They’re serious about making this The Game with Everyone. Maybe the bigger part of that announcement is that they’re doing additional DLC characters after the 5 they had originally planned / announced.
There was a lot of speculation based on an early leak that SNK was involved, but a lot of it was dumb speculation. Terry’s an excellent choice, and has more history than most of the other names people were tossing around. The only other clear choice would have been Athena.
I’m sad we didn’t see gameplay footage, but I wonder if they revealed before they planned to because of those leaks.
I’ve heard that the current plan is that the next Smash will be a reboot - redesigned, possibly very different fighting and back to a smaller cast. Of course that’s years away and I doubt they’ve done much more than consider it at this point, especially if they’ve designed to lengthen the DLC plan.
I doubt there will be another until whatever the successor to the Switch is comes along, and that could be awhile. It is time for that sort of reimagining of the series after this one, though.
I’m glad they’re doing more DLC. It’s a game that really does keep giving and it still feels really fresh a year later.
I don’t know if that specific rumor will turn out to be true, but it sort of fits with this quote from Masahiro Sakurai.
“To me, it feels like the finish line is sliding farther away,” he said. “You may wonder, ‘How much longer can he be involved with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ?’ But I’m also excited. Adding more characters into the game means more game worlds will be added to the series, and ultimately, that means there will be an even greater opportunity to delight the fans. At the same time, I feel that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is representing so many characters and game worlds that it’s become an enormous game. Even if the Super Smash Bros. series continues moving forward, I doubt there will be an opportunity to bring this many characters together again, so I want to keep improving on this record as much as possible, and I will continue to work hard at developing the game. I appreciate your support.”
If I’m Nintendo, at this point I bring him in as the very last character for a complete surprise free update as part of the last update they ever do for the game. It’ll be funny and also probably give the game one final burst of marketing for all three people with a Switch that didn’t buy it yet.
I finally bought a Switch and picked this up for the young nephews to play 4 player. Fired it up solo the other night and was like ‘wtf is going on’, then proceeded to read some of the in-game guides and came to the conclusion ‘apparently, quite a lot’.
Then I played with my 6yo boy yestereday arvo and we had a blast. He kicked my yass a few times! He was sooooo excited wihen we unlocked Bowser.
It is my 5yo nephews favorite game. He has a few characters he loves, so I bought him an Amiibo at Christmas. Now he loves scanning it in and fighting against it, or alongside it in a team, as it levels up.
Unlocking the fighters is great fun, but there are so many and some are tough to beat at first. In the end I did a big grind to unlock them all quickly so we had lots to pick from (as well as buying all the DLC fighters). Unlocking them all will probably be the main issue with the game for some players.
One great thing about Smash is how customizable it is. For the younger kids I edit the ruleset to make the stages easier. I set Stage Selection to ‘Battlefield & Omega’ which gives you variants of the stages that are smaller and flatter, as well as turn Stage Hazards to Off.
Also random Stage Morph is cool, so the stage changes mid game. And I set FS Meter to On so they can build up smash power by playing rather than just having to hit the smash orbs. They get to use their special powers more often that way.
