Nintendo Wii Media | Smash Update: Pikmin & Olimar: Final Smash

By Jorge Ba-oh 17.01.2008 28

Today's update on the Official Smash Bros. Brawl website reveals the exciting Final Smash from Pikmin & Olimar.

Captain Olimar always makes sure to return to his spaceship before nightfall when he's out exploring new planets. Why is that?

That's because nighttime on these planets is absolutely teeming with scaaary wild beasts! To avoid an encounter with those creatures, Olimar takes to the safety of space during the night.

So how could we represent this idea in Brawl...?

First things first. Get that Smash Ball!

There's Olimar's ship!

Blast off! The ship soars higher and higher into the stratosphere.


Stars fill the sky above.

Wild beasts everywhere! Aaaah!

Characters left behind on the ground take lots and lots of damage.

But dishing out damage alone won't score you points. The more people in the brawl, the more damage you can expect this attack to do, but beware

Box art for Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Developer

HAL Laboratory

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

Fighting

Players

4

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (594 Votes)

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Hmm? Olimar is in the advert? Now I'm really confused. Is he a secret character or not!?

Did they ever show secret characters in the Melee ads?

EDIT: Sonic and Snake don't really count IMO... they're half for game promotion anyway.

( Edited on 17.01.2008 12:31 by SuperLink )

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I doubt he's hidden, Nintendo's not going to show a hidden character all of a sudden.

I think it's safe to say he is a fully selectable character from the start.

Cool Smash, I cannot wait to see it fully in motion. I like the brief footage of that recovery move also.

from this I gather that they have not increased olimars size but shrank everyone else.


Hahaha that's imba.

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Yeah pretty awsome Smash Smilie very Pikmin leik!!

I doubt he will be selectable from the start, I reckon only the veterans will be selectable from the Start of the game!

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So if Olimar is a starter, how many do we have now!?

21 Starters!? That's a lot. I think if it was at least 21, there would be more. 21 isn't my kind of round Starter number, like 8 and 14 were previously :-/

I'm thinking 22.

SSB64 Starters = 8 +6 SSBM Starters = 14 +8 SSBB Starters = 22

It adds 2 more each time. Smilie I wanted to say something smarter but I havn't done algebra is a long time. Smilie

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Snakes sneaking along...oh crap *CRACK* Zelda broke his FACE! best advert yet. lol

A fail so epic, it may just be a win.

how many playable characters are there gonna be? melee had 25

This is phil. If your conciousness must absolutely intrude upon mine, leave a message.

I reckon there will be 35 base characters in Brawl. That sounds about right.

If there ARE 22 Starters in Brawl (I still think there will be 20...) then there would be 13 secrets. I think 20 Starters + 15 secrets makes more sense.

This is just my guess though. I just think that 40 is too much wishful thinking.

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I just love the fact there is a Kirby costume for every character Smilie

Kamakaze said:
I just love the fact there is a Kirby costume for every character Smilie

Kirby had a costume for every character in Melee. Thats nothing new at allSmilie

I think It will be over 40 Character easy...

Sorry I really do I've done some easy math and I get over 40 I'll be very surpried if its under 40

Aslo I dont Know if one has thought of Richu but I think Richu would be great since they are wonderfully getting rid of Pichu

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i dont get what happens in this fs...

raichu wouldnt be in,he would be no different then pikachu, and they arent doing the clone business anymore...........i think

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Kamakaze said:
I just love the fact there is a Kirby costume for every character Smilie
hmmm i wonder how the Olimar version of kirby will work... He only gets the standard special so all he can do is pluck them...*


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I just love the fact there is a Kirby costume for every character

Well, it figures, as kirby is THE best character in the entire game Smilie

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Dritttoolegit said:
Kamakaze said:I just love the fact there is a Kirby costume for every character Smilie
hmmm i wonder how the Olimar version of kirby will work... He only gets the standard special so all he can do is pluck them...*

I think Kirby will use the Pikmin for smash attacks just like Olimar. It only makes senseSmilie

Ultralordsmow said:
I think It will be over 40 Character easy...Sorry I really do Ive done some easy math and I get over 40 Ill be very surpried if its under 40 Aslo I dont Know if one has thought of Richu but I think Richu would be great since they are wonderfully getting rid of Pichu
If you hope for over 40, you're just hoping to be disappointed. Smilie

Take into account SSB64 had 8 starters and 4 secret characters, and Melee had 14 Starters and 11 secrets

Brawl has about 20 starters, that means the number of secrets probably won't be too high above 15. It'll be between 35 and 40, but I doubt it'll be higher, I'll just end up disappointed.

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SuperLink.... This game has broken the bonds of just about everything you Just wait and see

My Brawl Code Is.... 1590-4363-1480 P.M. Me Fri. Sat. Sun. .....For the toughest macth of your LIFE

And As for Richu. It would be so easy to give him completely different moves....

Like Luigi and Mario, I am and good with Mario and stink with Luigi. Every move is a Little different and some extremely different, Making him NOT a clone. I think Nintendo is just taking care of your Pichu's and Dr. Mario's.
Just Because Richu is an Electric Type doesn't mean they have to make him a clone of Piachu

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please no clones!!! they are a waste of character space

This is phil. If your conciousness must absolutely intrude upon mine, leave a message.

NO ONE IS SAYING THEY WANT CLONES

My Brawl Code Is.... 1590-4363-1480 P.M. Me Fri. Sat. Sun. .....For the toughest macth of your LIFE

then stop talking about them and talk about how these pikmin are going own

This is phil. If your conciousness must absolutely intrude upon mine, leave a message.

You are so daft

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