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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Discussion (Nintendo Switch) [game]
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12/06/18, 17:12 Edited: 12/06/18, 17:13
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...so yeah, no new reveals or (major) features. Sakurai talked about SNK/NEO-GEO for a bit, took his time showing off Terry's moves, then played through Arcade mode to fill up a lot of the time.
Terry looks fun! Maybe a bit too reminiscent of Ryu/Ken to be especially exciting, but he's got the signature Sakurai Attention To Detail, as well as his low-health Super Special attacks.
Terry's stage has a nice twist! It's a flat arena without edges kind of like Bridge of Eldin, but the sides are walls: you can only get KO'd off the side if you're hit very hard into the wall. There's also like a million possible cameo characters from SNK games in the background. (Mai Shiranui conspicuously absent! Smash is a series for good little boys and girls, after all.)
And holy crap, 50 new music tracks! With what looked like a couple dozen original remixes.
The only new features are that you can change the rules on the fly in Battle Arenas, and also communicate with other players in the arena lobby with pre-set phrases.
And of course, this is all available today, probably around the time of maintenance this evening. EDIT: Actually, it seems it's all available now. I'm downloading the update already! EDIT 2: Or, I would be if the servers weren't getting crushed... EDIT 3: working now! |
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That was fun to watch! I've never gotten into SNK at all and I don't think I've ever played a single Neo Geo, so the history lesson was actually really interesting. I really like this fanservice for people who love more niche stuff, it's fun to see them get excited. 50 music tracks is ridiculous and awesome too haha.
Like I said, I get the most fun out of this from making predictions about who's next, so here's my guess:
Fighter Pack #5 will be revealed as Master Chief during the Game Awards. There's no other series that would be simultaneously ridiculous enough to see in a Nintendo game to feel exciting, popular enough to make the "final" reveal feel huge, and fleshed-out enough for one of these big chunks of DLC with new music, a new stage, and a bunch of cameos.
Then, next year we'll start getting new fighters--no stages or music tracks, just the characters. We'll get Rayman, Crash Bandicoot and/or Spyro, Sora, and Leon Kennedy (along with a bunch of Mii costumes based on other characters in those series). Then, the final character added to the Smash series will be Waluigi, as a foil to Nintendo's main mascot and a joke about how people are never allowed to ask Sakurai for anything ever again.
What other unrepresented franchises are there at this point? I'm looking at my shelf of games right now, and almost all the classics are covered. Tekken? Doom? Half-Life and Portal? More Final Fantasy?
...Ape Escape? |
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Terry is fun and simple to play. Happy to have him. The stage is pretty lame though. There's nothing more iconic from the SNK fighting games that they could have went with? I'm asking sincerely. I don't know those games. @Secret_TunnelWhy do you predict no new stages or music packs? I'm expecting them to do the second fighter pass the same exact way. It'd be really sad to get Doom Slayer without a Doom stage and music! I really do hope we get a little more Western representation before they wrap things up. I'd love to see Scorpion, Lara Croft, and Doom Slayer to really complete my love of the 90's. I guess my personal dream picks for the next 6 fighters would be the previous three mentioned characters plus Ryu Hayabusa, Crono, and Gordon Freeman. But then they really should get a Resident Evil character in there too, and I would like Crash and Rayman too. Master Chief would be neat as hell if Microsoft wants to keep being friendly, or the Battletoads. Then there's still Tekken since Namco is developing all of this after all. If there's another Nintendo character, I want pig beast Ganon. I prefer Ganon to Ganondoft and think it's pretty lame that he has been represented only by a clone fighter this entire time. Oh, and why not Mike Jones to go along with a Next Level Games revival of StarTropics while we're dreaming? I hope they keep the fighters coming for the entire life of the Switch so that this really lives up to its name as the Ultimate Super Smash Bros. We're clearly never getting all of these characters together again, and I don't doubt Sakurai's ability to come up with some other surprising choices. It's officially the best selling fighting game of all time and I imagine the DLC won't have any trouble continuing to sell, so why not. |
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