There may not be a million moves ( that will have all you Tekken purists hitting the Back button on your browser) or characters who are so stereotyped it's funny, or any of the other things that people so often see in Beat-em-ups.
It's a celebration of all things Nintendo, drawing together characters that we all know and love and putting them in a game that is so well balanced, so fun to play, that it could only have come out of The Japanes studios.

The games principal is simple and yet incredibly innovative at the same time.
Points are scored for knocking opponents out of the arena rather than knocking them out.
However you still have to battle your opponent as the mored damage they take, the more susceptible
they are to flying miles into the air.

 However it is the game's addition of a four player  mode that makes it so incredibly good. It is a feature that works superbly ( although occasionly the camera does scale out a bit too much on the larger levels) and is great fun all the time. It ranks up there alongside other multiplayer greats such as Goldeneye or MarioKart (yes it really is that good!)