So I was looking over at the reviews section a bit ago, and I noticed that people were commenting on a three year old review of Melee. Not on the review itself, but on the game. The guy who wrote it is long gone, but... heh.

I just played Melee again for the first time since before Brawl came out the other night with some friends. They had played it a little bit before that, and I was thinkin', "Man, I'm gonna be rusty..." Tried to click on a random space, and got Fox (who was my main back in the day.) Felt like I was really fudging my stuff up a lot in that first match... and yet I won, with like two stocks left. At the end of the night, I had 36 KO's, and second place had 20. Also pretty sure I had more wins than the other two who played. And I only used Fox once. That game was my serious business fighting game back in the day though, so that kinda explains it; my muscle memory had the gaming mechanics and timing down much better than my two friends, who probably didn't play it nearly as much as me. I remember that I used to get upset if I lost a match... haha.

Melee is probably my favorite of the series. Then comes the original Smash, then Brawl. Brawl is fun, but like one friend said, it feels more like a party game than a fighting game. Probably because they put a whole bunch of equalizers in it to help beginners beat the more hardcore players, like the smash ball, the obnoxious stages, etc. The Director of the game even said he made those stages obnoxious on purpose to keep everyone on equal footing. He also said there was no competitive community for the game... right. Smash Bros. Dojo would like to have a word with you. But yeah; other than that, they also nerfed my favorite character, Fox. He went from like top priority to bottom priority as far as attacks go. Even worse is what they did to Captain Falcon, who's pretty much garbage in the new game.

The original still has a lot of charm; kinda a classic feel to it that the other two don't really have. It's also probably the slowest in the series, and seems to be the hardest to to get back to the platform when you're knocked away. I'm probably the worst at it of all three games, but I give it more credit than Brawl anyway. Melee was the one I was obsessed with forever, so it gets the nod for me. It also feels more competitive and less comical to me somehow than the original; more hardcore (though maybe that's just because that's the way I treated it.)

Like I said, my main has always been Fox (except for Brawl, which I don't really have a main in; usually just pick random.) I do like Yoshi, Wario, Falco, Pikachu, and Snake a bit too. Never been great with really slow characters, though; my game is all about running around, swooping in for some quick attacks, then running away again (Unless I'm RTSD'ing.) I know I'd never last long in a real tournament match, but I wonder how I'd fair in a Melee match against fellow TFFers... Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom