Enjoy Smash On Wii U — While Ferguson GETS Smashed!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - I'm only writing the article like this because I'm not getting the game on launch day.

The moment that KoopaTV has been waiting for... for years! With nearly half of our over 400 articles dedicated to it (that's a guess), we present to you... Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. For Wii U! The game is out today in America, as we SAID would happen over a month ago. (Lesson? You can trust KoopaTV.)

People would prefer to see THIS image in social media than the one at the end of the article.

Oh, Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire is also out today. I guess some of you care about that for some reason. Just like Pokémon X/Y, you cannot post screenshots in the Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Miiverse community, so... yeah. Have fun not sharing your adventures. Then again, you can always just use text! That's what I did with my copy of Pokémon X when it came out last year. Those of you who are long-time KoopaTV readers should remember the awfully long time it took me to actually get Pokémon X, and, uh, I finally got it for my birthday.

Well, Super Smash Bros. For Wii U is also a birthday gift, but I'll get it earlier than December 13! It will come, with a GameCube controller and adapter, whenever Amazon decides to get it here on the slowest (free) shipping available. (That should be November 28 to December 1, so let's pretend I'm on a European game-release schedule here.)

As I mentioned last night, the daily doctor visits that the CDC required of us at the beginning of the month are now complete. We believe this also means that KoopaTV staff member Kamek is free of his quarantine! Everything is perking up, right? Besides Obama ruining the country?

KoopaTV's Live Reactions To Obama's Executive Amnesty!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Obama's illegal immigration policy: Survival of the fittest.

Ready for President Barack Hussein Obama to become Emperor Barack Hussein Obama the First? KoopaTV was! I'm your host, Ludwig, also known in AOL Instant Messenger as Nintendork 13 13. KoopaTV staff member RawkHawk2010 is here as himself, and we are watching and live-reacting to Barack Hussein Obama's executive orders in relation to the illegal immigrant problem!

Or "undocumented workers", as he puts it.

His whole logic for why this is not illegal on his part is that the steps are NOT new!

Sakurai Doing The Right Thing On DLC

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - We can rely on the 'rai.

For some reason, it feels like some out there in the gaming world are losing their trust in Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai. Maybe they don't like him because Ridley is not a playable character in Super Smash Bros. 4. Maybe they don't like how he keeps posting menus in Miiverse as the Pic of the Day. (You should realize he does that as a tribute to his wife, who he doesn't get to see because he's working all the time.) Maybe they take issue with some other design decisions, like the ratio between "competitive" and "casual" elements in his games. (Which are bad labels to begin with, by the way.) Or maybe it's the valid complaint that Smash Run isn't online for Super Smash Bros. For 3DS and how that's a bad thing. And... I'm going to guess that Smash Tour is not online-compatible on Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, though I will be happy if I'm corrected.

Seriously. Take to the comments section immediately and inform me about its status.

But on one issue, Sakurai is absolutely correct and I'll defend him to the end on it. In an interview with videogamer.com (which seems to be a European publication), Masahiro Sakurai had this to say:

"However, what I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We’ve put all our efforts into making the actual game."

Good! Well, that's not something to be "absolutely correct" on since he's just giving the facts. Here is his editorial on it:

Wii U Turns Tu

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - That article title makes me wonder why "two" isn't pronounced "twoh".

Everything in the Nintendo-sphere is congratulating the Wii U for turning two years old today, November 18. In America, anyway. Last year, I wished the Wii U happy birthday when it turned one year old. This year, I want to review the five reasons I said to get a Wii U that I wrote about in that article.

...Good luck keeping that thing on your GamePad.

By the way, the GameCube is also 13 in America.

Sakurai Vs. Miyamoto: The Brawl

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - The Brawl about Brawl.

Not that you need a reminder, but Super Smash Bros. For Wii U comes out at the end of this week. It's a big deal, especially since KoopaTV will have nothing to write about starting 2015 since half our articles are about Super Smash Bros. and every new development. We'll try to manage.

But let's go back in time a bit. Like, eight and a half years: It's E3 2006 (it was in MAY back then), and Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Solid Snake were just revealed. Shigeru Miyamoto (who wasn't 62 back then — happy birthday?) and Masahiro Sakurai (who was older than he is now) were answering questions about the new and promising Nintendo Wii system and this new game. The transcript is here. They made some forward-looking statements that we can now evaluate for accuracy.

As expected, our favourite developer had different views on quite a bit of issues than one of our least favourites, including controls and a story mode.

SETTLE IT... IN SMASH!

Super Smash Bros. 4 Newcomers and their Trailers Tier List *Updated 11/15/14*

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - A tier list of... the trailers and hype, not based off peak competitive metagame potential.

