The legacy started when masahiro sakurai, creator of Nintendo's one and only Kirby, had the idea for all of Nintendo's finest fight against each other. When super smash bros. was trumped by the amazing super smash bros melee, everyone was disappointed to hear that sakurai would be leaving HAL laboratory, the co-creators of super smash bros and super smash bros melee. Hope was dim for a new smash bros. and fighting game fans would have to return to the slow paced and poorly produced anime fighting games. Until at a pre-E3 convention it was announced that a new smash bros was already in development, although nothing of the sort was happening. Smash bros brawl started October 2005 and has been long awaited for by many gaming fans.
On may 22 2007 many gamers logged online to witness the opening of super smash bros DOJO, site that updates every weekday on the development on super smash bros brawl. The site is supposedly updated by sakurai himself. And it was this site that announced some amazing things, such as sonic the hedgehog joining the fight and making fans worldwide very happy. And this site also announced the subspace emissary, brawl's newest story mode. But one update that made gamers very unhappy was the release date. Originally the site told us that in December 3rd, we would be happily playing other gamers on the wifi connection brawl, but on October 10 2007, gamers were more than disappointed to find out that they would have to wait until February 10th to start pitting sonic against Mario.
Gamers on the forums were not happy about this at all. There is even a picture with captain jack sparrow with the caption “you will always remember this … as the day you almost played super smash bros brawl.” Gamers today still blame our furry hedgehog friend as the culprit for the late release, and wishfully count down the days until brawl will come out.
So Nintendo, and sakurai, are doing everything they can to make us eager for the game right? Wrong. The updates on the smash bros. DOJO have become increasingly disappointing, with such updates as the already known final smash, a powerful attack performed by a character, of sonic the hedgehog. Gamers now do not talk of the days updates but on what tomorrow's update may be, in hopes that it will re-kindle the fire of lust for the game. But are these disappointing updates a good thing or bad? Some gamers prefer not to know everything about a game before they buy it. Sometimes the surprise of finding metal gear solids snake in the game may be the thrill that sakurai is trying to preserve, instead of telling us how the game is going to be exactly.
So while gamers all around hang on the edge of their seats, and wait anxiously for the release of brawl, they will have to put up with a little more than a month of naruto and Godzilla fighting games.
