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Nintendo is getting right to the meat of things with its upcoming Super Smash Bros, as they've scheduled a 40-minute Direct focused on new information about the game. The remaining roster additions will be revealed here, as well as other game mode details. So let's see what we're in for.

Immediately, Street Fighter's Ken is shown as an Echo Fighter, and Pokemon's Incineroar are joining the fight. Incineroar's attacks focus on a lot of wrestling type moves. This brings the roster up to 74, with no further characters for the base game.

Before unlocking any characters in the game, players will start with seven to choose from, and will end up with 74 once they're finished recruiting every addition.

Just like with the previous Smash Bros. game, amiibo figures are being made for every fighter, with Young Link, Ken, Daisy, Ice Climbers, and more showing off what they'll look like.

The Spirits Mode was also shown, which entails certain differently powdered characters from Nintendo history giving fighters extra abilities, sort of like Super Smash Bros. Brawl's stickers, taken to a new level. An example of fighting against these is Fire Emblem's Owain being shown as a Spirit, which gives increased power to melee weapons, but also makes the enemy taunt a lot, like the character's personality. Or, with Mega Man's Guts Man, who will power up the enemy to not flinch easily, and use more grabs and throws than usual.

Additionally, these "spirits" will also be used to power up your added amiibo fighters.

This mode takes the place of previous Smash games offering tons of trophies from the represented Nintendo franchises.

The online mode will try to prioritize finding opponents that are nearby, and Nintendo recommends buying an Ethernet adapter for the Switch to get more stable connections.

You'll be able to specify certain rulesets for rooms online for matches. The Nintendo Online phone app will allow for voice chat, and a new app called Smash World will launch sometime after the game, which will focus on players sharing fun gameplay moments.

Spring Man from Arms, Tiki from Fire Emblem, Vince from Art Academy, Shadow the Hedgehog from Sonic, Akira from Virtual Fighter, and Street Fighter's Guile are all shown as assist trophies. This time, you can knock assist trophies off the map, giving you a chance to avoid getting hit by their attacks.

The Mii Fighter gets some brand new outfits to use, too, with a Splatoon set, an Arms set, a Chibi Robo costume, a Toy-Con set, and a Ray MkIII one all shown.

DLC has been confirmed for the game that will be out post launch. None of these will be Echo Fighters. Each piece of DLC will come with a song, character, and stage for $5.99. A season pass will be available called a Fighters Pass, which will offer all five of the scheduled DLC characters once they become available. All the characters won't be known yet, but the pass is $24.99.

The first of the DLC roster additions is the Piranha Plant, who will be free shortly after launch. The other five will follow by next year.

 

[RedoLane]

The World of Light reveal completely took my spirit away.

 

[Rabbid4240]

Tbh I'm kinda glad they removed trophies. I had to get 1 very specific trophy to get 100%. It took me about a month to figure that out.

 

[kingtut]

For people who want banjo kazooie, I wouldn't say it is entirely impossible: https://segmentnext.com/2018/10/28/banjo-kazooie-trademark-renewed/

Mind you this was only a few days ago, so most likely we wont hear anything about it (if any) until next year at the earliest

 

[Clydefrosch]

damn, spirits mode is the new challenge mode. I missed that one since melee.

 

[the_randomizer]

To be honest, I think even another echo character would have been better than Piranha Plant.
That's what got everyone's gears going xD

Me?
I'm just enjoying how Nintendo doesn't give a shit about what people suggest, as they always do. XD
I couldn't care less about this franchise, to me it died with Brawl, but it's nice to taste the tears of disappointment of everyone with each Direct

I'm not even mad, I just can't stand the salty, whiny bitchfests that people didn't get to play Waluigi or Isaac, I couldn't care less that there aren't any of the confirmed characters, TBH.

 

[ShadowOne333]

I'm not even mad, I just can't stand the salty, whiny bitchfests that people didn't get to play Waluigi or Isaac, I couldn't care less that there aren't any of the confirmed characters, TBH.

Same page, dude.
However, on my side it's not really that I can't stand the saltiness, but I rather add fuel to it
I enjoy seeing how they get disappointed, I don't know why they expect Nintendo to listen to the fans, as if they have ever done so lol

 

[Deleted User]

Shantae is in it, but not a playable character ;_; rip the dream.

 

[Deleted User]

ah yes a plant that moves in a pot over isaac, very good choice

 

[Steena]

Only 2 new characters, one of them is a clone, DLC talk even before the game is out, no story mode and a shit ton more. The only surprise was how disappointing it was.

About Ken, I like the part where they stated ken is the equivalent of a ryu echo fighter in their own serie. that hasn't been the case for around 20 years and Ono made more and more an effort to make the characters actually diverse, culminating in 5 where they are fundamentally different to the point Ken isn't even called a shoto now.

sorry sakurai, it's just your game that can get away with making literal 1:1 palette swaps and have your idiotic fanbase that will lap anything up see it as a feature in current year.

 

[Enryx25]

ah yes a plant that moves in a pot over isaac, very good choice

A PLANT with a completely new battle style over another human with magic moves...

