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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee
2001
Fighting, Party
Super Smash Bros. Melee is the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to the Nintendo 64 title. It includes all playable characters from the first game, and also adds characters from franchises such as Fire Emblem, of which no games had been released outside Japan at the time. Super Smash Bros. Melee builds on the first game by adding new gameplay features and playable characters: it's major focus is the multiplayer mode, while still offering a number of single-player modes.

Franchises:

The Legend of Zelda, Super Smash Bros., Metroid, Mario, Pokémon, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, F-Zero, Fire Emblem, Yoshi, EarthBound

Genres:

Fighting, Party, Platformer

Platform:

GameCube

Developer:

HAL Laboratory

Publishers:

Nintendo, Gradiente

AKA:

Dairantou Smash Brothers DX
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Super Smash Bros. Melee

2001
Fighting, Party
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Avg Percentile 65.09% from 353 total ratings
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cjbenihanaCJ_Benihana
Rated 20 Aug 2021
96
90th
Best fighting game
Rated 20 Aug 2021
olivdb5590OliVDB5590
Rated 27 Nov 2019
93
71st
If you had a GameCube and a couple friends back in the day, you'd be quite the loser if you didn't have this. It's fun, balanced, features all of the cool characters every Nintendo-playing late millenial likes, and follows the golden rule of "easy to play, hard to master". But well, you can still win with the good ol' "button smashing" tactic. So, I liked it as even I could win sometimes.
Rated 27 Nov 2019
kastrydonutKastryDonut
Rated 24 Nov 2019
90
66th
Lots of good childhood memories. Still holds up.
Rated 24 Nov 2019
antonio_pAntonio P
Rated 23 Nov 2019
40
39th
Ok fighting game. I think I liked the one on the N64 better. Again this isn't my type of game. But like to see the guy booted off the screen.
Rated 23 Nov 2019
badfurdayBadFurDay
Rated 23 Sep 2019
1
7th
Sorry peeps, I tried it a bunch, but I just can't enjoy SSB games.
Rated 23 Sep 2019
gnalkhereGnalkhere
Rated 03 Apr 2019
85
62nd
One taught me love
Rated 03 Apr 2019
vv238vv238
Rated 22 Oct 2018
72
73rd
The fact that a competitive scene was born out of this game that has lasted for 15 years is a credit to how well made this game is, even if the studio that makes it lacks any understanding as to why it was such a hit in the first place. It's not for me but it is compelling.
Rated 22 Oct 2018
filliganFilligan
Rated 15 Apr 2018
100
99th
So, this is where Smash Bros peaks. I hold out hope that Sakurai will bring the franchise back to these heights (the power and elegance of the Switch has me excited -- and yes, I just dated this review), but even then will it top Melee? Hard to imagine. The gameplay was refined to perfection here. This is why sequels since have missed the mark: how do you improve on perfection? All you can do is meddle with it and make it worse.
Rated 15 Apr 2018
mwestcottmwestcott
Rated 11 Apr 2018
94
60th
It loses a little due to some copy and paste issues with a few characters. Reeks of desperation to pad the roster. Aside from that, Melee is a adrenaline rush and the best game in the world to play with close friends. And probably one of the few Nintendo multiplayer party games which won't break apart said friendship.
Rated 11 Apr 2018
bownBown
Rated 24 Feb 2018
80
47th
All my friends liked this game so so much more than I did. I'd get bored after 3-4 games and they would carry on playing for hours. so I kinda have bad memories of it but it's still a good-ass game
Rated 24 Feb 2018
ytadelYtadel
Rated 29 Jan 2018
9
97th
Though I have no skill whatsoever at the deep tournament-level metagame, me and my friends played this for literally hundreds of hours in high school. Not misusing the word literally. Literally literally. Hundreds of hours. So much fun.
Rated 29 Jan 2018
martrynmartryn
Rated 26 Jan 2018
83
87th
The pinnacle of the Super Smash Brother games. It was still fresh enough to be better than Brawl, and improved enough to be better than the original. A solid collection of characters, the solo mini games were entertaining, but the multiplayer was where it's at.
Rated 26 Jan 2018
cmonsterCMonster
Rated 25 Jan 2018
72
29th
I recommend checking out the competitive Melee scene. It's the perfect microcosm of racial harmony. It's still toxic and full of assholes, just not racists.
Rated 25 Jan 2018
velvet_croweVelvet Crowe
Rated 20 Jan 2018
75
68th
Melee has a lot of cool movement options that far exceed even some of the best fighters, but there's a lot of other shit that bogs it down for me. For example, while the movement is good, it's kind of finnicky at times and certain techniques are actually physically painful to do consistently. There's also a lot of lame bugs and dumb mechanics like wobbling that I could never get behind. Maybe I'm giving it too much flak, but the community gives me aids and none of the playstyles appeal to me.
Rated 20 Jan 2018
ocelotOcelot
Rated 19 Jan 2018
90
96th
there's a reason this is still the go-to Smash game for so many people. the killer app for the GameCube and the game I've spent more time playing than possibly any other, enough so that childhood memories begin to blend into adult ones. a treasure, iconic, perpetually great.
Rated 19 Jan 2018
mattorama12mattorama12
Rated 18 Jan 2018
85
87th
This is a game that gamers love and, by extension, that I'm even worse at than normal in relative terms. Nonetheless, it's a really fun game even to lose at.
Rated 18 Jan 2018
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