(adventurous music)
(foliage rustling)
(heavy drumming)
- Sid and Zac are on another adventure to discover
the games of old and prove that they weren't
that bad to begin with.
It seems as though they found a test subject.
- Hey buddy.
- Hey, hey.
- Playing some Smash?
- Yeah. I am.
- You ever think about playing Brawl?
- Absolutely not.
- What makes you so sure?
- First off, they took all of the competitive aspects
out of the game, it's way slower, Meta Knight in general.
- But when's the last time you've played it?
- Like, eight years ago?
- Well, you ever think about giving it a second chance?
- No.
- Too bad! (snaps fingers)
- What the f... where did ... what is going on?
How did we get here?
- We're magic. Why don't you tell me your
top three issues with Brawl?
- I don't know. I guess the movement is a four out of 10.
The characters is a two. Competitiveness is a five.
- That averages to a 3.6 - 3.6!
- Not a high number! - Very bad!
- But you are going to replay those three aspects of Brawl,
today, and you're going to re-rate it!
- If I do, can I go home?
- There are really no guarantees here.
- Yeah ... let's play some games!
(upbeat synth music)
- Melee's a really quick fighter, like it's made
even faster using techniques like wave dashing
and shffling. Movement and positioning is probably
the most important aspect of the game.
And when we watch a pro-match, it's so quick
and fun to keep up with.
In Brawl, they took all what made the movement
in Melee important and made it garbage.
It's super slow and everyone is super floaty
and takes three minutes to get to the ground.
Also, you can't edge guard any more.
Edge guarding is where you knock someone off
the stage and then you wave dash the edge of the stage
so that your character grabs on and
the other character cannot.
It's a very Lion King-esque way to kill someone.
It's very fun.
In Brawl, if you move too quickly, you'll trip and fall,
leaving you wide open. It's almost like the game
is punishing you for being quicker than everyone else.
Also, you can jump on other people's heads.
That doesn't make ...what? Oh, sorry.
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Meta Knight is garbage because of how good he is
and everything he does is safe. It's unfair.
Why would you put him in the game.
He has wings.
The game is a fight against gravity.
He has wings.
'Cause he is such a high tier, anybody who is in a tier
let's say two below him, can't fight him.
He will beat you.
It's almost like if he's the only Melee character in Brawl.
The only character that I really like is Diddy Kong.
Diddy Kong is pretty cool.
(bass thumping EDM music)
The online play wasn't good at all.
It had no competitive spirit in general.
Pretty much everyone choose Meta Knight
or they just didn't play at all.
Melee pretty much set up Super Smash Brothers
to be a competitive fighter.
But then, with this, they were just like no.
It wasn't supposed to be that.
It was supposed to be a party game.
Sit on the couch and play with your little cousin.
Don't play with other adults.
- Play with my cousin sounds kinda fun.
- No.
- You're describing something that sounds very fun.
- Sure. It is fun if it was, you know ...
- Let me show you my cousin.
- (laughs) Also, why do you guys have me playing with these?
- But you don't like those?
(mumbles)
- Are you joking? It's a Wii game!
This is the Wii. - No, you need a ...
- That's how you play it!
We have heard Gary's complaints about Brawl
and it is now time for you to give it a second chance.
We've set the stage. You're going to be playing
your favorite character, Diddy Kong ...
- Yay.
- Against Meta Knight. - Why?
- But you're playing as Diddy Kong!
- Yeah!
- You're gonna ... playing games!
- Yeah.
- Here we go!
(game cheering noises)
This is it!
- This is it!
- Three! Two! - Diddy Kong!
- With the best! - One!
- Go! (video game noises and controller clicks)
- Okay. The wings are coming out.
- Are you gonna use the taunt yet?
- No! - Okay!
- Fun? But look at the scenery! It's beautiful!
- I wanna move faster!
- You're just ... don't worry about that!
Think about the fun.
You're just having a fun time with us on the couch.
Right? - Having fun!
- Just having fun. - Couple of pals. Having fun.
- There you go. - There you go!
- There you go! - Um, yes!
- Okay. - Did you see that?
I just tried to edge guard but he just flew
right back up. - He's got wings.
- Let's not talk about that. - It's a part of him.
- You can't help it if you have wings.
He didn't ask for that life.
- Come on, Diddy!
There you go! - Yes. There you ...
- Yes. - Yes!
- There you go!
- You definitely got him this time!
- Okay. I see what you are saying about the wings thing.
(video game cheering)
Okay. - Okay.
- You win some you lose some.
- You go two more stocks. - Yeah.
- It's fine. (cheers)
- You gotta admit that felt pretty good, right?
- Champion!
- Yeah, that felt good. - That felt good.
- That felt good. - Take him down.
Your enemy, Meta Knight!
- Look at him! He comes out of stuff just hitting you!
- What? You just did a cartwheel!
- No. That's just rolling.
- It was cool!
- I'd rather just ...
- Look, he's not gonna make it. He's there.
- You can do this.
- We believe in you, Gary.
- I got an idea. - Okay.
- Think of Meta Knight as the game Brawl.
- Okay.
- And you're just trying to beat the hell ...
- Yes. Just pretend you're playing Melee actually.
- Yeah.
- Just do that.
- I can't! - Just pretend!
- It feels like I'm pretending, but it's just not.
- Come on!
- What?
(cheering)
- There we go!
- Meta Knight? More like Meta Loser! Am I right?
- Yeah. - Love your look.
- Your banana has a lot of potassium. It's good for you.
- You see how he just disappears?
- I think that's a hanger? That can't be right.
- Yes! (cheering)
- You beat Meta Knight! - Yeah, I did.
- Winner! - You did it!
- You did it! - Yeah. I did.
- You gave the game a second chance,
now it's time to get your new scores.
Let's start with movement.
- A five. It's not as floaty as I remember.
- That's higher - All right. Less floaty!
- Yeah.
- Characters. - A five also.
- Much higher.
- I like the way that this is going.
- I like this.
- You got Diddy Kong, so that's cool.
- Competitiveness.
- A four.
- That's lower. - That is lower.
That's indeed lower.
- Because this game doesn't matter.
There's another Smash Brothers coming out.
Which I'm very excited about. - I'm doing the math.
The brain is calculating
and we're at a 4.6!
(happy congratulations music)
- That's more! - That's higher!
- Yeah. - You gave it a second chance,
and you came out liking it a little bit more.
- It's not as bad as I remember it, still
it's just, yeah, not as bad as I remember it.
- Is Brawl a perfect game? No.
It's no Melee. It's no Smash 4,
but, we didn't think that it's probably better
than you remember it is.
- Can I go home now?
- List in the comments what other game
deserves a second chance. Maybe we'll play it!
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