Finally. I got myself Brawl from the US and a freeloader for PAL consoles. It's just as awesome as I'd hoped.

At first I was kind of disappointed by the new no-combo system, but it's grown on me. For one thing, it does allow slow, heavy characters to be viable now, and makes it so the game doesn't come down to just one or two characters stringing together huge combos on the rest of the cast. Characters effectively do the amount of damage per hit that was intended for their character type, which in my opinion is a good thing.

Also, the few real combos that do exist just make the characters who can use them seem all the more exciting.

In other news, has come over to visit me and :iconmonky-trumpets: on an exchange student program! This is the first time I've really met one of my net friends and so far we've been having a lot of fun! Despite some small problems here and there with bad luck and injuries, it's been a wonderful time and I'll be sad to see him go. Oh well, there's always DA and MSN to keep in touch, ne?

I'll be trying to update my art sooner or later, but I have to concentrate really hard on my University this year.