Joystiq has posted their impressions of Super Smash Bros Brawl up and overall the person writing the article enjoyed it although he has never played a Smash Bros. game before. He did find it to be “frenetic” and packed with crazy power-ups and stuff going on all the time, but in the end he does seem excited for the final product to arrive.

Here’s a portion of the write-up, visit the link to get the full low down:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl felt frenetic. To me, it seemed like too much was happening on-screen to play with precision. But apparently people wring ever moment of control out of this fast-paced game. Just not the first time they play.

In my games, Brawl always had a lot going on. A power-up poured out 2D sprites lifted directly from Advance Wars. Another caused a Nintendog to briefly paw playfully at the screen, for no reason other than to annoy us. I just laughed at the puppy as I was knocked off the platform to my loss.

I like my fighting games with more of an immediate sense of cause-and-effect and without this power-up focus. But I could see the appeal of Brawl. It had so much happening that I was always entertained. And the sense of humor and strangeness — Mario versus Sonic in a fighting game — also hooked me.