SmashShot of the Day (28th/29th July 2014)

Yes yes, I know, I keep neglecting the SmashShot of the Day, but never fear, I will ALWAYS return to save the day… mostly! Anywho…

For the past year, Smash Bros. Director, Masahiro Sakurai, has been showing off Smash Bros. glory by uploading a screenshot from the upcoming instalments for 3DS and Wii U nearly every day on Miiverse… that’s a whole lot of content for your eyeballs! Let us begin with yesterday’s SmashShot where a samurai from The Mysterious Murasame Castle will assist fighters when called upon!

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I, Takamaru, have waited many years to appear in Super Smash Bros.! Link, Samus, Pit, and I debuted in the same year! Multidirectional Pinwheel Knife Rook Attack!! (FYI, I’m an Assist Trophy.)

It’s a new Assist Trophy confirmation. Though it may not seem like much, I’m pretty sure all those Nintendo boffins would know who he is. For those of you who do not know, he appeared in a Japan only game [until it’s Virtual Console release earlier this year] for the Famicom Disk System [or the Nintendo Entertainment System as it’s known in the west] called The Mysterious Murasame Castle. This was one of the earliest games for the system, released during the same year as The Legend of Zelda, Metroid and Kid Icarus.

And now for today!

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For the first time ever in the Super Smash Bros. series, here’s a Paper Mario stage! It’s made of paper, so strong winds will blow it away.

A new stage, YAHOO! As Sakurai said, this will be the first stage based off the Paper Mario franchise in Super Smash Bros., though he also mentions that because the stage is made out of paper [which is a stupid decision I know] it could blow away with a strong enough wind! Sticker Star won’t be the only game from the franchise getting the spotlight…

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Since the stage is paper, it transforms when it folds over and opens up again. This ship is the S.S. Flavion from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Yes, The Thousand-Year Door will also be featured in this stage. Hopefully this will mean other games may also feature, I wouldn’t mind seeing something from my favourite entry [I’m probably going to get a lot of hate for this], Super Paper Mario!

Super Smash Bros. is set to be released for 3DS on the 13th September 2014 in Japan, 3rd October 2014 in Europe and North America, and a day later in Australia. The Wii U version is set to be released during Q4 2014.

By |2014-07-29T21:51:03+00:00July 29th, 2014|3DS, Miiverse, Nintendo, Smash Bros., SmashShot of the Day, Wii U|0 Comments
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SmashShot of the Day (25th July 2014)

For the past year, Smash Bros. Director, Masahiro Sakurai, has been showing off Smash Bros. glory by uploading a screenshot from the upcoming instalments for 3DS and Wii U nearly every day on Miiverse… that’s a whole lot of content for your eyeballs! Today host to a very exciting phot [for me anyway]. It’s not actually gameplay, but still a screenshot!

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And here’s what Sakurai had to say…

For the first time ever, I present to you…the main menu for the 3DS version!! The icons are even animated. The design concept may look similar if you’ve played other games I’ve worked on. But we had a hard time making this one because…

This is exciting because this is the very first time we get to see the final UI [that’s User Interface for those who are not as tech davy] for the main menu to the 3DS version! As you can see it looks very familiar to Brawl’s UI as well as Kid Icarus Uprising’s, both games were developed by Sakurai. One interesting point is the Wii U icon at the bottom. This most likely directs you to the cross-play type features. It seems that the Challenges mode from Brawl and KI:U will be making a return. This mode allows you to win prizes such as trophies, soundtrack CDs etc. for meeting certain conditions such as playing as a certain character 50 times. Sakurai also mentions that this UI was particularly hard to create…

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The bottom screen displays pictures matching each mode! This was quite a task for the UI (User Interface) designers, but they made it happen. Kudos to them! You can tap the screen to look up additional info like how to play–complete with diagrams.

Obviously the UI is much more advance that those used in Brawl and KI:U, as you can display submenus on the bottom screen such as ‘How to play’ diagrams and Power Stats!

