Sonic is the equivalent of that one kid who never shows up to work on the group project but somehow manages to present the entire thing like a boss

The best feeling is when 2 groups of characters meet up and now the group is even bigger than before

47:55 best moment in the whole thing. Dedede doesn't do any of the 'villain begrudgingly works with the hero' stuff, he just straight up tackle hugs Kirby and drags him off to go save the world. What a guy

I love when Samus saves Pikachu. She didn't have to, and it would have given her location up but she saw someone suffering and had to help. It says a lot about her character.

This is what Smash needs more of. I will never understand why they moved away from this kind of story mode in Smash. Every character is full of personality despite never speaking, the introduction shots are iconic, there are hints at a deeper lore to the Smash universe. Everyone starts off acting like they do in their regular game series doing their own thing, but quickly get drawn into this big end of the world plot and slowly team up until finally you have every character working together. The idea of everyone turning into a trophy when defeated that can only be revived by another fighter is genius. It's perfect. As a kid I didn't know who some of these characters were but because of the way they were all given good moments in the story I liked them anyway

I love how Lucas is all like “my friend just died” and the Pokémon trainer is just like “cool let’s get a charizard tho”

R.O.B had one of the best introductions and developments, look what the dude went through before his reveal, it’s hinted at early enough to get you wondering all until that moment you are finally able to play as him. It’s glorious

14:55 Luigi's cutscene will always be my favorite in the entire game, no matter what. That variation of the Luigi's Mansion theme in the background just makes it...perfect.

Popular Opinion: By far, this was the best story mode in Smash history

The best part of this? Even if you have no clue who these people are, you can still get a general idea of their personality, goals, rivals and motives, simply by watching this. Great all around.

I realize it makes no sense for all of these characters to exist in the same universe but it is still so cool even today. The dark and dreary settings for the beginning, The crazy spectacle fighting cutscenes, the amazing music. I miss the smash world that was like this. I still like the world of light but the cutscenes really helped this game out.

can we all appreciate that a nintendo rival literally saved the whole smash universe

My favorite part about this story is that it does a fantastic job of personifying certain aspects of heroism and villainy. The heroes exemplify virtues such as teamwork, fortitude, willpower, and forgiveness. The villains exemplify vices such as deception, greed, and betrayal. All of that without a single word of dialogue. Really impressive work.

I love that the one and only line in the entire game is “Kept you waiting, huh?” 34:58

One of my favorite things about this game was Peach just giving half the time. Giggling at how serious Shiek was, walking along the firing guns, offering tea, fixing her dress before the boss fight when everyone was ready to fight

16:48 I love how nonchalant Link is. Like seeing a sleeping dinosaur is just an average Tuesday for him.

48:08 is still one of my favorite parts. Having Link, Zelda, and Ganon all setting aside their timeless battle against one another to battle a shared enemy is really kind of amazing.

Gonna tell my kids this was endgame.

King Dedede seeming like a villain but ending up as a hero is so in-character

I'll always love how Diddy just yanks Fox and Fox is like "great guess I'm doing this now". Then when he grabs Falco he just shrugs as his friend's giving him the most annoyed look

Unpopular opinion: I prefer the lack of voice acting. Reason 1: Creates more room for visual story telling. Reason 2: Removes the possibility of cheesy dialogue.

Dedede actually coming in clutch. Just like in a bunch of other Kirby games he is always the misunderstood hero. Also 46:44: Dedede actually wakes up Bowser, kills him, reawakens him, and then bitch smacks him afterwards for being annoying. What an absolute Chad.

31:51 The way he just slides and does an epic pose while killing all of the Pikmin 😂👏🏻 Olimar: 👁👄👁

14:38 Ike’s entrance is so incredibly epic.

36:41 Peach casually being Peach while an explosion goes off behind her is a MOMENT

You know whats funny though. Everyone was aware of what was going on exept Yoshi. Every cutscene he was in he looked high. I mean Yoshi, woke up saw Link said whats up and just followed him. For no reason. Thats true dedication fighting so you can go back to sleep

26:45 I never realised as kid how sad that part was. the r.o.b.s. where willing to kamikaze themselves to help the ancient minister get away, and you can tell that gets to him on a deep level. holy hell that shit hits different after watching it again all these years later.

