I’m pretty sure I skipped over Combat Core on release, and forgot to slip it into the “up to 3 friends” section of the “this looks good but” pile. I am a fool.

Turns out it’s pretty great. I’ve not played a Smash Brothers game since the gamecube, despite the daily racket as everyone played it outside the RPS treehouse over the last year. So I may not be the best person to judge, and the famously level-headed fans of that series might politely object, but it hit me in a similar place. Constantly, right in the face. It is frantic>.

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