Hey ho. Im listing to ever "SHOW ME YOUR NEWS" episode since the beginning and your doing a really good job. Every monday before i drive to college, i put "SHOW ME YOUR NEWS" on my mp3 player, its perfect match, becauce i drive 1 hour *g* So please dont short the recordtime of the podcast!
This week was really funny again, but would me wish more love for us europan and please no nazi joks. Im German and its annoying to hear them all the time form americans ...
I also would like to join a round in the round table. But I dont know if my english is good enough for a podcast, it would be some "...ahhh..." in finding words. Listing is no big problem, but speaking ... dont get much practice in this here *g* But hey you would get somebody from a other country that not even speek english ^^ Also i know really much about nintendo (games, history, storys, etc.), videogames (study media/communication design and a part of it is videogame design) and i create the biggest SSBM Website in Germany since the release of the game. I also work on a SSBB Page with rankings, tournaments, etc. Ok, i need a lot more time to finally finsh the job ... but with the late release date, i got my chance ^^''
Actually i post beacause of 2 Things:
1.
"Only 2min Time Match"
They never say there is only "2min Time Match" or? I dont know if there is any information on the japanese Page, but in the english and german page there is nothing.
We only got this picture:
Know how we change the match setting in Melee? We press on the text above the character icons, than we get to a menu and we can change the match settings. I think its the same here. Standart is 2min Time Match ... its also the standart selection in Melee Vs-Mode!
So if there is no other information on the japanese page, i dont see a problem.
2. “SamuraiPanda Conspiracy Theoracy”
So there two points against your theory.
The first is the missing of Kirby. Mario, Kirby, Link and Pikachu are the main nintendo characters, they were the first characters in the first brawl movie AND Sakurai is the creator of Kirby. Why should he be unlockable?
Ok you say, the first match in the Subspace Emissary can unlock him, because you fighting him ... but .... there ist a video of the Subspace Emissary form the E-4-All and there you can see that the player can CHOOSE between Kirby and Mario! That means you could fight as Kirby against Mario. It would be really bad gamedesign to play with a character you cant practice with ... even its the first match!
Well and this brings me to my second point.
Gamedesign.
Unlockables in the would of gaming working like cookings. You did a good thing , you get a cookie. You did a really good thing, you get a rellay BIG cookie. And thats my point. When you give the player in the beginng of a game to much, they want even more in the end.
We see it right know in the Dojo Updates! We got good updates in the beginng and everybody was happy. Than we got slowly to the release and we got even better updates. Everbody was even more happier. Than there was the delay ... Nintendo went out of big cookies, but they gave us already the tasty big cookies and we want more, but we didn't get more. So everybody is disappointed.
Thats why you have to save your best goodies for the end ... and whats better then characters? Also where would be the surprise by fighting Kirby or King Dedede in the first match and event? The point of secrets and goodies are that there are secret or hard to reach.
Giving players an character in the first event and the first match of the story mode would be
the easiest unlock of all time!.
Also i hope they dont forget about the tradition that the first character unlock have to be Jigglypuff =P