Drawing the line in Smash... with PictoChat!

[Lemon Drop]

Neat stages though I need to figure out the Romanji name of 'Picto chat', this can either prove the 'World Icon theory' is wrong or is right.

 

[MetaKnight'sSword]

I always knew that Sakurai was unpredictable....but DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMN!

 

[brawling sonic - super kento]

this stage gave me an idea. i think that mii's will be playable characters in the game, but what would be cool is if you can give your mii a move set of one of the other brawlers, like my mii would have sonics move set and my friends would probably have links
you could even have there final smash
super mii (lol)

 

[Aeramis]

Wow, very interesting stage. I think it's pretty odd compared to any other stage in smash expect maybe wario's.

 

[The Inker]

To all those people saying this stage could mean a playable Mii, I ask this question:

What does a DS realated stage and icon have to do with Miis?

 

[Old Man Nintendo]

To all those people saying this stage could mean a playable Mii, I ask this question:

What does a DS realated stage and icon have to do with Miis?

Perhaps this stage is a sign that we'll be getting Mr. Game & Watch 2.0!!

But yeah, this stage looks crazy fun! After all the stuff we've been seeing at the E for All, I was wondering what this week would start off with - I'm glad it's something completely new and unexpected!!

~Old Man Nintendo

 

[MetaKnight'sSword]

Perhaps this stage is a sign that we'll be getting Mr. Game & Watch 2.0!!

But yeah, this stage looks crazy fun! After all the stuff we've been seeing at the E for All, I was wondering what this week would start off with - I'm glad it's something completely new and unexpected!!

~Old Man Nintendo

I agree...this Stage is very simple... yet at the same time very unprdictable......SAKURAI IM IN LOVE WITH U AGAIN!!!!!!!!

O_o

If I ever say something like that again... please drop a baby grand piano on my head.......

 

[T-major]

I NEVER would have thought of this in a million years!!

MINDGAMES SON!!!

this stage is awesome! I love how wild and wacky the concept is!

 

[The Franchise]

Whoa.

Just when you think you know how random Brawl can be, we get this. That zany Sakurai.

 

[oxyborb]

Do you think we'll be able to swim in the water?

 

[MetaKnight'sSword]

Do you think we'll be able to swim in the water?

I think that was confirmed in the gameplay vids that showed Isle Delfino, so maybe

 

[Link Sharingan]

unique but i dont like it

 

[Cojiro]

Do you think we'll be able to swim in the water?

Get this man beers. Greatest question in the history of the internet.

No I am not being sarcastic, awesome lateral thinking.

 

[Eternalfire]

This is going to be one of the best stages for it's sheer genius.

 

[NukeA6]

I knew there was gonna be a weirder stage to come up. But I wonder if there will be a stage weirder than this.

As for the icon, I guess that proves that not all stages will come from the games of the playable characters. So that would mean that there are Animal Crossing characters that will be any more than an AT, stage prop, or trophy. I can't think of any character that would use the two-square icon.

 

[maxpower1227]

Needless to say Mr Game & Watch and Flatzone NEED to return, but this stage is pure, uncut epic win.

 

[Pieman0920]

The only character who fits this new icon is the Mii, and that's a stretch. =/

 

[Silent_X]

To all those people saying this stage could mean a playable Mii, I ask this question:

What does a DS realated stage and icon have to do with Miis?

Well considering that some of the Music for the stage comes from the Wii.
This could easily be the Miis home stage.

or some sort of Game and Watch 2.0

 

[NintendoWarrior]

This is one of the dumbest updates ever.

 

[Senor_Sega]

no. freaking. way.

Sakurai, may you please have my child?

Although I doubt that he would be so bold as to have floating wang platforms....

Here's hoping that DS Wii connectivity is a feature in this game.
Any predictions for something more bizarre than this?

 

[Krytha]

The only character who fits this new icon is the Mii, and that's a stretch. =/

OR RIDLEY!!111 Yeah. No. I hate this update.

 

[Phred]

lol brain age music FTW =D xD...what does the Now entering mean?...

Never played PictoChat? Whenever someone new comes into the chatroom, you get pretty much that same "Now Entering" Notification

I guess in this context, "Now Entering" would be whenever a character dies and respawns.

 

[Rash]

Sakurai's a madman, and I ****ing love it.

 

[X-x-Dyce-x-X]

What if there was a way to upload drawings from your own Pictochat into Brawl? You could then add your own effects and hazards to your picture? That would make this the most fun level EVER!

[Stage Change 1: "Totally colored in screen" (no effect)]
[Stage Change 2: "A big farting butt" (blows wind)]
[Stage Change 3: "A big male sex organ with an STD" (fire damage) (because it has the clap)]
[Stage Change 4: "A big male sex organ taking a leak" (stage floods)]
[Stage Change 5: "A big male sex organ flying around hitting you" (high knockback)]
[The rest of the remaining stage changes: (all involving "a big male sex organ" in some way)]

 

[Raptorbite]

I can't think of any character that would use the two-square icon.

... Square Enix?!

BLACK MAGE CONFIRMED!

 

[Tyrannotaur]

Wow! A whale!

Lol thats actually a Whale Shark...

Thar she blows..

Weird stage. Wario Ware is still stranger though.

 

[X-x-Dyce-x-X]

There really isn't ANYTHING that could rep that DS logo... other than a DS with legs and arms.

Mr. D&S confirmed!

 

[silver777]

There really isn't ANYTHING that could rep that DS logo... other than a DS with legs and arms.

Mr. D&S confirmed!

You know it.

 

[WarxePB]

As someone said in another topic, Sakurai just out-Mojo'd the Smash Bros. Mojo. Me: Agree'D.

