The follow-up to HAL Laboratory’s Super Smash Bros., which pitted Nintendo characters against each other, ups the ante with more levels, characters, and game modes.
The game is a Nintendo fighting game with unique rules. Rather than reducing your opponent’s health, you knock them off the battlefield. Choose from a plethora of Nintendo characters such as Mario, Bowser, Yoshi, various Pokémon, and even Link, and then fight through the single-player portion, which includes modes such as Classic, Adventure, and Event Mode, or battle it out with your friends in a four-player frenzy. As hidden objectives are completed, more characters and stages are unlocked, and coins earned from playing in all modes can be spent on a capsule toy machine. The toys in the machine represent video games from Nintendo’s entire history, and each can be viewed in 3D with a brief description. Furthermore, the simplified fighting controls make it simple for even your non-gaming friends to pick up and play.
The following games have playable characters:
Play & Watch (Mr. Game & Watch)
Donkey Kong Jr. (Donkey Kong)
Super Mario Bros. (Mario, Luigi)
The game Super Mario Bros. (Princess Peach, Bowser)
Metroid (Samus) (Samus)
Zelda: The Legend of Zelda (Link)
Dr. Mario is an ice climber (Ice Climbers) (Dr. Mario)
Ankoku Ry to Hikari no Tsurugi (Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ry to Hikari no Tsurugi) (Marth)
F-Zero (Captain Falcon) (Captain Falcon)
World of Mario (Yoshi)
Kirby’s Fantasy Land (Kirby)
The Fox (Fox, Falco)
Earthbound (Ness) (Ness)
Pokémon Red and Blue (Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo)
Young Link, Princess Zelda/Shiek, and Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Gold/Silver Pokémon (Pichu)
Fuuin no Tsurugi is a Fire Emblem game (Roy)