My Toon Link Can Kick Your Wario’s Ass!

Super Smash Bros Brawl is out for the Wii!

In college this is what we played for hours in the common room.  This and sometimes Mario Kart… but mostly this.  I remember picking up that controller and playing the original Smash Bros for the N64.  That was probably the most fun game for that system and it began my addiction to beating up on other people using Link or Pikachu (especially when Pikachu wore the blue hat, and was thus known as Blue-Hat Pikachu).

Then came the Nintendo Gamecube and Super Smash Bros Melee, a launch title for the new (at the time) system.  I was on that immediately and through rigorous training, I again became master of Link and Pikachu, and this time added two more to my Smash List: Young Link and Luigi.  (You have no idea how many people I would piss off by using Luigi’s human fireball mode to instantly smash a player off-stage.)  I actually became better with Young Link than with Link because of Young Link’s speed and patented suction spin attack.

So you can imagine how excited I was when the Wii came out.  With it came the promise of another Smash Bros title… and sure enough… we have Brawl.

I’ve been playing Brawl now for the past few days, finally unlocking the Young Link equivalent: Toon Link.

Ah, love.  I can’t wait to get good enough to have a crazy-ass tournament!

~ by nonfinis on March 12, 2008.