Well Brawl has officially been out for a week. I believe everyone's enjoying it...They should be. I won a tourney, but got defeated at regionals, damn the wii-mote. The new characters are great: Ike's a Fire Emblem Powerhouse, Meta-Knights got the quickest attacks in the game, bar none, Pokemon trainer is varied and fun. Last but not least Sonic, in all his glory. A couple of disappointments though...1st niether Shadow or Metal Sonic were included, either as clones. Shadows may be even worse off being one of the most useless assist trophies, his "choas control" is equal in nearly every way to a "stop clock." Knucles could have been playable, but he's confined to running that infernal loop on Green Hill Zone. Mewtwo, one of my best and favorite characters (shut the fuck up Marth/Roy & Falco/Fox users) He was highly defensive when used properly and I won my Wii using him. ^_^ I only hope that game updates and downloads will be available via shop channel in the near future. "Buy exclusive Shadow the Hedgehog Brawl character: 500 Wii points" and so on. Until then, I'll happily be beating on noobs online.