Thread:SonikkuAensland/@comment-26381576-20180613022536/@comment-5688420-20180616121740

In case you were asking "but why do you hate Smash Bros. so much?", here's my answer:

Maybe it's the oversimplified controls. Maybe it's the kiddie aesthetics. Maybe it's cringe-worthy sight of people playing it on tournaments. Or maybe it's the fact that I just utterly LOATHE post-SNES Nintendo.

But what really grinds my shit about this game... is the numbers. THOSE DAMN NUMBERS.

I personally believe that all fighting games should have health meters. It satisfies me to see how much damage my opponent is taking. So when I saw that Smash Bros. uses those ugly-ass numbers, I just... hated it. At first sight. Even moreso when I did start to play it (the first game on an N64 emulator).

And no, number displays DO NOT count as health meters, even if you can make it work the same way in Smash. It lacks the satisfaction I get when seeing a physical health meter deplete to zero.

This is the same reason that I choose to never touch Bushido Blade, ever. Or even look at gameplay footage of it.