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#53. Super Smash Bros. Melee (Gamecube, 2001)



I used to play Super Smash Bros. Melee a ton. When I got together with friends in high school to play games, it was pretty much always DDR, Halo, or this. I played it into college years too, though not quite as much. I made friends with people who were into the competitive scenes for various games, like DDR and fighting games, but also for Melee. I feel I was decently good at the game, but never good enough to start competing in it myself. I mainly used Samus and Captain Falcon, partly because both are great characters, but also because I thought other characters that were considered good (Fox, Falco, Sheik, Marth) were all dumb to play as and weren't my style.

There's a lot of reasons why the Smash series is great, it's pretty well known. But as the later games came with more and more characters and stages and songs and crossovers, I just haven't felt as strongly about any of them. The way Melee plays, with its speed and the control, I think still ranks tops in the series.

Also, even though I don't watch Melee tournaments as much as other fighting games, it still can get really hype to see high level play in (well, I watch it more than a bunch of fighting games, but more because of how many big events this is in). I still don't think I'll ever get good enough at it to be tournament-level, but I have a lot of respect for the skills of people who do. It's a deep fighting game.

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