Super Smash Bros. is set to be released for 3DS on the 13th September 2014 in Japan, 3rd October 2014 in Europe and North America, and a day later in Australia. The Wii U version is set to be released during Q4 2014.

By |2014-07-25T18:49:26+00:00July 25th, 2014|3DS, Miiverse, Nintendo, Smash Bros., Wii U|0 Comments
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SmashShot of the Day (24th July 2014)

For the past year, Smash Bros. Director, Masahiro Sakurai, has been showing off Smash Bros. glory by uploading a screenshot from the upcoming instalments for 3DS and Wii U nearly every day on Miiverse… that’s a whole lot of content for your eyeballs! Today, Sakurai has revealed yet another stage… and once again he shows his support of home invasion!

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And, of course, here’s Sakurai’s statement…

This is the Tomodachi Life stage that’s exclusive to the 3DS version! The front walls of the apartments disappear so you can see the area within when a fighter overlaps with the room. The rooms are randomly placed and selected from among several types. Planting an X Bomb behind a wall might be an effective tactic.

Yes, it is a stage based on Tomodachi Life exclusively for the 3DS version. Similar to the Luigi’s Mansion course in Brawl, the walls will disappear as soon as a fighter walks behind it. However, now there are various different rooms with various different walls; perfect for hiding a little trap. Each of these rooms will be randomly selected and placed, so every time you play this stage will be a new experience… kind of like riding Star Tours at Disneyland California!

Here’s another pic which goes into more detail on the stage.

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You might run into a Mii living in the room! The Mii characters are taken from the data in your 3DS system, so you could find your friends living in the apartments.

So it seems that the stage will add a slight personal touch to your match as the game will see if you have a Tomodachi Life save file, and if you do it will import some of your residents; how sweet… Though I still think they should remove their shoes… all that fighter crap they track in takes forever to wash out of the rug!

Super Smash Bros. is set to be released for 3DS on the 13th September 2014 in Japan, 3rd October 2014 in Europe and North America, and a day later in Australia. The Wii U version is set to be released during Q4 2014.

By |2014-07-24T22:43:55+00:00July 24th, 2014|3DS, Miiverse, Nintendo, Smash Bros., Wii U|0 Comments
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SmashShot of the Day (23rd July 2014)

For the past year, Smash Bros. Director, Masahiro Sakurai, has been showing off Smash Bros. glory by uploading a screenshot from the upcoming instalments for 3DS and Wii U nearly every day on Miiverse… that’s a whole lot of content for your eyeballs! Today’s pic shows us a glimpse of the Willy Castle stage… and no, I’m not being immature!

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And here’s Sakurai’s statement…

In general, there are completely different stages in the 3DS and Wii U version, but we made Wily Castle and the special boxing ring available for both versions! We didn’t forget the Yellow Devil either. There may be some small differences in the stages, such as the 3DS stage appearing to be during daylight hours.

Here, Sakurai is talking about how even though there will mainly be console exclusive stages, there will still be a few stages which will appear on both versions. However, to make sure these stages don’t feel like direct clones, there will be differences to the stages such as the time of day. I was thinking, what if some of these stages had slightly bigger differences, such as slightly different layout or hazards?

Super Smash Bros. is set to be released for 3DS on the 13th September 2014 in Japan, 3rd October 2014 in Europe and North America, and a day later in Australia. The Wii U version is set to be released during Q4 2014.

By |2014-07-23T21:52:32+00:00July 23rd, 2014|3DS, Miiverse, Nintendo, Smash Bros., Wii U|0 Comments
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SmashShot of the Day (22nd July 2014)

For the past year, Smash Bros. Director, Masahiro Sakurai, has been showing off Smash Bros. glory by uploading a screenshot from the upcoming instalments for 3DS and Wii U nearly every day on Miiverse… that’s a whole lot of content for your eyeballs! Today we’ll be looking in the far reaches of outer space!

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It wouldn’t be a SmashShot without Sakurai’s comment now, would it…

Here’s the Great Fox from Star Fox: Assault. I wonder what missions it will conduct. It’ll probably have fighters running around on top of it without the pilot’s consent.

