[quote name='Bazz']This game I am sorry to say pretty much sucks. It is a waste of 50.00. The online component works like shit, I find it so hard to find someone to play with. The co-op/campaign mode is so repetitive and just not fun nor interesting. This game is a complete button masher, seems like no skill required. Unlocking characters is a long and painful process. Overall this game is way over hyped, all the scores are bias in no way possible does this game deserve even in the 9's. My quality for the Wii has gone down once again. Nintendo needs to stop rehashing shit overall the game would get a 7.7 out of 10 from me.[/QUOTE]
The online does suck atm, hopefully they'll get that worked out. For now the best you can get out of online matches is have a little fun
As far as sidescrollers are concerned SSE is a decent single player game. However, the terrible camera system knocks most of the fun out of having 2 players unless you're fighting a boss (which there is a boss mode anyway).
The game is certainly not a button masher. Button mashing will only work if everyone else has no idea what they are doing and are also button mashing.
Unlocking the characters took no more than 2 days for me, a total time played of 9 hours. You could do it even faster using the flower/stamina thing. The process is far from painful, and by most people's standards, long.
To me, it sounds as though you have no friends to play with, and since the online mode pretty much fails when it comes to finding anonymous matches, you can't get any action there either. Almost all of the fun of SSB games comes from playing with other people.