Definitely not. Edit: This video gets some things wrong (except for Brawl's art direction, yeah it's aged very poorly, and thank you for praising Melee's opening). Wavedashing, L-canceling, and dashdancing were known by the HAL Labs developers for Melee. They just weren't aware of the extent to which they'd be used in competitive play. Also, were you AROUND for Brawl's launch? The online play was definitely NOT fine. It was a terrible experience. Lastly bigger is not necessarily better. Just because Brawl had a larger roster and more characters doesn't immediately make it a more fun casual experience. I would argue Melee is still more fun as a casual experience. To pretend one has to better at competitive and one has to be a better casual game is a false dichotomy. But, regardless, I have to say your vid was entertaining and you got a subscriber.

Subspace is the best part of the entire smash series

As someone who grew up on the Wii, I have fond memories of brawl, I never understood the hate, maybe it's js my bias

that theme to the game is absolutely wonderful. i would replay it so many times as a child.

Brawl has the best adventure mode, and I'll forever remember the hype of first seeing crossover characters in Smash. But its battles are definitely a bit too slow for me, and I'll forever be disappointed that Brawl started the trend of each character no longer having their own unique break the targets stage.

When Kirby blew up the Subspace Cannon... We all got goosebumps.

Subspace Emissary, enough said. I’ve never seen someone IRL hating on Brawl, only people online. And let’s just say the couple random streamer I’ve seen discussing the topic against brawl highly give off this vibe of “not knowing what a shower is” to say the least.

Super smash bros brawl was the first game that introduced me to the smash series

The Smash Bros. Dojo website was genuinely one of the coolest things ever done in pre-release gaming hype culture history. I remember checking that site each and every day with my sister, getting so excited and speculating about every new character, stage, and item that was announced...

This was the first Smash Bros Game I've ever played. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.

I feel like brawl has the best asthetic. It expands on melee’s simple textures and puts more creative focus on really showing you what a nintnedo game feels like

I always thought Kirby in that brawl trailer was confused why he didn’t change lol

the thing with brawl is that its the best in a casual front, its tryna be more like a party game as opposed to melee, which is very competitive

Better than the watered down live service that is ultimate. It’s an esports game now, not a game for casuals.

I personally would say Brawl is the best one in the series by far right up there with Melee. Brawl and Melee feel more like a celebration of Nintendo and both capture two past eras in gaming with Melee primarily focusing on the N64 era of games and Brawl putting a greater focus on the gamecube and handheld era of Nintendo. I play Brawl by myself mostly and take the time to just browse around at all the past games and reminiscing on all the past memories and moments I had with friends and family growing up, I like to look at this game as more of a photo album of that period in my life. There’s so much single player content to also go back and play and things to collect it makes the game feel like more than just a fighter but well, a game.

For Single-Player : It is absolutely the best thanks to Sub-Space For Multi-Player : No, it was the worst. Too mechanically broken and unbalanced in so many ways.

This game is a certified hood classic. I grew up with it and it remains in my top 5 favorites of time. Also weird to think that the reveal trailer that I love came out the same year I was born.

Discovering this channel before 1000 subscribers is honestly so surprising. Your videos are so high quality that I had assumed you had been doing this for a couple years

Don't let people pigeonhole your channel into what it should be. Make content you think should be made, trust me it's more worth it in the long run

I feel similarly about Brawl and 64. They both have quite a bit of jank in them, but they are fun to play with friends. Out of the 5 games, Brawl is in the middle of the pack for me.

brawl was the game i 1st played smash and it will be in my heart forever.

Man if you had like 3 years worth of content I’d binge it all I swear to you

I appreciate the idea of the video but I simply can't help pointing out that 3:24 is in fact a clip from project M, a mod for brawl that ironically makes the game more like melee I can't blame you for being blinded by the sickness of it though, pm wolf is legendary

I was just looking at your page to see if you had posted, brilliant timing! Yet another smoking gun of a video, I'm sure. 😄

no way this guy only has 2,000+ subscribers. his entertaining commentary and purely outstanding editing shows he should be getting more than 2k.

7:11 Lmao same thing happened to me as a kid. I was (still am) a fan of the Kirby series, and Meta Knight is my favorite character. So I naturally mained Meta Knight when I played brawl, completely unaware of how busted he was

I've played melee competitively for 9 years but I've got a lot of love for brawl Some match-ups are extra entertaining to play/spectate Rebaz & Izaw used to do some nuts stuff with low tiers too

Yes, It had the Subspace trio

Born in 2001 i was technically too young to see consoles like the n64, but because of my older brothers i had the chance to play every nintendo console at a young age. Also played all smash titles. Me personally had the most fun with brawl, because everyone in my age group around me was more familiar with the wii so we played brawl most of the time. Brawl was a big part of my childhood and i really love that game

Brawl is a classic I hope it gets rereleased.

