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    jegmarqu's Super Smash Brothers (N64)

    [January 31, 2007 03:16:34 PM]
    Game Log #3 Session 2

    For my second gaming session, I focused more of the gameplay aspects of SSB. Competing between my friends in this game session allowed for me to notice how much a different the gameplay mechanics of SSB made this game unique. In my previous post, I intended to mention that the damage system is one of the most important aspects of the gameplay and is the primary reason the game stands out from the rest. Instead of having a static health bar where once your health is depleted, you die, SSB implements a percentage system where simply inflicting a lot of damage does not necessarily mean death. In order for a character to die, one must force the character outside the boundaries of the screen. Once this boundary is reached, the player is KO’ed and the higher the percentage of damage, it easier it is to accomplish this goal.
    Another crucial aspect to SSB is the implementation of items that fall during the battles. These items are nostalgic to the Nintendo world and vary from the classic mushroom to the often “cheap” DK hammer. These items can usually change the tides of war because a specific item can inflict massive amount of damage to one or more characters at a time. Playing with my friends, who are all of the same level of expertise in this game, found the items to be unfair because it did not measure the amount of skill, but instead luck to whoever found the item first. Instead, we began to battle without items and found the game to be ultimately more enjoyable and fair.
    Finally, one of the other important aspects of the game are the stages. Each character has a stage that has allows for different affordances which can also change the tides of war. For example, Donkey Kong’s stage contains bullet barrels where a character can essentially be saved if they jump into a canon and fly back on the fighting level. One of the drawbacks of the multiplayer however, as with all multiplayer games, is that one character can essentially refrain from fighting and watch from a distance while everyone else battles and kills each other.

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    [January 31, 2007 02:17:55 PM]
    Game Log #3 Session 1

    For my third game logging session, I chose to play Super Smash Brothers for the Nintendo 64. I have played this game before back when it was released in 1999. My friends and me were absolutely addicted to the multiplayer aspect of the game. For this session, I found it interesting to examine why indeed this game was so addicting and what made it so unique from other fighting games. Not only did the game bring in old time favorite characters like Mario, Link, and Samus, but also these characters were in a completely new context of game play, fighting each other. Also, in light of the lecture given by professor Whitehead on Monday, the narrative storyline for this game seemed ambiguous as the shmups. Never noticing the lack of narrative focus, the game just seemed to have thrown a random situation where the Nintendo characters enter some sort of dream world. It is still unclear to me why they are fighting and what they are fighting for, which makes SSB abstract and decontextualized , the same way the classic shmups were.
    Another aspect that this game seemed to have in common with shmups is that SSB is very easy to learn. There are no complex control combinations like a quarter rotation and a button to execute a fireball; there are buttons that are set exclusively to execute these moves easily. In contrast, there are only simple combinations like holding forward and a button so execute power attacks. However, once this game is learned, it is quite difficult to master in the way that 4-player multiplayer is quite unpredictable and spontaneous.
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    jegmarqu's Super Smash Brothers (N64)

    Current Status: Finished playing

    GameLog started on: Wednesday 31 January, 2007

    GameLog closed on: Wednesday 31 January, 2007

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