Super Smash Bros. has had a busy week so far. Nintendo got the hype started by announcing a new fighter reveal video, and the resulting broadcast brought Captain Falcon, Lucina and Robin into the roster. We've not exactly been short of screens, either, with official character profiles bringing plenty of eye candy.
It's been a bumper week so far, but we shouldn't forget last week, either. Masahiro Sakurai served up more attractive screens on the Director's Room Miiverse community, which included looks at outfits, taunts, moves and some other mechanics. For those that simply can't know enough about the games, it was another essential set of updates.
As always, then, you can see the results below — check them out and click on the date heading to visit the posts in question and give them a Yeah.
7th July
8th July
9th July
10th July
11th July
A fairly diverse week, overall. Let us know which are your favourites in the poll and comments below.
What's your favourite Smash Bros. screen this week? (309 votes)
- Kirby ducks away from the Mii Gunner
- Palutena's up smash takes out all in its path
- Poor Diddy Kong get's caught by Palutena's Heavenly Light
- The Dark Emperor dishes out some status changes
- Samus and Mario show off their alternative outfits
- Pac-Man's Namco Roulette taunt brings back memories of the '80s
- Six iconic Namco characters get shown off
- Um, I can't decide
- I don't like any of them
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The outfits. Finally, they make more sense now.
I finally chose 'none of them'.
@sinalefa I almost agreed, which would have been a first for me too. But I'd rather give a vote to Palutena this time.
The PacMan roulette being part of his taunt is kind of a let down. I was hooing you could continue it after the fruits/pretzel to get maybe something like an assist trophy to help you. Oh well, now I know I definitely won't play as PacMan, at least.
I vote Robocop and Captain 'Merica.
Voted for the Stormtrooper b/c Sakurai has a sense of humour. At least I think he meant Storm trooper, I'm too old to like the term Clone trooper.
If I ever play as Mario he'll be wearing that outfit.
Weird that he made a Star Wars reference with Samus' outfit, there. I mean, it seemed pretty obvious to me that it's a colour scheme based on the Light Suit from Echoes.
'MERICA! Lol, that's so funny that he put that in the game! I'm gonna use Mario like 50% more now.
Mario reppin' US of A!
@DestinyMan Google the puppet. It looks a lot like this costume.
'Merica Mario! He be fightin' for freedom!
namco for sure
Oh boy... American style Mario...
I like the namco sprites. Dig dug for the win!
I can't wait to kick butt with that stormtrooper costume.
That Mario one is too good.
Easily the alternate outfit image.
Mario. Looks. Awesome. He makes ME want a suit like that
That's Mario's capitalist suit. His fire flower colors make up his communist suit! XD
Shall we call him...Uncle SaMario?
Also, Samus should have a Boba Fett costume.
Light Suit Samus FTW. I hope the Dark Suit makes it in as well.
If Mario represents America then what does Luigi represent?
Mappy...
I seriously hadn't seen that guy since i was 5.
In other news... I prefer my videogames completely free of real life politics. Thanks.
Mario 'MURRICA of course.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HVndotxJ--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/dwb52w3cw3sypfp1fwe7.png
MURICA
I had to choose patriotic Mario, it looks too cool.
USA USA USA!
>> Main American Mario at SSB Wii U Tournament
>> Defeat all the foreigners (communists) for Freedom!
Aw man i want to use mario in that costume already is so badass.
mario looks awsome in his NES golf outfit
some great screens there! nintendolife you know you can embed Miiverse posts now, right?
The only question now is wich state is Mario from.
Anything with Palutena automatically fails to qualify for the "best picture" running.
On a more positive note, Mario's star-spangled threads are legitimately sweet.
@TICGS He's probably from Brooklyn, NY. I remember Charles Martinet saying something about how Nintendo at first wanted him to do a voice that sounded like an Italian plumber from Brooklyn.
@LtAldoRaine Funny picture! I laughed!
@Imagamerboi
Latin America? Mistreated, neglected but still capable of big things. He even has the "L" from Latino in his hat and Leguizamo portrayed him.
USA!
Mario is a Patriot? Heresy!
That alternate mario costume is awful
@DestinyMan I love your icon
I'm bummed the awesomeness that is the Light suit, is nothing more than a palette swap.
Its one of the few suits from the series that is an actual different suit, as opposed to a simple color change. Makes me wonder what actual alt. costumes Samus will have...
For Freedom!!!!!!!
MURICA!
Mario's golf suit, "Patriotic"? Considering that the family of Masayuki Uemura, the director of the R&D2 division during the 80s and 90s, had moved to Kyoto to avoid being bombed by the US military during WW2... I don't think he had any such thoughts of "patriotism" or gratefulness towards America when Mario's outfit was designed for NES Open Tournament Golf. (Research and Development 2 developed the game.)
It's a bit of a sickening thought, really. If Japan's citizenry wasn't bombed into oblivion by America, his family may never have fled to Kyoto; thus Uemura would have likely never met Gumpei Yokoi, who recruited him to Nintendo. Strange how things work out...
@Dr_Corndog !? Such a magnificent pillar of light, so easily conjured with a flick of the wrists by Palutena, is surely more awe inspiring than a silly golf outfit...
While SSB's fourth entry has had a longer build and more character trailers than most Nintendo games in the company's history, it still doesn't have a Wii U release date. Two Wii U games have been given dates recently though.
Whereas Wii U is currently facing a 2 month schedule with just one definitive retail title (One Piece Unlimited World Red isn't even at retail for the Wii U in NA) both Lego Batman 3 and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric have been given November 11th.
I hope they change the day to the 12th in Canada though. Remembrance Day is the 11th and shouldn't be kept as a release day.
As weird as Captain A-Mario-ca is, I'm sold on Samus' white armor. The Star Wars shout-out helps a lot (although what with the Beam Sword, I guess Sakurai is a SW fan).
For once, I could not decide. WOW.
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