I think Smash Bros Brawl is one of the most misunderstood games to ever be released, and I'm glad that enough time has passed that there is now a desire to talk about it outside of its relation to other entries in the series. Given that Melee was such a huge leap for the series, I find it even more amazing that the team was able to make a leap just as gigantic with the third entry. Brawl stood out from everything else there was at the time. While yes, the art style is the most recognizable aspect of this (also partially done due to the lack of much of a processing upgrade from the GameCube to the Wii), it's important to remember that Nintendo in this era was dominated by blue ocean strategy. Everything was about really going back to the basics and examining why certain things worked or didn't. Even big titles like Mario Galaxy were about this philosophy. Here, apart from everything else, stood Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a BIG game focused on just absolutely showcasing the best that the industry had to offer. Even Iwata himself stated "In general, I think that making a game bigger is oftentimes not the way to make it better, but with Super Smash Bros. I see things differently." Smash for Wii U and 3DS was actually not the first time that two Smash games were being developed simultaneously, as Subspace Emissary was originally meant to be developed with another studio before resources dictated that both would need to be manned by the same team. Given that the staff was significantly increased from Melee to Brawl and therefore there was a lot going on structurally at the time, this was no easy task. Though Melee started this philosophy with Trophies, Brawl cemented the idea of a game being an exhaustive fountain of knowledge paying tribute to the games industry, acting almost as an interactive encyclopedia in some ways. Masterpieces and Chronicle both stand as some of my favorite features to be put in any game, and the concept of My Music was revolutionary, not even commenting on the unprecedented scale of music the final game would feature. The game had to be manufactured on a dual-layered disc because it was so large. And the leadup to Brawl? God, it was simply magical. If you couldn't tell, this game played a huge part in my formative years and still continues to inspire me today. I learned so much about videogames through not only Brawl itself, but the Brawl Dojo and the hundreds of KZfaq videos of fan-made characters and rosters. Every character would feature that classic sky-colored gradient background, and if you were really lucky, they might even lower the brightness and contrast to make the Google image they took "fit in" with the art style. The Brawl Dojo was simply genius marketing that I don't think had been done before for a game (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to know). As strange as this sounds, it reminds me of how the 2008 Obama campaign was the first to really take advantage of social media. However, Brawl is not a perfect game by any means (Well actually, it is perfect, like all Smash games, but I have a very stupid definition of "perfect" which is not based on lack of flaws). Despite my complete adoration so far, I am a person who really loves Project M (which I would respectfully say is a lot more than "Brawl made to play like Melee"), and putting myself in the place of a die-hard competitive Melee fan, it hurts to think of Brawl as a bit of a betrayal of that. Melee, also a perfect creation, has amazing depth and potential when viewed through a competitive lens, but I feel it's always been a bit of a shame that the competitive view has overshadowed other parts of Melee (Part of why I love Sakurai's recent video talking about it; there's a lot more to Melee than people think about). You yourself at 6:13 use footage of a competitive match to show how Mewtwo was beloved by fans, which isn't a "mistake", but does really go to show how much Melee has come to be defined by the tournament scene above everything else. I would even go so far as to defend Brawl on a competitive level (If you look up Snake or Wario highlights by MVG, there are some really clever things being done there), but you simply cannot play it the way you would play Melee. Given that it's a sequel, it would be unreasonable to expect people to instantly and automatically change that. A lot more than just "tripping" or "no wavedashing", there are choices in Brawl that really disappoint on a competitive level, and I think it's logical for people to be upset by that. However, at risk of sounding (more) pretentious, I feel I "get" the reasoning. If the core fighting is the "heart" of Smash Bros, then there is also a "soul". The core fighting is absolutely essential, but there is SO much more to this series than just that. As if I haven't gone on long enough, I think that Brawl has the lowest lows of the series but also reaches some of the highest highs, and how much a person is willing to put up with that balance in any work of fiction is personal preference. Even I can't say it is the "best" one (that's a reductive discussion anyway) but it is (just barely) my personal favorite game in the series based on how inherently linked it is to my upbringing.

Just binged through all your videos, i really love your content and i hope you keep making more!!! Keep up the good work

Brawl is to this day the best Smash title and only Melee comes close, the simple reason being, content. Subspace Emissary alone is more content than Smash 4 and Ultimate have combined, all the characters don't matter if there is no real content. Slipping is honestly the only real problem Brawl has.

The 1st trailer where Kirby doesn't change at all is supposed to be a joke. That's why he looks around confused.

i just found this channel. and man i love it. keep doing what you’re doing

Brawl is the definition of high school it’s truly a classic! 2008 was one of the best years In gaming!

