adventure mode is siiiiiick
My God, the whiners need to take themselves out back and pull the trigger a la Old Yeller. THIS GAME IS. NOT. MELEE. If you can’t handle the changes go lock yourself in a room and play Melee forever. No one gives a fuck what you think.
Anyway, some new news:
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L-Cancelling does seem to be outta here. And a LOT of people are pissed about it.
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Wavedash/wavelanding is gone, but it seems that by doing a short hopped forward aerial to a dodge you can get something quite similar to waveland.
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Ike’s slower than Marth (no shit), he’s like Roy speed if Roy as he was in Melee were in Brawl (thus a bit slower because Brawl is slower than Melee). Forward Smash has a bit of lag on it (hopefully they tweak it a bit or give it super armor) but is powerful as all get out and long ranged. His dodge is apparently quite good and his backroll is like Mewtwo’s in animation minus the floating. FS is Shin Aether: slashes once then if it connects tosses the sword into the air a la Aether, Omnislashes then finishes the Aether resulting in OHKO. His Counter can apparently counter projectiles, possibly knocking them back.
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Peach got nerfed. HARD. Heavier, slower, very low probability of pulling special Turnips, weaker with an extremely weakened and rangeless Down Smash. Haven’t heard any positives about her, but play time is limited so you never know.
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Fox also got nerfed to hell. A LOT slower, Can’t dashdance as well as he used to. But he can short hop into a triple Blaster now.
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Bowser apparently got beefed like mad. Koopa Claw has good power/priority, he has super armor, hard as eff to KO.
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Metaknight isn’t as uber as previously claimed, but he’s good. FS is like Ike’s in that you have to be close up for it to hit but if it does GGPO. His recovery is godlike though, he can fly for a long ass time.
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Pit apparently is really good. Has a mirror shielding thing like Fox’s shine, but it’s not sure what it exactly does yet. Forward B is a buzzsaw-esque sword attack with the bow-sword. If Marth ain’t in then this guy will probably be the one to go to for Marth players, as Ike is for Roy players.
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Samus CANNOT BE ZSS AT THE START OF A FIGHT, IT MUST BE ACTIVATED VIA FS. Again, this may change in the final but for now, it doesn’t happen. Missile cancelling is gone, bomb jump and Charge Shot got nerfed bad. Bombs now push diagonally when they explode making bomb jumps very difficult to do continually as in Melee recovery.
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ZSS is apparently VERY Sheik-like. And just as cheap, people who play her say she’s far better than Power Suit Samus.
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Sonic is okay, not Melee Fox/Falco like some people were expecting.
Best news i’ve heard.
^ Good info Alpha.
And agreed re: whining that certain techniques are gone. People act like it’s the end of the world if mechanics change.
@ alphadragoon: that was sorta a repeat of what was said earlier, with just extra tidbits. Not bad, on the extra info.
with those vids now, man february is quite a ways away.
Any unannounced characters playable?
-Tha Hindu
im happy they got rid of L-Cancelling and wavedashing and that fox isnt has broken anymore makes me happy
Nah, all were characters that we know about.
people play roy?
there was 1 person who could win tournaments with him forget his name though
Neo and he switched chars a long time ago.
Uh, I play Roy. 
oh man oh man, that was good. Poor Fox though, getting shot down. Well, it happened to a warp star in Kirby Superstar, it can happen to an arwing.
and to think, that will be different if you save Zelda. Imagine all the cg work they had to do for this game, jeez.
Actually, I think those cutscenes were in-game. Off Cam makes it look CG, and that Brawl actually looks damn good to begin with. Also, keep F5’ing GameTrailers. New vids will be poring in all night. They just uploaded a battle (Sonic, Samus, DK, and Diddy).
Dude, playing as Sonic will be so fun. I can’t wait.
cutscenes can be computer graphiced, else Smash is much more dynamic then i had previously thought 
or maybe im wrong…or right…or something
edit - match vid was great, lame that people werent attacking eachother much (save for DK and Samus)
Of course they can. I’m say they don’t look to be, though. lol
raises hand Me.
There was one instance where DK was blocking Sonic in FS form via attack without taking damage (around 1:22 mark). Final Smashes are not as invincible as people have been ranting about.
Yea, I saw that. DK had a frame is invincibility. He’s always had that kind of protected during that move, IIRC.