler. Now we have a busty blonde Samus prancing through SSBB... Sell-out!

EDIT: If they HAD to put Zero Suit Samus in, she could have been, you know, normal. Not every teenage boy's fantasy in a ploy to sell a few more copies... As if they actually NEEDED to provide that kind of incentive to purchase this game.