Dash Dancing, more wavedashing, and Posting Schedule

There is dash dancing, which I forgot to mention. It's weaker than its melee counter part, which is good. I'm liking the melee mechanics in the game, but they aren't so strong that they'll dominate the game. At least that's my impression.

And, allegedly, there actually is wavedashing, but it's just super sloppy and slow.

I still have the majority of my packing to do. I should do that. I also want to make some more posts to schedule. Maybe while I'm away I'll just have a post every other day instead of every day. We'll see how inspired I am to write stuff. But I'm really enjoying writing these each day, so I'm going to continue to do so. Hopefully you guys are enjoying them too.

More Smash and other things and titles continue to be hard to come up with

Turns out there is not wavedashing, I was incorrect. Although there is wavelanding, which is interesting. It apparently has tons of lag, though, so it isn't very useful. I could see it having less lag in the final version of the game, however. Idk, I just feel like it won't have tons of lag like it does right now.
Bayo might not be as OP as we thought. Apparently there was a couple bugs with her that allowed her to jump four times, which is crazy. Plus the ladder combo we saw was with a low ceiling against a large opponent (Ridley) and was played by someone who plays melee, not a lot of Smash 4, meaning he doesn't know how to effectively DI against Bayo. But still, I really hope Bayo isn't so good as she was in Smash 4.

Smash Ultimate looks more and more awesome the more I watch it. ZeRo (the best Smash 4 player ever) says it's, like, super crazy good. Almost strictly more fun than Smash 4. I want to play it. I want to be competitive. I'm planning on going on my mission a couple-few months after it releases, which means I'll only have a short time with it, but it's going to be great.

Mario Kart continues to be awesome. And addictive. It continues to beat my expectations. I was holding off on it because we didn't have a good enough NAT type to play online, but there is so much content without online anyway. But when we get through most of that, it will be nice to face people online.

Currently waiting for halftime in the Overwatch League game to get over. ESports is pretty great.

In a sudden turn of events I'm going on a week leadership trip thingy, which I'm kind of excited for. It'll be a good experience. I don't know what that will mean about my daily blog posts. Maybe I'll schedule some; I'm not sure.

Super Smash Brothers Ultimate

I'm mildly disappointed in Nintendo's direct. They showed Smash, some Fire Emblem, and that's basically it.

But holy guacamole does Smash look awesome. All the characters. I'll get to play as Pichu. That's kind of crazy. And Young Link. And Snake. And Ridley? Ridley still looks super weird in the game to me, but I'll get used to it.
The gameplay in sped up a little compared to Smash 4, which I think is awesome. There is wavedashing, but it's not as strong as it was in Melee, which I think is great.
The more you dodge, the more and more vulnerable you'll be, which I think is a great way to make spam rolling not as effective.
Bayonetta still looks OP, which is no bueno. But I have faith they'll nerf her before the release.
The entire art aesthetic and the graphic design and the intuitiveness is freaking amazing.
I want the game now. It releases, sadly, later than most people thought (it's releasing in December compared to September/October being what most people thought). But you can expect me to have that day set aside to play Smash.

And our NAT type randomly jumped up to a B, which is awesome because now we can play Splatoon 2 online. Plus Mario Kart 8 Deluxe online, which I bought today (it's super great, btw). And Smash online, when the time comes.
I also bought a gamecube adapter that works with the Switch (it'll be arriving on Saturday (I bought this online. I bought Mario Kart in a store)), which means we'll get to play with nice gamecube controllers. And we'll finally have a full set of controllers (before we were surviving off the two Joycon and one wired controller).

E3 Hype

Super Smash Bros on the Nintendo Switch is being shown off for the first time today in a couple hours. I am so hyped. I decided not to go into work today (we can go into work whenever we won't; there is no schedule (aka, I'm not skipping my shift or anything)) just so I can watch Nintendo's direct thingy live. We've been waiting so long for this and I am pumped. Today would be one of the greatest days ever if twenty one pilots randomly decided to end their hiatus. That would be cool. It's not going to happen, though.

I'll definitely make sure to report on my thoughts about Nintendo's direct afterwards. Either later today or tomorrow.