Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

I like the Fairy Bottle, but it'll feel strange to have that in place of the Maxim Tomato for Smash Bros. I suppose it is nice that they're changing it up, but still weird they'd change that when it's been the Maxim Tomato since the original game.

@Dark Jester
I get you, I really do, it does just seem like they're improving certain aspects of the game that were unbalanced, annoying, etc. Even if it is almost the same game with new stages, characters, and in HD, the things that are improved I feel will make the experience better. Plus the new characters seem MUCH more interesting than previous characters, and the stages seem to be more interesting as well. (for the Wii U version at least)

That's just my take on it as compared to Brawl. I feel like even if it's not that "new" it's still better which is always a good thing. Unless they were just porting over Brawl which uh, really wouldn't be exciting at all.

Here's the pic of the day.

Sakurai wrote:Pic of the day. This dog is huge… Wait, no, the playable characters are small. The Smash Bros. series doesn't always stay true to scale.

It seems like the dog can move the blocks and I think there's a different character in red on the tv this time.  

Haha, that throws me back to when Smash Brothers was actually all set on a desk, the characters were all toys and Master Hand was literally their "Master's hand"...

@Zero:
I think maybe my issue is that I didn't see much annoyance in Brawl... I can't tell you one annoying thing about it that Melee don't share or that I only experience because I played Brawl more competitively...

...Maybe this game is designed to fix issues that I can't see, so it seems like nothing has changed to me!

Red character? Hm...it could be a red Pokemon, maybe Agahnim but I doubt it since he rarely shows up, maybe Wonder Red but I also doubt that since Wonderful 101 is a recent game. Of course it could be anybody, it might not even be showing playable characters but rather just a cameo for characters who couldn't be added in. As for the picture itself, I actually like how the size doesn't matter, it allows for more stages to be done! Although that Nintendogs stage looks fairly boring.

@Jester
Were you not annoyed by the tripping? That was one thing I know was really annoying in Brawl, but it's gone in this.

I meant Diddy when I said red character and many people think Ridley will be playable do to what Sakurai said about the scale.  He might be playable but, he could have just been talking about the Nintendog and I think we need more details about the Pyrosphere stage.

Here's the pic of the day.

Sakurai wrote:As shown in Little Mac's debut video, here is the height difference between Samus and Little Mac. He's used those mighty green gloves to punch out many challengers bigger than himself."

Pointless pic since we saw that in Mac's video. Sakurai should have changed it up a little and used Rosalina, Zelda, Peach or even Will Fit Trainer as the height difference. I think we may get a Diddy Kong reveal or a new DKC stage to end the week though.

Yeah we already saw that in the trailer, plus another pic of the day was him being compared to Pikachu and Olimar. I think we understand how little he is Sakurai.

A Diddy reveal tomorrow would be nice, and it'd make sense because Tropical Freeze does release tomorrow in NA. I'd personally rather have Dixie playable, but I doubt he'd reveal a new character in a pic of the day. But who knows. It seems like Sakurai is spreading out the new character reveals A LOT more than he would if there were many new characters. I would've expected Palutena and Ridley to be shown already at this point...unless they don't add in those characters which would suck.

On the day of the North America and Europe release for Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Diddy returns to the battle!

Here the pic of the day and the 10 pictures from the website.

Sakurai wrote:Pic of the day. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is out now in Europe and North America! ...And to celebrate, Diddy Kong joins the battle!! We've increased Diddy Kong's flexibility this time. This picture shows how far his punches stretch during his strong side attack.

I really like how Diddy is getting a power boost and I think most people saw him coming on this day after they want with Mac in the Direct.

24...

Could there be only 11 more to go?

I hope not.

Called it, I knew Diddy would be shown today. About the power boost though, I can't remember how powerful he was in Brawl...does he actually need this?

@Unknown Entity
Well, Sakurai did say there wouldn't be as many characters as there were in Brawl, but at this point, I'm doubting there will only be 35 or less. I mean the character roster doesn't have much variety now and only 5 newcomers, there has to be a lot more.

He was kind of week in Smash Bros when I used him but, the pros were good at using him and I think there will be a at least 42 characters if not more.

Here's the the Diddy discussion from GameXplain.



That would be cool if it the Punch Out arena changed back to the Smash arena when Little Mac is not in the battle.

Here's the pic of the day.

Sakurai wrote:The twin rocketbarrels are back, now with the ability to launch along more horizontal trajectories. They can also come off when opponents hit them mid-boost.

It's strange that the rocketbarrels can come off but, I guess it's fair since the Diddy's recovery was made better.

When he was introduced in Brawl I was quite excited! 

I guess its nice to see him back.

Weird that the rocket barrels come off. I bet this week's screenshots will mainly focus on Diddy Kong so there likely won't be too much new stuff shown. :/ Although they have been showing that Nintendogs stage a lot, I wonder why...

Here's the pic of the day.

Sakurai wrote:Pic of the day. There are actually two versions of the boxing ring stage! This ring is the Smash Bros. version… and this one is the Punch Out!! W.V.B.A. design. King Dedede really likes fighting in the ring, doesn't he?

It looks like Mac does not have to be in the battle for it to be the W.V.B.A. arena unless he's standing outside of the ring. So maybe it's random like the Mushroomy Kingdom stage in Brawl?