Awesome update for sure. I love it. Sakurai is giving a purpose for the little things. Coins, trophies, and now stickers... I'm amazed at his genius and the intellect of his staff. Its just so amazing. I love this update due to listening to my favorite song "Intervention" - Arcade Fire - while looking at the Dojo and finding a magnificent triumph of a Friday update.
If you look closer, one sticker (Mona from Warioware, increases slash - so I'm guessing her sticker powers up sword users). So yeah, another is the fortune teller Katrina from Animal Crossing, and she adds magic points (assuming Zelda). Another one adds resistance to the legs, so I'm thinking this makes us more like the heavy characters, and makes it harder to get us off the ground. So definitely awesome power-ups. Sakurai was inventive when he made us work for the stickers and the trophies for better play in the modes. I thank his genius and his staff. He's making us collecting stickers and coins and trophies to unlock the secrets. We need the stickers probably to unlock stuff, beside rare stickers in the hard modes. All I can say is AWESOME!
As from what is seen, its likely the characters are just the same as that when we play them in multi-player. Like Super Sonic, these power-ups increase your stats, not work our way up the nerf ladder. So it is like an RPG. We work our way to like Lv. 100 (figuratively speaking). You know what I mean, until we have the best power-ups [and exclusive power-ups] on our characters.
I know some of you are saying you will never use this, but I think your forced too. If you don't, its going to be a supremely difficult way for you to unlock things in the harder modes. I mean, if we are to unlock new characters, we need to use the stickers since this game looks so hardcore for Nintendo fans and the difficulty ranks actually do look threatening.
I also love how Sakurai is making us gamble. If we lose, half of our stash is gone. However, if we persevere, then we get even more rewards to use.
PS: I love how that this game is so hardcore for Nintendo fans. Some games and characters can't be included as ATs, playables, items, or even bosses and stage backgrounds, so they are giving them some spotlight with the sticker power-up concept. I love it, and incredibly, it looks like its a highlight of Brawl's uniqueness compared to other multi-playing games. There is so much nostalgia and its incredible. I hope that Sakurai IS making people use the stickers just so people can survive in the harder modes to unlock secret stuff. That would shove it in the faces of those who are gloating that they could pass all the modes of SSE without stickers.