Subspace is one of the main reasons why Brawl is one of my favorite video games of all time. The cutscenes are so beautifully animated, you can sense what the characters are saying. I just love how mature the characters look.

Its basically a Nintendo fanfiction made by Nintendo

Anyone else notice how badass Mario was in this story? It's the most serious we've ever seen him. Honest to god, I think this is Power Star Mario when he's not possessed by Boos.

The introduction to Luigi in this game is one of the best

I remember the good old days, playing Story Mode with my brother all day. 6 years later, I'm playing Ultimate by myself, with no company by my side. Brawl days were the best; as they say, 'time flies when you're having fun'.

36:41 I love how Peach is just casually walking along the ship while its literally blasting Fox. She’s just vibing and I aspire to be like her.

42:30 as a kid this was one of the most epic things I have seen and it still is to this day

I personally enjoyed where they ALL teamed up together. But, what taken my heart was when Lucas went on even when Ness was missing. They all teamed up to take down one guy.

This is why this game will FOREVER hold a special place in my heart: No game or movie EVER combined so many characters and had them interact with each other so uniquely. And yes, I'm here because I'm disappointed with Ultimate's cutscenes.

I love how Wario is an absolute jerk to literally everyone for kicks and giggles, he's arguably one of the characters that was... well in character the most.

It all really means that Sonic made all his own journey by himself, without any partner. What a badass

to this day im still wishing we get another story mode like this, i love seeing the characters together to stop a threat

Can we all just look at these cut scenes and be like: Ok, it's obvious that Brawl is way ahead of it's time

49:14 For the Fastest thing alive it sure took your sweet ass time getting here.

Legitimately one of the coolest moments in video games history 49:07

Every one of the Kirby characters played big parts in the story. Meta Knight's Halberd, Kirby being clutch over and over again, and Dedede's badges saving the world.

Why doesn’t anyone thank bowser for inventing a gun that turns people into amibos

Lucas: having a ptsd from getting his life saved by ness Red: “come on get over it I need that flying lizard”

This mode is the reason why Brawl will forever be my favorite smash game.

37:20 this scene is just so random, i love it 😂

25:42 that must have been the first time that a countdown timer was accurate

Can we appreciate that Donkey Kong and Ness saved Diddy and Lucas. Best dad moment

The reason why I love this game so much is not just the fun and amazing story mode, it’s the grittyness of it, the animation had this violent like aura to it, and the tension in each cutscene, it’s hard to explain but some people get what I mean by when I say these things about this game, there’s more I want to say, but I don’t want a essay. This game tops smash ultimate.

After watching the mario movie and then imagining the future of Nintendo movies, I can confidently say a smash bros movie based around the subspace emissary story in brawl would be a dream come true hands down!

Funny thing is, you don’t need dialogue to make each scene exciting. Seeing each character interact is already enough exciting

This is literally the best adventure mode in Smash history. This should literally be a movie.

11:40 I don't know how they managed to make Wario so deeply unsettling in this scene, but I am ALL for it.

41:54 is still one of my favorite video game cutscenes of all time

47:05 This moment alone makes playing through this campaign worth it every time

43:05 this moment will always give me goosebumps. How Meta Knight sacrifices his beloved Halberd, which he spent almost the entire game trying to reconquer, is so cool. And it also shows how good of a pilot Olimar is. He’s able to keep up with Samus’ Gunship, Captain Falcon in the Falcon Flyer and Falco in an Arwing AND able to outmanoeuvre the canons, and he is flying a Hocotate Freight Steam Ship. I’m not very familiar with Pikmin lore, but I can’t imagine in any lore freightships being fast and agile. Still, he actually manages. That’s impressive.

Just now realizing this…Mario and Luigi, literal BROTHERS, never interacted once.