 

[pedro702]

Same page, dude.
However, on my side it's not really that I can't stand the saltiness, but I rather add fuel to it
I enjoy seeing how they get disappointed, I don't know why they expect Nintendo to listen to the fans, as if they have ever done so lol

ridley says hi so does simon belmont, Isabelle and even dark samus lol.

 

[DuoForce]

Wow, board game with a cutscene, 5 new characters, DLC announced before launch, no trophies, no break the targets! Wow this game has "74" characters so im not allowed to complain !

On a real note, this game sucks. It graphically worse than Wii U, cut a lot of content, and slapped on the 74 character bs so that fans wont complain. Looks like brawl still sits on the throne of the best smash game.

 

[Deleted User]

A PLANT with a completely new battle style over another human with magic moves...

i hope they add a lamp post as a character next, that'll really subvert expectations and have a battle style even a plant cant compete with!

 

[pedro702]

i hope they add a lamp post as a character next, that'll really subvert expectations and have a battle style even a plant cant compete with!

yeah, there are alot of characters that could have had a totaly new playstyle and arent as well useless as a pirana plant, heck i would take mach rider over that even and i dont think he deserves a spot either lol.

Don't worry next game they will add gomba because you know a character with no arms or legs, only an head and some feet will make a totally different play-style too.

 

[SagaP]

Awesome! smash started off as a party off Nintendo characters, and now it has become a celebration of gaming as a whole, this is truly ULTIMATE.
Just take a look at the brad new story mode!

Spoiler: Cinematic Spoilers!

That cinematic really get to me, every character doing their best to not get taken away, i tough that at least some of them would survive, but no, speed, flight, shields, magic, whatever Wi-fit trainer was doing, nothing worked, and then they show Kirby dogging beams and just when i was expecting the same result, it manages to warp in the last minute!
And it is sooo fitting! not only is the character whose special ability is to copy others abilities, but it's also Sakurai's child, is so perfect!

Gameplay wise, know we have a huge overworld to explore with various thing to interact while making progress

And Spirit is a great addition, giving up on trophies that you can only see, taking the stickers of brawl, merging them with a more structured customization system and implementing them in the main story mode allows for more characters to be represented and take a more active role in the game.

The people Behind this game deserve recognition (and a good rest!), I'm looking forward for the day i get to play this game

 

[Justinde75]

i hope they add a lamp post as a character next, that'll really subvert expectations and have a battle style even a plant cant compete with!

Give me the pixar lamp

 

[Deleted member 412537]

I just wanna play as Isabelle!!
Gimme, gimme.

 

[Enkuler]

I enjoy seeing how they get disappointed, I don't know why they expect Nintendo to listen to the fans, as if they have ever done so lol

The thing is that it seems like they actually did this time.
Ultimate obviously won't be Melee because most of Melee was an accident.
However, they seemed to try to make a "good smash game that could please everyone" and not a "bad competitive smash because casuals can't have fun on a game that could potentially be used for competition" (there is no logic in that sentence).

I do know that it is supposed to be a party game at first, for casuals and not competitive players. But still, there were a lot of dumb decisions in Smash 4.

Just an example. In Melee, you had L-cancelling (which was a completely intentional feature btw, don't come and say "glitches!!!"). This thing created a huge gap between casuals and competitive players. So removing it sounds like a good idea, right? Well yeah I agree, this bad for the fun side so yeah I agree to remove that (notice how the criteria is "bad for the fun side" and not "good for the competitive side").
However, there are two ways to do it. A smart way (everyone automatically L-cancels, everyone can have fun trying to combo, competitive or casual players alike), and a dumb way (everyone has annoying landing lag). They chose the dumb way in Smash 4.

Another example, the For Glory mode. That was the dumbest thing ever. Just a reminder that competitive players in Melee play on frigging Pokemon Stadium sometimes so do you really think they are happy to be stuck on Final Destination? They're not. Of course a hazard switch is a lot closer to what people want, and that's going to be in Ultimate.

Really, from what I gathered of Ultimate, they seemed to revert a lot of "dumb ways to do smart stuff" and to do smart stuff the smart way so yeah, either they did listen or they suddenly became smart. And suddenly becoming smart never happened to anyone before.

 

[MaxiBash]

I don't think they can add more characters because every single one of them is a spirit.
Lets just add obscure characters from now on, like...

Manic from Sonic Underground.
Nintendo is for sure in trouble right now.

 

[Viri]

I think some are mad about how anti climatic the final Smash direct was. They should have revealed Incineroar months ago. And saved K Rool and Simon for this direct, as I said before. I was happy with the roster completely after they announced Simon and K Rool. I hoped for them 2 since Melee!

As for the single player stuff, the Spirit's mode just kinda went over my head. It's like I'm playing a gacha game in Smash, lol. I think I'm talking about the Spirit's mode. Also, one thing that really stuck out for me is the girl from Fatal Frame was in the Smash Direct as an AT. That was really cool! Shit, you want a super random, off the wall choice for a character, put one of the girls from Fatal Frame in Smash as a playable character, instead of a Piranha plant. Now that would have been funny and random as fuck. I don't even mind the Piranha plant, but I can see why some are mad.