Super Smash Bros. Brawl/Classic

In Classic Mode, you select your character, number of lives, and difficulty level, and battle your way through a series of 12 battles. Your opponents, allies, and the stage will be randomly chosen; however, each match is based on a different game series, so the characters and stage will be chosen from that series.


 * Level 1: The Legend of Zelda
 * Level 2: Donkey Kong or Yoshi
 * Level 3: Pokémon
 * Level 4: Fire Emblem or EarthBound
 * Target Smash!!
 * Level 5: Kirby
 * Level 6: Metroid or Pikmin
 * Level 7: Star Fox or F-Zero
 * Level 8: Mario
 * Level 9: Game and Watch, Kid Icarus, Ice Climber, or R.O.B.
 * Level 10: WarioWare, Metal Gear, or Sonic
 * Target Smash!!

Any one of these matches may have special conditions applied; these are also randomly chosen. In addition to normal 1-on-1 matches, there will be:


 * 2-on-2 matches: You have a CPU-controlled ally and two opponents. Usually, the charcter of your ally is related to the theme of the stage. For example, in a Mario stage, you may have Mario or Luigi as an ally, or maybe Bowser or Peach.
 * Giant matches: Your opponent is gigantic. You might have one or more CPU-controlled allies.
 * Metal matches: Your opponent is metallic, as if they'd picked up a metal box. Metal opponents are resistant to launching, but are pretty much doomed if you can trap them under the stage.
 * Multi-Man matches: You fight a large number of duplicates of the same character. Each duplicate only takes a few hits to knock offscreen, though.

There are two rounds of Target Smash between matches. The first corresponds to the chosen difficulty level. The second corresponds to the next highest difficulty level.
 * Easy:Level 1, Level 2
 * Normal:Level 2, Level 3
 * Hard:Level 3, Level 4
 * Very Hard:Level 4, Level 5
 * Intense:Level 5, Level 5

Level 11 is a free-for-all with three random opponents on Final Destination.

Finally, Level 12 pits you against Master Hand on Final Destination. If you're playing on Hard mode or higher, and if you reach this level in 9 minutes or less, Crazy Hand shows up too.


 * To do the most damage to Master Hand, attack him from behind. if you do this, Master Hand will go down pretty fast.

When you finish Classic Mode, you get your character's trophy. Mind you, if you play as Zelda/Sheik, Samus/Zero Suit Samus, or Pokémon Trainer, you only get the trophy for the specific character that landed the final blow on Master Hand or Crazy Hand. If you beat Classic Mode on Intense difficulty, you'll get the Crazy Hand trophy.