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progLooking through the official website for Super Smash Bros: Brawl, the Wii version of the wonderful game series featuring all of Nintendo's characters kicking the shit out of each other until everyone's bored. It's a good time, and I am sorely looking forward to its release. I should really just pre-order the sucker from Amazon now...
The website is high-profile video game launch marketing done right, by the way. Since the start of summer they've been adding a goodly amount of teaser material nigh every weekday, and the copy is written in an oddly charming voice of continual, stuttering amazement, allegedly from one of the game's implementors. All that's missing is an RSS feed.
They added an MMO-ey "pet class" with the "Pokémon Trainer" character, who attacks by throwing monsters atcha. This could be lots of fun. And my man Wario is there who attacks by fahtin so yeah. And there is a curry power-up.
But what does it say about me that I am sad that Samus Aran without her suit on is a generic-"hottie" skinny blonde? Who looks like she's like 19 years old? No, that is not a grizzled bounty hunter, I'm sorry. Please feel free to make her a lean, athletic woman, but I'd want to see more gamey than pneumatic. Linda Hamilton > Miss Teen Carolina. (Also, where the heck does she put her hair when her helmet's strapped on? And does she spend an hour brushing it back into shape in between bouts of mowing down space pirates? Furrfu.)
I like Zelda's character design much better, basically the same body type but somehow wearing it much better, and much less of an eye-rolling T&A showcase. See, you can have this morphology of female game character without making her into Lara Croft.
The website is high-profile video game launch marketing done right, by the way. Since the start of summer they've been adding a goodly amount of teaser material nigh every weekday, and the copy is written in an oddly charming voice of continual, stuttering amazement, allegedly from one of the game's implementors. All that's missing is an RSS feed.
They added an MMO-ey "pet class" with the "Pokémon Trainer" character, who attacks by throwing monsters atcha. This could be lots of fun. And my man Wario is there who attacks by fahtin so yeah. And there is a curry power-up.
But what does it say about me that I am sad that Samus Aran without her suit on is a generic-"hottie" skinny blonde? Who looks like she's like 19 years old? No, that is not a grizzled bounty hunter, I'm sorry. Please feel free to make her a lean, athletic woman, but I'd want to see more gamey than pneumatic. Linda Hamilton > Miss Teen Carolina. (Also, where the heck does she put her hair when her helmet's strapped on? And does she spend an hour brushing it back into shape in between bouts of mowing down space pirates? Furrfu.)
I like Zelda's character design much better, basically the same body type but somehow wearing it much better, and much less of an eye-rolling T&A showcase. See, you can have this morphology of female game character without making her into Lara Croft.
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Date: 2007-09-05 03:42 pm (UTC)