Merry Christmas (and other assorted holidays)! Today, I'm looking at the highly-anticipated Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch. Does it live up to the hype?
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Remarks from the Future: Yeah, I work on Christmas. Similar to Attack on Titan 2, most of the difficulties I had with this one came from the long campaign. That's not a strike against it, I'm impressed with World of Light's scale. I'm no fighting game expert, so I'm not familiar with terms like footsies or mixups, but I had fun with this game. If anything, it's because Smash Bros is my favorite fighting game franchise that I have trouble with that sort of stuff (for more traditional fighters, I like Mortal Kombat).
There is a way to unlock specific characters through unwritten "unlock trees", but I didn't know that while I was spending hours grinding Classic Mode.
That follow up...heh...I'm aware of a few updates that have happened since this review's release, namely Piranha Plant, Joker, the stage builder, among other things, and I'm probably just going to wait until all the DLC fighters are out, or the game otherwise stops getting updates.
For whatever reason, YouTube was freaking out that day, and wasn't showing the proper thumbnail for a while. The default choices were Gary Oldman, my derpy face with a bunch of amiibos, or my final score for the game.
Also, I guess super-quick thoughts on the other games.
64: Still holds a place in my heart as the first console game I've ever played, still holds up today despite some jankiness.
Melee: I like it as much as the next guy, but later games that have more characters and modes are objectively better.
Brawl: I agree with the community about its lack of speed and clunky gameplay, and while that does make it my least favorite by elimination, I don't hate it at all. I still had fun with it.
Wii U/3DS: Was my favorite before Ultimate. I spent a lot of time training amiibos in it. I loved the novelty of a portable Smash Bros, something only truly realized now with Ultimate.
Meanwhile, though, this game is still a ton of fun, and I'm glad I don't have to sort through the footage of it for a while.
