Each hit from one of the ice sculptures does 20% damage which will account for 80% Ice damage altogether. However, performing this attack in the air will cause the sculptures to fall down to the ground and continue sliding. It can be executed on the ground from which the statues slide. The Ice Climbers then whack at each sculpture which sends it sliding into opponents. The Ice Climbers begin using Blizzard to form four ice sculptures that are in the shapes of random playable character (and a few previous characters in earlier SSB series). Ice Sculptures is the Ice Climbers new Final Smash. Also, Nana can sometimes push Popo should Popo get in the way. As well Down aerial causes Popo to fall down faster than Nana. Namely smash attacks, aerials, and crouching attacks. Nana can only throw upwards when grabbing an opponent however, some of their attacks have been buffed up to compensate. The removal of infinite throws would help balance the Ice Climbers in terms of gameplay. Brawl, the Ice Climbers are great campers that deliver powerful and confusing attacks thanks to the second partner however they are some what limited when th follower dies resulting in the leader’s recovery move being severely nerfed. This, in fact, is what makes them a unique and interesting character. The Ice Climbers come back a 3rd time with their over-sized mallets, parkas, and ice-related powers! The Ice Climbers, Nana and Pop work as a team and, as a team, deliver double the damage. She’s an alternative take on the “haunted Native American graveyard” trope, wherein she takes a spirit form to help others pass on, rather than be terrorized by the spirits of her dead ancestors.ĭespite other issues with the game, I think Elena is a solid lead character, as she is actually indigenous and interacting with her ancestral history, rather than a white girl stumbling onto Native ghosts.The Ice Climbers from Super Smash Bros. The plot directly deals with the ghosts of both white settlers and murdered Native peoples, but Elena herself still passes all parts of the test. Does this character end up raped or murdered at any point during the story? NO / NOĮlena Elkhorn is a member of a fictitious Native American tribe who goes looking for her father in the abandoned mansion their family has been acting as caretakers for. Does this character fall in love with a white man? NO.ģ. Is she an Indigenous / Aboriginal woman who is a main character…Ģ. Does this character fall in love with a white man?ģ. Does this character end up raped or murdered at any point during the story?Ģ. Brawl and the 2018 Nintendo Switch game Super Smash Bros. They reprised this role in the 2008 Wii game Super Smash Bros. Melee. In that series, the two are known collectively as the Ice Climbers, and are controlled simultaneously by one player - a mechanic unique to them. Nana and Popo became well-known due to their inclusion as playable fighters in the 2001 GameCube game Super Smash Bros.
While Nana herself is the character controlled by the second player in-game, she appears as the sole climber on the Japanese, European, and American boxart for the game and is treated as having equal status with Popo. If Popo and Nana are understood to be Inuit-Yupik, then they are the first male and female Native American video game protagonists, respectively. As such, they are commonly understood to be Inuit-Yupik, being referred to as the pejorative “Eskimo” multiple times on their Wikipedia page. While their ethnicity is never explicitly stated, their game takes place in the arctic and they wear brightly colored fur parkas, pants, and boots, as well as mittens. The main characters Popo and Nana are mountain climbers who race to get to the top of a mountain summit. The video game Ice Climber is a vertical platform game developed and published my Nintendo for the NES in 1985.
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