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    Image of maraxusofk maraxusofk
    10/19/09

    In reply to Smash Bros. For Charity — A Kotaku Alumnus Story
    All brawl tournaments should now be named Meta-ments. #charity
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    Image of TravisTouchdown TravisTouchdown
    10/19/09

    In reply to Smash Bros. For Charity — A Kotaku Alumnus Story
    I'm going to get this out of the way. NO ITEMS, FOX ONLY, FINAL DESTINATION.

    Anyway, that's mighty nice of Mr. Freedman. Our school did something like this, but we donated the proceeds to our soup kitchen.
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    Edited by TravisTouchdown at 10/19/09 4:52 AM TravisTouchdown was starred TravisTouchdown was unstarred
    Image of izzy_k izzy_k
    10/19/09

    @TravisTouchdown: isn't that more for melee? fox in brawl was kinda.. nerfed.. #charity
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    NeoAkira promoted this comment izzy_k was starred izzy_k was unstarred
    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    10/19/09

    @izzy_k:

    Yup, that's melee. That's why in the last large national tournament the top 3 places were Jigglypuff, Peach, Jigglypuff. #charity
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    Image of Krytha Krytha
    10/19/09

    @NeoAkira: Is that with items? I was more under the impression the top 3 through 50 would be Metaknight Metaknight Metaknight etc. #charity
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    NeoAkira promoted this comment Krytha was starred Krytha was unstarred
    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    10/19/09

    @Krytha:

    I was talking about Melee, not brawl. Brawl has Metaknight, melee does not.

    And no, items are turned off in tournaments. #charity
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    Image of Zolbrod Zolbrod
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    Wait, I always thought it was "Heroes IN a half-shell", not "and".
    Was I wrong?
     Reply
    Kobun promoted this comment Zolbrod was starred Zolbrod was unstarred
    Image of Crash__Man Crash__Man
    09/23/09

    @Zolbrod: no, you are right. AJ, you disappoint me! =P
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    Kobun promoted this comment Crash__Man was starred Crash__Man was unstarred
    Image of Cloudleet Cloudleet
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    It looks really cool, but is it so wrong to ask for the turtles to smile more, like my favourite generation of the gang? the 80's one?
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    Image of shimage shimage
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    But while Smash-Up brings a bit of nostalgia and doesn't build any walls between generations of Ninja Turtles fans

    Does it, though? I mean, reading the comments here, I get the impression that it's less nostalgic for those of us that were kids in the 80s, and it seems to be building walls between fans of the 80s series and fans of the 00s series.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    09/24/09

    @shimage:
    I grew up in the 80's, and I totally got over the original TMNT animated series. However, I own the first five seasons of the new series on DVD, as well as the CGI movie.
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    Image of jay13x jay13x
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    You unlock all but four character by playing story mode... just pick them at the end. Was the reviewer only picking the treasure chest rewards? Pick one of the busts over them and the reward screen.
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    Image of Shiryu Shiryu
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    Pre-ordered it on Monday. Looks solid, so I'll byte. It would not be the first time Ubisoft screws up my life with a Wii game, tough... we shall see.
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    Image of jjammerzs jjammerzs
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    But is Yellow jumpsuit April with the feathered hair in the mix?
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    Image of Here's Some Weapons Here's Some Weapons
    09/23/09

    @jjammerzs: Nope. Not even as a costume.
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    09/23/09

    @Here's Some Weapons: Yep. This isn't based on the 90's cartoon series at all. Which is a shame
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    "the sheer notion of mashing together all that is Ninja Turtle into one game smacks of the same decision making behind cramming all of Nintendo's beloved characters into Brawl."

    Uh, no, it doesn't. In fact, they're very different.

    One includes all the characters from 1 franchise. The other includes all the characters of MANY (1) franchises. Otherwise street fighter, naruto games, bleach games, mvc, etc. all smack "of the same decision making behind cramming all of Nintendo's beloved characters into Brawl"
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    Image of cjlopez cjlopez
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    You are better suited if you use a roll before falling to get up fast.

    Just Like smash

    I rented this and i'm licking it, its not smash but its a good brawler, though the lineup its pretty dissapointing
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    ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. promoted this comment cjlopez was starred cjlopez was unstarred
    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    09/23/09

    @cjlopez: "I rented this and i'm licking it"

    You know that the "lick it to keep it" thing is for food, right? They'll still want you to return the disc. :P
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    Edited by ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. at 09/23/09 2:36 PM ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. was starred ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. was unstarred
    Image of Showmeyomoves! Showmeyomoves!
    09/23/09

    @cjlopez: I rented this and i'm licking it

    Most awesome typo ever? I think so.
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    Image of statnut statnut
    09/23/09

    @cjlopez: "I rented this and i'm licking it,"

    We dont need to know what you do with your games.
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    celery promoted this comment statnut was starred statnut was unstarred
    Image of celery celery
    09/23/09

    @statnut: You might want to know if you rent from the same shop...
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    Image of cjlopez cjlopez
    09/23/09

    @ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: well, had to try, didnt I? xDDDDDD
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    Now, I'm no TMNT fan, but from what I've heard the game actually consists of 90% new TMNT 4Kids show, 10% everything else from TMNT universe.
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    Image of Methusalah Methusalah
    09/23/09

    @RockyRan: I might get crap for this, but I think the new series is better than the old one (even though that's the one I grew up with).
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    Image of Mentuss Mentuss
    09/23/09

    @Methusalah: The new series was more faithful to the original material.

    As I've said in previous articles about TMNT, despite the teary eyed nostalgia for the '88 cartoon, it really stands as an odd one out among the various different TMNT universes.
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    Image of SuperSonik SuperSonik
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    Geez, it was a pain in the rear enough to unlock characters in smash bros if you didn't like the subspace emissary. If it's even worse here, I won't even bother renting.
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    Image of Here's Some Weapons Here's Some Weapons
    09/23/09

    In reply to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
    Why you haven't been unlocking characters:

    There aren't any.

    There are 13 characters from the new TMNT show (and the 2007 movie), and there are THREE Raving Rabbids.

    Despite a few unlockable costumes that look really cool, I'm boycotting the game in response to Ubisoft completely misleading fans of the old cartoon.
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    Edited by Here's Some Weapons at 09/23/09 2:07 PM Here's Some Weapons was starred Here's Some Weapons was unstarred
    Image of bobombs bobombs
    09/23/09

    @Here's Some Weapons: What the hell are rabbids doing in this game?!
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    09/23/09

    @bobombs: Cheap marketing plug-ins is what they're doing in this game.

    One of the rabbids has Sam Fisher headgear, meaning Ubisoft pulled a marketing plug-in within ANOTHER marketing plug-in!

    Man, Ubi's getting almost as good as EA in terms of shameless advertising!
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    Image of The Cap'n The Cap'n
    09/23/09

    @Here's Some Weapons: Wait. Seriously? Are you sure about this? That's really lame if that's true.

    How can you make a fake Smash Bros without unlockable characters? That's like a fistfight without brass knuckles or anchovies without caramel sauce.
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    Image of TRT-X TRT-X
    09/23/09

    @bobombs: One wouldn't be bad (since it's Ubisoft), but THREE is just absurd.
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    Image of Here's Some Weapons Here's Some Weapons
    09/23/09

    @RockyRan: What really grinds my gears is that major news outlets (Kotaku, IGN) aren't even mentioning that fact in their reviews. I imagine there will be a lot of pissed off consumers who read said reviews and buy the game, only to find out that 3 out of the 16 characters aren't even from the TMNT franchise.
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    Kobun promoted this comment Edited by Here's Some Weapons at 09/23/09 2:18 PM Here's Some Weapons was starred Here's Some Weapons was unstarred
    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    09/23/09

    @Here's Some Weapons: Yeah, they misled fans. I LOVE Ninja turtles, A lot, but classic ninja turtles. None of that is here because Ubisoft didn't want to touch the licensing on the old stuff.
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    Edited by Demonbird at 09/23/09 2:22 PM Demonbird was starred Demonbird was unstarred
    Image of Kamen Rider Gatack Kamen Rider Gatack
    09/23/09

    @Demonbird: Old Turtles was HORRIBLE anyway. I don't see why it's that big of a deal. I guess they had Bebop and Rocksteady, but they probably wouldn't be great characters for the game. There's still Shredder, and an utrom which is pretty much Krang.
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    Demonbird promoted this comment Edited by Kamen Rider Gatack at 09/23/09 2:22 PM Kamen Rider Gatack was starred Kamen Rider Gatack was unstarred
    Image of Derigor Derigor
    09/23/09

    @Kamen Rider Gatack: Slash.

    Give me Slash.
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    Showmeyomoves! promoted this comment Derigor was starred Derigor was unstarred
    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    09/23/09

    @Kamen Rider Gatack:
    Let me guess, weren't around or into ninja turtles in its prime?
    First of all, there were TONS of original turtles cartoon characters that could have made it in.
    TONS more from the comic series as well,
    Mirage and Archie.
    Slash
    Tokka
    Razarr
    Wingnut
    Leatherhead
    Krang
    Rocksteady
    Bebop
    Usagi Yojimbo
    Rat King
    Baxter Stockman
    Mona Lisa

    The list goes on.
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    Image of Here's Some Weapons Here's Some Weapons
    09/23/09

    @Demonbird: If they had included any ONE of those characters in place of 2 of the Rabbids, I think they could have avoided the fan uproar completely.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    09/23/09

    @Here's Some Weapons:
    Probably, and they had included skins for older designs.
    [en.wikipedia.org]
    There are 154 characters on this list. Not all of them are fighters, but most of them are.
    I'm not sure any of them are in this game.
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    Image of Kamen Rider Gatack Kamen Rider Gatack
    09/23/09

    @Demonbird: I was, I grew up with the turtles. I watched the original series as a kid and watched the 2k3 series as it was airing. When they first started releasing the seasons of the old cartoon on DVD, I bit right away and it definitely was not as awesome as I remembered. Well, the intro was still beautifully animated but that was about it. The old series was nonsensical garbage and I know it was a kids show, but it was just bad. The 2k3 series on the other hand followed the actual comics and had an on-going story, as well as consistent animation and was entertaining even if you weren't a kid.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    09/23/09

    @Kamen Rider Gatack:
    We weren't really debating the quality of a show designed to sell toys were we?
    I wa sjust saying that classic, pre 2003 turtles, which was A LOT more than the cartoon, had a hell of a lot more that could have contributed to this game than Bebop, Rocksteady, and krang.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    09/23/09

    @Demonbird: HELL YEA RAT KING! HELL YEA BAXTER! HELL NO I'M NOT BUYING THIS!
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    Image of Kamen Rider Gatack Kamen Rider Gatack
    09/23/09

    @Demonbird: But if any were chosen, those would be the ones. They're the most known, everyone else is kind of obscure.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    09/23/09

    @Kamen Rider Gatack:
    That alone would double the games roster.
    Plus classic skins.
    Plus characters I'm inevitably forgetting that are on this list
    [en.wikipedia.org]
    Like man ray
    Or variants like super shredder.
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    Image of Here's Some Weapons Here's Some Weapons
    09/23/09

    @Kamen Rider Gatack: No matter which version of the show you prefer, the original 80's cartoon has a huge fan base, and Ubisoft has been marketing to this particular group of people for months (look at the game's logo, even!), claiming that this game would be a celebration of 25 years of Turtles. They absolutely promised it would include elements from the old show, and they completely failed to deliver on this promise. One's own personal show preference doesn't change this.
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    09/23/09

    @Here's Some Weapons: Hell, this review didn't even touch on the gameplay of the title, a far more glaring omission to me, particularly in a fighter. I've learned next to nothing about Smash-Up other than how it relates to one person's sense of nostalgia. :/
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    Image of Solidusian Fury Solidusian Fury
    07/14/09

    In reply to Want To Peek Inside Smash Bros. Creator's New Office?
    By the look of the gaming setup there, which includes quite a few arcade sticks, I wouldn't at all be surprised if this game is competitive.



    I was a competitive Melee player and have won countless tournaments. Hundreds of dollars while I was in college. I tried to get into brawl and couldn't. I love it as a party game and it is in my wii almost constantly non the less, it is well crafted and if you look at the other games Sora has worked on you know the talent is there.



    Let us remember that the softening of Brawl may very well have been heavily pushed by Nintendo, rather than the majority of the development team.

    Anyway, I switched over to BlazBlue as my competitive game of choice....but I have alot to learn, that game is not smash brothers.
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    Edited by Solidusian Fury at 07/14/09 11:57 AM Solidusian Fury was starred Solidusian Fury was unstarred
    Image of gencid gencid
    07/14/09

    In reply to Want To Peek Inside Smash Bros. Creator's New Office?
    It's nice to see that they are playing on competing consoles as well, and that they're not afraid to show it. Sometimes you get the feeling that Nintendo is completely oblivious to anything that its competitors are doing, hardware or software wise. Plus that HDTV gives me hopes that Wii's successor would support HD resolutions (yes, you never know with Nintendo).
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    Edited by gencid at 07/14/09 10:59 AM gencid was starred gencid was unstarred
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