i've played maybe 12 hours or so of brawl now, some impressions:
- no more crounch cancelling, no l-cancelling are huge improvements. Games lesss about mashing buttons (l-cancelling is really easy anyways, not a big deal)
-a lot of moves do not have enough knockback and way too much lag. You get retaliated against at low %'s alot unless your spacing bairs...
-bairs are all nuts. like 3 characters dont have one thats not absolutely ********. The best one? Idk, but ike, marth and squirtle have really ****ing nuts ones.
-Peach sucks ****, her 2nd jump goes less high then her air dodge in melee and she flaots so ****ing slow. Dress does 6 ****ing percent damage, jesus christ.
-Marth is perhaps even more nuts (comparatively). he has huge range, huge priority and huge knockback. His sideb is virtually unpunishable. His recovery is kind of meh but its usually not a big deal.
-Dedede autowins against a lot of characters, his chain grab is really nuts. I find myself stuck spamming his front tilt, up tilt, side b and his aerrials alot. not a lot of smashes from this guy.
-Snake is really cool, his mine stuff is awesome, i really like how you can set stuff up. His back throw is VISCIOUS and completely *****. His front tilt does 21 and is really good and his A combo is awesome too. I love this guy, may be one of my mains.
-Diddy is nuts too, kidn of like squirtle. high priority, has a projectile, small guy, really fast. I ***** ike with him just by being so much faster then him
-I don't like sonic very much. he lacks killing power. Meta knight i feel the same way about. They only have a few moves each that kill people despite otherwise having lots of fast and damaging attacks.
-Lucas is ****ign awesome, cool projectiles, graet smashes, great tilts, great aerials... This guy its really nuts and is so mcuh better then ness.
-Captain falcon sucks **** too, his stomp is practically unsuable and the knee nerf is pretty harsh. so much less comboability.
-ivysaur is my least favorite pokemon, im still learning charizard but i think he'll be in the middle of the 3. Ivysaur has some cool up/down moves but attacking the sides with him is really tough as his si de moves suck.
-pikachus down smash is the new dress, it's too bad all his aerials (except down) suck ****.\
-yoshi still sucks
-Ike is monstrous against medium/slow characters. against fast characters i have trouble landing stuff. I stick to his front and up tilts, his neutral combo (which is nuts) his upsmash, and his aerials (which iare all pretty awesome). His side B is also suprisingly good for catchign people off guard and catching up to campy ***s, i think ike is really good.
-Falco seems really bad, i thought at first he was decent but i dont like him at all now
-Fox is worse, but not too bad. he's probably around the middle.
-Link is pretty decent, but toon link is so much more ****
-Wario sucks prertty hard, his moves are ****ign slow and not strong at all. Plus **** recovery, bottom tier candidate imo.
-Zelda is pretty unimpressive now that her lightning kicks are nerfed (a la captain falcon's knee)
-samus seems pretty meh, didnt play enough ZSS to say much
-Donkley Kong seems improved (well at least at my skill level). No more super gay chain grabbing but his back air is as nuts as ever.
-Bowser is definetly better, not sure how good he is thoguh. the suicide grab thing iss really really nuts though.
-Pit is excellent. Amazing recovery, great priority, great damage. His projectile is nuts too and cmopletely spammable (even though it only does 2 with diminishing returns. Low killing power but definetly not at sonic or metaknights level there.
- i want to play more toon link, need to unlcok him
- **** all the furries, they're gay adn stuff
-neutral a combos do like 20-30% often, soooooo good.
I'm having more fun with the game then i am with melee. The gameplay is slow and clunky, yes, but i'm having a lot of fun still. I thought items would be cool but they're so overpowered its not fun at all.