How is it watered down? It's faster, actually allows for combos, and limits most defensive strategies.
Balanced Brawl tried to keep the slow, combo-free, turtly gameplay (plus I'm trying to get everyone to use that AND Melee SD Remix as tournament options).
Sorry, but I haven't seen so much as a single actual true and natural combo that doesn't rely on slipping off of an edge or other things similar. Balanced Brawl did actually add enough hitstun needed for combos in it's later versions alongside tweaking the characters and making things a little faster.
In Brawl+ and PM, there aren't any tricks to doing combos or anything. You just go in, do the moves and make them connect. Sm4sh? Please, most of the time, your opponent will constantly air-dodge or get knocked away too far for you to follow up with anything outside of now percentages and even then, most of those combos either involve using the same move several times and then hoping a different move lands, or is just a combo of 2 to 3 hits. 4 if you're lucky.
Defensive strategies are definitely still the winners in Sm4sh since it's more about how you gimp the other person during from attack rather then starting an initial attack yourself, as I found out the hard way. It's almost as if in Sm4sh, attacking first will more than likely automatically put you at a disadvantage. It's just that unlike Brawl, where it was about how much you stay away from the opponent, it's all about counters here, so it's different from Brawl
and Melee. Just more similar to the former than the latter.
I suppose it works for the game being what it is itself, but Brawl+ this
ain't. I've played
every released build of B+, including the Nightly Builds, and I used to play it religiously for hours every single day every week and month all the way up until PM came out and I can tell you that Sm4sh is nothing close to Brawl+ in terms of it's fighting mechanics or it's speed.
It's faster than Brawl, I'll give it that, but not by much. B+ is still faster. Hell, Brawl
Minus is faster, but that's not much of a comparison at all.
Sm4sh is still a fun enough game, though. I like it. <3
Anywho, that's all I have to say on that matter. What Sm4sh said it was going to do and what it actually did are two entirely different things.
I'm done. Everyone else, enjoy your discussion.
