Bakemonky
Smash Apprentice
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- Mar 13, 2006
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When the Brawl roster was finally leaked, I, like many others, was upset. And I began to go through the Kublar-Ross model 5 stages of grief. I post this with the hope that others might identify with me.
1 - Denial
At first I thought it was a joke. I mean, it HAD to be. There HAD to be more characters than the ones we were seeing in the leaks. There had to be more characters hidden deep within the game, waiting to be unlocked. I just knew that Midna, Geno, and Hector were somewheres on that beautiful shimmering disc, waiting for their moment of glory. But alas, when the disc was finally ripped open, we could clearly see from the directory that there were, in fact, only the announced 35 characters.
2 - Anger
The denial had passed, and I was immediately infuriated. HOW could Sakurai had done this to me?? It's as if he just didn't take MY personal feelings into consideration!!! Does he not even care??!? The anger continued as I began realizing that Ganon, who has about a hojillion Zelda games in which to draw reference for an original movelist, had not been given one. I became even more angry when I discovered that Toon Link, was, essentially and for all purposes, Young Link. Then I discovered that Ness was in the game. This angered and confused me so badly that I ended up passing out after taking out my anger on my roomate's dog.
3 - Bargaining
Once I awoke, I began bargaining. I thought, "maybe there will be updates.Maybe there are more characters which are not finished, and Sakurai will release them in small, easy to download bundles on the Wii!! But upon realizing that the Wii does not have a hard drive capable of holding mass information like the PS3 or 360's hard drives, and therefore would be impossible to hold said information without an external hardrive, I began to spiral into the 4th stage of grief...
4 - Depression
Food lost its taste. Mountain Dew no longer quenches thirst. Cheetos taste like nothing more than dust. I stopped checking the boards, for fear of new information that would anger me further. I thought about not even playing Brawl, but I remembered my commitment to the game, and tried to push onwards and upwards, until finally, I reached the 5th stage...
5 - Acceptance
I understand now what went wrong. I realize now that it was foolish to get my hopes up this whole time. All I wanted all along, since Brawl was announced, was a robust and intriguing list of charcters, all with original move sets. Instead, Sakurai gave me dynamic levels, an intense single player campaign, a level editor, wi-fi battle royals, and more original items then I can shake a stick at. This is all fine and dandy, but I (and I believe most of you) would have rather traded it all in, ALL OF IT, for 10 more original characters.
I have accepted that this will never happen, because Nintendo does not make games for gamers. Nintendo makes games for small children and families, because they are Nintendo's bread and butter, and Nintendo is, if nothing more, a w h o r e.
Thank You.
1 - Denial
At first I thought it was a joke. I mean, it HAD to be. There HAD to be more characters than the ones we were seeing in the leaks. There had to be more characters hidden deep within the game, waiting to be unlocked. I just knew that Midna, Geno, and Hector were somewheres on that beautiful shimmering disc, waiting for their moment of glory. But alas, when the disc was finally ripped open, we could clearly see from the directory that there were, in fact, only the announced 35 characters.
2 - Anger
The denial had passed, and I was immediately infuriated. HOW could Sakurai had done this to me?? It's as if he just didn't take MY personal feelings into consideration!!! Does he not even care??!? The anger continued as I began realizing that Ganon, who has about a hojillion Zelda games in which to draw reference for an original movelist, had not been given one. I became even more angry when I discovered that Toon Link, was, essentially and for all purposes, Young Link. Then I discovered that Ness was in the game. This angered and confused me so badly that I ended up passing out after taking out my anger on my roomate's dog.
3 - Bargaining
Once I awoke, I began bargaining. I thought, "maybe there will be updates.Maybe there are more characters which are not finished, and Sakurai will release them in small, easy to download bundles on the Wii!! But upon realizing that the Wii does not have a hard drive capable of holding mass information like the PS3 or 360's hard drives, and therefore would be impossible to hold said information without an external hardrive, I began to spiral into the 4th stage of grief...
4 - Depression
Food lost its taste. Mountain Dew no longer quenches thirst. Cheetos taste like nothing more than dust. I stopped checking the boards, for fear of new information that would anger me further. I thought about not even playing Brawl, but I remembered my commitment to the game, and tried to push onwards and upwards, until finally, I reached the 5th stage...
5 - Acceptance
I understand now what went wrong. I realize now that it was foolish to get my hopes up this whole time. All I wanted all along, since Brawl was announced, was a robust and intriguing list of charcters, all with original move sets. Instead, Sakurai gave me dynamic levels, an intense single player campaign, a level editor, wi-fi battle royals, and more original items then I can shake a stick at. This is all fine and dandy, but I (and I believe most of you) would have rather traded it all in, ALL OF IT, for 10 more original characters.
I have accepted that this will never happen, because Nintendo does not make games for gamers. Nintendo makes games for small children and families, because they are Nintendo's bread and butter, and Nintendo is, if nothing more, a w h o r e.
Thank You.
