The Week in Review Issue #13 and Direct Coverage

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

The Week in Review Issue #13 was released earlier last weekend and it was quite the special issue. The Week in Review is a weekly periodical written by a vast number of writers within the Smash 4 speculative community. The Week in Review covers areas such as the Picture of the Day, Smash 4 related news articles, and potential leaks and rumors. Also featured are Smashboards member/staff interviews, in-depth stage/character analysis articles, Thread of the Week, polls, franchise analysis, and many others. The Week in Review or tWiR focuses mostly on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS and the speculation community. The tWiR pulls a lot of input from Smashboard users and incorporates it into the articles thus making it more community oriented.

This past week was particularly important due to the Super Smash Bros, Direct. The Week in Review team decided to split The Week in Review into two separate threads: one for The Week in Review and one for the Direct.

To read either one, follow the links below. Also provided are previews for your convenience:

The Week in Review Issue #13

Metroid captured... Again.
04/07/2014
Day #1: Monday
Writer: Venus of the Desert Bloom

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The Metroid was confirmed to appear again as a returning Assist Trophy. While the specifics about Metroid is unsure, it will most likely do much of what it did back in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

When a Metroid is released, it will attempt to latch onto a character's head, slightly immobilize them, and sap their health. It can be shaken off by moving about rapidly (or with a simple air dodge), upon which it may seek another victim. It moves in a rather inertial way (like Super Sonic and Volt Tackle), floating about the stage lazily. It can also pass through walls. The Metroid does damage much like a faster version of the flower effect, except that it makes characters flinch - this makes it very difficult to accomplish anything while being sucked, and it causes CPU opponents to use their up special move repeatedly while attempting to recover. However, recovery moves like Spin Attack if used repeatedly while a Metroid is latched, the player is able to go very high, and possibly get past the upper blast line.

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Metroid_(creature)

The Metroid was well received back prior to Brawl as it gave both the Metroid franchise its Assist Trophy and played an interesting role during a fight when released. The Metroid offered many different types of setups. While Sakurai didn't explain fully that the Metroid is a returning veteran...

An insatiable, unidentified extraterrestrial is targeting a certain peaceful town...!

The Week in Review Issue #13: Super Smash Bros. Direct

The Super Smash Bros. Direct finally debuted to much fanfare. The forums were busy with both members and visitors; waiting to watch the Direct. Moments prior to the Direct, the Super Smash Bros. Direct Thread logged in 244 members and 243 visitors at one point this number obviously fluctuated more than Wario flatulents in a given day. At 3 pm PT, the Direct was under way.

Table of Contents

Spoiler

1.1 Release Date
2.1 Technical Tidbits
3.1 Stages
3.2 Yellow Devil
3.3 Ridley?!
4.1 Online Play
4.2 For Fun and For Glory
4.3 Final Destination
4.4 Temporary Ban
5.1 Global Smash Power
6.1 Items
7.1 Assist Trophies
8.1 Pokeballs
9.1 Returning Fighters
9.2 Zero Suit Samus
9.3 Zelda
9.4 Sheik
9.5 Kirby
9.6 King Dedede
9.7 Lucario
9.8 Olimar
9.9 Pit
9.10 Yoshi
10.1 New Fighters
10.2 Rosalina
10.3 Little Mac
10.4 Mega Man
10.5 Mega Man
10.6 Wii Fit Trainer
11.1 Run Play
12.1 Charizard
13. 1 Greninja
14.1 Mysterious Special Moves
15.1 Overview

The Week in Review has a great staff of dedicated writers and speculators. Currently, the staff consist of:

@ Venus of the Desert Bloom
@Aerodrome
@---
@Mario_and_Sonic_Guy
@Frostwraith
@Opossum
@TumblrFamous
@MaskO'Gears

Feel free to read through the articles and tell the staff members what you think! We hope you enjoy reading through the many articles that graces the tWiR and continue to support this endeavor!

If you would like to help contribute to The Week in Review, feel free to contact myself or any other Week in Review staff members about helping out!

Venus of the Desert Bloom is one of the staff members for the SSB Wii U/3DS Boards and SWF's #1 Tali Fan, Follow me on Twitter @VenusToBloom

 

[KayB]

Samox is starting a kickstarter for an Armada episode as part of the documentary.

 

[Deleted member]

WiR? Sorry, We.invented.**** is already taken.

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

I think there is an article for the Armada episode in the works but I can't say for certain.

Certainly, there can be two WiR? I can start abbreviating it as tWiR in official news so the two aren't confused together.

 

[Aidoony]

THE SMASH BROS ARMADA