It’s already quite the feat for any video game to get its own feature length documentary, let alone a 9-part series that boasts millions of views on YouTube, yet such is the case for Super Smash Bros. Melee. Now, 7 years after the success of The Smash Brothers made sure that Melee never went away, East Point Pictures is giving Smashers another feature length doc right when they need it the most.
While Super Smash Bros. Ultimate currently holds the honor of being the best selling fighting game of all time, it’s the 19-year-old Melee that’s largely responsible for giving birth to the game’s competitive scene. That wouldn’t be the case if it were up to Nintendo though, who not only refuses to support both game’s competitive players, but instead does its best to prevent Melee from staying relevant with every legal resource it has.
However, the Smash community is not known for being easy to knock down, thus yesterday East Point Pictures and documentary producer SAMOX decided to drop a fully charged smash attack on Nintendo’s attempts at killing their beloved game with the reveal trailer for the long-awaited Metagame. The new documentary seems to pick up right where The Smash Brothers left off, following the stories of Melee’s most dominant players, known collectively as “The Five Gods” and the new challengers that arose since 2013 to threaten their mastery over the game.
Like its predecessor, Metagame is a fully grassroots project that has spent years in the making, with the producers constantly sharing updates with the Smash community via Twitter and Twitch, since its first teaser was revealed four years ago. The wait is now over, as Smash fans will get to enjoy this new 8-part series when it streams on Twitch on December 11, 12 and 13, with each day having its own schedule.
The timing for Metagame could not be more perfect, given Nintendo’s most recent attack on the Smash community aims to block the usage of Slippi, a fan-made software meant to enable online matchmaking for Melee with rollback netcode, which revived the game’s scene this summer. Ironically, Project Slippi enables players to enjoy a smooth online playing experience on 2001’s Smash Melee; something Nintendo themselves have failed to offer for the current Smash Ultimate in 2020, by instead relying on a delay-based netcode variant that is almost unanimously loathed by Ultimate’s competitive and casual players.
As Smash fans surely know, this is not Nintendo’s first legal encounter with Melee, back in 2013 the company tried to block the game from being streamed at the EVO tournament, until they ultimately backed down due to community backlash. This time around the community is fighting back Nintendo’s legal action with the #FreeMelee campaign, tough only time will tell if it all ends up favoring Melee players again.
Metagame will stream on Twitch on December 11, 12 and 13.
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Source: metagamedoc.com
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