Smash Run lets you go through an old-school sidescrolling adventure to boost your stats before going into a traditional four-man battle. In addition to taking part in fights against other humans, you can also spectate or even bet on matches with your in-game coins.įor added enjoyment, the game also throws in several modes to help mix things up. Online play is solid as well, allowing you to test your mettle against Western and Japanese players.
Custom moves also add a new dynamic to casual play by allowing you to change attacks such as Link's bombs to send airborne characters straight down for a chance at off-the-edge kills. For more casual players, the addition of items such as a chick that can be thrown into enemy attacks to produce a swarm of chickens helps keep things interesting. Movement, meanwhile, is still slower than fan favorite SSB Melee but is at least faster than SSB Brawl. Hit stuns are back, for example, for better move comboing while tripping takes a hike and makes the game more viable for competitive play. The standard moveset is simple enough to accommodate beginners and novices but its mechanics beyond the surface have the depth desired by more hardcore enthusiasts. Given the game's wide ranging appeal because of its use of Nintendo characters and guests such as Mega Man and Sonic, Super Smash does a good job in balancing the needs of both casual and competitive players. 1 for any fighting game that relies on good timing. For Super Smash, I never felt like I was fighting with my controller while playing it, which is always priority No. Part of it is because Super Smash doesn't rely heavily on the complicated control schemes seen in games such as Street Fighter, which the 3DS pad and buttons have a hard time pulling off. escapes that fate by retaining the rock solid controls seen in its home console versions.
While Nintendo's portable system is usually where fighting games go to underwhelm, Super Smash Bros. won't be giving ground against its brawnier brother. When it comes to gameplay, however, I have a feeling that the 3DS Smash Bros. Yes, it ultimately won't reach the graphical heights of the upcoming Wii U version. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Although portable versions of major console titles usually end up as gimped interpretations of the original source material, the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.