It is to no ones surprise that I have put more thought into the character select screen of Super Smash Brothers: Brawl then I have on many more important things in my life. That said I have a large amount of predictions and speculations about what will and what will not make it into the new Brawl when it reaches our shores in February. On Monday and Friday every week from now until, well, until I run out of ideas, I will give one prediction.

 

November 19, 2007 – COSTUMED CHARACTERS

It has been kind of confirmed by people who have played it but nothing has been actually stated about what is going to happen to “clones.” The official word is that they are gone, but does that mean Super Smash Brothers Brawl will be without Luigi, Falco, or any of the other clones? No! They will be costume changes for already confirmed characters.

I believe most characters will have at least one of their costumes be a completely different character. The model will be similar but different enough. Examples are above and below. Birdo can be a costume change for Yoshi, Luigi can be a costume change for Mario, Starwolf and Falco can be costume changes for Fox (because who ever actually played as the pink Fox anyway?).

This will fix the problems of clogging up the game with characters that don’t have any unique abilities. Instead of wasting valuable time on figuring out how to tweak Falco to make him unique just make him a different coat of paint on Fox. It also has the capability of doubling the amount of “characters” in Super Smash Brothers: Brawl. I am all for that.

There is my official prediction: Costume changes will replace "clones" in Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

 

 

Previous Predictions:

October 29, 2007 - GANONDORF

November 2, 2007 - RAYMAN

November 5, 2007 – KRYSTAL

November 5, 2007 – TAILS

November 12, 2007 – Miis

November 16, 2007 – JIGGLYPUFF