Yeah, Luigi's pretty much a shoe-in, so I'm looking forward to whether he'll have the Poltergust, too.  I just don't know how he would use it.  It's obviously good for drawing enemies close, but I don't see how that would be advantageous to him.

Maybe he can suck them up and blow them out like Kirby.

So I guess according to this one guy who works at DigiPen, there was a playable Brawl demo at the Cafe Mario at the Nintendo HQ. He played it (with a sideways wii-mote, so keep this in mind) and according to him, wavedashing is out although you can still waveland (which I know not many of you care about, but it makes me sad in the pants), l-cancelling is in (which gives me a boner), but airdodges can no longer be controlled (which destroys my boner again). The way airdodging works now is that your character will just move in the same direction he was jumping when he airdodges, which follows the laws of physics in a way, but heavily fucks up aerial combat.

So yeah, Sakurai said he wanted to improve aerial combat. This seems like a major step back. I really hope there's some sort of metagame to Brawl or I will shit myself out of depression.

EDIT: Again, don't know how reliable this guy is, but just figured I'd share.

Sarhan, I have faith that any changes made to the gameplay will be for the best.  Sooner or later people need to realize that this is a different beast than Melee and it may be divisive as some players refuse to convert.  I know I could never quite get some of my friends to convert from the original to Melee.

Luigi's an alternate palette for Mario. Wait, don't shoot me! At least he's still in Brawl!

My only question is this: How will mid-air catching be handled? There better be a mid-air catch for items, because I rarely picked items up from the ground in Melee. Especially the hearts and such.

Can't remember where I read it but one of the gaming media sites that got a chance to play the Brawl demo confirmed item catching in mid-air. It's supposed to be much easier to do than it was in melee.

L-cancelling has been in since the original- it's been in the instruction manuals and stuff. It's not some super secret advanced technique that you smash fags seem to think it is. Of course it would be included.

If you had been watching the videos, you'd have noticed that everybody seems to move faster after landing from aerials (especially slower characters like Bowser), which made many people think that l-cancelling was now automatic. This guy confirmed that it was coming back in its original form, which is what I was happy about. I never said it was a "super secret" advanced tech, so maybe you should understand the topic before resulting to stupid "smash fag" comments?

edit: way to ninja edit sarhan
 

Thank you and I'm sorry.

you make me cry like a little school boy getting hit by Cr. lk x2, xx SAIII by Ken in 3s after he full parries my Chun-Li's Cr. mk, SAII.


< /3rd Strike joke>

EDIT: megaman in like 3 hours, yess!!!

I love that awesome video. In fact, just because it's so awesome, I'm going to post a link in case anyone here hasn't been fortunate enough to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O-hFZh6Od8

This video makes me want to beat up some random 5 year-old.

EDIT: Just remembered my little brother is 5 years old. He's lucky he's not random...