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I’ve read many other articles on the internet discussing Super Smash Bros. Brawl’s four controller options, and they mostly seem to tell you that the Gamecube Controller (Old Faithful) is the number one choice, and that the Wii-Mote’s control pad is too small for the average human’s left thumb. Usually that’s about it, so I’d like to give you the overly indepth and thorough look at the controller options.

Wii-Mote Nunchuk Combo. Ahhh… my first Brawl controller love. Fairly easy to get used to. A quick tap on the control stick makes you move faster (something you can’t do with the control pad). When playing as Pit (my best character) I find it easy to fly by up-tapping on the control stick and then gliding my up-tapping on the control pad.
The Wii-Mote. The problem with this one is the control pad. It probably is to small for your thumb, unless you’re under the age of seven, especially when you’re involved in a super crazy match to end all others. Several moves and attacks are better left to the control stick, namely Sheik’s side special move where she breaks out her chain. It’s pretty useless unless you use the control stick to whirl it around quickly. This move is near impossible with the control pad (and I play as Sheik quite a bit). Also, when an opponent has grabbed you, you can get away by quickly twirling the control stick, another impossibility on the Wii-Mote.
Another problem with the Wii-Mote is pass-through platforms. You have to tap the down arrow very quickly to pass through, and this can cause quite a few problems. Similarly running fast is very difficult without a control stick.
Classic Controller. This one was kind of hard to get used to at first. It’s been about five years since I played the original Smash Bros., and this controller option is modeled slightly after the N64 controller. It took some remembering to think back to the 90s… The first time I played with this, I didn’t realize that you couldn’t use the control pad to move, so I was taunting uncontrollably. So, make sure you use the control stick.
Gamecube Controller. If you’ve played Melee, you know how this is. I don’t care much for the Gamecube Controller. Never have. Never will.

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I never really cared about this fact because I’m more of a hardcore gamer and the game wasn’t too cutesie (which I did have some worries about).
But I realized something today, that sort of bothers me and sort of doesn’t.
In the Subspace Emissary, in Adventure Mode, in Boss Battle Mode, and in All-Star Mode the difficulty settings are labeled “Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Intense.” There are more hard settings than easy. In most games it would be labeled something like “Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard” so that it’s even with two easy settings, two difficult settings, and one normal setting. So, in Brawl
Easy = Very Easy
Normal = Easy
Hard = Normal
Very Hard = Hard
Intense = Very Hard
I think this was done so that when casual gamers think they are playing Hard they’re actually playing normal and they feel better about themselves so they want to keep playing.
Bow your collective head in shame, Nintendo.

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“The Best” is Super Smash Bros. Brawl. “The Worst” is the things about it I don’t like.
Worst Music: Ashley’s Theme, which you can hear here… I mean, hear here.
Worst Stage: Rumble Falls. It scrolls up and there are these green and purple spikes all over that are basically a one-hit K. O. if you touch them. But you can’t see them coming because it scrolls up and if you get a bit off you’re dead.
Worst Item: Dragoon. I’m very thankful for the Item Select because when this item comes the whole match becomes about collecting the three parts and not so much about getting K. O.s.
Worst Assist Trophy: Saki Amaniya. Half the time he just falls off the stage.
Worst Poké Ball: I can’t say Goldeen – that’s just unfair, so I’ll say Gardevoir. It reflects projectiles. I was once playing a Poké Ball-fest (all items Poké Ball). First came Gardevoir, then I got Bonsly. I threw Bonsly at an opponent in my Gardevoirs protective sphere. I got K. O’d.
The coveted prize of Worst Character goes to… Yoshi. I can’t stand Yoshi. That high-pitched voice… Yoshi was okay in the N64 version. Yoshi got more annoying in Melee. Yoshi is the most annoying thing ever in Brawl. His voice is enough to make me jump off the battle stage just to escape it.

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