Well, little story time. Yesterday I went to the place of a friend from the university to do a work. We finished way early than we expected, so he told me: "Hey, want to play something? We have plenty of time". I asked him what he meant by "something", and he answered: "Smash, of course!". I accepted inmediately, because I love Smash (Like everyone here I guess lol). "Okay, one second, I have to bring the stuff". After 5 minutes, he appears with the Wii, and Super Smash Bros Brawl.
It was the first time I played Brawl in ages. But of course, we ain't playing competitive, heck, I don't think my friend knew that Smash was played competitively. So, we went on with items on, random characters, random stage, and let the chaos begin.
Long story short, I forgot how stupidly fun Smash is with friends. And how broken Brawl was too. One of the first thing I did was chain grab the hell out of him with Falco. Of course, I was way better than him, because I've spent hundreds of hours on Smash 4, so it better show off hahaha. The best part was when he got a bit salty and picked Meta Knight instead of random. Even he knew that Meta Knight was stupidly broken in that game. I'll try point out some highlights that happened:
-Ike's final Smash can hit someone that it's below a platform. Like, wut?
-Olimar's final Smash has the biggest hitbox ever when landing. I remember I was way out of the way, and it still hit me. We both were like "WTF??"
-ALL POKÉMON ARE BROKEN. Who thought it was fine to have Weavile just stun people when getting hit? And they stay forever on screen too. Well, we got to see Jirachi, one of the rarest Pokémon.
-Speaking of Pokémon, it was the first time Manaphy's swap hearts worked! And it was hilarious, they should bring Manaphy back for the next Smash.
-Daily reminder that Meta Knight is broken as hell in that game, it felt like all his moves were frame 1. Squirtle also felt like it had several frame 1 moves, that up-smash is broken.
-I miss Snake, spamming missiles all across the stage was something.
-Diddy Kong having two bananas was a mistake.
-He might not be able to multishine, but spamming Fox's reflector to stall in the air was hilarious.
-I also missed Wolf, he was so cool.
-Not having Zero Suit Samus as a separate character was stupid. I want to play as her, not Samus!
-Item combos are a thing and they are great.
Overall, I had a blast. Brawl sure gets the hate from how slow it is (And I won't deny it, it sure is slow), but I think it's the best Smash to play casually with items on. Even if we were only two people, all the crazy stuff that happened in such a short play session was something.
I can't believe we are getting a new Smash for the Switch this year... It's for moments like this that I love Smash. Hopefully it's a great game and I can gather lots of great memories like I have with Brawl.