Satoru Iwata Responsible For Melee Shipping On Time

[lotad]

Our lord Iwata strikes again

 

[smashbroskilla]

Cool now give us melee on the virtual console and make an online mode.

 

[The 0ne]

Well that explains Melee's debug mode. Iwata was over there, coding his ass off for three weeks straight. So what if he forgot to remove the very thing that needed to be done before the game's release.

 

[MarioMeteor]

Amazing mirror came out after melee (melee 2001 amazing mirror 2004), so it didn't come for mirror. Its speculated to take some move inspiration from Eyerok, Wham Bam Rock, Andross, and Bongo Bongo.

Eyerok? It really doesn't share any moves with Eyerok at all. Eyerok's main purpose is to sweep you off the stage, Master Hand just plain ***** smacks you.

 

[LancerStaff]

**** I messed up this conversation. I made a more developed argument on reddit then started arguing the wrong thing here. What I wanted to say is that some smash qualities were inherent to different parties involved. HAL involved smash games' gameplay matched more with post HAL games (mostly Kirby Super Star Ultra, Squeak Squad, and Kirby Triple Deluxe). Solo-Sakurai smash games' gameplay did not act like the prior 2 smash games. And the games Sakurai made independent of HAL (aside from smash) post-HAL does not have traits matching up with things that made melee and 64 good. The fact that Sakurai didn't make any other platformer after his time at HAL (excluding brawl and smash 4) sets off a few bells.

You just reworded everything... Kirby in general just doesn't resemble Melee over any other smash. What are these supposed traits KIU and Brawl lack?

And by the way, L-canceling was just a way for the CPUs to cheat. The easiest way to do it was to make it a real command. Not that Kirby has L-canceling... I've reached the bottom of the barrel as far as figuring out what the first two SSBs have over the last two as far as being closer to Kirby goes.

 

[aethermaster]

Isn't it kinda funny how the last game Iwata worked on as a debugger became one of the biggest most competitive games that Nintendo has? I hope Iwata wavedashed all over Sakurai to get this project done in time

 

[YoshiandToad]

Alas, all Iwata's hard work did absolute squat to help us poor PAL players get the game at Gamecube's release.

Having had to wait 9 long ass months for Melee was unforgivable when NTSC regions got it straight away.

9. Months. Even with the slowest translators and PAL converter in the world it shouldn't have taken that long. ****ing ridiculous.

I'm just glad this Smash release hasn't been handled as poorly as it has been in the past...Gamecube adapter and Amiibo shortages aside.

 

[SpeedBoost]

***** please Sakurai. Iwata is the TRUE MVP!! IWATA AND NAMCO MAKE SMASH5!!!

 

[Omegascizor456]

i guess you could say he DIRECTED it to us