Haha, At Last

Bitter Rivals,

So, the Super Smash Brothers Brawl site relaunched and while it didn't have any new info on characters, Sakurai did let out a few interesting tidbits. Chief among these was the announcement of the composers working on the soundtrack. In an (as far as I know) unprecedented move in the video game industry, no fewer than 37 musicians will be contributing songs to the game. Included in the list was Yasunori Mitsuda of Chrono Trigger, Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage and Sonic, Kenji Yamamoto of the Metroid series, Motoi Sakuraba of Golden Sun, and the unstoppable Koji Kondo. What does this list mean for the rest of the game? Only time will tell. What Sakurai will do with Brawl is still up in the air but after this I am more excited than I have been since I heard Snake was going to be in it.

Listen to Sakuraba's take on Menu 1, found near the bottom of the page. As embarrassed as I am to admit it, it actually brought a tear of happiness to my eye. Now if only Michiruru Yamane was included....

Show me your moves,
Crazy Hand

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If I was a bettin' man,

In response to this post that some people might have missed, the following list is my best guess for Brawl characters. Information is sketchy at best; I have heard reports of characters like Game & Watch and Ice Climbers being removed, along with clones like Palco, Pichu and Dr. Mario. Seemingly contradicting this is a report of a 40 character roster. At any rate, the following list is likely quite wrong and hopefully very incomplete. Characters already confirmed are not included:

Bowser (better)
Zelda/Shiek (nerfed)
Jigglypuff
Ganondorf (plays differently)
Captain Falcon
A Fire Emblem sword fighter
Peach
Donkey Kong
Yoshi
Ness
Luigi (plays differently)
Sonic (I had to)
Megaman (Probably not, but we already have a Konami character and a Sega one)
Falco (plays differently)
A Belmont (probably Simon, though again, probably not)
Game & Watch
Mewtwo
Ice Climbers
Ridley
Alex (River City Ransom)
King Dedede
Ryu
A Black Mage

If they do go the clone route again (all unlockable):

Dr. Mario
Raiden
Another Fire Emblem sword fighter
Tails (only if Sonic is there)
Knuckles (only if Sonic is there)
Shadow (only if Sonic...I'm gonna lose some points guessing all these Sonic characters)
Waluigi
Daisy
Pichu (better)
Ryan (only if Alex is there)
Ken (only if Ryu is there)

Characters I wish would be there but I don't think will be (don't count this):

Master/Crazy Hand (doesn't jive with the mechanics)
Ganon
Majora's Wrath (too obscure)
Soma Cruz (not THE Castlevania character)
Viewtiful Joe
Cloud (I'd love to beat his face in, but hasn't appeared on a Nintendo System)
Sephiroth (hahaha, same)
Shadow and Interceptor (FFIV)
Metal Sonic
King Boo
Toad
Kraid (MORE METROID!!!)
Metroid Prime (MORE METROID!!!)
Omega Metroid (MORE METROID!!!)

So that is the list as it stands now. I reserve the right to edit it before May 1, 2007. I took some guesses I don't think will pan out if others do, but I think I have other third party characters covered.

Maybe I'll blog about other possibilities for the game that I would like to see later.

Game Set,
Giga Bowser