We now have seen the trailers for every new character in Super Smash Bros. 4, and even a trailer of a returning character. It is time to... grade them! And give my thoughts on them all! Based on the following criteria:

Relevant KoopaTV article(s):
Thoughts on the character before reveal:
Thoughts on the trailer:
Thoughts on the character based on trailer:
Thoughts on the character after the game came out:

That enough boldness for you? Let's go! (Hah, like you thought I could resist internal linking.)

eShop Preloading and Website Code Buying

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - One by one, removing the advantages physical copies bring.

If you don't know already, Nintendo has launched two key eShop initiatives:

1. You can buy download codes for games off their website. (This effectively brings "gifting" back from the Wii for a limited selection of titles, something we at KoopaTV missed. See the below video, too.)
2. You can pre-purchase and pre-load games before they come out. Doing this basically makes your load bar go to 99% nights before the game is released, and then on release day, it downloads that extra 1% and you're on your merry way. Masahiro Sakurai advocated this for digital downloaders of Super Smash Bros. For Wii U.

The goal is to make people go on the eShop more, what else? Nintendo wants to sell directly to you without middlemen like GameStop, which makes Shulk a weirdo. It appears to be working rather well, with Super Smash Bros. For 3DS having 20% of its sales in North America through the eShop, higher than the industry average of between 10 and 20%. How much % is the goal? 50%? 100%? According to Reggie Fils-Aime, some people were too lazy to get into a store and buy the game. While I went to Best Buy and got the physical 3DS game, my colleague RawkHawk2010 is on record stating that he is not only too lazy to go to a store, but he is too lazy to swap discs. (And if you ask him to, he may write an article describing how he is even lazier than that...!) So accessibility is definitely a plus for digital, and Nintendo is making it even easier because you can do all the download work on relatively strainless server times now.

Shulk Is Really Feeling The Exclusivity

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - His game and his Amiibo!

That Shulk guy can apparently see the future and he's not really feeling it. He made my father really feel it when he viciously assaulted him, though. And for some reason, his future sight ability (and probably his callous hatred for handsome Koopa Kings) makes Shulk really like GameStop. After all, Xenoblade Chronicles was, according to GameStop, exclusive to GameStop. (Also according to GameStop, it's worth more used than new. Seriously, click this. You'll laugh.)

Now we have learned from Nintendo that Shulk's Amiibo will also be exclusive to GameStop. GameStop is saying it's an exclusive in the same wording as before!

We'll wait for Pre-Owned Shulk figures to be $22.99.

Actually, it's not that ridiculous that Shulk's Amiibo, or anyone else's, might increase in value if it's pre-owned. After all, he will be trained already, and depending on the owner, he might be capable of things you could never imagine. Folks are already predicting that Amiibos owned by Super Smash Bros. series professional players will be quite high in value, since the Amiibo will learn its tricks off its owner. Certainly worth a lot more than what that Flare Blitz-spamming guy online's Amiibo will be worth.

KoopaTV's Live Reactions to CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE Cutscenes!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - We personally involved ourselves with this series again.

Apparently, it is now KoopaTV tradition to watch the latest Call of Duty game's cutscenes and publish it on Veterans Day! That is what we did last year with Call of Duty: Ghosts, and this time we are totally ready for Activision's latest offering: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It's not on the Game Boy Advance, but it IS on every non-Nintendo console. Well Sledgehammer Games outdo Infinity Ward?

Read on and find out. I'm Nintendork 13 13, and RawkHawk2010 is himself. And there are a ton of other guys that appear throughout that you might find familiar!

You can watch along with our live reactions here.

We pay our respects to the veterans of Koopa Kingdom. ...Best quick-time event ever or what?

Keep NeoGAF Out Of Our Games! *Updated November 11*

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Like, literally. They shouldn't be name-dropped.

I hope you guys remember Sunset Overdrive from Insomniac Games. It first made a cameo in Microsoft's 2013 E3 Conference, though if you asked us in 2014 if it did we wouldn't be able to tell you. Then it reappeared in Microsoft's 2014 E3 Conference, where it was one of the games that stole the show and got Microsoft rated above Sony in 2014 E3 conferences. One of the downfalls of Sony that E3 was their reference to NeoGAF during their conference. (Here is the moment directly, and then note what they show after.) Remember, NeoGAF is that evil forum that has an inflated sense of self-importance that is KoopaTV's premier example of left-wing fascism run amok. While they are not important in the grander scheme of things, they do foster a hotbed of angry people resulting in movements like #Miiquality. What is important is that they think they are the gateway between game developers and the rest of the world. The truth looks more like this:

NeoGAF, I'll let you in on a secret. Most of the (hundreds) of developers I know avoid you like the plague and think you're mostly cunts.
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) June 18, 2014

So Sunset Overdrive is out now. Here's what the ending to the story looks like: