The two biggest open world games of the year find themselves clashing across ancient battle lines. Nintendo fans have The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Sony fans have Horizon Zero Dawn, and I have my bucket of popcorn while I sit back and watch what looks like a rerun of 1998 when Final Fantasy VII and Ocarina of Time were the chief foes of the gaming world. Both games have...
You’d think that when the creator of Super Smash Bros. wants to buy an amiibo, he’d have at least some measure of success. That’s not the case, as this both hilarious and depressing tweet comes in from Smash maker Masahiro Sakurai. The Japanese developer fired off a tweet in, well, Japanese. Here’s the source. 昼休みに新しいamiiboを買いに行ったところ、シーク、メタナイト、ルカリオ、ロゼッタが売り切れていて買えなかった。うーん。— 桜井 政博 (@...
Masahiro Sakurai seems like a person who genuinely wears himself out with each game he creates. In the case of Super Smash Bros., the creator points towards the endless waves of criticism from fans regarding his team’s character and stage selection as just one of the tiring aspects of creating entries of this massively successful series. That stuff might have finally worn on him too...
Many Super Smash Bros. fans have been holding out for the appearance of Metroid’s pirate-boss Ridley as a playable character. However, Director Masahiro Sakurai is not having any of it, stating in an interview with IGN that too many sacrifices would have to be made to design to the point where it would not be the same character. “If we made Ridley as a fighter, it wouldn’t be Ridley...
You want that Mewtwo, you might just have to pony up for both copies of Super Smash Bros. In interviews with both VideoGamer and IGN, Director Masahiro Sakurai claims that the Mewtwo DLC is just an "experiment" to act as a foothold into "content distribution" and just as a "service" to fans. "As for why Mewtwo isn't paid content from the start, releasing that character is an experiment...
If you play enough Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 3DS, you’ll eventually unlock the ability to edit more than the standard set of rules. You can tweak all sorts of battle conditions, including forcing a penalty for players’ killing themselves or adding a time limit to stock matches. The extra rules, again, are unlockable on the Nintendo 3DS. On the Wii U, as revealed by Masahiro...
Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS is enjoying a run of critical success just before it launches this Friday, but more negative stories have emerged as to how this handheld version might have held back the highly anticipated Wii U version. We've already heard how the Nintendo 3DS' limited powers forced the Ice Climbers to be cut, but Director Masahiro Sakurai has also confirmed that it is...
Alas, Super Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed with Famitsu our darkest beliefs on why the Ice Climbers did not make the cut in the latest game in Nintendo's all-star fighting series. Despite securing a spot in both the GameCube's Super Smash Bros. Melee and the Wii's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the power of the limited Nintendo 3DS did not allow for both Popo and Nana to...
There’s a gap between the official release date of the Nintendo 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. and the one that’s bound for the Wii U. These are two separate games with overlapping features, and the 3DS one is set to release on Oct. 3. The Wii U edition? Bound for late 2014. Masahiro Sakurai has talked, in bits and pieces, about the need for the gap between games before, but now he’s...
Remember this villain? Back in the NES days, we all thought we were competing against an obese penguin in the 8-bit masterpiece Kirby's Adventure, that is, until we clobbered him silly. Then, we uncovered the true villain of the game, a horrible wizard from the Moon (really) who is as every bit as brutal as a final video boss should be. Trust me. This guy was one of the stiffest...