Sakurai describes Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as his "final mission" from Iwata, in new interview

JuanMena · Feb 3, 2020

I do feel that Sakurai is probably tired of Smash, maybe that's why he's working so hard on it.
The man deserves to rest...

UNLESS HE FUCKING ADDS ANOTHER FIRE EMBLEM CHARACTER

Sachka · Feb 3, 2020

He's always tired after finishing a game, I felt Brawl was going to be the last. Same speech (except for the passing of Iwata).

codezer0 · Feb 3, 2020

I'm sure it's more customary in Japan, but that kind of workaholic behavior just screams unhealthy to me. Makes me wonder if Sakurai even has a home life, or a hobby outside of his self imposed duties.

For all the joy he's brought to the world with Smash Brothers, I just want the devs involved (Sakurai included) to be able to be happy in turn. To be able to reap the reward for such an amazing product. That shouldn't be too much to ask for, right?

IncredulousP · Feb 3, 2020

This is fine. Series went downhill after Melee, hard to top a Magnum opus. There similarly hasn't been any good Kirby games in over a decade. Guy should just retire and enjoy life.

m_babble · Feb 3, 2020

IncredulousP said:
This is fine. Series went downhill after Melee, hard to top a Magnum opus. There similarly hasn't been any good Kirby games in over a decade. Guy should just retire and enjoy life.

Planet Robobot was great!

Coto · Feb 3, 2020

codezer0 said:
I'm sure it's more customary in Japan, but that kind of workaholic behavior just screams unhealthy to me. Makes me wonder if Sakurai even has a home life, or a hobby outside of his self imposed duties.

For all the joy he's brought to the world with Smash Brothers, I just want the devs involved (Sakurai included) to be able to be happy in turn. To be able to reap the reward for such an amazing product. That shouldn't be too much to ask for, right?

I second this.

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You've done quite well Masahiro Sakurai. I can see you really enjoy your work, and remember to take some rest. A well-rested person does much more than someone who doesn't get enough sleep or rest.

I say this because one tends to keep up working straight for days (no sleep) but the lack of sleep toll can affect your life.
in your 20s or maybe mid 30s it doesn't matter, but after that the body takes longer to recover!

Remember that!

x65943 · Feb 3, 2020

IncredulousP said:
This is fine. Series went downhill after Melee, hard to top a Magnum opus. There similarly hasn't been any good Kirby games in over a decade. Guy should just retire and enjoy life.

While I agree Melee was the best, I was still happy to play sm4sh and believe the 8 player mechanic actually added something to the game

I think we can all agree Brawl was trash, but it brought us Project M which is one the single best fighting games ever made

Pipistrele · Feb 3, 2020

JuanMena said:
UNLESS HE FUCKING ADDS ANOTHER FIRE EMBLEM CHARACTER

Dude is a huge fan of the series, adding Fire Emblem characters is an equivalent of rest for him <3

IncredulousP · Feb 3, 2020

x65943 said:
While I agree Melee was the best, I was still happy to play sm4sh and believe the 8 player mechanic actually added something to the game

I think we can all agree Brawl was trash, but it brought us Project M which is one the single best fighting games ever made

All valid points.

Anxiety_timmy · Feb 3, 2020

F's in the chat boys, f's in the chat

Ev1l0rd · Feb 3, 2020

codezer0 said:
I'm sure it's more customary in Japan, but that kind of workaholic behavior just screams unhealthy to me. Makes me wonder if Sakurai even has a home life, or a hobby outside of his self imposed duties.

Japan has the highest worker suicide rate and there's a reason that the concept of the hikkikomori has it's name in Japanese roots (although it's starting to take shape in the west as well under the term NEET).

It's a real issue there that doesn't really get adressed due to cultural concepts.

Panzerfaust · Feb 3, 2020

x65943 said:
I think we can all agree Brawl was trash, but it brought us Project M which is one the single best fighting games ever made

I really enjoyed playing subspace emissary coop with a friend. I missed that mode in the following entries. beside the tripping bullshit, I cant find major flaws

x65943 · Feb 3, 2020

Panzerfaust said:
I really enjoyed playing subspace emissary coop with a friend. I missed that mode in the following entries. besides the tripping bullshit, I cant find major flaws

I do agree SSE was a ton of fun

However, in terms of combat, the characters were balanced horribly and the game was slow and clunky (seriously Meta Knight was way more broken than Fox or Sheik)

I am not gonna act like I didn't put hundreds of hours into the game and enjoy it (at the time) - but I would never pick it up again for a round of smash. I would rather play any other game in the series for casual play including the OG for the N64

MaxiBash · Feb 3, 2020

wiiuepiccpu said:
F's in the chat boys, f's in the chat

Why? Nothing bad has happened, they just talk about Iwata's passing. Is a "F" in that case really worth it?

IncredulousP · Feb 3, 2020

x65943 said:
I would rather play any other game in the series for casual play including the OG for the N64

You mean especially the OG for the N64.

LightBeam · Feb 3, 2020

x65943 said:
I do agree SSE was a ton of fun

However, in terms of combat, the characters were balanced horribly and the game was slow and clunky (seriously Meta Knight was way more broken than Fox or Sheik)

I am not gonna act like I didn't put hundreds of hours into the game and enjoy it (at the time) - but I would never pick it up again for a round of smash. I would rather play any other game in the series for casual play including the OG for the N64

Fair enough, but I still think that's unfair to call Brawl trash when it had so many qualities. Like damn, the content .... the huge amount of content in this game, was so damn great. So of course now that we are used to the series, we would never pick it up again to fight against somebody. Maybe it's because it's the one game I played when I was a kid (and not melee, tbh I played it way after and I don't like it at all), but even if it was so slow, the characters could slip for no damn reason, there are still so many good things about the game, just calling it trash ain't doing it justice, even if it's the worst smash game released.
No Smash games are trash. (and also the magnum opus is ultimate, can't say it's melee cuz one game got Ridley and K.Rool as playable characters)

Silent_Gunner · Feb 3, 2020

I think the one thing Ultimate lacks is an actual platform beat em' up mode like SSE, like others here. Sure, I'm not the biggest fan of how the game feels to play, but I really wish that we had got something similar for Ultimate.

I never played Smash for the fighting as much as it was the joy of having an offical crossover for what is now more than just Nintendo characters. If I wanted the ultimate crossover, I'd play MUGEN, as that games roster...is whatever you want it to be.

Varia · Feb 3, 2020

IncredulousP said:
This is fine. Series went downhill after Melee, hard to top a Magnum opus. There similarly hasn't been any good Kirby games in over a decade. Guy should just retire and enjoy life.

Sakurai hasn't been working on Kirby for like 15 years or so, so he has nothing to do with it going downhill. If anything, he was the reason it used to be better. I do agree the series hasn't been good for a very long time.

lordelan · Feb 3, 2020

Since Ultimate is that good, I'd be completely fine with just a port of it on the next Nintendo console.

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