You got to hand it to Nintendo, they can charm the pants off of anyone, an ability I’m sure many single guys would love to have. I can’t help but smile when I play Nintendo products. Mario Galaxy did it to me, and now Smash Brothers is infecting me with an even larger grin. I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to play a game without the achievement cloud rumbling over your head.
Smash Brothers performs the difficult task of actually rewarding you for playing the game without using some shallow point system, which only serves a purpose when being compared against other point mongrels. There are the obvious characters to unlock, but this game takes unlockables to a whole new level, and mostly a welcome one. Most of the rewards that can be earned from this game are straight fan service. There are an endless number of Nintendo characters and objects in the form of trophies and stickers you will be rewarded with over the course of playing the many modes that are offered in this game. If I were to tell you that I know where half of these characters come from, without reading there little bio, I would be lying through my teeth, and I consider myself a pretty hardcore and devoted gamer. Through the years, Nintendo has obviously grown a healthy lineup of characters and icons, and they made a point to include every single one of them in this game, one way or another. I have to admit, Nintendo did go a little overboard at times. They even force you to pick up pieces of paper throughout the game, which represent an entry in a ridiculously large Nintendo history represented in the form of a timeline that can be viewed in one of the many menus. By far the most enjoyable unlockables are tiny trials of old Nintendo games including Donkey Kong, F-Zero and the majority of Mario Bros titles.
If you own a Wii, you would do yourself an injustice not to pick up this title. Even if you are not a Nintendo fanboy, this game will put a smile on your face, something more games need to be doing these days.
