Nintendo Wii Media | Smash Update: With Anyone/Basic Brawl

The final Smash Update this week continues the Wi-Fi trend by going into a few more details on the online features for Smash Bros. Brawl, how to join basic matches and issues with secret characters.

Join a quick and simple brawl against someone, somewhere! If you're not going to be playing with a friend, this is the mode you'll tend to use.

This time, we'll take a look at how it flows.

The Wii is trying to connect in earnest! And it succeeds!

Here you choose With Anyone.

You could also choose Team Battle,
but we'll choose Basic Brawl here.

You go straight to the character-selection screen.

Huh? We're already at character selection? That's right. You don't make any rooms.

At this point, you're already requesting a match. If you connect to someone, you'll see their status at the bottom of the screen.

Character selection is limited to 45 seconds. If time runs out, your character will be chosen for you at random, so make your choices quickly so as not to make others wait.

Then you go to stage selection.

You can cast one vote for the stage you want to play. A stage is chosen by lottery from among those voted on by the players.

Also, the items that are turned off in the item switch are also determined by lottery.

Practice on Sandbag while you wait...

Then just wait until you get everyone together.

Then the match begins!!

Isn't that simple? You don't have to trouble with any settings. You just choose characters and stages.

Names won't be shown and messages won't be sent. Neither your identity nor your opponents' will be known, so you can play without any worries.

By the way, have you ever had an experience in which your opponent was disconnected, and the match never came to fruition? Like when you started with four players, but ended up with only one?

I don't like that feeling, so I've tried to counter it.

If you get cut off, your character will get taken over by the CPU without your opponents even knowing