If only they made a subspace emmasarry like story for smash ultimate a story with the smash ultimate roster where every single charater gets their own significant part and screen time i wanna live in that universe i love smash bros brawl

I think Smash Bros Brawl is incredibly underrated, it's a Smash game, how can it possibly be bad? It might not be the same has Melee, but that game changed the Smash Bros. Series forever.

Your first video got blessed by the algorithm and now I'm here. You got a new sub man👍🏾

I'd love if the armor and weapon cracking returned but was purely cosmetic. Like, if you get to 100% and get hit with a powerful attack it would crack the armor on your character, similar to how fatigue animations work in other games but much easier to do than making animations for every fighter.

It's my favorite. If Ultimate is really the last one we ever get, it will always be my favorite, too. The Subspace Emissary is just so fucking good.

Personally for me, yes. It is, it was the first smash game to come out for me. And I loved Sonic's inclusion. Being 5 it was the greatest goddamn game ever for me and I can't ignore the nostalgia I have for it. So my theory for the damage to weapons and armor thing is that it wouldn't actually cause any debuffs and was purely cosmetic, similar to little Macs slowly bruising face throughout fights.

“Sonic Hedgehog from the Olympics.” Yes.

I saw the pinned comment and feel like it was hella unwarranted. This comment is coming from a melee veteran. Ranked in Southern California for 2 ranking periods Played melee for 5 years and i STILL think brawl is a much more fun game. Id rather play brawl with my friends than melee, smash 4 or ultimate. And that includes if im playing someone my level The more relaxed feel of brawl and easy on the eyes graphics are why I feel this way. I also just think it has the absolute best music in the entire series. And come on, subspace emissary? FIRE. Literally no smash game has a story mode like that. Also the online play was not THAT bad. If you were able to get a lan adapter it was actually playable. Not competitive but fun playable. Spent many nights playing with friends and making our own custom taunts. Speaking of which, whyd they take those out??!?! They were so fun!!! Lastly the ability to get demos to other games via the vault system was amazing and the ability to play brawl minus or project M make brawl an absolute CLASSIC Anyways, fantastic video and dont listen to the other players who think you missed everything. It’s ridiculous to expect someone to find every single fucking piece of research to talk about Cant wait to see what else you make :)

Brawl is easily my favorite fighting game. Part of that might just be nostalgia, but it is the only fighting game I've been able to find that isn't unfriendly to casual players. And between all the modes and collectibles, it's easily the most replayable one unless you're heavily into the competitive scene.

The Subspace Emissary was amazing. I can’t tell you how many times I replayed that with friends. I was actually very disappointed with World of Light. The single player was the main thing I was looking forward too in Ultimate. (Favorite cut scene is when Captain Falcon and Olimar meet)

This game was my childhood!

Brawl was my first Smash game. I love it dearly but going back to it after playing Ultimate or Smash 4 is just painful. It's INSANELY easy to mod though, so easy that all you need is a Wii, the game itself, a 2 gigabyte sd card, and a boot up code! Modding Smash is something I've always wanted to do, but its very difficult and risky with any other game... especially on Switch. And personally, I prefer when Smash isn't overly competitive... competitive play just tends to bring controversy and basically turns into politics. I greatly prefer actually being able to combo though, Brawl is severely lacking in that aspect.

6:48 Meta Knight used to be my main back when my brother and I used to play brawl at my friend’s house. Unfortunately I wasn’t that good as him.

I loved turning fans on only. It became a game of who gets hit first and who is better at mashing. Its chaos.

Brawl was undoubtedly what made smash what it is today, the art direction, the story mode, music, testing the waters with licensing of non-nintendo characters it really felt like more than a sequel When you ask people nowadays it's usually "brawl bad it's competitively broken" but in 2007 how many people were trying to win hundreds of thousands at tournaments? Brawl delivered in so many ways it's a shame that we boil our retrospective judgment down to: "can it be competitive or no"

The armor and weapon damage was prolly just cosmetic lmao chill

I'm really glad to see someone else suggest that brawl is the best. It had so many great features and modes that it makes it the best smash for fun rather than competitive play

At 3:25 that's not Brawl. It's a mod called Project M ( now called P+) which takes it's inspiration from Melee and restores many of the movement options and physics from it's predecessor. That's the reason why In this clip you're seeing a combo string. You can also see a flash of white after an aerial on the wolf with the tag "4Tou~" which indicates a successful L cancel.

So they got pissed because Nintendo had gotten cleaned up the flaws of melee. Cope and seethe

If I recall wave dashing was an intentional mechanic in melee

There was absoloutely nothing cooler than asking myself where sonic is throughout to the entire story only to see him pull up at the end as the hero saving every universe and freeing everyone. It went so fucking hard

Darn shame, Brawl was my first Smash game. Despite it's flaws, I really like it. Although I will say, I played a bit in Melee at a friend's house. :/

In terms of casual play yes, this fucking game was really fun

I miss the single player and art style.

