Brawl: Fighter or Platformer or both?

[Drclaw411]

In most game magazines, websites, etc, when reviewing or listing games, they usually list the genre. In the past, the Smash Bros games have been classified as fighters. But with Brawl, while the great fighting game returns, Subspace Emissary is a Side Scrolling Platformer.

Any other game like Brawl would be considered a platformer, just a platformer with a terrific multiplayer. But because it is essentially super smash bros 3, it could also be a fighter.

So what should it be classified as?

Fighter?
Platformer?
Beat em' Up? (because of classic mode?)

Most would agree that Smash is a fighter, but I would classify it as Fighter/Platformer

Hardest game to classify since Super Paper Mario: RPG/Platformer

 

[TheFifthMan]

Brawl is beyond classification. You dare try to lump brawl, which will transcend gaming awesomeness and redefine gaming for generations, into a classification? THIS IS MADNESS!

 

[Gilgamesh]

It is and has always been a Platfighter.

 

[2nd Stamp]

With the new Subspace Emissary, it has become more of a platform game then melee was (even with their adventure mode), but yes, the main thing from Smash is ofcourse smashing; fighting.

In the words of that one Nintendo guy from E for All: "Hop on platforms and pound on enemmies".

^^^

This.

 

[Pyroloserkid]

Can't we categorize it in the genre of "Best Game Ever" ?

 

[SirPenguin]

Brawl will always be a fighter first. Even with the addition of the SSE, the focus is on fighting. I'd say the SSE is closer to a Beat 'Em Up than a platformer.

 

[Fossilized Ursidae]

Sakurai says it's Action.​

 

[Ruckus]

Sakurai doesnt know **** about his own game

Wavedash anyone?

 

[Drclaw411]

Sakurai says it's Action.​

isnt action another word for platformer?

I have constantly heard and seen (especially in the big name game magaizines) the classification of Action-Platformer.

 

[Hong]

I classify it as Platform/Fighter, which is very different from Fighter/Platform. Kind of like how you consider Fire Emblem Strategy/RPG and not RPG/Strategy. One aspect of the game dominates the other, yet the other part is too vital to disclude from its classification.

 

[Psychoace]

isnt action another word for platformer?

I have constantly heard and seen (especially in the big name game magaizines) the classification of Action-Platformer.

Same with action-adventure.

 

[SirroMinus1]

It is and has always been a Platfighter.

thats a cool way to put it FTW

 

[Cubelarooso]

I've always considered the Smash games "Action-platformers," a genre all to its own (at least, it used. since then, several more have popped up).

 

[Demon Kirby]

Action adventure seems apropriate.

 

[Boofer]

Obviously it's a Party Platfighter game.

 

[ChronosMagnum]

DrClaw411, you make the most useless threads..

 

[altir]

fighter/platformer/adventure/action/fps(end crdits)

or

fighformeadventionps

 

[Drclaw411]

DrClaw411, you make the most useless threads..

false.

10charsthesack

 

[Falcolegend]

Brawl is beyond classification. You dare try to lump brawl, which will transcend gaming awesomeness and redefine gaming for generations, into a classification? THIS IS MADNESS!

THIS IS SPAAAAAAAAARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

 

[HourglassMemory]

With Subspace emissary, you're bound to be both.
I like exploring the worlds. I like the sense of a bigger meaning other than just punching others for no reason.

 

[Vortok]

Smash is Smash... that's part of why it's so awesome. It's just that much different from everything else out there.

 

[BokutoGuy]

epic catagory

 

[Aryman]

DrClaw411, you make the most useless threads..

Seconded. You make too many, 99% of them useless.

 

[BigRick]

Fighter/Platformer hybrid.

Brawl has ladders... 'nuff said.

 

[Symphony X]

It is and has always been a Platfighter.

I'd actually define it as a Fightformer.