The genre is great for parties, though I prefer Power Stone to SSB... mainly because I got my ass kicked all the time

i could already envision the intro to the game:

a man in a dark hallway quietly paces himself down a poorly lit corridor which opens up into a room wit very little lighting. he continues to creep along until he sees a shiny blue treasure glistening on top of a podium.

he goes to picks up the treasure when all of a sudden the entire room is lit up by the torches along the walls. the man is suddenly visible and we learn that its Eddie Raja who suddenly turns around a to see a smiling Sulley flicking a lighter up and down.

all of a sudden Drake snatches the treasure off of the podium, which then skyrockets both him and Raja to a higher arena like collesium. We see ropes from above shoot down. 14 Helghast lands and Raja and Drake start taking them out one by one. As they fight the Helghast and each other, the treasure is hit out of Drakes hand by a flying arrow.

Twing Twang sits high in a far tree and waves coyly at them. Drake continues to scramble for the treasure when it all of a sudden stops rolling as if hitting something invisible. The invisible wall materializes into Radecs foot. He picks up the blue treasure nods and takes off in a jetpack. Rico and Sevchinko intercepts him in midair, hitting the treasure out of his hand.

The treasure now suspended in midair, is about to be grabbed by Sev until a laserwhip grabs it. The lasership powered by Ratchets gun, now reels in the blue treasure, which then another metal chain grabs his whip.

Clank now latches himself on to Ratchets back and transforms into a powerful rotor to help him reel it in from Narikos grasp. Nariko launches a blade at Ratchet and Ratchet fires a powerful shot at her. Knocking them both down. Remaining Helghast all rush for the treasure until an Ionic Storm eradicates all of em. A smiling Cole McGrath picks up the treasure and tries to absorb it and faints....

The stadium shakes and 4 earth shaking Colossi emerge from the grounds.

Drake, Cole, Nariko, Ratchet and Raja all on the ground just starting to wake are mortified by the sudden sight of these beasts. as the beasts approach them, the shadow of a single leg can be seen standing over Drake. He scoffs, then chuckles as the camera pans up from the back of Kratos' legs up to his head as he slowly unsheaths his blades from his back while facing the Colossi....

Sony Smash Brothers

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@Micro_Sony -

Their financial standings might be in good order, but they lost such a huge reputation that they used to have as one of the best devs back then. During the NES era, they gained critical acclamation for awesome games like Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie etc.

I also didn't mention anything about their unhappiness under Microsoft's roof. I said that their talent is going to waste. I mean these are the same dudes who made GoldenEye 007 (for frack's sake!); one of my favorite shooters of all time, and considered by some as THE BEST FPS OF ALL TIME. This game pushed boundaries on consoles, was ahead of its time.

You'd be expecting them to be PUSHING BOUNDARIES now that they live under Microsoft's roof, but it's not what's happening. You'd expect them to be at events like every E3 with awesome games to show off...but nope.

I feel like if Microsoft bought them and isn't using their talents fully, so why buy them in the first place? To work on simple casual crapware like Kinect Sports? Surely they can do SO MUCH BETTER than that!

They should've stuck with Ninty, and they would've made a stack load of money during the Wii time, because they were once partnered with Ninty, made awesome games and had a huge fanbase whose attention these guys catered to. Now these fans are sitting around wondering if Rare will rise from the dust and blow our minds with something cool again, like the old days.

In their current standings, I say their current master doesn't think so.