FYI this is coming from a guy who's only owned this game for 2 days.
CHARACTERS
Its always fun experimenting with the new characters of Smash Bros. There are some characters that you'll love from the beginning and then some characters you'll wanna try to stay away from. Now I'm a person who LOVES unlockable characters so I was a little let down when I heard Brawl was putting less emphasise on unlockable characters. If you are like me then you'll be a little let down. But besides that the characters are good. The characters I wanted in didn't get in but who cares because within a month I'll forget about it.
STAGES
Stages are alright. In Melee, each universe got about 2 stages. In Brawl most only have one besides the past stages. And stage builder isn't as great as it looks. You only have 3 backgrounds. The good thing though is you can pick any song. But to sum up stages, they're good.
ALSO, not many unlockable stages! I was upset about that.
FUN
Even though I was let down quite a bit, this game is the funnest Smash Bros. game of the series so far. I just love the fact that you can kick Sonic's butt as much as you want. And if you like Sonic, then you can beat up any other character. To me its a fast past game and I like that.
SUMMARY
Its REALLY REALLY fun. Still it could of been better but just think about this. Its better than if it was released Dec. 3. Now please don't think that I hate this game because I don't, I ♥ THIS GAME!!! But I think that a good review tells people about things that aren't all that great. If you want me to tell you the good things about this game it would be that ITS FUN!!! I can't say it any better!