Here we see the return of the mighty Great Fox from Star Fox: Assault. Could this be a new stage announcement for Smash Bros.? If so then I think that when Sakurai said “I wonder what missions it will conduct” could mean it is one of those stages where the environment changes, similar to the Skyloft and Delfino Plaza stages.

Super Smash Bros. is set to be released for 3DS on the 13th September 2014 in Japan, 3rd October 2014 in Europe and North America, and a day later in Australia. The Wii U version is set to be released during Q4 2014.

By |2014-07-22T12:26:58+00:00July 22nd, 2014|3DS, Miiverse, Nintendo, Smash Bros., Wii U|0 Comments
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SmashShot of the Day (18th/21st July 2014)

I apologise for the delay for the SmashShot, been very busy of late!

For the past year, Smash Bros. Director, Masahiro Sakurai, has been showing off Smash Bros. glory by uploading a screenshot from the upcoming instalments for 3DS and Wii U nearly every day on Miiverse… that’s a whole lot of content for your eyeballs! Let’s start with Friday’s… which was a bit of a K.O. if you ask me!

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And of course, here’s what Sakurai had to say…

Here’s a Screen K.O. shot. There are also patterns where players will disappear into the sky for Star K.O.s, but as a match’s time limit approaches, those K.O.s will not occur anymore.

We all know those comical K.O. scenes, when one of the characters bashes into the screen before falling in battle. It seems these scenes will be even more comical as the characters’ faces will flatten like when a face hits a strong window. The scenes where the character will fly off into the distance will also return.

And here is today’s SmashShot which show how much of a leech Robin really is…

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Robin’s Nosferatu is the first ability in the Smash Bros. series that recovers your damage as it gives damage to others. The attack becomes even stronger if you strike from behind! Robin doesn’t actually use this ability in the original game, but we added that element to make the character unique. Who knows–the ideas we use in this game may contribute to the original series.

It seems that the surname Nosferatu is a very suiting for Robin as one of his unique abilities allow him to leech power from your opponents, like how a vampire sucks blood from its victim. Sakurai also mentions that though the ability does not appear within the Fire Emblem games, it could very well make an appearance in a future title. In fact, ay franchise could technically gain inspiration from Smash Bros.!

Super Smash Bros. is set to be released for 3DS on the 13th September 2014 in Japan, 3rd October 2014 in Europe and North America, and a day later in Australia. The Wii U version is set to be released during Q4 2014.

By |2014-07-22T12:27:07+00:00July 21st, 2014|3DS, Miiverse, Nintendo, Smash Bros., Wii U|0 Comments
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SmashShot of the Day (17th July 2014)

Sorry for the lateness, been busy today 😉 .

For the past year, Smash Bros. Director, Masahiro Sakurai, has been showing off Smash Bros. glory by uploading a screenshot from the upcoming instalments for 3DS and Wii U nearly every day on Miiverse… that’s a whole lot of content for your eyeballs! Link isn’t in today’s pic, though that doesn’t stop the other characters from fighting in someone’s living room… uninvited!

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Apparently Sakurai condones these actions…

We have Nintendogs plus cats! How could we forget them!! Just FYI, there are about five dog breeds in this game. This was me, reporting from the 3DS-exclusive stage, Living Room.

Luckily no pots were broken today, instead we get a first look at the kittens in the 3DS exclusive stage, Living Room from Nintendogs+Cats. It turns out that there will be five breeds of dogs which could appear in this stage, perhaps we will also have several breeds of cats to appear too, such as that one breed which looks like the spawn of the devil… yikes!

Super Smash Bros. is set to be released for 3DS on the 13th September 2014 in Japan, 3rd October 2014 in Europe and North America, and a day later in Australia. The Wii U version is set to be released during Q4 2014.

By |2014-07-22T12:27:32+00:00July 17th, 2014|3DS, Miiverse, Nintendo, Smash Bros., Wii U|0 Comments
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