The DS icon will obviously be used for the Nintendog AT, and maybe an item that you can somehow use to scribble on the map?

 

[Thrillhouse-vh.]

Ill sum up my initial reaction here: What the Hell?

 

[Kraid Guy]

What if there was a way to upload drawings from your own Pictochat into Brawl? You could then add your own effects and hazards to your picture? That would make this the most fun level EVER!


I agree. That would be, like customizing your own stage! I'm drooling just thinking about it.

 

[X-x-Dyce-x-X]

You know it.

Truely, the stylus is mightier than the sword.
Awesome drawing. I didn't even think of the stylus being a weapon.

EDIT:
Oh man! If MrD&S doesn't make the cut, then the stylus should TOTALLY be a weapon!

 

[lanky_gunner]

uh...wow. i would never, in a MILLION YEARS, expect a stage like this. well, i expect something like this from Sakurai, especially after the WarioWare stage, but what really surprised me was the icon. this was the EXACT same thing that happened when Smashville was revealed.

i hope the icon represents the same thing of what i think the Animal Crossing franchise will do, in that they won't give us a character, but they get an icon because they represent so much in the game (numerous items, a stage, etc.) it's not that i don't like anything DS (i love the DS, as a matter of fact), but like Animal Crossing i just can't see any character as a fighter

 

[WeXzuZ]

This stage was SO unpredictable. Sakurai did it yet again!
This [character] entered the room thingy is pretty nice.

When someone is out of stocks, "Pikachu left the room".

The icon makes me think if Wii will be represented aswell.

 

[maxpower1227]

What if there was a way to upload drawings from your own Pictochat into Brawl? You could then add your own effects and hazards to your picture? That would make this the most fun level EVER!

[Stage Change 1: "Totally colored in screen" (no effect)]
[Stage Change 2: "A big farting butt" (blows wind)]
[Stage Change 3: "A big male sex organ with an STD" (fire damage) (because it has the clap)]
[Stage Change 4: "A big male sex organ taking a leak" (stage floods)]
[Stage Change 5: "A big male sex organ flying around hitting you" (high knockback)]
[The rest of the remaining stage changes: (all involving "a big male sex organ" in some way)]

Yeah, I bet the 14-and-under crowd would be ALL over that. For the rest of us though, let's just leave it as is.... there's no need for DS connectivity or user-created hazards.

 

[X-x-Dyce-x-X]

Yeah, I bet the 14-and-under crowd would be ALL over that. For the rest of us though, let's just leave it as is.... there's no need for DS connectivity or user-created hazards.

There's no need for a lot of things in Brawl.

But I still think that would be a fun idea. It would be like stage customization without going overboard and losing touch with the theme of pre-rendered Nintendo stuff. We already have the [Opponent has entered] box, the rest of Pictochat is up to the chatter.

 

[maxpower1227]

Yeah, but who wants to be the guy who has to sit there with a DS (or a Wiimote? If you don't want a 4 player match?) drawing random stuff? Most of the drawings would likely suck, and it would be hard to interface everything; you'd have to figure out how to take care of drop-through platforms, animations would be out, other environmental effects like fire would be hard to implement... I could go on. It's just a bad idea. The stage is fine exactly like it is.

 

[mcs]

the forth wall gets burninated! wooo!

this update almost came like a up-b happy mewtwo:straight out of nowhere...i think there is SOME use of transferring your own levels to this stage..(looks at last three posts)..except for that. yep everything but that .

 

[X-x-Dyce-x-X]

Yeah, but who wants to be the guy who has to sit there with a DS (or a Wiimote? If you don't want a 4 player match?) drawing random stuff? Most of the drawings would likely suck, and it would be hard to interface everything; you'd have to figure out how to take care of drop-through platforms, animations would be out, other environmental effects like fire would be hard to implement... I could go on. It's just a bad idea. The stage is fine exactly like it is.

You could upload drawings into a special mode for the stage, then highlight over sections of your drawings to put "drop through platform" or "fire damage hazard" or "start wind hazard to the left/right" or "non-contact line" for each picture.

But whatever, I'm fine with this stage as is. I just thought it was a cool idea... BUT I GUESS NOT!

 

[Fanewgie]

This is one of those updates that gives me a wide variety of mixed feelings.

The stage is an awesome/cute idea. I love off-the-wall ideas like this because it's what Smash Bros. is all about; bringing these franchises together in ways that just aren't even imaginable by a normal person.

I think it's just fine the way it is; adding a player actually drawing onto the stage would be a huge undertaking and would be better suited as it's own game (or game mode).

However, it's one of those stages I'll need to see in action before I can officially judge it.

Now, onto Lucas...

Lucas is flat out the most boring, lame and depth-lacking character ever so far. Out of the screenshots we got last night, he was present in four. In three of those (the only three he was attacking in, mind you) he's shown using that incredibly overused hexagon effect yet again.

Out of everything we know about him, we know he has AT LEAST four hexagon attacks (Fair, Dair, forward and up smash), some sort of rope snake, and a mysterious alteration of PSI Magnet. It feels like Sakurai isn't even trying to make him an interesting character so far.

Imagine if they slapped a big 8-bit fireball sprite on a bunch of Mario's attacks, and showed us nothing but that for a few weeks. Everyone would hate it, but no, everyone just loves Lucas SO MUCH.

It completely infuriates me that they might be removing perfectly fine AND POPULAR characters from the roster, to add less interesting characters just for the sake of publicity or to evolve with the times.

I hate Roy and everything he stood for in Melee, I really hope they aren't doing the same with Lucas.

I feel better now.