Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is bloated with more features than ever before, yet for all its excesses it's an extremely shallow experience. I'm not just referring to the long and boring cutscenes, the useless online multiplayer, or the lack of character balance. Yes, characters do trip randomly while dashing, but they also dash very slowly, jump with little forward momentum (even after dashing), and land very slowly – i.e. characters move very slowly and awkwardly, and when even the lightest hit now sends opponents flying away and backwards, that's a big problem. It's a total betrayal of the Smash Bros. concept, of setting up for the "smash." And the way Brawl directly, deliberately undermines the player's control, it's also a betrayal of the video game concept.