I’ve always liked Captain Olimar. There’s something about his pointy ears, big nose, lack of hair and one facial expression that I find quite endearing. So it’s great he’ll feature in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Near enough all of Olimar’s attacks utilize the Pikmin. Olimar will be able to pluck them out of the ground at will, set them on enemies and swipe ‘em in bitches faces. According to the creator of the game Masahiro Sakurai, Olimar cannot do jack shit without the Pikmin. I’d feel quite bad using the Pikmin for such violent acts and watching them die in battles. I still have nightmares and feel deeply guilty for allowing my entire troop of Pikmin to get munched on by a Grub dog in the first Pikmin game.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl releases in Japan in exactly 2 weeks time. Let’s see if Nintendo can somehow keep a lid on the final character roster until then. I’ll give it a week until some ghetto camera phone quality picture of the final Brawl roster finds its way into a forum.

[Smash Bros. Dojo]