Brawl surely stands out from other Smash games with that art style. It has my personal favorite single player experience in all the games and I look back at it pretty fondly.

The subspace emissary changes everything Finished it like seven times with my sister

I LOVE THE KERMIT PFP

6:09 Rip King

I was a meta knight main when this game came out, for the exact same reason. I honestly had no idea he was as hated as he was until fairly recently.

YO MARIO ARTIST IN THE BGM 0:46 THAT ST GOES SO HARF

Brawl was a masterpiece 👏 ✨️

*me vibing to the SSBB intro because it’s the best*

"... sonic the hedgehog from the Olympics..." got me xD

As a Melee Fan? Just looking at the title, I can say this much: It certainly wasn't the worst, like a lot of people say. I like Brawl a lot. Yeah, it's not as competitive and mechanically nuanced as Melee or even Ultimate, but it knew that. Brawl was a family party game, and it was honest about that. "Yeah, no wombo combos here. Get with it or gtfo". I respect that; and for what it was, Brawl was a hella fun game.

How do you know how to entertain so well, you only have 3 videos and yet you are one of my favourite channels!!

Yes. Most fun. I feel like since there became more of a competitive focus that's not as many unique innovations like final smashes and assisst trophies.

I miss Coin Launcher so much

Dude your content is seriously underrated. Amazing stuff, keep it up bro!

Fuck what people say, Brawl plays like a 2D DBZ game and I love it

Subspace Emissary raised kid me and I have such fond memories of that game. To this day I still know what half those characters are thanks to Brawl. Also it’s what got me into Kirby with how much I loved Meta Knight.

For me, Smash Bros. Wii U will always be my favorite smash game.

2 years development is generous speaking, more like 13 month for the JPN & US release (ntsc) and then some relaxing months if the game isnt broken (for pal)

Your videos are awesome Kerm

Yes, next question

Hold the phone I found an incredibly underrated KZfaqr who gives me a good time and has a cool voice. And gave me nostalgia in the ds video? U deserve a sub Kermit.

1. Brawl 2. Melee 3. Ultimate 4.WiiU/3DS 5.N64 6.Crusade 7.Smash Flash 2

real ones know the kirby ultimate smash glitch in brawl on that one map where u can make urself huge

Super Smash Bros Brawl change my life forever because of how truly Godlike this game was for me so yes it is the best one and I'll dare to say it's even better than Ultimate.

bro reached 1k overnight cant wait for you to blow up even more

11:28 I’m gonna be looking up some of those characters now.

I play in Melee tournaments and it’s my favourite game of all time. That being said I’ve always held the opinion that Brawl’s standalone experience is the best in the series. If I start considering the community and finding joy through competing, Brawl falls off very hard for me. I think it’s a bit misleading at 3:23 where Project M footage is being used as an example that “crazy combos could still be pulled off tho.” Brawl was being talked in this moment. Don’t love this video, but I enjoyed “Nintendo treat their old games like garbage” so I still feel hopeful for the future 🙏

The best part of this video was that it ended with Hypnotize

Well, Super Smash Bros. Brawl did destroy my Wii lens thanks to that dual-layer disc...So yeah, Brawl was a good game.

And Sonic... from the Olympics. Quality comedy.

I actually still love Brawl’s art style idk why

Excited about where your channel is headed

Brawl was my very first intro to the series, and In forever grateful because it was great, even when I played it when I was younger. I wholeheartedly agree that Brawl is better than Melee in some areas, it's just...damn. what a kickass game.

Keep these consistent bangers coming dude. Keep it up!

Brawl is my favorite to this day and only because the adventure mode, it is still so incredibly fun

in my opinion melee, brawl, and ultimate are the best smash bros games but mostly brawl cuz of the graphics, the setting, details, soundtrack, and the story that they had for it, and just the nostalgia

Bro, you are super underrated, this video is amazing! How do you only have 2k subs?! Hope to see more from you soon!

Brawl is the best if you play the game it was meant to be played with items on medium any stage goes. The item spawn on ultimate is too high even on medium but on brawl it feels just right. I played brawl with my little cousins and we would play with items on but on Ultimate we turned everything except for the smash ball off because we couldn't tell what was going on. The reason nobody ever talks about smash as party game with battles with items on is because the online smash community just can't fathom the idea of having any form of randomness to the point where they think they are superior to those who just play with non battlefield stages or items.

this channel is going to blow up if he keeps uploading

I think battle damage would’ve been awesome it it was as looks only