[insert smash bros melee Link taunt sigh] Eh....

I have to agree with Simon. I mean, behold as I translate about 70% of the game from English into German:

Ready - [eh... I forgot :P]
Go! - Geht!
Three! - Drei
Two! - Zwei!
One! - Ein
TIME UP! - Zeit Ab!
SUPER SMASH BROS: Uber Smashen Bruderen

Ok... So it's not perfect, but that's pretty much the whole freakin' game! Sure, the menus need a little work, but it's not that hard to pick up three random people who each speak English + German or British or French or Italian, and to tell them: here's some menus in American English, and here's $200. Translate the menus, and you keep the $200.

Sheesh. I'll tell you what it's about: they're trying to perfect their anti piracy techniques. If they really cared about us, they'd freakin' give us Ryu or Megaman or a Belmont. Heck, even Earthworm Jim sounds good compared to Lucario, or whoever that weird pokemon that replaced Mewtwo is called (I stopped caring after the second generation of pokemon).

@Garth:

Your use of quotation marks is abhorrent. Learn how to use "start quotes" and "end quotes" correctly. They're always used in pairs. Never have only 3 quote marks in a single sentence. Unless you need to tell someone the following: A quote mark looks like this " " ". Lol. That's like telling someone, "Look in the following parentheses to see what a start and end parenthesis look like: (())" LOL!

@alex (lowercase):

I hope you do recall that the video game industry, and the whole handheld music industry started like this... No one "needed" games or ipods until they actually came out. No one "needed" cellphones (ham radio worked just fine :P), until they came out. Now, everyone's gotta have one.