Post by: Jonnyboy117 on July 02, 2007, 04:27:24 AM
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=13740
Besides our roundups of the Smash Bros. Dojo updates every Friday, we promised our readers that we'd write specific news articles anytime the official Smash blog announced something really big, like a new feature or a previously unknown character.
Today, the Dojo ran two updates, both about Assist Trophies. These items seem to function the same as Pokeballs, but they contain characters from all sorts of Nintendo games. Basically, the collectible character trophies from Melee have been worked into Brawl's gameplay. This means that a far wider variety of Nintendo characters will make appearances during battle, although like the randomly generated Pokemon, the trophy helpers are invincible and controlled automatically.
The three Assist Trophies revealed today are Hammer Bro (throws hammers), the giant Nintendog first shown at E3 2006 (blocks most of the screen), and Samurai Goroh (runs around and swings a sword). The blog promises that some of the trophies will be quite obscure characters, although they may be less obscure after appearing in Brawl.
Post by: MegaByte on July 02, 2007, 05:22:47 AM
I wonder if most of the SSBM trophies could become assist trophies.
Post by: Ceric on July 02, 2007, 05:30:01 AM
Post by: Pale on July 02, 2007, 05:30:22 AM
Post by: LuigiHann on July 02, 2007, 05:30:40 AM
Post by: Smash_Brother on July 02, 2007, 05:50:30 AM
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Originally posted by: Pale Gives actual purpose to the endless trophy hunt
Fixed.
This is interesting, and frankly, I'd prefer this to Pokeballs as those are relegated to Pokemon.
Though, this kinda blurs the lines between playable characters and assist characters. I would have thought Goro would have been the next obvious addition to the roster for F-Zero so I'm guessing that this will serve as somewhat of a disappointment as more assist characters are revealed which therefore aren't playable.
I suppose this is far better than not having those characters in the game at all.
Still, I wonder if it's possible to get a playable character from one of these, so long as no one is playing as that character at the time, like DK could come out and pound the stage a bunch or something.
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 02, 2007, 07:05:18 AM
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Still, I wonder if it's possible to get a playable character from one of these, so long as no one is playing as that character at the time, like DK could come out and pound the stage a bunch or something.
I like that idea, only I don't think it should matter if the character is currently being played or not. I think it would be kinda funny to watch someone playing as DK and someone else summoning DK to fight against him.
Post by: Kairon on July 02, 2007, 07:36:49 AM
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 02, 2007, 07:53:13 AM
Post by: Kairon on July 02, 2007, 08:02:44 AM
Post by: Ceric on July 02, 2007, 08:59:41 AM
Yeah. Put them in the lottery as well.
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 02, 2007, 09:54:39 AM
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What about if assist trophies for certain characters were only unlocked when you had a save file from certain games? Much like a Pikmin save unlocked a SSBM trophy, maybe a save for Mario & Sonic go to the Olympics will unlock some Sonic side character Assist trophy items?
That would be really neat, personally I think the assist trophies are a good way to go instead of cramming tons of characters in the game who are either unbalanced or clones of another character.
Post by: MegaByte on July 02, 2007, 10:12:44 AM
Post by: Ceric on July 02, 2007, 10:54:46 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on July 03, 2007, 04:36:41 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on July 03, 2007, 05:45:06 AM
Though receiving a handful of "free" trophies when you first start a game because of VC purchases sounds okay. Like they're all just routine trophies everyone else gets but if you have VC games you get a bunch of them unlocked right away.
Post by: Kairon on July 03, 2007, 06:44:46 AM
Actually, all these unlocked things should be regular trophies. It'd sorta suck having actual ITEMS (assist trophies) being locked until you made a $50 purchase like I suggested. *sigh*
