I discovered something about myself today.

I rule with Bowser, or at least when there's no shitty Wifi lag to screw me up.

It was probably someone from Nintendo of America saying that no inapropriate pictures would be used. Obviously, it's a different story in Japan.

Obviously. I mean, c'mon. Look at the tentacles.

Also, Cruel Brawl. Eeeeeeeeeeeevil.

Cruel Brawl is less evil if you cheat.

I mean, I don't like cheating, but something about playing Ike, dropping off the edge, up B so the spinning sword hits them, and then catching the ledge and repeating seems cheap.

The way I see it, if it's legal vs human players, it's good enough for AI.

Also, is there any way to more easily distribute things like snapshots and replays? The "submit one a day" seems less reliable and less focused on what I need to do.

And something about those asshole alloys having insane knockback and those stupid green ones that just refuse to die seems pretty cheap. Cruel Brawl isn't a test of skill, or I haven't just met/seen any of the players with the unnatural amount required. Exploiting the AI's faults seems to be just about the one and only way it can be competently accomplished, and even that requires some modicum of luck evidently.


I noticed if you push up while shielding the character/shield moves. What's that about? I don't have tap jump on, so I'm not certain if that makes a difference.

I'm not sure either, but it did it to a lesser extent in Melee too. If you weren't rolling you could bring the shield up in front of/behind/above the character. I'm not sure why, but it could be used to block an attack slightly earlier, thereby allowing you to counterattack or shieldgrab.

But that's kind of splitting hairs. Sakurai put it in; I don't know why, but he did.

It was meant to help protect characters who either had inconvenient body proportions that allowed them to be attacked THROUGH the shield (such as G&W), or whose shields were diminished and needed to cover a specific part.

Well I was about to upload all that porn that he included in the game, but since he didn't like the idea of showing how detailed Peach's panties are, I'd just like to ask:

Why the hell do you add so much fucking details?

Well if you'd remember, I'm pretty sure that in Melee Peach had no knees or thighs.

Like, none, it was a dress and shins and feet and that was it. And people complained. So, he fixed it.