Just received my hard copy but have been playing around with the digital version already.
This game is the most fun I've had in character creation in a long time. I love the fact that, because the game is built around accommodating all the different flavours of superhero out there, creativity in character design is rewarded. I can come up with an opportunistic ex-military Green Lantern knockoff (considering calling him the Blue Torch for funsies), a creepy plant-woman made of sentient vines who unravels herself to swing between trees/buildings or to lash out at her enemies with whip-like attacks, a vast octopus-like alien who's Just Here to Help (please stop screaming and shooting), or a simple master of the noble boomerang, turn to S.M.A.S.H with the question: "Can I build that?" and the game will effectively say "sure you can, take these mechanics and run with it."
Character building is also streamlined enough that it is very easy to spend an evening alone with this book and come out with five different characters that you want to play now.
I've had great fun as a player and I'm looking forward to thrashing things out on the GM side of things as I lead some friends on an adventure in a certain established multiverse...
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