Players
1-4 players compete in an all out brawl featuring a huge cast of Nintendo video game characters. The players pick the characters to compete with one another in numerous amounts of fighting modes.
Objectives
The main goal in this game is to use items, smashes, specials, and final smashes to knock your opponent out of the ring. That is the main objective in competitive play. This game offers many varieties of modes that have other objectives like collect enemy coins, or a mini game to collect trophies. The overall goal for the main game modes (fighting against opponents) is to knock them off the stage as many times as you can without falling off yourself. Whether it's a time battle or a stock battle, that goal still remains, don't get knocked out (of the ring).
Rules/Mechanics
Ever since the first Smash Bros. game, Hal (studio that created the series) revolutionized fighting game mechanics. Instead of having a health bar, each player has a percentage meter. The more times they are hit, the meter goes up. The higher it gets means they have more knock back when hit, propelling them further away from the ring, increasing their chances of being ringed out. The other unique thing about the ring out is the players can be hit out not only from the left and right side of the stage, but also the top and bottom. Leaning towards the rules side now, these are completely customizable. Players can choose to make the game timed so whoever causes the most K.O.'s on their opponents in the allotted time wins, or they could choose a stock battle, where whoever is the last to survive wins. The characters are controlled by the control stick and use directionally influenced controls like -> and the A button to do a smash attack. Control is done with the left stick and special moves are used with the B button and a directional influence as well.
Game State
This game records all of the players actions by recording their stats in battle like most times a character has been played, what characters have been unlocked, and much more.The states act like any other fighting game though. During the match it saves amount of lives left and health but once the match is over all those stats reset.
Resources
The resources are completely customizable as you can have stock life instead of just time, or you could pick to have coins instead of lives all together. Along with the famous cast, Smash Bros. comes equipped with an array of famous weaponry. You can choose to play with items like a beam sword, Super Star (invincibility), Pokeballs, and much more. You can also choose to not play with any of these items/resources at all.
Information
Sequencing
This game is all in the moment, its all in real time. Players play together looking at the entire match play out on one screen using one camera angle.
Player Interaction
The games is completely player vs player (unless you add some AI). It's fully competitive but players can opt in to play on teams. The interaction can range from anywhere to friendly and casual, to extreme aggression and competitiveness.
Theme/Setting
The theme is just the Nintendo Universe in a whole. Settings span from the Mushroom Kingdom to Hyrule and anywhere in between.
Combining the games atoms
The game combines an all-star cast with intuitive fighting game mechanics. The increased customization of modes and items Brawl brings to the table fuses the game into an even more complete package. The varying levels of player interaction allow for anyone who is just a casual player to even the mightiest of hardcore gamers enjoy the experience and get involved with the game. The theme of everyone's favourite Nintendo characters joining together in one game is the cherry on the top to create such a rich experience.