37:26 is so funny the way peach was able to Make peace with both Fox and Shiek

I like Dedede's portrayal, that plot twist that he did it because he knew what was going to happen and the way he hits Bowser are so badass

"Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event ever" Sakurai - "Hold my sake"

31:42 Nobody: Captain Falcon: Kills his allies in the process of attempting to look cool

I love how Kirby keeps a straight face for the entire ordeal.

43:02 is the most awesome thing I ever saw, no game has or can top it.

*When you realize that the last scene at the end (the sunrise) was the start of Ultimate’s World of Light*

this game is literally a fanfiction I miss it so much

I say this all the time but they really gave ROB a whole character and story ark deeper than most actual Nintendo games and I loved it.

i absolutely LOVE how they protrayed king dedede in this story. hes one of my favorite nintendo characters and this did his character so right

Who else played brawl when they were younger ?? And misses it

Low key, Kirby seems to be the main hero/ lucky hero in the whole storyline. Ultimate he outruns the light, brawl he gets dededes timed release badge thingy as well as saves the princess you picked from ending up like wario AND he takes out the main cannon on the dark ship with a single flyby.... or through... Kirby is an insatiable god of destructive power.... and cuddles

I also just wanted to say that, the cutscenes with Lucas are just sad af. I truly remember watching them as a kid, still not knowing who the heck he or Ness was, but knowing more of his backstory now and just knowing too that he is just a scared kid in this situation, just makes things a bit more sad for me, but i also do love how through the story, he clearly grows more and more, driving himself to find Wario so he can bring back the friend that helped him when he needed help the most

If they ever do a Smash cinematic universe i would love they do an adaptation of the Subspace Emissary, everything here was just perfect, the characters interactions, the lore, the villian, the cameos, the darker tone of everything, damn this was so epic

Here’s what I love about Subspace. All of our favorite Nintendo characters uniting to fight the big fight but mostly how characters interact. Lucas goes from being a scaredy-cat to developing and becoming more brave. He showed absolutely no fear when him and the trainer were about to fight Galleom. He would be scared out of his mind if he was back at the zoo. Lucas misses his friend Ness but realizes he must stick with the trainer to save him and after Meta Knight saves them both, (another awesome moment) Lucas shakes his hand. Another one is Diddy working with the Star Fox pilots to save his uncle DK. I love the team up of Samus and Pikachu. As well as the two captains of Olimar and Falcon. Lucario lifting Snake’s box is always a classic. Snake’s reaction to Game & Watches, lol. Mr. Game & Watch, a 2D man holding a 3D umbrella object in its 2D hand like WHAT? Haha. Ike being the only person to actually stop a Subspace Bomb. Luigi interacting with Waddle Dees. And I love how the story never reveals what Bowser does to everyone he turns into trophies. It’s just self-explanatory. Every character he turns into a trophy, he likes to lock up somewhere for no reason lol. I guess all Subspace worlds are linked together since Luigi, Dedede and Ness all woke up and immediately freed everybody. Same thing with Wario being freed by Kirby. Also gotta love King Dedede petting Kirby. Zelda and Link, freeing Ganon for the fight against Tabuu, a teamup we never thought was possible. The classic group of 5. Mario, Link, Pit, Kirby and Yoshi. The 2 on 2 battle during The Lake Shore level was just so epic (I feel like this team was a little weak however, since they let Bowser get away, couldn’t stop Dedede themselves, didn’t even revive Ness and Luigi when they had the chance (despite 1. them being the necessary plot points to save everyone from Tabuu and 2. covered in rubble, but they weren’t covered in rubble during the cutscene of their revival) and they also couldn’t stop the ancient minister from dropping another subspace bomb, but it’s okay) I also love how R.O.B., a newcomer in brawl technically isn’t a living game character since he originated as toy. But the Subspace Emissary feels like it gave R.O.B. his own origin story and actually gave life to the character. The ancient minister revealed to be R.O.B. was just awesome. Idk if I’m the only one that caught this but why is it that the two Mario Bros Plumbers are the ones to get launched into the sky and turn into a star and then trophy? First Mario at the Midair Stadium and then Luigi by king Dedede. I also like the touch of character introductions making a certain sound for when it’s a normal good guy and a villain. Zero Suit Samus was the only one with a unique sound for her intro and idk why or what the case with that is. And of course, I love two of Sakurai’s characters being the heroes with Dedede’s badges feeding Ness and Luigi and Kirby himself too to free more people. He also destroyed the Subspace gunship. And of course, a Sega character saving everyone from Tabuu

