Reacting to The Bizarre Case of Melee 

one of those " L cancelling and wavedashing were an accident" level videos

Honestly, considering this is the first time I've ever had someone react to one my videos, it's pretty cool that it was one of Melee's best (and my personal favorite) competitive player. It was kinda neat to see a competitive player's feelings on my (very clearly) casual perspective on a game I love. I honestly never expected people outside of my audience to see the video, so I'm happy with the positive response to the video. (Also I was really happy to see some of my dumb jokes landed.) So anyways, thank you for reacting to it, and I'm really glad you liked it in the end.

Casual melee is INCREDIBLE. Item chaos, fun stages, tons of different characters. The only time I did not enjoy casual play when I was young was when my cousin learned hey if I hit someone of stage, I can just use sheik chain and troll. I think anyone that says melee isn't casual friendly is if you're BRAND NEW and just jump on netplay or something and you run into someone who actually knows how to play. That obviously wouldn't be fun, but casual vs casual is great.

i used to do the black hole glitch with 4 controllers and my feet

Armada's Kirby on Brinstar is mean af.

We did this thing called “Chuck Norris matches” only falcon and gannon on temple, no edgeguarding allowed, and you can only fight in the bottom cave area. Great times. Stocks would go to 999 sometimes.

I find it very interesting how people talk about how melee is "difficult for casuals". The game has a very high skill ceiling, about tied with third strike, but its skill floor is shockingly low. Lower than most other competitive games imo.

Thank you for giving more for the smash scene. I'm hoping to be able to get your peach guide on Metafy soon when I'm able to. While I wait, I'll just have to enjoy this video. ^_^

Regarding the game being "too hard" now compared to back then people not really caring there are a couple things at play I think. A lot of us were much younger back then and didn't have the breadth of knowledge to levy critiques that we can now. This also goes for gaming as a whole. Standards have changed a lot for what players expect. Back in the day if you were just playing casually with friends and you couldn't really short hop with characters like Fox or Falcon then that's not really a big deal and not a make or break issue. Nowadays though if you're playing Melee at any level that's above playing with a bunch of pokeballs all the time the fact that something as simple as short hopping is actually difficult and takes some degree of real practice to do with a lot of characters really sticks out compared to a lot of games where basic actions are usually not difficult to perform. Like imagine if the triple jump in Super Mario 64 had like a 4~ frame window per jump input or you'd just start over every time. It would stand out as being weirdly difficult for such a basic action - or rather, we'd be looking at it as some kind of more advanced movement option due to that difficulty and it would contribute to the game being viewed as difficult.

poor pichu lol

7:39 really? You never heard that? I thought everyone knew that smash 64 had the best sound effects.

PEACHHHHH 🍄🏰👑!!!!!!

Playing Project Plus has made my hands feel tired or worn down after playing for a good hour, even with auto L cancelling and 3 frame input assist to help buffer inputs. Coming from ultimate can make you have to kill old habits like how long I hold inputs for.

Nintendo's aversion to Super Smash Bros stems from a pragmatic business decision. Nintendo's perspective is that if they bury smash, then loyal fans of the franchise would redirect their attention to the newest games, spending their money towards other Nintendo products. However, this reasoning is flawed, akin to the fallacious belief that a billion dollars in pirated merchandise translates to a billion dollars of sales lost. Being fans of a game do not translate to being fans of a company. The only possible outcome is getting bad press for almost no gain.

As much as I like Brinstar, once I saw the ballsack I was never able to unsee it

GOAT

34:15 you canoot play as giga bowser vanilla. You have to hack to open the debug menu right?

i think more development time would've been bad for the game (for comp play at least), it would've given them the chance to take out a lot of the technical stuff used there that would be seen as "breaking the game", wavedash, L-cancel, chaingrabs, etc., at the same time maybe the game would've been more balanced

Brinstar exploding item only set very high 4 player total madness this is how we like to play when we put item So no pokeball is not the best item

I gave like $300 to that evo fundraiser I think.

The next smash game will never have more characters. if they make a new smash game at all. I think they will let the franchise die

45:09 It's because Nintendo is, like most AAA gaming companies, is only focused on making themselves more money. They shut down all the Let's Play content for Mario games too, so that they could push Super Mario Maker. They didn't care about breast cancer or people dying or how much their loyal fans liked their old games, they only eventually switched their position because it would have been less profitable not to do so. If the backlash hadn't been so heavy they would have kept on. The love of money is the root of all evil, I've seen it change people. It's abhorrent what people will do for more money even when they already have more than enough. It crosses all genders, religions, cultures and ethnicities. Oh you guys like our game, bought it fairly, and are playing it not only out of love but also to support research that may save lives? Well too bad, you need to buy the _new_ version that's worse because we say so and people with cancer can kick rocks.

Hi

I was the one who made armada quit

Ayye

Give us some Stitch content please 🎉🎉🎉 🪴

Glu might be top 5 of melee if Wario was in it

PLEASE UNBAN ME FROM YOUR TWITCH ARMADA!!!