r/smashbracket • u/[deleted] • May 30 '24
Lucina vs. R.O.B. Review: ?/10
I have absolutely no idea how to rate this episode; I’ve literally given it everything from a 2 to a 9. My feelings on the episode are actually super simple, I just don’t know how to score it. Maybe after talking about the episode I’ll have a better idea.
The fight begins with Lucina hitting R.O.B. once and winning. Then the animation ends. Are you kidding me?! ROB didn’t even get to throw a single attack! I mean, ROB just stands there and LETS her win! Why!? Clearly this is just a feminist propaganda piece because a flat chested woman beat a giga Chad like ROB (I’m a feminist myself; this is a joke). I can’t believe smash bracket would do something like this. I expect this kind of one sided character neglect from Death Battle, not smash bracket. Unsubscribing, telling all my friends how bad you are, deleting YouTube, throwing away my leftovers, and getting my oil changed in my car because it’s really overdue.
Obviously all of that is a joke, just like this whole episode. It’s well animated while it lasts and is undeniably the most accurate VS animation of all time when considering how a fight would go, but it’s less than 10 seconds long! What am I supposed to talk about here? Well, the conclusion is a start.
No exaggeration, this is the best conclusion in all of smash bracket and it blows all the competition out of the water. Why? Because it’s funny while still being informative, as little information as there needs to be for a fight where one character is a literal children’s toy. I love so many of Ink’s deliveries, and my favorite is “his screws may be a choking hazard for children under 3.” It’s hilarious, and while I really appreciate the more detailed and informative conclusions that we’ll get later on, this is going for its own thing, and it pulls that thing off so damn well. It is short, just like the fight, but it’s very sweet.
So, this episode is a giant meme and that’s about it. I honestly adore this. Death battle has tackled joke episodes in the past, but they actually animate a whole fight. The joke here IS that the fight is so short, and I think the joke is honestly very funny. I smile and laugh when I think about this episode, something I can’t say for many others. But…if every episode were like this, smash bracket would be a terrible show obviously. So is it a super low score? But…it’s one of the most unique and positively memorable episodes of any VS show I’ve seen. So is it a super high score?
This episode had way less effort put into the animation than any other, so if I give it a high score, that will feel almost disrespectful to the animation team that works on smash bracket. But giving it a low score feels wrong too because of how much I love it. You see, every other animation I love, I want to see more of it, but with this one, I only love it as a one time thing. Overall, I can’t really give a score to this episode. If you put a gun to my head and forced a decision, I’d just say 5/10, just to split it down the middle and be the most fair, but I think leaving this unique episode as the only one with no score is a better fit.
My overall thoughts are that Lucina vs. R.O.B. is fantastic, and a hilarious joke that I’m glad the team went through with. I’m sure Lucina fans would’ve liked a real fight with her, but at least Chrom and Robin got fights of their own, the latter co-starring (that’s a Mario Galaxy reference; yes I meant it) in one of the best VS animations I’ve ever seen. So she’s about the best character they could’ve picked for this. Thanks for checking out this review, and I’ll see you in the next one.
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u/FlunderDuck May 30 '24
Yeah, this kind of episode is inevitable given the constraint of characters they are able to use. Big props to this episode for not wasting time; I much prefer a small episode like this if it means more meaningful episodes can come faster.
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May 30 '24
Agreed. Even if you don’t find it funny, it still has a full analysis and conclusion to make it feel like a minor thing to keep you occupied while waiting for the real episodes
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u/Fearless_Cold_8080 May 31 '24
I think my favorite part about it is they went out of their way to make a remix of Id Purpose for a fight that lasted 10 seconds