25:50 that cutscene always gives me goosebumps, just the music, lucas' character development, I love it.

I love how Red faints as soon as he is defeated. (25:33)

31:41 THE best entrance in the entire story

43:03 I remember as kid thinking that was the most epic moment of the entire game.

I love how there’s pretty much zero dialogue but it’s so perfectly animated that it doesn’t even need any.

This remains to date one of the greatest gameplay content Nintendo has ever given us.

I like how they actually use smash mechanics in these scenes, like footstools, smash attacks, and even some specials.

Zelda:teleports to where Mario and Kirby are Also Zelda: Can’t teleport away from a cage

Why is no talking about king dedede hugging kirby at 47:57 That was so adorable!!😌😍

If only Ultimate had such an intricate story mode with so many cutscenes :(

I wish we have something like subspace in the future again. Seeing various Nintendo characters interact with other is such a joy and without much dialogue makes it so much better

35:16 Lucario is the smartest person in all of metal gear solid to do that

38:23 how can an expressionless 2d silhouette be so damn adorable

No matter how many times I see this, it is always a joy to see how dedede is just a goofball that cares about kirby and just drags him off on his little walk like a little sibling trying to show you something

I admit. I actually really liked World of Light. The map was so much fun to traverse and I relatively enjoyed the spirit battles. But overall I like Subspace more because of the multi-player and cutscenes. I have such fond memories playing through with my sister. Such a shame WoL didn't allow us to play co-op

36:42 Look at how badass Peach is here. There's a ginormous explosion behind her, and she's just STANDING THERE with her umbrella not moving a single bit. Peach isn't worried AT ALL! I'm 100% sure she just let's Bowser kidnap her because she probably just doesn't care.

29:08 Falco: Why am I being Dragged by a Monkey? Fox: Don't Ask I got the Same Treatment too!

Rewatching this a few years later and it’s been awhile and halfway through I was like bro , this is a real life movie . The storyline , the characters , the interactions . This is literally what a smash bros movie should be ! I would definitely stream this on my tv as a film for an audience tbh . I heard they stopped doing this though because of all the leaks and it was disrespectful to all the hard work they put in supposedly and it sucks cause this is what made the game so unique

after all these years. i just realized that Ganondorf understands and can use technology in this game. (20:16) i mean yeah it can be learned but still...

I didn't know a whole lot about Nintendo when I first played this game, but looking back, I gotta say Meta Knight is definitely fucking PISSED that they took his ship.

43:02 this is the moment where all goosebumps were raised

ok just want to say that 14:00 to 14:51 is by far the most badass section of the game

19:45 The voice of Dedede is so well done we almost hear him say "Nani!"

I definitely understand why people praise this game's story so much, it's absolutely amazing! The personalities, interactions, side-quests and plot twists were all great! I do understand why they no longer invest so much in the story since it'd be hard to do now that there are so much more characters. For an all-out battle type game like Smash Bros, the story isn't usually the main thing to begin with. But I would be a fool not to give Brawl the credit it deserves. Big thank you to everyone who recommended this to me!

Guys there is dialogue, captain falcon says “FALCON PUNCHHHH!!”

This was Ganondorf's best performance to date and the role suited him perfectly. SSBB showed that he is a real devil.

I remember the part where all of the ships come flying out of the Halberd's exploding wreckage as the Brawl theme starts playing being one of the absolute coolest things I'd ever seen as a kid. I remember always trying to imagine who was in which ship.